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CHICAGO KEYNOTE SPEECH
PERSONAL NOT POLITICAL
Parties Are Bigger Than Men And
Personalities Will Not Be Accepted
In Place OF Issues. Washington,
Jefferson And Lincoln More sever
ly Assailed Than President Wilson.

Washington. d. C.-The keynote"
speech of Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge at the Republican National
Convention, which was largely devot-
ed to a bitter and partisan attack on
President Wilson and his policies,
indicates the plane upon which the
Republican party proposes to pitch
the approaching campaign.
AS pictured by Representative AL
ben w. Barkley, Democrat of Ken
lucky, Democrats are prepared to
meet these personal assaults upon the
President and Representative Bark
ley says the country has but to re-
member how Washington, Jefferson,
Jackson, Lincoln and other great
Presidents were maligned, in order
to take such attacks at their real
worth.
Representative Barkley recalls
that traducers of Lincoln went even
further than present-day critics OF
President Wilson. Lincoln. he says,
was called, 'the haboon at the other
end of Pennsylvania Avenue" his
administration was described as
weak and vacillating;" he was ac-
cused of ''treachery," of having sac
rifced the 'honor and dignity" of
the nation, and was called by some
of his critics an "Imbecile."
But where today are the traduc-
ess of Washington; where are those
who maligned Jefferson; where the
the defamers of the character of old
Hickory Jackson; where are those
who, with leering look and sinister
smile, sought to besmirch the record
of Abraham Lincoln?" asks Repre-
sentative Barkley. They lie in un-,
marked and unhollowed graves.
They have all descended into the
stiffness of deep oblivion from which
they will never emerge"
Representative Barkley and other
Democrats believe that the best and
most convincing argument TO such
attacks is the fact that many Presi-
dents, and particularly war Presi-
dents have had their motives mis-
understood the maligned in their
day, and that history has given i'm
perishability to their names.
Further along this line, Repre-
sentative Barkley says:
The figure of Washington grows.
more imposing as the years go by,
and each year pilgrims by the thou
sands tread softly near his tomb.
Jefferson's memory and his great
deeds are enshrined in the hearts OF
a great posterity. The heroic cour-
age of Jackson as soldier and states
man inspires each new generation OF
America patriots. Ana the tragic
career of Abraham Lincoln gives
hope to every struggling boy in this
fair land, and in his honor we build
and cities.
! 1t is not my task to assign to
Woodrow Wilson the place which he
will occupy among the great states
men of America and the world.
history will perform that
duty. Noword of mine can add to
the fullness of his stature, No Yorss
Or act of yours can detract from 1t.
But if may be permitted to indulge
in a prophecy, it is not difficult to
foresee that those who now snap
at his heels like hungry jackals will
take their places among the forgot
ten register of the Nations malcon-
tents, while he will stand with Wash
ington, Jefferson, Jackson, and
Lincoln as one of the few great fig
ures of this era.
Let me in conclusion adopt as a
fitting motto for the Democratic
Party and it's great President a
sentence uttered by the great Lin
coin in his famous debates with
Douglas over the senatorship OF
Illinois. When complaint was made
that the course he was pursuing
would defeat him for that high office,
he uttered this immortal sentence:
I am not bound to win; but l am
bound to be right In being right,
he lost the senatorship, but he gained
the Presidency and premiership
the worlds great statesmen.
In being right, Woodrow Wilson has
lost the support of narrow, parts
an, and slothful Republican Con-.
gress, but he will have gained prize
infinitely greater in value and in
honor, high place among the meag-
ar list of the Worlds real statemen