After a point, he digressed to take a stab at Henry Cabot Lodge, who had recently told voters that it was a choice between the Republican Party and the “Cossacks,” his way of assailing progressives in the Democratic Party. Coolidge sought to include where Lodge had excluded, to show that the progressive Republicans were men of democracy. In the Republican Party of western Massachusetts, Coolidge told his fellows, “we call in every kind, ‘barbarian, Scythian, bond or free’ you are welcome one and all, we care not at what shrine you worship or how you eat your pie. That includes what Senator
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