Lodge: The Little Man Who Wasn’t There

Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican ball-carrier for the Democratic Party, has been called the GOP’s answer to Soapy Williams, the Grand Old Party-pooper, and the little man who wasn’t there. He is all of these things—and much more. For it would be both unfair and unkind not to note that he is today the wonder-boy of American politics.

Both wonder and wonderment have begun to follow him. In Medford, Oregon, the editors of the Mail Tribune recently scratched their heads and asked plaintively: “Why should any Republican be attracted to a man who has lost elections, who is a lousy campaigner, who would be the oldest President to be inaugurated since James Buchanan, who is a member of the present Administration, whose views on the issues of the day are completely unknown, and who’s 6,000 miles away doing a lousy job of running a nasty little war?”

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Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican ball-carrier for the Democratic Party, has been called the GOP’s answer to Soapy Williams, the Grand Old Party-pooper, and the little man who wasn’t there. He is all of these things—and much more. For it would be both unfair and unkind not to note that he is today the wonder-boy of American politics.

Both wonder and wonderment have begun to follow him. In Medford, Oregon, the editors of the Mail Tribune recently scratched their heads and asked plaintively: “Why should any Republican be attracted to a man who has lost elections, who is a lousy campaigner, who would be the oldest President to be inaugurated since James Buchanan, who is a member of the present Administration, whose views on the issues of the day are completely unknown, and who’s 6,000 miles away doing a lousy job of running a nasty little war?”