New-York tribune., 1918-01-22
democrats Hide Best
Men; Roosevelt
Patriot" " Says Lodge

Senator Lodges reply to Senator
Stone Was as follows:
"Mr. President, nothing during this
to me as the fact that since last April
there have been no political lines drawn
in the Congress of the United States.
There have been until to-day 10 politi-
cal speeches whcn have heard; there
las been no political voting; both
branches have labored together with
the common desire 10 prosecute the war
| TO quickest possible conclusion To-day
the Senator from Missouri greatly to
NY regret, has made d distinctly pciiti-
cal speech. do not propose to initiate
his example by assailing Senators Q:
Representatives Of an opposite political
lalt1 from mine, but | must say q few
words to repel his reprcsentations as to
the Republican party.
81 can quite understand. Mr. Presi-
dent, that the Senator from Missouri
/ finds it personally desirable to make
such speech as that 10 which the Sen
ste has listened, but it is also a time
when our personal desires should be
made subordinate to the public interest
and not deliberately strive to revive
party, feeling. | can only hope that the
speech Wlll be as grateful in the quar-
ters where he desires it to be grateful
IS he expects.
Points TO Republican Support
Mr.: President, the Republicans Of
TIE House and OF the Senate nave
voted tor al! tho great measures necos-
sary Tor the war. They have voted for
all the money asked, for all the loans
authorized, for all the great powers to
be given. There have been measures
desired by the Administration which
might have failed, which would have
tailed, IN the Eouse at least, without
the Republican vote. The Republicans
have, to my knowledge, cast no party
vote since the Cd OF last April, and
they Will continue to avoid casting
party votes while the war is in prog
rcss.
,"f there has been partisanship any
where since the var began it has
seemed to me at times as if it might
be we'll to organize and use all The
ABILITY Of the country.
The parties Of this country are
pretty evenly divided. and to confine
Nnc party 20 the right to give their
lives, their sons, their brothers. their
husbands to the armies and navies
seemed to me not altogether best. I
think 1t would have been better if thcv
had been more largely called upon for
work, and that we needed all our abil-
lty' not half Of it, in the general ser
wee OF the United States have
found no fault, however, with this at
tltude. Inc only fault | have ever
found is that the Administration has
tailed to take the best from it's own
party
"Mavesichs" Clamor for Jobs
here has been a great admiration
shown for what have been called the
ave eIlers in Tie twilight zone; a great
tcSnfs 20 appoint men, few in number
WHO haze Nandewed from ono pariv 70
smother until some irreverent peonlo
rave referred TO them rs "the nlayer-
icSs OF politics" These "m.vcricks. :"
some pro German before last April,
usually pacitsts, have been taLon
wherever possible, without regard so
lar as one can see, to anything except
thelr somewhat varied political record
ana nave been put III places OF great
importance.
II have observed also that these
wanderers generally permit themselves
10 De branded easily by some one who
is able to admit them to green nasf,'rao
and to comfortable stalls.
"The Senator has referred t. in
vestlgations. | introduced ono os +ho
resolut!ons OF nvestiGation The nor-
ton of the country fror, which | conc
was suffering very previously from
shortage OF sugar, amounting aImost
to "A famine. and from q shortage of
coal; and 1t seemed to lac that i wos
an obvious duty for Congress to ,rw
to discover whether there was any
thing wrong in the policy which nsd
been adopted and whether there ,,'ae "aa
not some remedy that could be fur'
nlshed. The resolution | offered Mas
auOpted bv the Senate tn ; '" ""o