New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1919, Page 8

L MANTLE OF ROOSLEVELT? r Co “Let us pay with our bodies for our souls’ desire— Roosevelt’s words, which fired the patriotism of our country, and which he hoped would be used for his epitaph. GENERAL 4 GENERAL 3 . Sy . ‘\TORV e - SENATOR HIRAM W. JOHNSON JOHN J. PERSHING s e t LEONARD A. WOOD ; ) DER C. KNOX SENATOR HENRY CABOT LODGE By Robert T. Barry , L % D the fore since the death of Colonel east, shortly after the outbreak of the 5 E P i e G 4 Roosevelt. Tt is well known that all war, are no exceptions. A member Washington, D. C., Jan. 2 ton ‘l~ "“:‘rf\"‘.-m:f\dw‘(“\;‘“‘»'» 1h o “"y other ambitions were predicated on of the Wilson Cabinet, who is a far CRIPTURE is silent as to the rivals VY Siedge-hamun dob e e e S ens = A . what T. R. would do, and while it was more skillful politician than most peo- E St mlan o Dicenget foachihadiihe cenen = SENATOR WiLLIAM E. BORAH R i ST ey e SENGIGHEW ARRENSDSHARDINGERS, /08 U et 5 sl 0oal rraanas W Dlotbelley s, is anthority for thelatates of scholarly statesmanship in his ad- Walcddaten) DINSHEs ML ovell that he had no intention of becoming ment that the political upheavals in a candidate because of his weakened Missouri and Kansas last November physical condition, he was such a fac- were due to the treatment of Leonard tor in his party that none would Wood more than to any other cause. launch a personal “boom” until he had The boys in General Wood's division made a definite declaration were fighting mad when they arrived Senator Harding is held to be in an overseas and learned that their com- advantageous position by reason of manding general had been recalled al- the deflection of Ohio to the Demo- most when he was mounting the gang- ot informed whether he gresses. Both knew politics as it is would have meant industrial ‘disturb- garded as having its inception in a - = hana After the Colonel left Washington, beneath the flying chariot played, and each could play a hand 4 olonel fl Seba Senator Lodge rode alcne. phed over competition skdll 9 - Roosevelt’s speeches were extempo- B A It was a fine tribute to Senator ich doubts becloud the at- raneous; Lodge takes the floor of the % Z Lodge that during recent months he o i = lowing among the Republicans who Going away from Capitol Hill, two e in Washington today. Cloak- S . Senate only after careful preparation. . has borne the name of “titular leader” 1% % PV ATl e87C K PIERTAN N never have become reconciled to the men stand forth as spokesmen and is eloquent with the of the Republican party. Ther- was H'"”n"i M’ m\_‘] ”"’ {miitomptuls control of the men who foiced the potential party leaders. They are for the leadership left behind in this no attempt to detract from (]flh‘r\(rw R i nomination of Taft. He represents, Charles E. Hughes and Willlam H. eodore Roosevel Colonel Roosevelt; it simply arose = n a measure, thought ol any aft. T op r )2 bo! f thest : lore Roosevelt. ' 1 ) HavaRy bt When Roosevelt, reaiizing he could 17 @ measure, the thought of many Taft. The popularity of both of these ... 40 colymn in 1916. The Republi- plank of the transport. They expressed S from the natural processes of politics. 2 B R iGhibazolin o1t men, but it is doubtful here that he men increased by leaps and bounds The minority party must depend for 2ED CRIEL SAIIET L e Gt GO s s o ) e e o UORGEE D G reseRaeel (O WO ATl e LI st T B asreea that nonefcan hove o wea il dwenalvalatoatony fuponkits Tsauetelin o (o selectlon G onzs e XOte R B (o INe Pt IV PaS id Tebossy el tirior o herforn ax Imporiant tasias) head .. 1o Consresslona) SreclioRseof 1o18 Bace bar Flote, members jof ACongresk, Congress, the men on the ground; its . \|¢ Senator R IRInaTeor e e 1R R e e aol o o G MR fol e SEERIDL bene el sh AR S ECCIRG R0 e xcepted Mw o) shout ; 4 g ) Tl e T ) Democrats were seated, against an the praises of Wood as chief of staff alignment of thirteen Democrats and than of Pershing or General Peyton bound to sag at the shoulders or trip defenders know no confines of public The Progressive Party sive element to the extent of over- he handled his war work in a manner nine Republicans in the present Con- C. March he wearer where the personality of office, He is a man of gress There is small doubt that Pershing Senator Lodge is a conservative. To was responsible for Wood not getting to France, however much the Wilson He is placed with the conservative Administration may be blamed for element of the party, but is not re- having yielded so readily to his wishes. actionary. Since Colonel Roosevelt’s It was clear that the Administration death Senator Borah has beer quoted could not state the facts of Pershing's as being favorable to Harding. The objections, because such a course Senator from Ohio loomed a na- would have impaired the usefulness of tional figure in 1916° when he was the commander of the expeditionary made permanent chairmap of the Re- forc ance and serious trouble for the Lib- desire to enhance local prestige Tather erty Loans than a serious effort to deprive Mann Senator Johnson naturally has a fol- of the gavel Sindbads of politics