New-York tribune., 1920-11-02
Victory Over
Wisconsin, Is
Lodge Forecast
Senator Says Thousands of
Democrats VIII Aid i'm
the Defeat of Autocracy
and Onc-Man Government
Action in 1896 Recalled
Election Is Declared To Be
Third Crisis i'm Which Re.
publicans Saved Nation
specso, Dispatch to The Tribune

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
BOSTON, Nov. 1.-Scnator Henry
Cabot Lodge, addressing the last meet
ing of the Republican campaign in
Boston at noon to-day in Faneuil Hall,
declared that the success of the Re-
publicans in the election tomorrow
would be a victory over wisconsin,
autocracy and one-man government
He predicted that thousands of Demo-
Gratis would stand with the Republi-
cans on this issue.
When Chairman Hall of the state
committee, presiding at the rally, in
troduced Senator Lodge as "the Olym-
greatest conspirator of the age, Il" the
throng that filled the hall arose as one
and cheercd the Senator while the band
played columbia. the Gem of the
Ocean," Senator Lodge said in part:
'Mr Chairman. and my fellow citi-
zens:
"The hours are flying fast, and we
shall soon 60 to the polls to register
our decision in the great election which
is to be decided to-morrow-as your
chairman has said, the greatest election
since 1864.
On 1885 there came tho question of
whether we should wreck our whole
financial system by adopting The stan
dard Of Is to l, and the Republican
party was the instrument which stood
for the gold standard and a souri cur
rency and which saved the business Of
this country from wreck. Thousands Of
patriotic Democrats came to our aid
end enabled US to win the great victory
Of that year
'for the third time there has come a
great crisis, and the Republican party
has again become the instrument Of
what we believe to be the cause of
patriotism. And to-day, once mo1e
thousands Of Democrats are going to
stand with US because they believe it
Is necessary to rescue the country at
home from the troubles which press
upon 1t, end to make its future safe
abroad.
"But there is much more at stake. It
can all be summed up in a single word
use it, not for the purpose Of person
nllties, for think they are poor things.
use it simply to express what we all
understand. The word is wisconsin,
'autocracy,' autocratic government at
home and abroad. | mean having our
relations with foreign nations dictated
by personal agents. | mean the effort
to break down the legislative power Of
both branches of Congress. mean
the effort to break down the constitu-
tional power Of the Senate in regard to
treaties. The result is the kind of ad-
ministration that we have.
II have no doubt myself as to what
the decision will be. / have no doubt
as to how 1t will be decided. But it is
the greatest decision that has been
brought before the American electorate
since 1864, and as we Won then we
shall win now. In 1864 Abraham Lin
coin doubted Of his own election. He
wrote on a piece of paper sentence.
inclosed it in an envelope, sealed it up
and said that it should not be opened
until after the election was over.
"When the election was over it was
opened. It was found that he had writ
ten on that piece of paper that, if he
was defeated. 1t was obvious that the
Democratic party, under the leader
ship it then had, would never save the
country, and prophesied the Republ-
can party, under himself must save
the country between Election Day and
the 4th of March. No nobler message
was ever written.
"That is the same spirit that ought
to pervade this election, appealing then
rs it did to all patriotic men, and ap-
pealing now to all patriotic men and
women. There was no vote of women
then, but we know how they would
have voted when the life of the country
was at stake. No greater patriots than
they lived in those four years of the
Civil War. They are patriots now, as