Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-03-18

Many Eyes In Massachusetts on That Gilt
tering Prize.

Correspondence Of Tie evening STAY.
BosroN, March l6. 1898.
Senator Lodges vacant congressional seat is
the cynosure of all eyes in Massachusetts The
special election has been ordered for April IS
and nominations under the law must be made
on or before April g. Within the next six weeks
two campaigns must be fought-oue for the
nomination and one for the election. From
present appearances both will be sharply con-
tested. There are two democratic and three re-
publican candidates in the field. The republi-
cans are ". E. Barrett, speaker of the house,
Mayor Elhu b. Hayes of Lynn and ex-senator
Arthur B. Champlin of Chelsea. The demo-
Gratis are Dr. William Everett of Quincy and ".
n. Osgood of Maiden.
On the democratic side there is, however.
little doubt to who the candidate will be-
DIR. Everett has run several times in the district
against Mr.. Lodge and has sufficient hold on
the district organization to secure the nomina-
ton. There is 4 little opposition TO him the
ground that he does not reside in the district.
1t is remarkable to see with what rnanimty
the democracy of the seventh district has con-
scented to be led TO defeat year after year bv
this learned ex-territorial asplrant One would
think that the local pride of such a splendid
constituency would demand representa-: on by
some of the bright young democrats who reside
there. 1t was some such considerations as these
that embotdened Mr.. Osgood of Maiden TO
come forward. He is not unknown 10 his
party. He has run twice on the democratic
ticket for secretary of state. and is very popu-
lar. But the edict has gone forth. and
democratic state committeeman expresses Ii,
| "OSgood will not make any trouble
battle royal is promised for the republican
nomination. Speaker Barrett and Mayor HAYES
are both past masters in the arts of political
campaigning. Ex-senator Champlin is only
formidable a compromise candidate.
Sneaker Barrett has the advantage of an
, early start. He has long had his eye on Con-
gress. He has wished to return Congress-
man or Senator-Senator preterred-to the
. scenes OF his reportorial achievements in Wash
ington. The new seventh district was not
carved out to suit Mr.. Lodge or his friends
Speaker Barrett was the CHIEF engineer in that
feat Of surveying. and he took care that its
boundaries should be favorable possible to
the political fortunes of the gentleman from
Melrose.
Perhaps nothing proves the strength OF the
Lodge organization more conclusively than the
fact that in a district so constructed the only
member of the legislature who did not favor
Mr.. Lodge for Senator was the representative
from Melrose. Mr.. Barrett stood alone In his
opposition to the Nanant statesman. and even
he came into the .o,d at the eleventh hour.
Once in the speakers chair Mr.. Barrett be-
gan to court the favor of the seventh district
delegation in the house. who had been elected
for the express purpose of checking his sena-
places on the standing committees, appointed
on special committees and the more prominent
were called to the chair when the speaker could
not himself WELD the gavel. The result is that
Mr.. Barrett has outspoken supporters in the
city OF Lynn itself. Among them are
man of the Lynn city committee;
Eugene A. Bessom and Amos Beck
| ford. ex-Senators William A. Clark, jr.. and
David Walker. Capt. Jack" Adams. sergeant
alarms, and Capt. James F. Mech, ex-Repre-
sentatives Bachelor and Tibbetts.
On this showing. on the prospec. OF divided
delegation from Mayor Hayes own city,
Barrett's nomination would seem to be fore
gone conclusion. 1t is well to remember. how
ever, that the campaign is Young yet, and that
Mayor Hayes holds a trump or two.
Elhu Burritt Hayes is the father Of the
Australian ballot law in Massachusetts. Any
man who can carry such a radical measure
through SO conservative a body as the Massa-
chuset:s legislature is no mean general. He is
chairman Of the seventh district congressional
committee. the head of that wonderful politi-
! cal organization which returned only Lodge
men to the legislature and stamped out every
spark of Barretts enthusiasm save in the heart
of the Melrose aspirant.
1t is this organization whose aid Barrett
must now invoke. Many of the captains are
willing to lead their companies over to Barrett:
but will they go? Haven't the voters who
chose them Representatives on an anti-Barrett
, issue learned their lesson too well to forget it
| In moment? They are placed beyond the
reach OF allurlng positions on committees and
the multiplying effects OF everyday intercourse
They only know that they are asked to turn
against Lodge general in the last campaign to
support Lodges senatorial rival.
1t is one thing to arrange compromises and
trades over coffee and cigars in the state house
cafe and quite another TO carry a congressional
/ convention. The campaign is TO be fought IN
the district not in the legislature. Aud it is in
the district that HAYES is believed to be strong
He Was elected mayor of Lynn at the last
, municipal election by 1000 majority. He is
, doubtless the strongest man before the people
of any one IN the city of shoes. He saws that
the man VINO wins must have the thirty-four
votes from Lynn. He believes he can get them.
Barrett is equally certain that he will secure
| share of the delegation. Lynn aud Chelsea
have o majority of the delegates. If these
cities stand by their favorite sons Barrett can
not win on the first ballot. HAYES must have a
solid delegation from Lynn or he will not be
''in it." Every effort will be made to divide
the Lynn vote.
BITTER FIGHT IN THE LYNN PRIMARIES.
This means the bitterest kind of a fight in the
Lynn primaries. Chairman Bartlett of the city
committee is a Barrett man and opposes the
mayor he has just helped to elect by hand
some majority. Only a slight acquaintance in
municipal politics is necessary to see in the
Chairman Bartlett says that Barrett will get
twenty of the thirty-four Lynn delegates.
Mayor HAYES doesn't venture any predictions.
but goes about his business like a trained cam
palgner that he is. He accepts the gage and
will fight the first battle in Lynn against the
chairman Of the city committee.
DIR. EVERETT.
With DR.. Everett in the field it will be pic
turesque campaign, whoever the republicans
nominate. DIR. Everett is one of the unique
characters in New England politics. He enjoys
the distinction of being the of the late Ed
ward Everett and Is fifty-three wears old. He
is a graduate OF Harvard College. of Trinity
College, Cambridge, England and of the Dane
Law School. He was admitted to tine bar in
1866. but never practiced law. In 1870 he was
appointed tutor in Latin at Harvard College
and assistant professor in 1878, position he held
until 1877. The next year he made master
of Adams Academy in Quincy, a position
he now holds DIR. Everett has also had expert
ence as minister. In 1872 he was licensed to
preach by the Boston Association of Ministers
and occupied Unitarian pulpits in various parts
OF the country. This very week he had a
chance to accept the passionate OF the Unitarian
Church at Quincy, but would only take it for
six months. while the church wanted per-
manent pastor none. The report that he
would accept the call and retire from politics
created quite furry among the faithful. 1t is
now believed to be decided that DIR. Everett
will not accept an ecclesiastical berth until