Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-08
LODGE DEFINES OPPOSITION
TO WILSON AS PARTY ISSUE


tive Misrepresentation of President Will
SON.. which two years ago would have
brought out a tar bucket and rail-
Senator Lodge, as temporary chaiiz0an,
pleased the great assemblage of pssti-
sans He said. in part:
I'm order to render to our country the
service which we desire to render and
which we can accomplish in large meas
ure, at least, If we undertake it with all
our ability and in a disinterested public
spirit, we must have tn opportunity for
service. That opportunity can only
come through our being entrusted by the
people with both the legislative and the
executive authority. To this end Mr..
Wilson and his dynasty, his heirs and
assigns. or anybody that is his, anybody
who with bent knee has served his pur-
poses must be driven from all control,
from all influence upon the government
of the United States They must be
driven from Office and power not be
cause they are democrats but because
Mr.. Wilson stands for a theory of ad
ministration and government which is
not American. His methods, his con-
slant if indirect assaults upon the con-
stitution and upon all the traditions Of
free government, strike at the very life
q
our government has always rested. The
return of the democrats to power with
Mr.. Wilson or one of his disciples still
the leader and master of a great party,
which before his advent possessed both
traditions and principles, would be Il
long step in the direction Of autocracy.
for which Mr.. Wilson yearns, and a
heavy blow to the continuance Of free
representative government as we have
always conceived and venerated II. The
peril insepsrable from Mr.. Wilson and
his system goes far beyond all party d.
visions, for 1t involves the fundamental
question OF whether the government Of
the United States shall be a government
Of Jaws and not Of men, whether II shall
be a free representative government or
that Of q dictatorship resting on a pie
biscite carried by repellent methods.
Mr.. Wilson and the autocracy he repre-
sents and all which those who believe
in his doctrines and share his spirit rep
resent, must be put aside and conclu-
sively excluded from any future con.
troll Bear this well in mind through
out the campaign. for It is lie first con-
dition Of our ability TO enter upon the
path which win carry US forward TO
true progress and to wiser laws. It Is
OF Roosevelt from which Mr. Wilson
has sought 10 drag us We can only re-
gain It by once and for all condemning
the man and his associates who have
thus endeavored 70 turn us from the
right road into the dark and devious
ways which with all nations lead TO
destruction.
WILL OF THE PEOPLE
MUST BE SUPREME.
There must be but one law in this
country aud that Is the law framed by
the men chosen By the people themselves
to make the laws. The chief magistrate
must understand that Il is his duty not
only to enforce. but to abide by the laws
the laws made by the representatives OF
the people, and when those laws are once
made they must be obeyed until the peo-
pie see ct TO change them. The will OF
the people. expressed in lawful manner
through the government OF the United
States. can neither suffer revolt nor
submit to any question Of its authority
on the part Of any man or any group OF
men or any minority Of the people. When
free government fails, autocracy and
revolution and the downfall Of civilization
as we have known It are at hand
Progress will cease end the decline to
lower stages Of development will have
begun. True progress must rest upon
and proceed from the sound principles
which sustain all free government and
to such progress the republican party
always has been committed. Loyalty to
the United States and obedience TO the
peoples laws are the corner stones OF
the republic aud should be sustained and
upheld By every man and woman In
-
these principles sacred and untouched and
ell the rest will follow.
Let me turn first TO the economic con
ditions, so profoundly distorted and con
fused by the war, which affect our daily
life are essential 10 our business and
upon which our material prosperity and
all the benefits, both mental and moral,
which how from It when honestly nc
quired, so largely depend. Already a
beginning has been made by a republican
congress, working under all the difficult
ties and opposition imposed by a hostile
executive. Many vital economic measures
and especially protective tariff legisia-
ton to guard our industries are impossi-
bic with q democratic free trader Of So
cialistio proclivities in the whibehouse.
To accomplish such measures as these
We .ust have. as we intend to have. a
republican president, in sympathy with a
republican house and senate. Great re
auctions in expenditures have been ef-
fected. but we have been met with re-
sistance in some Of the departments and
also bv habits Of wa ste backed by NAL
administration. by sacrifice of efficiency
to political purposes, never so recklessly
INDUCED in before. and in certain cases
by an incompetency so marvellous that II
can not be due to nature, but must be the
result of art.
LODGES VIEWS OF
PARTY ACCOMPLISHMENT.
Let me give few examples OF what
uas been accomplished.
The estimates have been reduced over
81 900 600. The oil-leasing and water
power bills, two measures of large effect
and high importance, which have been
hating and stumbling for many years
in the incapable hands OF a democratic
majority, passed both houses, but
the president has vetoed the
water power bill We have passed
the vocational rehabilitation act for
the benefit OF wounded soldiers and
several acts for the disposition of war
material, very necessary to our finances.
We have amended and improved the fed
eral reserve and the farmers loans acts.
We have cared for the soldiers Of the
Civil war, straitened in their old age
through the rise in prices, by an increase
in their pensions. The civil service re-
tirement law. a long deferred act of JUS
tice to faithful servants of the govern
ment. has been passed. We have
been obliged TO restore the army