New Britain herald., 1920-09-01
SEN. LODGE RESENTS DEMOCRATIC ATTACK
Accused of Inconsistency at
 Frisco Convention, He Says
SPEAKS AT CONCORD, N. H.
MaSS. Senator Tells Merrimack County C. O. P. Club About His Wartime Record tn United States S.natc-ScorcS Democrats.
Srnatc-ScorcS Dcmocr,

Wartime Record in United States
 Scnatc-Scorcs Democrats.
 concord, N. H.. Sept. l.-Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, speaking here today before the Nerrimaclx county republican club accused tho den,ocra, ic party of unlimited misrepresenta- ton of well known facts" in it's platform reference to alleged incon- s,stencies in his attitude on the mak- ing of peace with Germany.
 Charged With Inconsistency.
 T am charged with inconsistency" said senator Lodge. because in an address I disspproved of deserting our allies and making separate peace in the midst of war and vet was willin to make a separate peace with Germany two years and a half after that speech was made and when au our allies had left Us and had themselves made peace with Ger many. l was right on both occasions and entirely consistent" The sena- tor added that what was important was not the question of his personal consistency but that one of the two great parties should have begun the campaign with misrepresentation.
 Individual Attack.
 "I think I am safe in saying,p he continued. that never before has the declaration Of the principles of great national party carried an at tack on any individual member of the opposite party. But the democrats at San Francisco selected me by name for subject of attack in an effort apparently to prove that I had been inconsistent
 What they did exactly was this:
 They quoted from what they called an article of mine which they said ap- peared in the Forum magazine of De- cember, 1918, in which l had de- nounced any attempt on the part of the United States to make separate peace with Germany at that time. On the publication sof this statement fin the democratic platform many Of the leading newspapers of the country i'm mediately pointed out that the article in question was not published in the Forum of December, 1918, but ap- peared in the Forum of June, IBIS that is, appeared while the war was at its height and before the great ad- vance which resulted in victory.
 Change Date of Publication.
 "-rhe falsehood was so fragrant that the democrats admitted it themselves and changed the date of the state ment several weeks later in the of ficial publication of their platform, to June, 1918. This of course destroyed the main point of the attack and got rid of thef most obvious lie. but it still remained with a large burden of falsehood upon it because in the article as published by the Forum in June. 1918. there was note ap- pended saying that this article was an address delivered by me before the Massachusetts Historical society and was printed by them with the permis- sion of the society. This note the author of the statement in the demo- cratic platform must have seen if he had looked at the copy of the Forum from which he professed to quote As matter Of fact delivered the, address printed in the Forum Of June, 1918 on the eleventh of October 1917. and it was printed in the Oc- tober number of 'The Proceedings" of the Historical society, only six months after our declaration of war and when tho war was of course still raging.
 At that time voices were heard. not only here. but elsewhere suggest ing that the United States should make a separate peace. separate peace then would have meant the de- sertion of our allies In the midst of war What I then said in October, 1917. was right and I am glad that I said 1t and I am glad that my ad- dress was reprinted and I have not a word of what I said to change or withdraw.
 .'The point Of the democratic charge is that I was grossly incon- sistent in voting on May 15, 1920, for the Knox resolution declaring peace. I know that I was absolutely right in voting for the Knox resolution.
 What is important is that one Of the two great parties should put in the forefront of their platform a false hood. To begin a campaign in this way thrown good deal of light on inc character of those responsible for the statement as well as upon the weakness of a cause which seeks. from lack of argument. 10 sustain itself by unlimited misrepresentation of we'll known facts"