he cloak of Roosevelt; that it is the highest in. Tiding the conservatives on a test ot that won the admiration of every fac- tegrity, of the broadest national spiric POWer. Senator Johnson, it must be tion of the industrial life which came the radicals he is a “standpatter.” IN and of the keenest devotion to the clearly understood, counts himself a before him. Mr. Hughes entered upon his fundamental political views Cublic good.” regular Republican as distinguished the difficult investigation of the air Soldier Candidates e Republican party will not be about as shifting as the North Star, ehE Do e ATt ey from the ultra-radical element which craft failure at a time when that have had it flapping in breeze. ng without great and forceful but his allegiance to party has not T,odge as he appears new leader clings to the title of Progressive question threatened to become one of aderi buo none so bold as Meant disregard for progressive the Republican party in Congre spelled with a capital. He doubtless the biggest political issues of prospes- R : ¢ Roosevely's thousht. He is thoroughly alive to p, > nation He does not assume Tealizes that the Progressive party tive campaigns. Without political St chve KO b il 5o l!.tevuf\u]unme'll of new issues, but 3 e v on the work Was created by Roosevelt in 1912 for bias entering into a single page of L = i he does not embrace a popular polic L inds forth the same reason that it was destroyed his report, he gave the country a roup .eaderchip Will solely on the ground of its popularity. s the man i ualified, for the in 1916—to defeat the administration calm, judicial analysis of the trouble prevail for a while, but in such a cir- He has opposed woman suffrage and present at A S e S R and put the blame where he showed it iavoc there mrnt | minant Drohibition, and the champions of (he Republica Aot il - ; o belonged S - . : : 2 cumstance the e G R ‘u‘“l‘r“l‘}n”t u B \ s h{.»r:w_d:,\pv Congressional Highlights e thyouEhhIN welting sntene Wn‘,.m:\‘ 1‘\1;ftzmna‘lt‘v rn\v\rfvrlv’w‘-w]l‘hi Senator Lodge’s opposition to prohi- X other men In public life wabbled be- pears quite simple to some who scan Associated with Lodge in Congress PUBLIC LEDGER, has come more and hevynote address was a careful analysis bition and woman suffrage is. held Lodge Logical Leader tween the Allies and Germany of {ne recent congressional elections ana 1€ Penrose, of Pennsylvania; Smoot, more tobe consideredin the official lite ©Of the issues of the campaign rather to militate against his chances, while i (e LB O R e S e rophote bat o othess 209 of Utah; Fall, of Ne-: Mexico, and of Washington a conservative spokes. (han & stump speech calculated to Win the fact that Senator Knox hails from trality, the Senator from Massachu- ~ork for a real pilot Watson, of Indiana. These men are man of the Republican party. His Dim immediate fame. v a Republican stronghold operates to i LA CORECS e Wil ool e (i Political leaders in Washington COServatives. Their opponents style words are featured in every impor- _ Lepublican leaders favorable (o his disadvantage, according to the He is Henry. war and stooc so firmly against the geem agreed that the Progressive them the Old Guard, but they repre- tant discussion in the Capitol, and his Iushes point to the Cleveland prece- leaders who follow estabiished lines of en the Senator acts of the Hohenzollern: that he Was party, as such, cannot be revived, 1t Sent the policies of their party and views are accorded careful scrutiny by dents as ample ground for his second procedure in national campaigns. cannot be said charged by some with desiring tomake never existed beyond the personality @ Majority of the American voters who men of good sense regardless of po- Momination. The name of Hiram Senator Borah, although from a suf- always 10 speak for the entire party, the Congress of the United States @ of Roosevelt, and the hopes for power have yet to be converted to the radical litical afiliation doknson fasythe second manfion such§ifrase Rotate) -opposed thel submisaion o does represent the dominating ele. branch of the British Parlizment cherished by that group of Republi. thought which has controlled much There is a very decided impression :“ ‘V"WZ 1"‘ i;‘;z;”lr“{““f- ""‘“f‘““v "‘\““‘{ ‘;" :‘{':;_;"":‘C:“l"XE'?l to the States. He ment. In Washington his voice car- A “Party Man” cans are based on issucs which they “f:ho legislation in recent years. among leaders in Washing.on that Mr ;,,1»("«!*;:1 ‘“/,'( y;wi‘:' mj‘n;"/‘u:}.' uy\m:“ ‘\12‘1‘”1’11. ¢ W’]"dd.