The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-15
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Mellen w ont
Wrinkle
HIS POLITICAL TOGA
He Still Declines to Accep
Of RusselIs Challenge.

With the cold, naughty indifference
characteristic Of man filled with su-
preme confidence in his own cause, and
contempt for his antagonist, James H.
Mellen refuses to crease his political
toga by engaging in a discussion of
cause and effect in ward 4 politics
He is too busy just now to throw
aside his duties and engage in a side
show play to the rabble. He thinks too
much of his record to smirch it by en-
gaging in a dispute with an "un-
known" as he sees fit to term his chal-
lenger
Jim isn't going to toot his own horn
much, but he is going to get out and
do the effective hustling movement
about the ward, and he says that when
the evening of November comes round
and the voters of the ward have at
tended to their duty, and the legislative
race has been run, he for one will not
have 1t said of him that he came under
the wire late
He knows that in a well-fought race
the winners are those who have been
well groomed, and he is going to see to
1t that every voter who is favorable to
his candidacy is at his post on election
day and stands up to be counted
Mr.. Mellen was seen by The Spy man
last evening, and while he remarked
that he had nothing further to say In
regard to the controversy, he thought
that Mr.. RusselPs motive in asking for
chance to be heard was to attract at
tention to himself and that he desired
him to do this attracting and furnish
the crowd for his enjoyment.
Mellen is not clamoring to be heard
In fact, he has been heard sometimes
to his credit and sometimes for the
other mans advantage. He has conf
dence in his ultimate success and pre-
fers to maintain a similar attitude to
that displayed in the recent utterances
of the Gray Eagle of the Quinsiga-
mond."
He claims that he has his wires well
laid and has simply to command. Mr..
Russell, on the other hand, is allowing
no time to elapse before getting active
ly to work and before the month is
very much older he will have completed
what he is confident is a winning can
Yass. He has been engaged in cireulat-
ing his nomination papers during the
week, and has found no trouble in
getting the requisite number of signers.
Today he will go to Boston and file
papers which will place his name on
the official ballot as an Independent
candidate for representative. Yester-
| day the names he has received were
certified to by the registrars of voters
at the city hall.
Immediately after reading the chaI-
| lenge of M. L. Russell to James II
| Mellen. calling for the appointment Of
a time when both might meot to dis
cuss campaign issues, James A. Nc
Herman, the republican candidate for
the legislature, began to formulate his
plans for an aggressive campaign. AL
ready he has assurances that he will
poll a large vote, and his friends say
that while he may not win out, he will
prevent either of the candidates OF the
opposing party making any considera-
Bile republican gains. That M Nc =.
Tfernan is confident of a good support
is shown from the fact that he was at
republican headquarters Thursday eve>
ming, and made a bet with two gentle
men that he would receive better than
500 votes on the Sth of November.
There is another element that will
have to be reckoned with in the ward
four contest. A movement eliminated
last evening which has been on foot
since the caucuses, in meeting CT
the Ward -Four Independent Club, So
called, at which time the matter of
placing an independent candidate in
the field was carefully considered and
committee appointed to see a certain
gentleman who has been thought of for
the office. This committee will report
at later meeting, when definite ac-
ton will be taken.
The statement in The Spy on the
morning succeeding the night of the
caucuses, to the effect that Dr. John
II in
nected with affairs political in ward
four was an error, as the doctor is at
tending strictly to the practice of his
profession and not in any way med
ding or taking any active part in pol
tics.