The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-11-10
SENATOR LODGE
VETERAN COP.
SENATOR, DIES
Massachusetts SOlCn Sue
cumbs After Making Hard
Fight For Life
HAS LONG SERVICE
Was in Senate 81 Years 49,
Took Part in Many I'M
pOrtant Battles


| Massachusetts, Republican and lead
! er in the Senate, who served in the
Senate 81 years. is dead. The end
! came at the Charlesgate Hospital
here shortly before midnight.
Struck down last Wednesday jus,
as he was making rapid GONZALES,
! cense from his second operation
within few months the 74-year-old
| Senator was uncOncious during most
Of the day intervening before his
death.
For brief period Friday he rallied
with remarkable vitality and regain
| ed consciousness for few brief per-
iods during which he spoke to his
! physician and the relatives at his
bedside. He again relapsed into Il
coma, however, and his strength
| gradually ebbed away.
| Word of his death brought tribute
from many places.
Funeral services will he held at
the home Of DR.. William Sturgis
Bigelow, lifelong friend of the
Senator and Il fellow member OF the
class of 1871 at Harvard. Burial
will be in the Lodge family lot at the
Mount Auburn cemetery at Cam
bridge.
! Henry Cabot Lodge had served con-
tinuously in the United States Sem
| ate since 1898, as republican leader
since August, 1918, and was one of
the most prominent members of his
party for a generation.
| Statesman, publicist, author, law
yer and historian, Mr.. Lodges mani
fold activities made a wide impress
sion on comtemporaneous events
! Chief prominence, perhaps, came to
him as leader Of the Senate opposi-
tion 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-
| tion. He was the author of the
| Lodge reservations" and was credit
| ed with d large part in molding the
| policy of the Harding administration
against American entrance into the
/ League.
He was born in leisure, but always
worked. A principle laid down by
him in early life was: THE first
thing for man of leisure to do, if
he really wishes to count in his day
and generation. is to avoid being an
amateur" Although he apparently
had no intention of practicing law,
he worked hard and won degree
in that branch at Harvard, and then
worked on thesis on Anglo Saxon
land laws, which won him his Phi. D..
In the three years that followed he
was lecturer at Harvard on American
history, and at the age of 80 was
recognized as an authoritative his
torian. Among the score of books
he wrote were biographies of Wash
ington, Hamilton, and Webster.
Believed in Politics
1t was his theory that every man
should give Of his leisure, more or
less, to politics; for it is simply
good citizenship for him to do So
and along with the historical re-
searches he became interested in
contemporary politics. His public
career began with election to the
Massachusetts House OF Representa-
tives in 1879.
He was unsuccessful in his first
attempt to go to Washington as a
national legislator. In 1882 he was
a candidate for the Republican nom-
ination for Congressman and the con-
test was so close that 1870 ballots
were required to decide the nomina
tion of his opponent by the Congress
sional convention. In 1886, however,
he was nominated and elected to the
national House Of Representatives,
where he served six years before his
election to the Senate.
Drew On History
His oratory was distinguished by
his practice of sketching in an his
torical background and his facility
in quoting apt historical incidents.
In an interview in 1922 summing up
his career he said: II have nothing
to say about my opponents, for
have never made personal or abusive
attacks on anyone opposed to me. 1t
has always seemed to me that a man
in public life stood more strongly if
he stood on his own merits rather
than on someone else's defects. l
think may say that l have done a
great deal of difficult and RESPONSE
Bile public work. On that public
work and on that record / am content
to stand"
Mr.. Lodge from the outset of his
public career was an enthusiastic
republican and an intense partisan.
He was honorcd often by his party.
An ambition to be chairman of the
Senate foreign relations committee,
on which he served for many years,
was realized when the republicans re-
gained control of the Senate in 1919.
He was then chosen majority
leader, having served the republican
minority previously as floor leader.
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