The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-05
FIRES BROADs|DE
At SENATOR LODGE
Congressman Butler Ames, Who Seeks
Seat In Senate, Says Present In
cumbent Is Corporation Man.

BOSTON. July 5.-Congressmar
Butler Ames, grandson OF the famous
"arhorse Ben" Butler and p,illion
aire, only thirty eight years old. now
aSpirant 10 the senatoial toga worn by
Henry Cabot Lodge, says that he will
before the campaign Is ended, turn
the spotlight OF publicity upon the
whole career OF Senator Lodge. and
denounce him In every legislative dis
trict In the state as "a political boss
VINO betrsys public trust"
To correspondent OF The Times,
Ames unfolded his plans, and out
lined the platform upon which he will
canvass the state.
This fight" he said, lis not being
waged from motives Of personal am.
billion. | am lighting for a principle
for the principle in public life OF
live and let live, for the radiance OF
boss rule and for the re-establishment
OF rule by the people, through their
representatives.
Lodge is the embodiment OF a
political condition which Is happily
passing. He is part and parcel OF a
decadent order OF things. His style
OF political manipulation has brought
the Republican party into disrepute.
! am fighting for the rehabilitation OF
my party. Today the people through
the Republican party are dominated
by the bosses. There is absolutely no
chance for individualism.
II am contesting against a tremen-
dous political power. and realize IL.
No railroad or other corporation will
back me. On the contrary, they are
frankly out to defeat me. II was only
a short time ago that VIM. Wood,
president of the American Wooden Co.,
otherwise known as the wooden trust
which owes so much to Senator
Lodge. tolde me TO my face that he
would do everything in his power to
down me. Woods attitude Is merely
that OF the other trust magnates.
Lodge is their prophet. 1t is they for
whom he is working, and they OF
course expect to pay their servant.
Il want to see the lobby divorced
from legislation. Under Lodges tutel-
age. Jake Wardell has built up a
machine for political corruption in
Massachusetts that has few equals in
the United States.
These practices are the very foun-
dation of the Lodge machine He has
built up his power, not by construc-
tive legislation, but by the meanest
of political trickery and jobbery. A
member OF his own family has fatten-
ed at the public crib, and he has foist-
ed burdens upon the state and the ma
ton to strengthen his own position.
Il am going up and down the length
and breadth Of this state and acquaint
the voters with Senator Lodges true
record. not the hallowed, semi-sancti-
fed record of the scholar In politics,
which the people have swallowed so
long.
II shall try to have candidates
pledged one way or the other. With
his immense political and financial
patronage, Senator Lodge might easily
bring compelling pressure upon un-
pledged members of the legislature.
The machine of which he Is the head
has a thousand ways OF reaching a
man, either through politics or money.
II has been done before. and 1t will
be attempted again.
Senator Lodge Is reactionary.
He is getting too old TO keep in touch
with the younger generation. which
mere ard more is beginning to domin.
ate American politics. He has never
5ecn in touch with the people, he has
never been of them. II is an uphill
fight on which I have engaged, but
eight out of every ten In Massachu
setts will he In sympathy with ne,
for the revolt against Lodgeism aud
bossism is widespread. II the people
themselves have their way in the mat.
ter | shall be elected"