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Show Lodge assails j WILSON SYSTEM; Charges One-man Rule Is En- j dangering Nation and Violating Vio-lating Constitution NAHANT, Mass.. Sept 11 Senator'; Henry Cabot Lodge in an address to-' day attacked what he said was the at. fort of President Wilson to make ours a one-man government. The preal-dent'a preal-dent'a conception of government, he, said, is that of the Third Napoleon He charged that the president hod established es-tablished 'such a reign of terror over' many representatives and senators o'i his own party that the legislative pow-1 ers ol the constitution granted to con-' gress alone wero Impaired and dls-! torted." Senator Lodge said President W11- son's autocratic administration affected affect-ed every department of the government. govern-ment. The navy and war departments, depart-ments, he said, were marked by "a favoritism In appointment on one I hand and on the other of vindictive spirit towards officers not liked by th secretaries." ALL1VJED FAVORITISM. s Instances he gave the removal of General Barnett, u ho was com.- i mandant of marines during th! H LI refusal of President Wilson and Secretary Sec-retary Baker to permit Theodore. Roosevelt to raise a division of vol-1 unteers after congress ra e authority; authori-ty; the treatment of General Wood" and (he fa t that General Edwards, j se,ii,r i.ngadler general when war wasj declared after leading the Twenty-sixth Twenty-sixth div ision in action overseas, Is i still tho senior brigadier general and i recently has been deprived of his cum mand of the northeast department. I 1 ne of the leading demands of the; Republican platform and one of the Issues which Senator Harding has' mo.n strongly emphasized Is thut w e I ahould bring the government back toi the system and the forms of the con-1 stltution which we have always fol-i lowed thus far,' said Senator Lodge.' ' We all know In a general way what1 this means and 1 believe the people! appreciate the dangers of the system, ( Mr. Wilson has endeavored to substitute substi-tute for the methods of the constl-1 tution." The senator quoted from a passage in one of President Wilson's books as Illustrating his conception of govern-; ment ami continued: By his acts ulso Is his conception I shown to be that of the Third N'a-, poleon. an autocrat elected by a plebl-l seite uncontrolled by any Intervening legislative or Judicial authority, FORCE I) Ll 1G1 E ON SENATE "It was impossible for Mr. Wilson I tO secure a league of nations without! assent of the senate but he endeavored ' I to evade and practically nullify the' rightful power of the senate by at-' tachlng to the treaty of peace with I Germany which everybody desired, the I covenant of the league of nations which ought to have been separately1 conalderad because It bound the coun-1 I try for an Indefinite future. HU plan was simple. He aimed to compel com-pel the senate to ratify the covenant by forcing upon them the alternative of holding up the treaty of peace with Germany which all men desired to have disposed of ut once. Colonel i Hoi.se has recontlj Stated publicly that If he had followed the course advo- I cated In the senate before the negotiations nego-tiations began und inude the treaty 1 of peace with Germany at once 1m- medlntelv after the armistice, it would j have been complete and ready for ratification by Christmas. GET It Clv TO HI I.J x Mr Wilson has also adopted the autocratic method In another dlrec- ; tlon. lie has carried on his relations , with foreign nations and his negotiations negoti-ations largel; through personal agents." Senator Lodge mentioned in this connection Bayard Halfl and Colonel Hon . I "These cases In a very general way," I the senator concluded. Illustrate the dangers to which Mr Wilson's theory of government has exposed us and there l, nothing more Important than i to bring our government back to the , observance of the constitutional provisions provi-sions under which we have lived and ; prospered." |