The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-17
t. 0.P. WRITHES IN AGONY AWAITING NEXT CRUEL BLOW
Republican Press Counts On Lodge To Save Party
 And He Seems Helpless
ev. ONIOOKER

By. oNLookER
 WASHINGTON, March 16.-Al- ways my sympathy is with the under dog.
 1 hope I shall not be considered inn modest if recount my own virtues. l an moved by stories of suffering. When I see good men pierced by the shafts of fate my heart goes out to them. Their plan is mine own. To see the proud humbled brings me no pleas ule. I am not envious of greatness.
 Then, kind reader, appreciate my an- guish as day. by day watch sorrow fully the once proud and immaculate republican party and its leaders writhe on the point of the democratic barb as a helpless insect is impaled on the point of a pin, not to give sensuOus pleasure to q peryerted nature but for the glory of science. Possibly the insect is not able to appreciate the honor that has been conferred upon him by the scientist in his laboratory, but think of all the good the insignificant little insect IS able to accomplish. As a scientific 1n- vestigation we may regard the oil ana other scandals now being revealed. We are able to look into the heart of the republican party. We can explore that mystery of it's organization known as it's brains. We see how it functions: What hitherto was concealed is now laid bare. Wonderful arc the triumphs ot science and the ways of the republican party.
 Did we say we harbored no revenge! Well, let that be added to the cataiog of our virtues. We can forego revenge because retribution is sure to follow. They therefore, having wrought Deeds evil, now are suffering, and will
 suffer
 Evil not less
 It is distressing to a soft and gentle nature to see the republicans becoming more frantic every day and shiveringly awaiting the next blow to fall. They can't escape, that they know, but they can revile. Shameful, they say, to cast insinuations upon the President. Hor- rible that every piece of loose gossip should be given official authority. Dis gustinS that the Senate should make itself the machinery of disseminating scandal. And the piOus governor ot Massachusetts, all his finer feelings out ragged, he being a Republican, and his yitals grooming, calls upon the demo- cratic senator from his state to rebuke calumny.
 Lodge In 1920
 We go back to the year of grace l92U. Mir. Lodge of Massachusetts, like the governor whose name we forget, but that is of slight consequence, man. darin of the first rank in the republi- can party, rises in his seat and says he has made a very great discovery. It of course relates to tLe League of Nations, for at that time the league embittered his life and disturbed his dreams. Mir. Lodge quotes preposterous story from a New York newspaper, which on Mon day quotes MT. Lodge as its authority and on Tuesday MT. Lodge quotes the newspaper as the source of his facts. It is a very convenient arrangement. Mir, Lodges statement is challenged. MT. Lodge blandly replies: Il have been discussing simply what all the world knows. That is commonplace; everybody knows it." No governor of Massachusetts or any other republican state demanded of any republican sem ator that he rebuke Mir. Lodge. In those days what everybody knows ut tered by republican senator was proof strong as holy writ to republicans and republican newspapers.
 Week after week for months and years the Lodges of the Senate and their parasites of the House and the re- publican press attacked and abused and yilified Woodrow Wilson. When he was stricken down and his life was 1n the balance they were not silenced. The shadow.of death did not awe them suffering moved them to no pity. The respect an enemy pays to courage was not in them. Wilson powerless, Wilson at their mercy, excited them to mirth. At the beginning they professed to be- lieve he was feigning, later they pro- tested he was incompetent and there fore should be removed, but there was no word of sympathy, no thought of the wife racked by fear, no coInmiseration for the commander crushed beneath his burden. There was no protest, from re- publican newspapers, and the governor of Massachusetts remained silent.
 All Is Forgotten
 All that has been forgotten-by re- nublicans. They no longer read the Congressional Record of those days nor the editorial columns of republican newspapers. They have short and ac- commodating memories. They forget AIr. Lodges round-robin, which was treason if ever there was, even though it be not treason under the Constitu- ton. They said Mir. Wilson paid no at- tention to some of his associates in Paris shall it be wondered ut when dis patches were passing between repub- iican senators in Washington telling them no matter what Mir. Wilson did they, the republicans, would destroy his work? Wilson made a request of the foreign relations committee that it refrain from discussing the covenant until he could go over with it's members article by article, and the Lodges, the Borahs and the rest of them showed their respect for the President by dis 1.nssing it more hysterically than ever.