The review., 1919-04-03
SENATOR LEWIS GREAT sPEEcH.

washington Especially Ma.
l!onaI democratic Committees has ,da,
clueo 70 send out through the countrv
Sne nIl1lon copies of the speech of
senator SENATOR Lewis made@in the senate at
Us Us closing session on the League of
- Inc speeches are to be sent
II one hundred thousand lots n.
Tnls7- is the speech Senator Lewis
made in reply to the attacks bv Sena.
LOTS Lodge, Knox, Borah and Reed
] Inc Republican National Committee
ndd ordered million of the Speeches
OF ATTACKING senators who led the as
SauIt ON President Wilson's broeranI
/ Inc action OF the Democratic Commit-
! tee. IN selecting the Lewis speech as
reply is IN response to the demands
from all over the nation for the
fspeech, following the publication of
eAtracts IRON the newspapers taken
from the Congressional Record.
rms speech of Senator Lewis came
I aIter three days Of terrible oratoricaI
, oo1noardment by Lodge of Massachu-
setts,5 Knox Of Pennsylvania. Raad of
Missouri and sBofah of IdahOys The
/ sediment, up to the time. of the speech
OF Lewis. Was pronounced against the
league. It was hostile to Wilson. The
crowded galleries., made up tDf the
learned and professional heads of all
institutes here, as we'll as the diplo--
mats from foreign lands, showed ami
mostly to the Wilson plan. The
speeches against the plan had made.
great impression against the Wilson
league constitution. It was in face of
this hostile feeling that Lewis took
the floor. He demanded that the as
sailing senators remain in their
places:
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nifty of expression and without manu-
script Lewis had been ill-he was
physically so weak that he had to lean
against his desk and chair for support
He had lived for two days only on
hot milk. Soon he seemed to be in
different to his physical condition.
The galleries packed closer and clos
er. The announcement that he.
(Lewis) would reply brought mem.
bers of the house, cabinet and the
diplomats and their families strained
the capacity of the galleries. All
down the stair easing, out to the doors
were people struggling for admission.
Lewis spoke four hours. From stiI1-
ness to an intense hush, then to
spirit Of volcanic feeling. ran the SEN
t;ment all over the senate. At the
close CT his peroration, the senate,
staid and dignified as. is it's usual
course, broke into applause. Sena-
tors rushed to Lewis and clasped his.
hand in praise. The Wilson senator's
felt vindicated against the assaults
that had been made against the Viii
son plan. and continued their ap-
plause. The Vice-Presi6ent could not
restrain them. ST.. 3 e.
'@+ Tire triumph of Senator Lewis was
50 rema rkable as to bring from old
senators the verdict that never in the
history of the senate, to their knowl-
edge. had such personal victory been
accorded any man. The washington
Post, an opponent of the league. said
the ovation to Lewis was one all men
of the senate would long remember.
The Herald said it was the unpara1-
loled event of personal triumph OF
oratorv not seen before in the life
time of any senator or spectator. All
the Eastern papers praised the speech
as the one oratiOn that turned the
tide of opposition and overcame the
prejudice that followed from the great
attacks of the great Senator's who
had assaulted. 1t was an historical
event for Illinois. '