The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-01-23

radical legislation demanded by thu
House. II, in the interest of compro
mise and break in the long-existins
deadlock, he should urge the House tc
recede on one or two main points, the
conservationists would attack him saw
agely. And yet, from business stand
point, the water power legislation i:
thought to be of the very first impor.
lance. If the president gets some action
at this session, which will enable capital.
lists to move ahead with large power en-
terprises, it will be substantial vic
tory.
Where Mr.. Lodge Doesn't Fit.
President Wilson'S refusal to speak
from the same platform with Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts at the recent
centennial Of st. Johns church caused
many comments at Washington. 1t also
served to recall other incidents where
the president has shown resentment to-
ward those who criticized, as he thought,
unfairly. Last October, when Republic.
cans reasoned that Hughes was a sure
winner and Wilson a dead cock in the
pit, certain influential newspaper OF
stalwart Republican partisanship began
to berate the president with great aban-
don. This was done so vigorously that
one of its responsible officers, who, new
ertheless had not known personally of
the attacks, wrote the president. a let
ter of apology.
A year ago this newspaper had con-
Quoted an entertainment enterprise, and
the president attended. This year
similar entertainment is under way, and
in advance the president let certain of
hsi friends know he would take some
pleasure in declining the invitation He
did decline it recently without giving any
reason whatever.
The president seemed at first to feel
rather kindly toward Senator Lodge, who
was asked now and then into conference
over matters of foreign relations. They
became acquainted many years ago
through their mutual interest in Ameri
can history writings, and when Mr.. Will
son became president the greetings be-
tween him and the senior senator from
were tolerably cordial.
But Senator Lodge, along with other
strong minded Republican, believed
dst tCApbSt tudt 4ui. w llSOh was Aott
,or and that the party that had ruled the |
government for the best part of 80 years
vas coming into its own again.
Accordingly he lambasted the president |
n the choicest terms he could command |
md the matter of the alleged postscript |
o the presidents Lusitania note is still I
,retty freshly in the public mind. There
we're elements in the senator's state
nent that are understood to have made
t particularly offensive to the president.
t is by no. means so serious from Sem
tor Lodges side as it would be If the
resident were Republican and of the
enator's own party, but no one in pub
c life feels particularly comfortable 4
yer thus being prescribed by the White
louise. There is little reason to doubt
hat the presidents resentment extends
o quite a group of Republicans and Pro-
ressiyes, who are identified one way or
mother with ex-President Roosevelt. The
lembers of this Roosevelt group prob
bly, would not have gone as far as they
id in attacking and denouneing the adj
had they not felt very con-
dent indeed that Wilson's political days
ere numbered and that, after all, Will
,n's place in American history was like
? to be secondary to the recognition
osterity would give to the great and
My Theodore.