Evening star., 1918-12-15

fully picturesque bride paths of Rock
Creek Park and talked over public
matters together Nor We're secret
service guards ever in attendance,
the rumor that Roosevelt always car
ried a heavy Army pistol in his
pocket being protection enough
1T was knowledge and friendship
that caused Roosevelt to write in 1916
to republican and progressive dele
gates wrangling in Chicago his con-
Vlctlon that Lodge Should be made
their candidate for President HE is
a. man." wrote Roosevelt, "of the
highest integrity, of the broadest ma
votion to the public good"
The bill of praiseworthy legislative
ueeds performed by Lodge. as item
ized by Roosevelt, included the CHAM
ploning of such measures as the pure
food law. the safety appliance law,
the Workingman's compensation act.
the national law prohibiting the labor
OF children. the Hepburn railroad rate
of corporations"
When he is asked for personal facts
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senator Lodge gives his profession as
being that of literature" He might
add, with no belittling of himself,
that he is also a politician. His mod
esty, however, would prevent him
from saying, even to himself, that he
IS highly trained politician, though
such Is the fact. A young man, not
long after being admitted to the Mas
sachusetts bar, he managed the cam
paign that resulted in the defeat of
Gen. Benjamin r. Butler, who was
running again for governor. Mr..
Lodges candidate was George B. Rob
lnson OF Chicopee., II have no money"
Robinson said when he was nomi-
mated, but will do what 1 can to
beat Ben Butler"
Lodge might have remained in Bos-
ton and done his work through other
men. instead, he went into the field
and travelled the state in company
with Robinson, introducing him to
every audience, making the acquain-
tance Of local political leaders and
OF prominent and active men in every
community and beginning the foun-
later developed into what the oppos-
ing side often denounced as the Mas
sachusetts machine"
Thoroughness is one of the articles
in the covenant that Henry Cabot
Lodge has made with himself Writ
ers Of history must practice it. speech-
makers should. but do not. customari-
ly. Generalities ("The eagle, emblem
of our liberties and so on") are much
easier than particulars. When Sena-
tor Lodge addresses Congress the
principal work has been done before
he takes the floor.
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Debating the subject of railroad
rates, he searched the world for i'm
portant facts. giving the mileage and
freight between remote places in Eu-
rope, as we'll as the charges ON hay
and butter in New England and de-
scrlbing the means of transportation
in ancient Egypt, Chaldea and AS
syria.
AS to reading. he appears to have
familiarized himself with all the
literature from Moses and the
prophets to James Bryce, Jean Jus
serand and Theodore Roosevelt.
thoughts from the poets, events from
the historians, epigrams from the
essayists and discoveries from the
scientists give point or fnish to his
spoken words.
EVERY summer when he could, Mr..
Lodge has Travelled in Europe. For
more than twenty years he has been
member of the foreign committee
sa,,s IN ,he e., senate. Il have never, he
ing to influence my action in regard
to our international relations" He
has supported the treaties negotiated
by democratic Presidents, 'and on
lNhIl one OCCASION, he admits,
Il found myself obliged, with great
reluctance, to oppose treaties nego-
tiated by Presidents of my own
party"
The first time that he ran for the
Senate he spent "between $500 and
$500 for party circulars and for send
ing them through the states. In my
second and third elections" he told
the voters of Boston in 1910, II spent
nothing"
Sitting in the office of a cheap
hotel. at Columbus, where he lived,
his feet in carpet slippers, resting OIL
the rail OF blazing coal stove, Allen
G. Thurman, Ohios greatest demo-
crat. perhaps, said to the writer:
"My elections to the Senate never cost
me a fve-c cent piece"
In those degenerate days, the days
Of the "Old Roman. and the scholar
in Politics." legislatures and not the
people elected the senator's in Con-
gress. which leads one to think that,
possibly, il was not the system al
j. ways, but the man sometimes was
bad.
II have never been able" Senator
Lodge says, Ito spend large sums in
politics and / would not If | could
and l could not if l would" More
over, II have felt it necessary to keep
myself wholly aloof from any invest
rpent which could in any way be af-
fected by the legislation of Con-
gress."
And now at eight and sixty, trim as
of yore, though grayer. of course, he
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