The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-25
RUSSELL WILL NOT Run AGAIN.
Massachusetts' Governor Afraid of Presi-
Dental Year-Old Senators Must Go.


Dental Year-Old Senators Must Go.
WASHINGTON CITY, March 23.-[Special.l
There is no state in the Union where
more politics is being played than in the
state of Massachusetts. The politics ex-
tends from struggle for place upon the
Democratic national ticket, through all
the grades of offices to the lowest. For
twoyears the Democrats have succeeded
in carrying the state and electing their
governor, and this year there will be a
most desperate fight on the part Of the
Republicans to redeem the state. Governor
Russell, who has carried the Democratic
standard to victory in the past two years,
is candidate for place on the national
ticket. He is being doomed by his party
for president. but personally he wishes to
go upon the tic ket in the second place. If
Western man is nominated for president,
the New England Democrats will insist
upon Russell being nominated for vice
president, claiming that with his name
upon the ticket, they can carry Connecti-
cut, Massachusetts,, New Hampshire and
Rhode Island. Russell is one of the most
popular men in the state, only 35 years of
age, and who last year was elected simply
because of his great personal popularity.
For governor, the election this fall will
be warm one. The probable candidate
upon the Republican ticket will be Lieu
tenant Governor Halle, if he will accept
the nomination. While a Democratic
governor has been elected in the last two
years, yet Halle has succeeded in being
elected ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS upon the Re-
publican ticket and it is thought would
make strong candidate on the Republic
can side. Another Republican who may be
struck by gubernatorial lightning in the
convention is the attorney general of the
state. In fact, a dozen other candidates
are ready to bob up at any time that they
think their chances are at all bright. The
Democrats will renominate Russell if he
will allow the use of his name, but he is
afraid that In presidential year he may
fall by the roadside, and this would de-
stroy his prestige which he has won of
late.
But the greatest fight in Massachusetts,
is over the United States senatorship
The Democrats are thinking of making
the same kind of a campaign upon this
question which was made by their
brethren in Illinois short time ago, that
is, to nominate their can didate in conven-
ton and carry out their legislative canvass
upon that line.
Upon the Republican side the fight viii
be bitter one. Congressman Henry
Cabot Lodge, the author of the force bill,
is an ayowed candidate for this place and
has been so for years. Until recently he
had the field to himself, but now some of
those who entered later have succeeded in
pushing themselves to the front. 4 very
probable result of the fight will be the
election of w. E. Barrett, the present
| speaker of the House and editor of the
Boston Adgertiser, who a few years ago was
| the Washington City correspondent of
| that paper. This is his third year as
| speaker of the House, and he has the pres
| tige of never having been defeated in any,
| thing that he has started to win. He has
| the support of the young men of the state,
| is n man who is thoroughly a practical po-
| litician, and from his present vantage
ground as speaker of the House is gaining
influence among the present members of
| the legislature, a fact that is making Lodge
/ and the other candidates trembe. But it
| is very possible that compromise may be
| effected between Lodge and Barrett which
| will result in sending to the Senate either
Ex-Governor Robinson or Ex-Governor
Long.
| Senator Dawes term expires next year,
and he is anxious to return to the seat
| which he has occupied for so many years,
but the Republicans of the state think
| that it is about time to have a real live
| man in the Senate, as neither of their
| present representatives are renowned for
! their youth or activity. Consequently
| they will make strong effort to send a
| young man, although Dawes still refuses
| to say that he is not . candidate for re-
| nomination and is hoping that something
may come up 50 that the fight NAV be SO
| bitter that the party in self-defense will be
| Obliged to send him back. The last time
| he was elected it was by the aid of Demo-
| cratic votes, they voting for him in body
| through the influence of his young law
| partner, who is now Congressman Crosby
Dawes returned this compliment last year,
and when young Crosby ran for congress
in the Republican district Dawes threw
| his influence in favor of his partner, and
| the result was his election.
The Democrats will try their utmost to
carry the state again this fall and if they
succeed it means that hereafter Massa-
chusetts must be regarded as not only a
doubtful state but strongly inclined to-
ward Democracy. AS is known, this is
the hotbed Of mugwunpery and the Dem
| ocratic party of that state is largely COM
| posed Of men who decided that their at