The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-06-18
LODGES HYMN OF HATE

There the story ends" exclaimed
Senator Lodge in his speech as tenn
porary Chairman of the republican
national convention. "We have stop
ped Mr.. Wilson's treaty and the ques-
ion goes to the people"
That is how all of Senator Lodges
stories end. That is how the repub-
lican record in respect to the peace
of the world ends-in obstruction and
destruction.
1--WE nj ke the issue" continued the
majority eader of the senate. 1--WE
ask appreciation for what we have
done. The people will now tell is
what they think OF Mr.. Wilson's lea
que and its sacrifice of America
If the republican national cOnven-
ton will make Senator Lodges chal-
lenge official, there can be no hesita-
tion on the part of the democratic
national convention in accepting 1t.
The senator from Massachusetts has
indeed made the issue. He has not
made it alone in his speech, which
is devoted practically to only two poll
cies-a war with Mexico and anything
10 beat Wilson. He has made it in
the senate of the United States as the
republican leader of that body.
Mr.. Lodge owes his leadership to
the purchase of a United States sena-
torship in Michigan by Truman H.
Newberry. a crime for which NeWber-
ry has been convicted in a Federal
court and has been sentenced to long
term of Imprisonment Without the
Newberry vote the republicans could
not have organized the senate. He
was their majority. Henry Cabot
Lodge would not have become the
leader. Without Newberry's support he
could not have been elected. The SEN
ate committee on foreign relations
could not have been packed with SEN
ators who had declared their hostility
to the treaty before it was framed.
The Lodge reservations could never
have been adopted in committee or
adopted on the floor of the senate. The
whole record which Senator Lodge
exalts in his Hymn of Hate against
President Wilson rests upon the cor.
rupt and rotten structure of a senator.
ship bought in the open market OF
Michigan.
To Senator Lodge and tC his repub-
lican associates the treaty of peace
is merely "Mr. Wilson's treaty" The
fact that it is Frances treaty, that it
is Italy's treaty, that is is the treaty
of all the other belligerents, and that
it is also Germany's treaty, is a his
torical detail that does not interest
them. They are fighting the president
of the United States and they are
fighting the treaty of peace because
his signature is attached to it as one
of the negotiators. They are not con-
cerned with its merits or demerits
All its most Objectionable clauses they
accept without question. They attack
1t only for what is good in it, not for
what is bad, and their course is chart
ed solely by the fact that the most en-.
lightened and progressive features of
the treaty were suggested by Presi-
dent Wilson. If the treaty had bee1 ne
gotiated by a republican president
they would defend it as a. !entIy as
they now assail it.
The republican party is going into
this campaign as the party of treaty
wrecking and the party of a war with
Mexico. No evasionS of the platform.
no attempt, however adroit, to make
language conceal thought, can change
the record.
There is not constructive thought !
or suggestion in Senator Lodges |
speech, and there will not be a con-
structive thought or policy evolved by |
the Chicago convention. The repubIi- |
can party is held together today onlv
by the passionate hatred of it's lead
ers for Woodrow Wilson. That hatred
mas poisoned the blood in all the ar
terles and veins of government. vet
It's virus is the only iving and vital
force in the republican organization.
which Is asking return to power on
the ground that its congress has faint
ed with partisanship everything that
IL has touched and has polluted everv
Ideal fer which the American peoplo
sacrificed their blood and treasure in
way to end the war-WorId.