Evening star., 1924-11-19
Passing of Henry Cabot Lodge
Brings Variety of Comment

ure during the next four years at
Washington, had he lived to fill out
his term, than it had been his priv
ilege to be in the past" On this
point the Democratic New York
Times goes further and declares.
without saying he was happy liz
the opportunity of his death, it still
may be held that there is a certain
significance in his quitting the stage
just after the election had placed in
power an administration with which
Senator Lodge could not have been III
full sympathy. A new era has opened
in Massachusetts, and in Washington
with which he could not but have
felt a little lonely and neglected"
X X X
In contrast to the tributes, par
TALLY or wholly generous to Lodges
character, the comment of the Omaha
World-Herald independently, stands
out. This is the newspaper of which
former Senator Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock
is the head and Senator Hitchcock, as
the representative of President Viii
SON on the Senate floor in the treaty
fight, was Lodges direct opponent
The World Herald says: Lodge with
all his exceptional equipment and
opportunities, never rose to the lofty
and supreme heights of statesman
ship. He gave his country no endur
ing service. Scholar and leader
though he was, he never said any
thing, he never did anything, to in
spire the souls of men; never said
or did anything to endear him to his
fellows. The worlds precious store
of idealism received no enrichment at
his hands. Lodge lived to see the
memory of Woodrow Wilson en-
shrined in the heart of the world
Almost as bitter, perhaps, as that he
lived to see Calvin Coolidge, whom
he deSpised, elected President by an
unprecedented notwithstanding in his
modest and obscure way three glitter
ing prizes upon which, for quarter
of a century or more. the eyes OF
Henry Cabot Lodge had been fixed IN
vain"
Until six years ago." declares the
Louisville Courier journal (Democraticl
"he had the respect, and in some de
gree, even the admiration of many
of his opponents; but the record he
made the last six years leaves his
the most hated name in America.
Never a man TO inspire love, he was
peculiarly a man to provoke hate.
Not even his death can obliterate tho
scars with which the hearts OF mil
lions Of his countrymen are SCARED
X X X ..e.
There was so much excellence in
him." observes the Baltimore Sun.
Independent Democratic), $50 much
strength, such fine aspirations and
ideals in regard to public service
that 1T is with reluctance that VIC
dwell upon his defects, his failure to
reach the height which he we'll might
have reached. But, like Woodrow VIII
son, he was a born fighter, and now
that he has joined the company of
men of militant convictions and OF
notable careers, even Southern men
will not withhold the tribute that the
brave pay to an adversary who has
fought them in the open and who
never lowered his flag" He had an
extraordinarily fine mind" says the
Birmingham News, which adds, "the
only thing that prevented him from
being a great statesman was his in
tense and bitter partisanship."
The ever recurring comparison OF
Lodge with Wilson and the opposite
parts these men played, which runs
through almost all the editorial com
ment Is climaxed in the following
statement Of the Knoxville Sentinel
Independent Democratic):
"To the shrine Of st. Alban daily
and annual pilgrimages will be IN
creasingly made in the years to come
TO pay homage TO nlIi VINO, "Ho
may have been his failings and MS
Limitations, was inspired by one con
slant and increasing purpose that
clung to him even in death to do
great service to human kind-to win
the verdict Of history for his every
purpose and act. What hearts Will
turn to the tomb at Nahant or wend
their ways to that shrine in earthly
gratitude we may not say, but IT Will
not be kindred souls in sympathy
and ideals Inspiring the others.