From
them he inherited a fortune; he had been educated in a select
private school and then gone through Harvard, whence he emerged
with an LL.B. and a Ph.D. attached to his name. By all the
established canons he was a "gentleman" as well as a scholar. In
the intervals between teaching and writing he had found time to be
admitted to the Boston bar.
With that equipment it could be safely predicted Mr. Lodge would go
far. He has. To-day he is the leader of the Republican party in the
Senate of the United States.
He early justified the promise. While still a Congressional
freshman he drafted and introduced into the House the "Force Bill,"
which came to a violent death in the Senate. That Bill was not only
a prophecy but it is a resume of Mr. Lodge's career. It is
partisanship gone mad.
On the pretense that it was intended to secure fair elections in
the South, but actually, as described by a member of the House at
the time, to prevent elections being held in several districts, it
placed the election machinery in the control of the Federal
Government, which, through the Chief Supervisor of Elections, to be
appointed by the President, and his Praetorian Guard of Deputy
Marshals, would have controlled every election and returned an
overwhelming Republican majority from the Southern States.
The Bill was typical of Mr.
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