Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-01-16
The Colonel Makes the Former a Full.
f|edged Member Of the AnaniaS Club
--AmeS Throws Back Bunch Of
"haS Il Occurred To YOu?"
AMEs ANSWERS ROOSEVELT.


Boston, Jan. l5.-CongresSman But
Ter AneS who is active in the cam
paign i'll opposition IT, the reelection
of United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, issued a statement tonight in
reply to the comments of Former Pres
ident Roosevelt, regarding Senator
Lodges connection with an alleged at
tempt to sell three colliers to the gov
ernment. Col. Roosevelt in Il dispatch
from oyster Bay last night denied Il
conversation in which he was quoted
as having reprimanded Senator Lodge
in the presence of Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Truman II. Newberry be-
cause of Mr.. Lodges alleged activity in
regard to the Golfers.
The statement issued tonight hy Mr.
Ames is a long one, 1t says i'll part
Assuming your telegram to be au-
thentc for the enlightenment of the
public aud in justice TO Senator Lodge
as we'll rs yourself. 1 take this oppor-
tGnitE to pursue the apparent aiffer-
ence between our statements a step
farther and tn ask you kindly to an
swer the following questions induced
by Your customary attack upon one
HIioSt Id'.lS, ltitdS, b'slltIS ana process
es of mind are so fundamentally differ
ent from your that it is difficult for us
to comprehend each other. | am and
have been struggling to rid our state
and the public service OF one whom
and majority of the people in this
state believe to be an undesirable poll
tician Senator Lodge"
Repeating his charges against Sena-
tor Lodge relating to the colliers in
the form of interroga tives, Congress-
man Ames then goes on to say:
I do not question your denial of the
conversation between yourself and Sen
ator Lodge and the secretary of the
navy. In fact, / expected YOU to do
so. And a cabinet officer cannot be
leXpected to verify the accuracy or in
ACCURACY Of a conversation with his
chief
Il was arthoritatively informed that
you did use the words | have credited
you with: but whether YOU did or not
is of minor Importance and this par
ticVlar part of the controversy may
be safely left to some future time.
Has it occurred to YOU that the de-
nial of those charges or an explana-
tion thereof. should have been made
by Senator Lodge himself and on the
floor of the Senate for the fair name
of Massachusetts,. if not for his own.
Has it occurred to you that the
time and place for YOU TO have come
to Senator Lodges rescue was even be
fore you came to speak in hS behalf
at the Arena in Boston, just before
election? ON that night took q seat on
the platform. near you. in the cXpeCta-
ton that You would attempt to clear
4 Senator Lodges record. which had
been attacked all summer; but YOU
said not one word in reference to
these charges when I was present 1nd
in position to make clear to the pub
lie tie truth, as | see it. in this mat
ter
Has it occurred To you or te Sena-
tor Lodge that to thus rush to his de-
fence in the press on the day before
the caucus in the Legislature on tie
senatorial election in this state was to
lay yourself open to the charge. in the
minds of some uncharitable people at
least, of trying to suppress full infor-
NATION III the matter, and N0ur choice
OF time makes the delicate compli-
nehts you pay me in your telegram to
Speaker Walker take on a political
rather IMAM a personal, complexion! -
Il Speaker Joseph Walker of the Mas
sachusetts House, tonight issued a
communication in which he further
eHlpllaSlZed his stand against those
VINO would place him in nomination
AGAINST Mr Lodge for the senat torship
Mr Walker says in part:
Early III JUL; last. Mr.. Lodge asked
me II would support him for re-
electlon to the Senate. | gave the
matter thought and decided that it
was my duty to support him. When
told him OF my decision, I said to
him that ! mad determined the uues-
ton purely on public grounds and that
l should never ask or expect from him
political support or other favor. That
is our understanding
"On July II. 1910, stated in a pub
lie speech that I believed Mr.. Lodge
should be elected and that if / were
il member of the Legislature, 1 should
vote for him. I meant then and
mean now. exactly what I said.
1T must be apparent to all of my
real friends that under the circum-
stances l cannot now, with honor, be-
come u candidate against Mr.. Lodge.
l cannot encourage or permit. so far
as can control the matter, any men,
her of the Legislature to vote FOR me.
l therefore request members not to
vote for me.
'The duty of selecting senator of
the United States now confronts the
Legislature of Massachusetts. 1t is
a duty all the more solemn because,
in it's performance. members act. not
simply as individuals. but as repre-
sentatives of the people. Under the
present system Of electing senators,
members of the Legislature are in
: evitably subjected to all kinds of pres
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