The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-03-30
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Rep. Gardner, of Massachusetts,,
Mixed Radicalism With Conserva-
rism in Fight on Cannon.
BY W. S. COUCH.

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-Unui
quite recently they called him Gus
sic" a pis,ty heavy handicap, as
everyone will allow Then he is a
son-in.law Of Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge which made II double handi-
CAP. To be son.in-law is in itself
almost fatal in politics. as witness
Nicholas Longworth. But TO be SOIL
in-law OF Henry Cabot Lodge-well-
Representative Augustus Peabody
Gardner Msurgent, OF the sixth Mas
sachusetts district. had work cut out
for him TO climb 10 his present alti-
tude. For Gardner is quite a figure
in the house just now.
No one west OF the Alleghenies could
possibly understand the Henry Cabot
Lodge school OF politics. The senator
never seems 20 be quite human and
he also speaks with the British accent
OF the Elizabethan period which New
England affects When he writes his
tory In patriotic vein he describes
with real enthusiasm the brave yeo-
many who put the British red coats
to fight
The west must admit. though. that
there is another side TO the Henry
Cabot Lodge type Men who had
known Lodge for years say II appeared
IN him at the Chicago convention and
were amazed. There on the stage this
supposedly thin-blooded person sud
denly swung his bung starter OF q
gavel over the amazed heads OF Jim
Tawney and Fred Bussey, who were
trying 10 reason with him. and Chair
man Lodge yelled that mo double
dashed, qualified, asterisk Chicago
mob will run this convention while
I'm chairman. 10 you get that
They got It and backed hastily away,
hands held up 10 guard.
Now "Gussie" Gardner turned out
to b.a just like that when he began 10
insurge They don't call him "Gussie'
any more.
When Gardner decided 10 oppose
Cannonism he calmly turned his back
on all there vas in II for him in con-
gress. AT least IL looked that way.
then. The insurgents are more or less
on top. now. Winning or losing.
though. II has been all the same 10
Gardner. He has pulled himself out
OF the mud after being run over by
the regulars with the same smile he
DIOOHOlE
of the past gave him similar treatment
Say what you please. chilly New Eng
land breed is a game breed. To show
either enthusiasm over victory or
chagrin over defeat. or any other emo
ton for that matter. seems 10 be the
great crime in their code OF ethics.
The one greater crime is TO know
when you are licked Lodge don't
know that. nor does Gardner
Being from Massachusetts, though
this eastern insurgent wouldn't be
true to his state II he were not a Pc
culIar and strange brand OF insurgent.
He insists on having you emphasize
that fact First Of all. he wants you
TO understand that he is by no means
associated with men like La Toilette
or Bristow or Cummins. Here Is the
Massachusetts, quick suspicion OF the
west. west which Massachusetts, In
sists on regarding as still Wild and
still woolly. Nevertheless, Gardner has
fought side by side with LaFollette
men Of the house against the house
rules.
Gardner is quick to defend the Aid
rich tariff. He Is no insurgent when
II comes TO that. Few New England
men are when IL comes down TO brass
tacks. New England got the cream
Of the tariff game and the rest OF the
country the skim milk at the price II
had paid for cream before the bill
passed.
Curiously enough. Gardner is red
head, too. like Murdoch. the most typ
zeal western insurgent. They have a
good many points In common, these
two most unlike men. Gardner Is a
muscular, square built chap. like Muir
dock. with a strong face. which he
keeps smooth-shaven. He Is As. ma
tive of Massachusetts. and he was
brought up TO be gentleman He
served a biz in the Massachusetts leg
islature, and another bit in the Span
ish war. before coming to congress.
Gardner looks on life more seriously
than Murdoch seems to. for Gardner
has rather less than the Murdoch
sense Of humOr