The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-28
LODGE CRYING FOR HELP.

chusetts that Senator Lodge of that
State is in urgent need of help in his
canvass for reelection. 1t is confessed
that if the choice of Senators could be
submitted to the people in primary
Lodge would have no show whatever
His reliance is ON the machine, on the
hide bound methods of the bosses, and
in the suppression of the people g will.
Representative Butler Ames of that
State is out as an opponent OF Mt
Lodge, and arraigns him with severity
that could hardly be exceIled by Dem
ocratic opponent. Amcs fatty charges
Lodge with being a machine candidate,
and says that this machine is backed by
all the large corporations and all the
State and Federal patronage, and Is
used by its manipulators as ''ready
and efficient tool to crush out all the
patriotic ambitions, opinions, and en-
deavors not sanctioned by Lodge" lie
charges that orders have been given out
from the machine. "not only for his own
political ends, but also to advance the
selfish schemes of the large railroads,
banking and manufacturing interests
he serves in the halls Of Congress, as
well as in the Massachusetts legisla-
ture." This is O. frightful arraignment
1t should be especially effective in Mas
sachusotts, where the claim is that the
people individually participate to
greater extent personally and directly
IN public affairs than in almost any
other State of tho Union.
Mr.. Amcs claims that the defeat of
Lodge will help the Republican party
and restore confidence in Republican
management, and will be beneficial in
every way, because it will show that
Republicans can "clcan house, by di-
vorcing the legislative lobby from the
political machine and by defeating a
public official who has long served the
private interests rather than the public
good
Senator Lodge was one of the bucca-
neering political gang who Fsus-
tained' Apostle Smoot in his theo-
cratic mission to seat in the Senate.
In that case Lodge cast one Of the
fraudulent votes that retained Apostle
Smoot his scat. We say fraudulent
advisedly, because the vote was cast
not in the least as an unbiased iudg
ment of the points in the case, although
that was the pretense, but was cast for
political reasons only, and with utter
of the charges in the
case against Smoot as actually pre-
scnted. There appeared in none of
the speeches favoring Smoot any just
defense of him on the case as made,
but all was on special pleading, and
all aside from the record presented
against him. President Roosevelt manip-
ulated matters In Smoot IS favor so
that the case turned on politics and not
on evidence or fact. Lodge, sworn to
faithfully and truly adjudge the case,
departed utterly from his oath of
duty, and decided on mean, partisan
view, utterly irrelevant TO the matter
presented to the Senate.
1t was natural, therefore, that Smoot
wonld be the first to hasten to Lodges 8
assistance when Lodge was hard
pressed at home by the decent men of
achusetts who were tired of
Lodges shifty and traitorous time
serving and yielding to interests adj
verse to the public welfare.
And now it appears from Mr.. Ames 8
statement that Lodge depends on
Roosevelt to pull him through. If he
does appeal to Roosevelt. the only real
ground for that appeal must be that
Lodge yielded to Roosevelt IS oimpor.
tunity 10 make. the Smoot case a par
tisan one and decide it for the party Is
advantage rather than on the merits
of the case. And if Mr.. Roosevelt does
come to the relief of Lodge on this
ground, which is the only possible one
upon which Lodge can consistently
make his appeal, the people of Massa-
chusetts will understand the real un-
derlying reason for Roosevelt ap-
pearancc, and will know that the COM
pellIng tie which unites them was one
formed in the interests of the polyga-
nous priesthood OF Utah. Roosevelt
took the lead in forming that tie, and
now the people of Massachusetts will
understand that in pursuance of the
reciprocal obligations which rest upon
him, the exact reason for Roosevclt's IS
appear, and this true reason ought to
be enough to put that appearance un-
der cloud and make it Ineffective for
Lodge.