Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-16
HOW SENATOR BRANDEGEE
 IS VIEWED IN MASSACHUSETTS

This is a senate, a senate of equals, of men of individual hour and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dctators. This is a hall for mutual con cultation and discussion, not an arena for the exhibition of champions.-Daniel Webster.
 After all men count more than meas ures in the minds of the thinking voters of both sexes who make up the sovereign majority of the American electorate. Es- pecially is this true in appraising the worth of senator of the United States Witness the case of Frank Bosworth Brandegee, renominated yesterday by ac- clamation at the Hartford convention for a fourth term as United States senator from Connecticut. A steadfast opponent of the Shuts -Wilson-Cecil league of na- tions from it's birth, he has been from the beginning an steadfast supporter of "any association of nations designed to pro- mote the development of international law, to agree upon an international code to govern the relation of nations with each other and of "a great international | court composed of men of recognized learning in international law, competent, | educated, experienced, the elect of the na- 1 tions," that would ''promulgAte it's judg- Hent according to a code agreed upon and 1 acknowledged. Yet he was placed in | nomination by an ardent advocate of the unconditional ratification of the Shuts | Wilson-Cecil league. Why? Because with the champion of the league, the | record of red-bloodedness that stands to the credit of Cornecticut's senior senator, ,' far outweighed any differences over past or pending measures. 4 conscientious op- ponent of the suffrage amendment, it's re- publican advocates refused to enter a | candidate against Senator Brandegee be- l>eause yne snIoer::-y with which he stood up for his conscientious cc-.vAction, the | fairness with which he rnainta tainvti Sis
 stand, the good grace with which he ac-
 cepted the popular verdict, and the good
 faith with which he insists that it shaI
 be faithfully executed, command alike the
 confidence and admiration of the ranl
 and file of the republican women of his
 state, regardless of whether they were
 suffragists or anti-suffragists
 The great war was only a few monthl old when Senator Brandegee was re
 elected, in November, 1914, for a thirc
 term by large majority. Of English
 French and Dutch lineage, he was 10 per cent American in his attitude toward the struggle from the day Europe wen
 to war. His thought all the while va
 of America. His voice was one of tn IlF5t 10 call TOT national prepa redneSS ant defense. The same appeal which Angus l tus Peabody Gardner was making in tn
 house of Representatives as a congress
 man from Massachusetts, the same ap
 peal which Leonard Wood was making il the army as it's ranking general, the sam
 appeal which Theodore Roosevelt wa making from one end of the country t
 the other, each in brave effort to arous
 the nation to the real significance of tn | mighty struggle overseas, Frank Brande 3 gee was making in the senate He sa, I from the first that our defenseless condi
 tion was standing invitation to aggres
 sion, and, at a time when such pionee o efforts did not conduce to popularity, h il used every resource at his command i
 an attempt to compel pacifst admins :. tration to provide an adequate army an an efficient navy against the day e
 Americas necessity. He secured tn
 adoption by the senate of anamendmer e which, if the house had agreed to i 0 would have raised the army. from eight e to one hundred and twenty thousand me Il long before we entered the war He o
 fered other amendments to increase tt lumber of battleships for our navy E e was one of the first to urge the arnr :. of our merchant vessels. Long before all . long after we entered the war his speecf II es In the senate in defense of America : rights were among the most inspiring 's the patriotic utterances of our publ y men. In times which tried the souls
 the strurgest, when doubt atid1hesitatit