Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-04
Everything Points to a Heavy Vote
on Tuesday.
REGISTRATION LARGEST EVER KNOWN,
Winding Up Of an Interesting
Campaign.
FREE-THINKING CANDIDATES.

bOoIoN, nov. 4.-EVerything points to
heavy vote in Massachusetts next Tues
day. The registration is the heaviest ever
seen in the state. the number of names on
the voting lists being even greater than
they were in the presidential contest Of
1892.
| 1t has been an exceptionally brief cam
paiGn, but very lively one. Both ex-Con-
SresSman +. L. Greenhalge, the republi-
can nominee, and ex-Congressman John
Z. Russell, the democratic champion are
skilled debaters, thoroughly posted Oh the
| subjects they discuss, and very much in
earnest. They were nominated largely for
their strength or the stump, and it was
expected that campaign of oratory would
follow.
1t is a curious fac- that bet candidates
have, at times been considered rather risky
exponents of the doctrines they are now
promulgating. They have been distin-
gu1shed by a certain freedom of utterauce,
and independence of thought, which was
credltable to them as individuals, but which
did not improve their availability as can
didates.
Congressman Greenhalge had a reputa-
ton as humorist. Mr. Russell had been
man of positive ideas, many of which
had not been in accord with the accepted
! tenets of Bay state democracy. Both horses
l
had speed" than because they were safe"
and no one dared guarantee that either
would stand without hitching, or warrant
that they would not shy at the cars.
Greenhnlge and His Audiences.
Mr. Greenhalge can have no fault to find
with his audiences. They are the largest
that have been addressed by any republican
candidate since Geo. ID. Robinson made his
great and successful campaign against Gen.
Butler. He holds their attention admirably.
He is quick to discern their trend of thought
and when he finds responsive chord ne
casts aside all previous plans and finds oc-
casion to sound the changes in the popular
key again and again. A drive at the south
as the dominant influence in the democratic
party Is as sure to be appreciated in Mas
sachusetts today as ever 1t was. Mr.. Green
halge directs a broadside two of each
rally toward his brethren south of Mason
and Dixon's line. He stirs the enthusiasm
| of the soldier element by justifying the
pension expenditures of the Fifty-first Con-
gress.
MIR. RusseIl's Views.
Mr.. Russell has added more to the politi-
cal literature of his time than any candi-
date who has been upon the stump in this
state for years. Always a person of ideas
and gentleman of leisure and culture, he
has brought to this campaign the ripened
views of a business man and a statesman.
mo speech can be too good for any
audience" said Mr. Russell the other day.
mo language or Illustration can be too
rich for any gathering of men. man
should never appeal to the lowest intelli-
gence in his audience"
This was in response to suggestion that
| his Lawrence speech was too ornate for his
audience. 1t was this speech, by the way,
which the editor of the Springfield Republi-
can pronounced worthy of Gladstone"
The republican state central committee
have sought to worry Mr.. Russell by quot
ing his free trade utterances. AT Westfield
he was told he must not touch the tariff,
but he took the bit in his teeth and ex-
claimed THAT is what i am here for, and
propose to treat the subject fully. freely
and without concealment. If there is any
one here who does not like my tariff views
he needn't vote for me-.
The Two Candidates.
If Mr. Russell were republican he would
be stronger with the farmers than Mr..
| Greenhalge, and if Mr.. Greenhalge We're
| democrat he would be infinitely stronger
with the workingmen than Mr.. Russell.
Personally. Greenhalge is wonderfully
popular with the democrats of his own city
of Lowell, while Russell, ex-secretary
of the state board of agriculture, has a
warm place in the regard of the Massachu-
| setts husbandmen.
Mr. Greenhalge is municipal product a
native of Lancaster, England, but since he
was a boy of ten living amid the busy
spindles of Lowell.
| Mr.. Russell is a country gentleman, to
| the manner born; has one of the finest Ii
brares i'll the state; has been cultivated by
| residence abroad His devotion to agricul-
| ture, especially to sheep farming, has won
for him the soubriquet of THE Sheepless
| Shepherd of Leicester"
MIR Russell is announced as one of the
speakers at the winter ting Of the state
| board of agriculture in December, but
| whether he will speak governor of the
state not depends largely on how far
party affiliations will lead the farmers to
| vote for exponent of the spindles,and the
/ splnners to vote for secretary of agricul-
| ture.
| Leading Speakers of the State.
| Outside the candidates the most notable
/ speakers in the state have been enlisted on
| both sides. For the democrats Gov. Rus
sell has taken the stump and discussed
state issues and national topics in his own
/ taking way. Astute Josiah Quincy has
spoken nearly every night and shrewd and
practical Mayor Matthews has Wed with
| ex-Congressman Geo. Fred Williams in
work for party success.
! On the republican side Senator Lodge,
! Congressman Walker. Congressman Nc
/ Call, eX-Gov. Long, eX-Gov. Robinson and
other SageS of the faith handed down from
! Lincoln and Grant have been active. Big,
brainy Tom Reed of Maine has spoken a
/ half dozen times and last Saturday he filled
/ the Mechanics Exposition building to the
doors There were at least 1900 people
present, and democratic well repuhli-
can papers pronounced it the greatest po-
ltical gathering ever held in the state. The
| magic of Tom Reeds name did it. He seems
! to have succeeded to the popularity of that
other son of Maine-James q. Blaine.
| Last night ex-Secretary Fairchild of New
/ York spoke at the final great rally of the
democrats, surrounded by other political
luminaries. Today at noon the republicans
hold a market mems rally in Faaclil Hall
and tonight will shake Mechanics Hall
once more, this time without the aid of
the great eX-Speaker. The closing days of
/ the campaign will be filed with the closest
sort of work, in order to have the oratory
/ of the past month materialize in votes on
] Tuesday.