The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1890-11-27
POLITICS AT THE HUB.
DEMOCRATIC OONGRESSMEN ELEO-
TED IN SPITE OF HOAR.

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Harvard Faculty Democratic-The South
ern Club Stanley to Lecture : Joe JET
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BosroN, Nov. 15th.-It has beer
little short of a political revolution il
the Old Bay State this year. As you
readers know, the Democrats here elec
ted their candidate for Governor
Hon. VIM. E. Russell. of Cambridge
and seven out of twelve Congressman
Precious few times has Massachusetts
elected Democratic Governor since
the war. When she has done so, il
has been owing to peculiar complica
tions and has been looked upon as ,,r
accident. This time it seems other
wise. This is the the third time Mr.
Russell has made the race, and he has
been gaining ground at every election
This time his personal popularity and
the growth of Democratic principles
have conspired in sweeping him in by
a Handsome majority The newly
elected Governor is graduate OF
Harvard Gas nearly everybody of inn
portance in Massachusetts, is) of the
class Of 1877 and is about 33 years of
age. He lives in Cambridge. but has
his law office in Boston. He is fire.
quently seen at the inter collegiate
foot. ball games played at Harvard.
Among the new Democratic Con-
gressmen, there are two that are nota-
BILE for their youth as well as for their
Intellectual promise-Mr. Sherman
Hoar and Mr.. Geo. Fred Williams.
They are both we'll educated, ardent
young tariff. reformers. Mr.. Hoar
graduated at Harvard in 1882, and is
scarcely thirty years old. Heis tall,
handsome, athletic looking fellow, and
seems to have inherited the lions
share of personal magnetism of the
Hoar family. His uncle, Senator
Hoar, poked good deal of fun at
his candidacy, and near the close of
the campaign took the stump against
him-all to no effect. The tide had
set too strongly against the Mckinley
bill to be stemmed. Old Judge
Hoar, Mr.. Sherman Hoar's father,
took good naturedly his sons deser-
ton of the G. 0. z. and is doubtless
proud of his brilliant canvass and
election. Mr.. Hoar gives upa growing
law practice at Concord to lend his
vote and influence at Washington to
the champions of Democracy and tar
if reform.
Another young Democratic Con-
gresham, Mr.. john F. Andrew, easily
secured re election. He is a son of
the old war Governor of Massachu
setts. DR.. VIM. Everett, son of Ed
ward Everett made such stirring
race against Henry Cabot Lodge that
the latter was elected by the skin of
his teeth.
A great deal of praise for the recent
glorious victory in Massachusetts, is
due to the secretary of the State Dem
ocratic executive committee, Mr..
Josiah Quincy. Another prominent
Democrat ir the State is Mr.. John
Quincy Adams! Get together all the
powers of your imagination and dwell
the ablest Democrats in the State bear
the historic names of Adams, Everett,
Quincy, Andrew, and Hoar!-all
names that were linked with the abo-
lition movement here two score years
ago! 1t is another case of the i'll wind
that blows ip many directions. The
old Puritan notion-the desire to re-
form something or somebody's again
at work. We can almost forgive it its
ferocity in 1860, if it will now march
shoulder to s-oulder with US against
the iniquitous tariff.
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1t is noteworthy fact that there lie,
out of the hundred or more men in the
Harvard faculty, only one simon pure
Republican. This will be easily un..
derstood when it is learned that he is
new man and is from Pennsylvania.
If he stays here long in such good
Democratic company as the Harvard
faculty, he will doubtless lose his faith
in the efficacy of Quayism. Many of
the faculty, of course, are simply mug
wumm with free trade leaniilgs, while
on the other hand large per cent are
straieht,ut Democrats -
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The Southern club at Harvard is
pstill thriving It's a we'll recognized
part of social life here. Its present
membership is about fifty, but it does
not include all the Southern men here.
Ehe club was founded by Mr.. Collier
| Cobb, of North Carolina, who is now
instructor in geology in the Institute