Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-11
DEATH TAKES SENATOR LODGE,
VETERAN REPUBLICAN LEADER
AND FOE OF WORLD LEAGUE
Served State in u S, Senate
More Than 80 Years.,
Funeral to Be Held at CAM
brige Wednesday

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. To-
Henry Cabot Lodge, senior senator
from Ma ssa chusetts. and Republican
leader of the senate, is dead. Inc
end came at the Charlesgate hos
pital here shortly before midnight
Struck down last Wednesday just
as he was making rapid conVa-
lescence from his second operation
within a few months, the 74-year-old
senator was unconscious during
most of the days intervening before
his death.
On Friday he rallied with re-
markable vitality, and reGained con-
seriousness for a few brief periods,
during which he spoke to his phy-
sician and the relatives at his bed
side lie again relapsed into a
coma, however, and his strength
gradually ebbed away.
His dauGhter-in-law, Mrs. John b..
Lodge; his granddaughter, Miss
Helena Lodge; his two 9randsons,
John S. and Henry Cabot Lodge IL,
and his physician, Dr.. John c. Cum
ningham, were at the bedside when
he died.
Word of his death brought tribute
|. Walsh. Democrat, who shared
with him the representation Of
Massa chusetts in the upper house,
said:
Massachusetts has lost a states
man and a scholar who added more
to her prestige than any other mar
in half a century,"
Funeral on Wednesday
Funeral services for Senator Lodge
will he held Wednesday at Christ
church, Cambridge, probably at
noon. it was decided by his family
today. As he will be buried in the
Lodge family lot at Mount AUBURN
cemetery, Cambridge will have been
the scene of his death, the funeral
services and of interment although
his long career in public life had
brought him back only occasionally
in recent years to the scenes mere
of his college days at Harvard. ~
Bishop William Lawrence, who
was playmate and collegemate OF
Senator Lodge, will officiate at the
services, assisted by Rev. Prescott
Evarts, rector of Christ church.
1t was at Christ church that Sen
ator Lodge was married, and it was
from that church also that Mrs.
Lodge was buried.
Bishop Lawrence, in tribute to
, Senator Lodge today, said the death
of the senator was the loss of a
friend of 90 years, adding, he was,
as few people realize, man of very
tender sentiment and warm alfec.
ton. His dominant motive in pubic
!, hi try
was an able and strong statesman,
occasionally OVer-maSterful and rest
less at opposition, but always moved
by what he believed to be the high
est welfare of his country and the
world"
Henry Cabot Lodge had served
continuously in the United States
senate since 1893, as Republic lead
err since August, 1913, and was one
of the most prominent members of
his party for generation.
Statesman, publicist, author, law
yer and historian, Mr. Lodge $ mani
fold activities made a wide impress
sion on cOmtempOraneOus events.
Chief prominence, perhaps, came tC
him as leader of the senate oppo-
sitiOn TO the League of Nations and
the treaty of Versailles during 1918;
1919 and 1920 AS chairman of the
senate foreign relations committee
and Republican floor leader, he led
the contest with former President
Wilson in the fight against ratifica-
ton. He was the author Of the
Lodge reservations and was cred
tied with a large part in molding
the policy Of the Harding admins
tration against American entrance
into the league.