Show LODGE CRIES CALAMITY ITY Opposes Direct Election of Sen Senators SenatorS Says ys Constitution on Would Be Destroyed troy d u i L LI I New Haven Havens HaveD COq Coop I June JJ U e commencement exercises of Yale sat u ers ty were begun tod today with Wt the U tk class clase cia day ceremonies of or academic and Sheffield scientific s departments tad and the anniversary exercises e of the Ule law taw school sc ool Beautiful weather w atter prevailed and the exercises were attended by laige large crowds Senator Henry Cabot Lodge xe of Mac Mas Massachusetts delivered an address to the tile graduates graduate of the law school Aft Jt the early cerI reer and of Olivet Olive et mid hi b hip detection as 88 a delegate 1 Connecticut Con t to the eon e en Uon of S1 l iS Senator tor Lodge referred d to the problems which faced ed the he con convention and continued Ilaw w rth von Jl his 1118 victory ic ry for ity Hy of state representation in one branch of or congress c but did far tar more mol even that this for lor he saved the constitution con constitution ti itself and made it possible Just now there is a movement on olt foot fo t to bring about the election of senators tors by direct popular vote If It successful it will HI inevitable be followed by proportionate proportionate representation in the senate and the most radical revolution con conceivable conceivable will Hill take place in m our form I or oi government gover ent If the senate enate is placed 1 upon the same me basis buts as the hoce ho and andis a andIs d is chosen in the swine same me u way ay y by the same sante 88 me j constituency cy its ita character and alId depart the states stale t wUl be hopelessly hopel weakened and tire 11 e balance b knee of the tb con constitution constitution will wilt be Ie destroyed de centralization centralisation tion Uon will advance with giant IDt strides J and we e shall enter upon a period of constitutional revolution revelation of ot which the end cannot be ite foretold When we W contemplate contaminate Ont Ite what hat bat the equality of the Ute senate lc meant at the time of the Philadelphia convention oon what it has meant leant throughout our na national national life liCe and what Its overthrow mean men today tod we realize reaUze the great e t service of Ellsworth and how large lar larand and enduring a place ice he holds hoWs In our history In speaking of f a charge coarse made by byone byOM byone one OM of or Ellsworth El contemporaries e In Ia Inthe Inthe the senate Jt Maclay of Penn Pennsylvania sylvania that wua wana a a tool tobi of Alexander Ha Hamilton hont Maclay re regarded as totally corrupt Senator Lodge Lod e exclaimed How false falee it all alt is What a lesson too is Ie i here bete if It we will wUl but take the trouble troubie to learn leatI lea I never remember the time when I ht hnot tr not heard beard the donate nate t of the moment described as at its low lowest lowest ow est point as having haying fallen rallen far tar from the high hi b level of Its earlier and better days day Then I read Maclay and take heart for fo if IC he is Js right and nd our senate and our government were such as he be described ecI ant and if the t hitter blUer critics of the moment are aTe also right and lid if we weare weare are worse nov no than Jn In earlier and bet better bett bettar tar ter t r days then Indeed has hu the impossible nUde sible come CODle to pas MUle for tor ot the republic still sUhl and more power powerful pow powerful ful more honored at home bome and aDd abroad than ever ev before Then I 1 feel feet sure that the critics of this kind past and PrOS pres present ent cut roust must be wrong rOnS for if they were not Dot the republic would have haye died dMd The te like the poor are re always with us sole aole proprietors pt of fit righteousness r undisturbed by b any 11 outcry o tery against t their monopoly |