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lopcE FACES a FIGHT


rne riva1 p}stical ambitions Of Gov,
$. and Attorney General Allen have
~ ,sbt about a situation in the re-
p' ss,,ean party in Massachusetts
s 's,eh is already regarded as menac-
80 : senator Lodge, who intends to
= candidate to succeed himself.
oa;te apart, however, from the
nor or attorney general, what
ssstantial reason exists either in
...,srnment or in morals for electing
- denny Cabot Lodge to the United
Gates senate for the sixth time?
IN March 4. 1923, Mr.. Lodge will
lave been in congress continuously
g thirty-six years--six years in the
.so,se and thirty years in the senate
! 4 time that Massachusetts took a
,olitical inventory of him. DR.. Charles
q Eliot former president of Har-
u.rd il reported to have said that he
lad known Cabot Lodge all his life
and never knew him to have gener-
.ns emotion. That might be the re-
..lt merely of an unfortunate defect
!, temperament, and the lack of gen.
sro,Is emotions could be forgiven if
,hara we're compensations. But what
has Mr. Lodge done during his thirty
~ Years to entitle him to sixth term
!, The senate? With what construc-
.,va measure Of government is his
name identified? What contribution
has be ever made to the welfare of
bis country?
Mr.. Lodge has always belonged to
The destructive school of politics. He
has never created anything himself,
hut has been an eager destroyer of
other mems work. Posing as a scholar
in politics, he has advanced nothing
improved nothing. perfected nothing.
such benefits as Massachusetts, may
have reaped from Mr.. Lodges long
term OF service have accrued mainly
to a small group of politicians and
CAPITALISTS who kept him in Washing
ton because he was useful to them.
In that respect Henry Cabot Lodge
has not differed essentially from the
late Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania,
the main distinction being that Lodge
made great showing of responsible
ity while Penrose had only contempt
Tor respectability.
Massachusetts, has honored Mr..
Lodge greatly, but Mr.. Lodge has
never honored Massachusetts in the
senate, and today there are few SEN
at0rs who are held in smaller per-
sonal esteem by their colleagues. The
position of leadership that Mr.. Lodge
has acquired in the senate came
through seniority, not through talents
or character, and when his talents
have been employed pey have been
used IN the main ,,scnievously, as
they were when .hes srganized the
conspiracy to wreck the Treaty of
Versailles. which has kept the world
IN state of turmoil ever since.
L would be difficult to find a valid
argument why the republicans of
Massachusetts, should renominate Mr.
Lodge for the senate or why he should
be reelected if renominated should
the democrats of that state have
enough enterprise and sense to name
candidate who measured up to the
opportunities of an Office for which
massachusetts, used to select states
men Henry Cabot Lodge ought to
Oe beaten not because of factional
ngnt IN the republican party but be-
cause ne has done nothing to deserve
another term. Public confidence in
'ne senate is probably at the lowest
eDD that 1t has ever reached. 1t can
never be strengthened by the return
q republicans like Lodge and demo
s'ats like Reed of Missouri.-World