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Show BAY STATE CAMPAIGN is mm LODGE Senator Declares President Hides Behind Barrier of Words. . ! i XAXTASKET, Ma?s., Aug. 19. As-serting As-serting that the pre?ent government at "Washington has been an "administration "administra-tion of words," Senator Henry Cabot Lodge made his opening speech of the presidential campaign at an outing of the Republican club of Dorchester here today. Mr. Lodge paid in part: "Behind a great barrier of words the president has sheltered himself,, surrounded sur-rounded by a cloud of phrases; big words with no meaning. 1 "After the awful disaster of the Lu-sitania Lu-sitania the president used the memor- ! able phrase, too proud to fifchi. ' The J country responded the next morning. It was not a friendly response. i "So he chanced and we had a great note on 'strict accountability,' and it remains a phrase. There never has been a reparation or even an apology for the Americans drowned or killed on the Lusitania. "The same phrase was posted on the consulate of Mexico not long ago that if any iniury came to Americans, Mexico Mex-ico would be held strictly accountable. Americans have been killed and every outrage committed, and ' strictly accountable,' ac-countable,' still remains the false and empty phrase. "Another cry, 'kept us out of war.' It is not easy to get into war when nobodv wants to go to war with you." Senator Lodge predicted that Massachusetts Massa-chusetts would give Hughes a larger plurality than the plurality of the combined com-bined Taft and Roosevelt vote in 1012. |