The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-23
PRESS ON HENRY C. LODGE.

Henry Cabot Lodge was an nIlueHlid' member of the United States senate for so long that his name and that of the Republican contingent in measure came to be regarded as identical. His voice was commonly regarded as the voice of the regular Republican membership of the senate. His position as Republican leader lent official color to that view. Even though his death was expected for some time before its occurrence, 1t IS not yet known just how the senate leadership will develop. The president is obviously no more sympathetic with the extreme Old Guard than the Old Guard is sympa- thetic with the president. It IS possible that there will be new lineup around some individual of the moderate group halfway between the extreme regulars and the radicals.
 Inasmuch as Senator Lodge in his life was not parsonage on whose qualitles newspapers of opposite political leanings could agree, so in his death the estimates of editors are sincerely at variance. As the Republican New York Herald-Trlbune sees him: "As party leader, chairman of the foreign relations committee and member of other important committees MT. Lodges influence on legislation was continuous and highly effective. As sena- tor he ranked in his thirty-two years ot service with the most notable figures ot his period. His death makes lamentable draft on the upper houses diminishing re- sources of character and leadership. The Kansas City Star, practically Republican, thinks that Lodges opposition to the Wilson program for world peace was Lodges last great fight and he won It. It compensated him for his greatest po- litical defeat, when generation before
 TNNlIf nDI of the South with the so-called force bill nroyiding for federal control of elections.
 A successful, unique career. Look ing at it, it seems to belong to another political age. Time alone can appralse him, but his generation can unhesltatlngly pronounce that he was of the quality that has been New England's and that America can i'll afford to see pass ln the nations forum"
 The Republican Detroit Free Press conceives that: Many men become members of the senate of the United States; but few become what MT. Lodge was. a senator of the United States. Likewise, the Washington Star finds that "he was always a partisan, Repuollcan, conscentiously upholding the pollcles o1 that party. He consistently devoted nim- self to its advancement. To hlm US prln- ciples were guides" As to his literary at tainment the Philadelphia Pubic Leoger saws: "The honors that were heaped unon him by all the greater institutions of the higher learning in America were in recognition of his historical researches and writings, the volume and real value of which were an amazing evidence o1 industry and ability manifested slmul- taneously with active participation Tn na- tional affairs"
 On the Democratic side, the Atlanta Constitution, which recognizing that MT. Lodge never loved the South, yet thinks "there can be no argument as to ms great ability, his powerful intellect, ms forceful hip-characterlstlcs that could have served the nation to so much greater advantage had he, with the con ciliatorv spirit of Grady, turned hls thoughts and talents, and the force ot his service, to congealing the slsterhooo of states and the brotherhood of man to better understanding ot the hlgnef ideals of a democracy of servlce, father than to the baser ideals ot sordld sec1loH- alism and partisanship." The Louisville Courier-Journal does not forget that Senator Lodge "was the relentless oppo- nent of all Woodrow Wilson's plans tol world peace . It was he, Tn short who was most responsible for Amerlca' repudiation of its war and peace obllga- tions and for Americas position of aloot- ness and selfishness in world affairs to- day. Henry Cabot Lodge will live in American history because Woodrow Will son will be immortal in American hls- tory"
 In the opinion of the New Orleans Times-Picayune: "Those who later will write the history of the epoch from l9l4 to 1924 will be compelled to say that the New England scholar left his imprint upon the age in which he lived, whether for good or i'll only the future can tell. . As to the antagonism between Lodge and Wilson the Nashville Banner declares 'sThe two men, both earnest, both @ courageous, both of strong intellects both with literary tastes, both Americans could never have come into harmonious view of the country's needs. Both were fighters of unrelenting disposition. Then antecedents developed their lines Of dlt- ference between them" The Tampa Tribune thinks that the antagonism to Wilson was the undoing of Lodge, for "his labors in this direction were not ap- preciated by his own party for any length of time, because the leadership of the party in his state, which he had held for many years, had been wrested from hlm and placed in new hands. He went home from the Cleveland convention shorn of his laurels and his power in the direction of his party policies, and was entirely ig- nored during the presidential campaign. y % It is obvious that the Democratic pa pers desire to be perfectly fair to the memory of Lodge, in spite of the intense dislike he developed among Democrats, particularly those of the South. Death levels all distinctions and some things that may be said during a mans life may not be said at his death, nor for many 4