The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-15
WILSON WILL BE
 E OBJECT OF MANY . BITTER ATTACKS
Lodges Speech at Chicago t1 Forecasts Campaign of Personal Assault.

Washington, ID. C., Juno .15--The 'sfSeynete' speech of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge at the Republican Ma tienal Convention, which was largely devoted to a, bitter and partisan at tack 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. Bark1ey, 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 Bark1ey recalls that tradacers of Lincoln went even further than present-day critics of President Wilson Lincoln, he says, was called "the baboon at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue" his J administration was described as weak and vscillating; 'tne was ac- tcnsed of '-treachery," of having sac rificed the ~honor and dignity" of the nation, and was called by some { of his critics an ~imbecile-
 ~But where today are the tra- ducers of Washington, where are those who naa1igned Jefferson; where are the defamers of the character of 'Old Hickory Jackson; where are those who, with 1eering look and fsdnfster smile, sought to besnirch ithe record of Abraham Lincoln 2" ashs Representative BarkIey. ''They lie in unmarked and unhallowed graves They have all descended into the stiffness of deep oblivion from which they will never emerge
 l Representative Barkley and other tDernocrats believe that the best and most convincing arguments to such attacks is the fact that many Presi- dents and particularly war Presi- FSients' have had their motives mis- understood and maligned in their day, and that history has given inn perisha bility to their names.
 1 Further along this line, Represen- tative Barkley says:
 ~The figure of Washington grows more imposing as the years go by, 1 and each year pilgrims by the thousands tread softly near his tomb. fJeferson's memory and his great deeds are enshrined in the hearts o1 ta grateful posterity- The heroic courage of Jackson as soldier and statesman inspires each new genera { ton of American patriots And the l tragic career of Abraham Lincoln gives hope to every struggling boy in this fair land, and in his honor we build monuments and cities
 It is not my task to assign to Woodrow Wilson the place which he i will occupy among the great states men of America and the world I'm partial history will perform that duty. No word of mine can add to the fuIineas of his stature No word or act of yours can detract from it But if may be permitted to indulge 1 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 for gotten register of the Nations maIcontents, while he will stand with Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, and Iincofn as one of the few great figures of this era
 Let mo in conclusion adopt as a fitting motto for the Democratic Party and it's great President a sentence uttered by the great I.fn- coin in his famous debates with Douglas over the senatorship from Illinois When complaint was made that the course he was pursuin g would defeat him for that high office, he uttered this immortal sentence: T am not bound to win; but I am bound to be right In being right he lost the senatorship, but he gain ed the Presidency and a premiership among the worlds great statesmen. In being right, Woodrow Wilson has lost the support of a narrow, par tisan, and Slothfu1 Repanblican Con gross, but he will have gained a prize infinitey greater in value and in
 honor, a high place among the
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