The Washington times., 1922-06-07

| 1" 'he ilrst place, then, and tn tho
great advantage of Mr.. Lodge. there
sun exists In Massachusetts, the fol.
lowing fact: '"e io''
IL widely suspected that Henry
|dpot Lodge is a great statesman"
call this state OF mind a susni.
cLoh not because l wish to dispute
.ne accuracy OF ii, but because. like
very really first class suspicion. n
,ti. 20 exist absolutely independ
e".iy OF the supporting facts.
IocaI reported here has taken 10
yihs certain game about II, He
w 20 10 a Lodge man and denounce
Louse 10 MIN about some specific
LIE tasLs tnat Lodge has done. The
Lodge man will reply:
But anyway Lodge &. ,.
man, a great statesman crost,
to Massachusetts, an orns ment -
the nation. a man of great n,,,,,ic
accomplishments." r'N
Then the reporter pulls a penc,,
ana a piece of paper out Of his
pocket and says:
very well, barring recent treaties
put down the accomplishments"
Usually the Lodge man can mt
down Just exactly none.
But the fact that he can put down
none Is no disadvantage 10 Mr
Lodge On the contrary, IL is realIv
great gain to him. II the man
could remember anything that Mir
Lodge ever did, he might inst nossi.
bly, disagree with him abou. il. and
be against him because OF il. Rot
remembering it, however, his mind
Is quite free Of any grudges against
Mr.. Lodge while at the SINE time II
Is filled with the broad general hap.
py and even thrilling suspicion. t,a-
dltion, and assumption that In some
FAR distant lofty realm OF extremely
nigh craftsmanship the world las
always had and always must hnve'
the little alert figure OF Henri Ga.
bot Lodge going to and fro among
he great ones of the nation and of
enormous wonders and grcat ma GIGS.
Henry Ibot Lodge was really
managed TO get a larger mystical
reputation as a heap big medicine
man" than almost ANYBODY else in
\meriCa politics. He has achieved
what George Wharton Pepper, Of
pennsylvania is determined to
achieve. Mr.. Pepper said TO the
voters of Pennsylvania:
Make up your minds whether I
am an able and wise man or not.
II you decide that I am. then send
me to Washington and will solve
YOUR public questions for you with
out needing to tell you now how !
am going to do it,"
The Lodge followers in Massachu-
setts in large numbers are perfectly
satisfied not to ask Mr.. Lodge
what he is going to do or what
he has done. In large numbers
they seem to vote not for the
idea that she should do this or
that, but just for the idea that he
should go ahead and bless the
State and the country and the
world by being a statesman some
more. When Mr.. Lodge gets elected
II seems to be more or less as IL
he took out a craftsmanship H.
Cense.
This astonishing state of mind
on the part of a large element
of the Massachusetts population
Is Mr.. Lodges greatest asset. Next
comes the fact that when any OF his
acts of craftsmanship do penetrate
the consciousness of Massachusetts
and happen perhaps to cause annoy
ance, he seems thereupon to perform
yet other acts of statesmanship which
split up the annoyance and bend
part of II safely back away from
harming him.
For instance, he Is supposed at
one time to have been quite anti
| British But observe him now. The
Chum Of James Arthur Balfour, col
| leaguing with Mr.. Balfour in bring
| ing the British empire and the
| United States into new treaty rela-
| tionships.
| He was savagely assailed in Mas
saChusetts for trying to isolate"
the United States in the world by
opposing some parts of the league
| of nations. The extreme pro.
I leaguers still assail him for IT. But
now he can stand up and say he
was one of the four American dele
gates who ended the isolation" of
the United States by negotiating the
four.power treaty. The people who
pine to butt into the affairs OF dis.
| tant countries have been provided
bv Mr., Lodge with at least the
! chance to go about doing good and
meddling with wars in the Orient.
! They appreciate 1t.
, Mr.. Lodge opposed the confirma.
! tion OF Louis Brandeis for. the Su.
preme Court and offended many
! Jews. But now he is the great SEN
: yatoria1 promoter q a homeland for
..the Jews I'M Palestine,s and some
Jews are giving. a@ceIebration for
him in Boston this week.
He has a reputation for being
wet, but on toward the end OF the
fight about It in Congress he dried
up sufficiently to be Of some serv-
i've to the Volstead law, and the
anti-wets OF Massachusetts were
many Of them somewhat appeased.
He opposed woman suffrage. but
when the woman suffrage era
dawned he welcomed II as an
achievement OF the Republican
party, and heN secured the appoint.
ment OF a woman from Massachu.
sets to be one OF the four women
members of the advisory committee
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