The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-10


come not a matter IL national but II
international interest.
senator Lodges standing In Mas
sachusrtts.
N the Legislature that assemblies in
Massachusetts, In January - Republican
on JOINT ballot in the last Legislature
the Republican majority was iB the
Hon HENRY CABOT lyODGE will succeed
himself a. Unit,d States senator. IL the
! Democrats had shown themselves capa-
bile Of holding State convention and
nominating "A candidate for Governor
of IA" ability and standing OF CHARLFs
/ = HAMLIN they would have made con
siderable gains in the Legislature, but
even under such worthy leadership they
could haNe nIrsed no hope Of replacing
Mr. LODGE with n Democrat That
gentleman having come through his
preliminary contest with Colonel BrTLER
| AMEs unscat he'd ran now make his prep
arations To serve six more years as Sen
ator after March :.
In the flush of anticipated victory
over his opponents and enemies Mr..
LoDGE talked about his services and
the Republican partv's efficiency to the
MiddleseN club the other night. This is
what h. said about himself:
i have no secrets from the people IT Msssa
chuse,u There Is m nooE or Granny into watch
the mos, Jealous eve may not peer or pry. None
Ia 40 conscious As am Of the errors have made
often | have fallen short ~ the Ideals 70 which
hoped N attain But can say mat there IL no
page In the record which the world Is not welcome
N read NJ pare that ny own psnpl- In Mass
chusetts cannot lcok upon and no line and this IL
most important 10 me mat my children and my
grandchildren may no, read when am gone
The truth is that however much Of
a part iSan Nj LODGE IL. and though he
NAV offend sensitive souls bv an air
of conscious dignity and mental supc-
rioritv. the people ~ Ma<sarhusetts
never doubt his devotion 10 tn. public
service. and oven his critics arr proud
of him when h. makes a set speerh,
either IN the Senat" or on the platform
# state convention. Mr. LODGE il
. and ungraCious partisan with an immiti-
cabl" Scurn for citizens who call them
selves Democrats He j. bcraied. and
also cnvied. b,~rauS" h" j. a bo-ss
although "A Respectable one. \evert he
lea MasSachrsett, i proud II him.
Mr. LODGE's partI~an-hlp never allows
him 10 sea- a blrmi-h IN the Republican
re- ord In his speech - the MIdde.eX
club he said for instance.
what 30 they propose =, punish 20, ',r now
10 Is not vrrI easy n md out some ~ the stste
msnts made are extremely vague Generally u
comes down o. dissatisfaction with the uh-.
and what l. Il they propose 10 DO They propose
tn enter On another and immediate wholesale
revision ~ IN, tarir under democratic suspices
with me results ~ the revision ~ isaa staring
them In the face II may punish the Republican
party to put them IN the minority IN the HOUSE u
Representatives but Il Furnishes the country a
thousand time more
Nevertheless the country just now
seems Inclined 10 punish itself II Mr.
LODGE were truly candid he would not
disregard the agitation for further re-
vision in his own party; he would recog-
nze IL faCtional differences and con
slider them IN a liberal spirit. II ~ thus
affected blindness Of Mr. LODGE toactual
conditions and his lnsin0ere approval Of
all that his party has don" and omitted
to do that cause intelligent men 10 deny
To him the character " great senator