“mm "‘_’“(‘!S‘ vice prest Bic, urihor iy In Bonpromi ie e il ! A O 3 e AT Y G ek (e Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, Hughes will become akrfvx?u‘cr in future indfulth 3 SR he ! e L aate to carry the West g e e el Wiiatever may be your particular (pe conservatives— the “clder states- anks next to Lodge as a spokesman months, and the possibility that he Of the West.” Hughes and Johnson than as a leader of the ticket i n either Uesignation of Senator Lodge’s type of .o . on affairs of state, but he does not again will be the standard bearer of are so far apart on the issuc of Gov- “Many Called—Few Ch ” Republicanism, he is above all else a Ot ithe Prosie Senator ~ ASSume active participation in the his party is not at all remote ernment ownerskip that it is hard to § B —IFew Chosen Giiy an Tt bl SO sEe SRRl e e SN believe the people would accept such a General Crowder just now is the has been /SCuse they represent the organiza- gonator William Borali, of Idaho, Ne speaks, his talks concern interna o ossibLtios combination. victim of personal politics in the army, ght; because only ..o regarded as the ablest, with Poin. tional policy. This immediately opens the ques The old-line political dopesters who Put there is every indication that Con anything in gexter, of Washingtor g fo Several men of wide esperienc and tion of the other kind of leadership— believe that the American people wiil STess will provide ample reward for : or business be achieved. If o cat otion These men represent Prominence will have seats on the the candidacy in the national cam- run true to form and demand a soldier NS services in connection with the ) e e is one thing S.nator Lodge does (1o thought of the Itepublican party Jepublican side of the Senate in the Paisn of 1920 candidate have been whispering the Selective service law, regardless of 1 political pre 5 vish to be called, it is the scholar ;. 4.0 \West, and they believe that Uext Congress Among them are he names most frequently heard name of General Pershing about the What the general staff does not pro- N Do sentiment demonstrated its strength Medill McCormick, of Illinois, a pro- ' Washington inclule: Capitol for many days and weeks. {\"" i AhFthelinof ofpromation. o oty Senator Lodge is sixty-elght vears gyfficiently in 1916 to command the Eressive; 1dge, of New Jersey; Cap- Seanton | B & L Bading ofOhio. Those leadets WS tecagniles (he pofier e Aot LeTeska nowepapar - The Senatc old. Thirty of these have been spent consideration and respect of the “wise Per, of Kansas, and Newberry, of Senajor Lodse o AR D Uing ey il e sl AR e SV e ] o o t 03 in Congress. He Is a great-grand- inen of the East. Michigan, unless Ford's contest 1s suc MajoriGen il Senaxc fwood not be caught napping on such an “Memorandum for the press” urging father, but that fact ald not prevent 1t is doubtful if the West will pro- cessful. It Is entirely speculative to General John J. Persiing jssue, but they are more apt to talk that General Crowder be made a leu- him flooring a youthful pacifist in the quce a Republican leader in the near state the part these men may exert Charles E. Hughes. Leonard Wood than Pershir They —{enant general on the retired list, so e corridors of the Capitol in April, 1917, gyture, Hiram Johnson came Hast in the Senate Senator Knox. say Pershing could not get the nomi. “that he might reap the political re. \e two men were Roosevelt and Lodge met in 1834 with a splendid if mot a clearly defined On the House side, James R. Mann, Senator Borah nation, or if he did he could not com- Wards for his services durin, the s as in physique; when both were delegates to the C status as a leader. He has not been a of Illinols, and Julius Kahn, of Cali Others might be added if the per- mand the soldier vote war. i erent conveyances of ex- cago convention, and both were op- commanding figure in the Senate, be- fornia, are national figures and able sonal ambitions of “favorite sons” are ~ Wood comes nearer to being an idol Other candidates will be fn the fiela a common goal. posed to James G. Blaine. The ac. cause too often he has trod the paths leaders in their sphere, but their views considered. In the latter group are than any other man in the uniform of Uun il about the second rollcail at the 3 to the careful reader of quaintance ripened into comradeship, of radical thought which the sober do not carry the weight of Lodge. Hiram Johnson, Se_n:m«r Sherman, of the United States army. He has won next Republican ,\z.itmnal Convention, thought; Rooscvels gaecinated which personal differences in 1512 did judgment of neither party could in- There is little reason to belleve that Illinois; Sexmlu\i Watson, of Indiana; the hearts n_r every boy he was L:’\Hod ““y”’ Wflf‘“fies “_“1 be served then Lodge follows eleaf and not mar. Roosevelt was President, gorse, He is an avowed and noisy ad- Mann will not be the next Speaker of Major General Enoch H. Crowder ang upon to train, and the people of the j‘ ~\’W> are Al)f”“""‘e’d' to throw the Ttoosevelt esineé mew Lodge was his spokesman in the Sen- vocate of Government ownership. He the House. He has earned the honor Representative Mann. Carolinas and Georzia, who encoun. Votes of ‘hT” uapzfl ve State delega- s in almese @very ate and riding companion along was one of the little group which in through long and faithful service, and In the civilian ranks, Senator Hard. tered his methods when he was com- tions to the cgpdidate they really compe: the bridle paths of Rock Creck #mek, 1917 urged excessive taxes on incomes such obpousition ax develops re- ing and Justice Hughes have come to manding the Department of the South- an of the Re- vith t 3 n of Woodrow Wil an thought, and his from mtterance. The one