Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-15
neer Advocate of Prepared
ess Victim of Pneumonia
While in Service
EJoINED ARMY AT So
we Up Seat in House to Aid
Country, Although He Was
Grandfather
WASHINGTON, Jan. Is.


>U(Ates army is dead at the Camp
wheeler base hospital. after short
Y Illness from pneumonia.
IA (3ardner's death is directly due TO
Die desire to serve the United States
Z ~ = fighting man. When war was de
K rI4red Gardner, though a grandfather,
. ~ once resigned from Congress and
y was made a colonel He had served
IN the Spanish-American War. lie
q was assigned to Camp Wheeler. but it
was a stan position and he asked for
kactive duty. To get this he took
4 reduction in rank, and 1t was while on
4 duty with his battalion that he con.
ttrakted pneumonia.
4 Mrs Gardner arrived at Camp
z Wheeler Sunday from her home in
\ Hamilton, Mass. and has been almost
3 continuously at her husbands bedside
9fOntil yesterday, when she collapsed
7. after the major became unconscious.
Her condition was such that she was
Z moved TO her hotel. where she received
+ the news of the death She is now
Under the care of a physician.
X Mrs. Gardner was Miss Constance
= Lodge. Her daughter. who has two
Z schildren, is the wife of Lieutenant
{, Grafton w. Miuot. of Boston now in
France.
S Tn 1914 Augustus Peabody Gsrdner's
+ voice was crying in the wilderness for
HAmerican preparedness, Probably to
him more than to any other pioneer il
Z duo the present state of United States
ttprepa redness, while when Gardner first
sSbegan his 'evangeistc campaign" ma
& tional conditions can best be described
s'by recollection of the fact that when
The gave a dinner at the National Press
Club in Washington TO the United
States reserves" only thirteen men ap-
pea ned
II was the preparedness fight that
Brought him into national prominence,
= but before that time he had proved him
!. self unafraid to attack any evil that
y earned his hatred no matter If the whole
I 'course Of events seemed calculated to de
y feat him With that fearlessness there
Z was an intellectual honesty which COM
.-pelled him to scorn conventional political
/. tricks.
His fight in Congress for the restric-
y ttcn of immigration caused him to he de-
feated in the 1918 race for Governor Of
X Massachusetts. Later solictously, a
Fellow Congressman asked him on the
foor of the House If his advocacy of
immigra ton restriction had had any
s~effect upon his candidacy Grimy. he
q replied. II was the worst beaten man
that ever ran"
EFFECTIVE SPEAKER
!, Every word he used was punch"
In the earlier days of his preparedness
evangelism he described the United
States as "a listless, egotistical, helpless
2 giant, shamefuly unready to defend
trhimself IL attacked" Then, again. he
Asserted that he had noticed all through
+ his life that persons are very careful
( about tacl<ling man who Is ready and
i able to defend himself in debate or in
" physical combat. and that the weaklings
a and the men who have no self-reliance
lStjarc those who are usually imposed
|F,snpon."
r. During the many initial preparedness
= -Aebates. he came near an actual encoun-
ter on the floor of the House with j.
HAMPTON Moore. who had said something
to which the Representative from the
-xSlxth Massachusetts District objected.
~ Gardner walked down the aisle and
shook his fist at the Philadelphian.
II deny that Statement absolutely
~ deny It," he shouted
'~The gentleman has made some Of thJ
~~rost famous speeches on the floor of the
8 House in favor of siding with England.
4 retorted Moore. He has gone out of his
= way to criticize Germany"
'of course I have declared Gardner
- nd shall do 1t again
~ Mr. Moore. however, at another time
came to the defense of Mr.. Gardner,
= when the Spanish h-American War record
I of the Massachusetts representative was
4 attacked by pacfist member while
~ Gardner was absent, The Philadelphian
tfobtained Gardners war record and read
'IJt before Congress, asserting that il was
y ehameful to attack a man who had done
4 such patriotic service for the nation.
OPPOSED FATHER-IN-LAw
f2t II was one of the peculiar features OF
Ais political life that with the exception
Y xof preparedness and certain proposed
y changes, he was nearly
Y always on the side opposite TO that
:f1aken by his celebrated father-in-law.
<IIenry Cabot Lodge. Senator from Mas
{;Iachusetts. Somebody said that his OPP
Z position was due to horror of being
n thought under the Lodge thumb. What
-1over the reason, he was not in the least
N3Wed by the majesty of the Lodge
rco1ebrity Once Gardner happened TO
s:1nention Connie" Mack to his father
/, 3n-law.
who" said Henry Cabot Lodge, his
Merriam. jawyer. statesman and descend
4 Int of the >eariiest American families.
4 SHho is Connie Mack"
j< rConnie Mack" warmly replied Gard
Ss1r. himself n blue blood" "is a man
4 ~ho Is known TO millions OF Americans
33kho never heard of Henry Cabot
= Lodge"
nv Mr Gardner once was asked II he had
r~sver earned any money in his boyhood
His answer was:
IN III you mean to ask IL ever did any
E4Work for wages I'll answer no. | was
|><niking with one OF my colleagues from
Inssachusetts the other day. lie said
" thanked God that he was compelled
hslp support himself while a boy. lie
"a learned to do things, he said, and
Dended on his own resources.
ENTHUSIASTIC SPORTSMAN
later In the conversation | found
1T he couldn't run thee furnace that
IS his house. | can run mine. Ther
narrowed his knife to sharpen LEAD
1clk II was the dullest knife | ever
- 20 use He said he had been look
for knife-grinder for two years.
III carried the knife away and sharp
~ II myself. saying. when | handed
hnck, that j was thankful i hat
Mod every summer--except the sum
Of 1918, when ! ran for Governor
Massachusetts,. and the summer. OF
when Congress kept me in Wash
on--in the woods OF Canada and
knew how to take care OF myself
"a or water. on foot, or on horse
0ardner was born November S
Attended, Harvard University