 " Two Senate colleagues , John Sherman Cooper , R @-@ Kentucky , and Herbert Lehman , D @-@ New York , were among those who heaped praise on the Vermont senator . The editor of a national publication said : ' It was one of the few recent indications that the Republican Party on Capitol Hill is not wholly devoid of courageous moral leadership . ' And an editorial in the Rutland Herald stated , ' The effect of the speech was to <unk> that vast majority of Americans who hate communism but who also revere the Constitution . ' " 
