Omaha daily bee., 1912-09-22
OPEN
CAMPAIGN IN OHIO
Senator Lodge Addresses Great Mass
Meeting at Columbus.
BOGUS ECONOMY is SCORED
Hone Of Votes IL MainspFing of
Every Action Of Last Democratic
Congress--Courts Should Re-
tain Independence.

I COLUMBUS. o.. Sept. Ex-senator
Henry Cabot Lodge Of Massachusetts,, r.
B. Brown. candidate for governor. and
other prominent speakers opened the
national and state republican campaigns
in this city today.
The opening consisted off two
mass meetings in Memorial hall
and two parades. The first meeting wa
be at 2 o'clock this afternoon ana the
second at 5 o'clock this evening. Con-
gresham Edward l.. Taylor Of Colum-
bus presided at the afternoon meetinr
at which Senator Lodge, Mr.. Brown, Rev.
John Wesley Hill of New York and Con-
gressman Philip r. Campbell of Kansas
spoke.
Serfator Lodge, after declaring his
pleasure in addressing the Ohio gather.
ing, told of his long intimate friend
ship with President McKinlev. Els
speech was largely devoted to a review OF
the acts of the late congress.
''The democratic house he said, de-
termined to enter upon career of legls-
lation and in order to secure their legis,
lation they adopted to an extent never
known in our history, that most vicious
practice OF attaching legislation to ap-
preparation bills, VIII 'ch hitherto the rules
of both houses have been carefully framed
to prevent, They started out with the
proposition that they were going to make
great economies, but when the final ac-
count was made up 1t was found that the
econom es' crippled all those branches OF
the government where there We're no
votes and the extravagances In which
they freely indulged were poured out
Iavishly where II was thought that large
sums from the essury would result in Sc
curing support at the polls. The economies
and extravagances alike we're determined
not by the interests OF the government OF
the people, but in every case by the hope
Of votes"
The speaker asserted that the actions
OF the democratic legislators had crippled
the State department to effect a saving
of $4,000; that they selected this year
when Mexico is In ferment of reyo
luton, to cut off five cavalry regiments
from the army; that their economy had
caused this country to drop from second
to third place among the navies of the
world, with the Panama canal on the
point Of being opened and that their civil
service legislation threatened the dis.
organization of the service.
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The democratic tariff measures, vetoed
by President Taft, were criticized by
Senator Lodge, who continued:
''But during the last few years another
question or rather, series of questions
have arisen, which far transcend all
others, because they involve the funda-
mental principles upon which our gov.
ernment- and our institut 'ons rest These
questions have been raised and violent
changes have been agitated
and advocated by men of all parties This
agitation has divided opinion in the two
great parties, whether the division has
been openly declared or not. These ques.
tions are far graver than any possible
question of economies or administration
II the proposed constitutional changes
should be carried into effect they would
reyolutionize our system and
theory OF government as we have known
i since the beginning of our history
1T is now seriously proposed to make
the courts depend upon the will Of
majority of the voters at any given
majority which may be fleet
ng, temporary or accidental The
courts of the United States were made
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