Show A KEYSTONE SPEECH senator lodge republican leader in the united states senate delivered what is conceded to be the keynote speech of the approaching congressional campaigns in an address before the members ot the massachusetts legislature the address was a masterful one reviewing what has been accomplished during the past year by both the executive and legislative branches of the republican administration senator lodge opened his bis speech with a very pertinent point that the choice which lies before the voters next autumn is not between the republican party and some ideal organization which vh fell never makes a mistake which pleases everybody an organization which has never yet existed and never will exist the choice before us is much simpler and very different it is a choice between the republican party and the democratic party those two parties in a practical way are all you have to choose between therefore what the democratic organization has done and promises to do is that with which the comparison must be made in determining how bow to vote the second point is this the democratic organization in congress and elsewhere has been filling the air with the cry that this is a do nothing congress it is easily said and its ease commends itself senator lodge proceeded then to show that notwithstanding the democratic claim that this is a do nothing congress the republicans have been so active in enacting legislation that the democrats have arranged an organized filibuster and obstruction to all legislative proposals and are using every artifice of delay to waste time between beti een now and the congressional elections a thing which they would hardly do if this were in fact a do nothing congress senator lodge proceeded to enumerate what had been acconio accomplished acco nip shed by the republican congress and to elaborate upon each important piece of 0 legislation enacted by tile the congress and in ili conclusion he said 1 I know that I 1 am speaking well within bounds when I 1 say that no congress in time of peace has ever shown such an amount of important effective and remedial as has been enacted by the present congress since it has been in it session the senator reviewed tile the accomplishments of the executive branch or of the government and the financial administration of public affairs which has resulted in the increase of the value of all government bonds and brought about a vastly improved change for the better in the business world he then took up the history of the conference for limitation of arma armament ment to which lie he was wab an ail official delegate representing tile the united states government his review of the work of this conference was extensive and authoritative he paid a very high tribute delegation to secretary hughes as chairman of the and to his other colleagues after reviewing the in in detail senator lodge said it was a magnificent work it will relieve the burden of taxation and promote the peace of the world president Pies ident and wo we all owe this to the wisdom of harding in summoning the till conference confer elice it v in was as a great service my opinion to the peace of tho the world and is an integral part of the principles which have guided the president he has been devoting himself throughout his ye year a r I 1 in n office and his hip administration to the utmost in effort to an improve the conditions left by the war his dominant impulse is to try to make the world so far as lie he can call a better to live place tor for men and women in this has been b een behind all his domestic moving influence policies and this was the in his call for the conference when the democratic party sa says y s th that a t the republican party parly which has not yet been in power for one year has done nothing and after what the you vou review congress has accomplished then call attention to this chere more has bag been conference done in twelve weeks been done anywhere else in twice as many years for the worlds peace than has |