The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-06
State Campaign In Massachu-
sets Practically Ended With
Adjournment of Fridays Re-
publican Convention
REPUBLICAN NOMINEES
ROYALTY ENTERTAINED
No Bitterness Has Resulted From
the District Attorney Fight and
Election of the Entire Republic
can Ticket is Conceded by Both
Parties

Especial Political Correspondence
Boston, Oct 5.-The state compaign
in Massachusetts is pretty near over
but the shouting, and the shouting
was going on in good shape today at
the meeting of the Middlesex Club,
where, as has been the case for several
years, the nominees on the Republican
ticket were entertained When the
final struggle u the attorney general
ship contest occurred at the Repub-
lican state convention on Friday, the
real contest was over. Everybody con-
cedes that there are no bitternesses
which will prevent the election of the
entire Republican ticket in November.
There was a strange reunion at the
Democratic convention on Thursday,
when Charles 8. Hamlin, Josiah Quin-
cy and George Fred Williams met on
the same platform. Williams, once a
Republican, now the apostle of Bryan
Democracy, and jealous, as he said of
any act on the part of the reunited
party which should be false to the
principles of Bryan; Hamlin, the her
editary Democrat, who was too true
to the principles of sound finance, as
preached by Cleveland and practiced
I DY Tie INtlJuDltdI purity " pNPS'A I
Bryan; and Josiah Quincy the astute,
who remained in the Democratic party
through all the riot, but who could not
| see his way clear to receive Bryan
when he visited Boston five years ago,
but who posed at this convention as
the apostle of "opportunism." Was
there ever a time when Quincy was
not an opportunist, either in politics or
anything else? His record is the an
swer.
And there, too, was the irrepressible
Gamaliel Bradford, with George e.
Mcneil as his sponsor. And he got a
respectable vote, too. He also had a
chance to make a speech, too, which
was a thing dearer to him than votes.
For Bradford, too, is an apostle-of all
sorts of freak ideas.
The Parker Harris attorney general
ship fight is over, and the contest has
left no bitterness. The judgment Of
the writer. expressed several weeks
ago, which had long ago become that
of the average political writer, was vim
dicated. Harris was a good candidate,
and had he been nominated, would
have been an honor to his party. But
reasons of locality, combined with
strong support from the bar and from
most of the party leaders, favored
Parker. The fact that the lawyers In
dorsed Parker, stating his preeminent
fitness, was the strong factor Of all.
Had not Congressman Moody removed
H. p. Moulton Of Salem from the field
by securing his appointment as United
States district attorney. the whole as
pect of things would have been differ
ent today; for Essex could have pre-
scented a stronger locality claim than
rrT. III Of
ness, the bar would certainly have d.
vided, to put it mildly. But both men
are provided for, as it is.
Harris seems to be outside the breast
works. AS the writer pointed out last
winter, the Harris plans included not
only his nomination as attorney gen.
eral. but the nomination of his assis-
tant, r. H. o. Shultz Of Norfolk
County, as district attorney. Should
Harris not go back, however, 1T is now
understood that the new district attor-
ney for the southeastern district VIII
not be Shultz, but Asa P. French, who
won such laurels in the Bran case.
The fifthcouncilor fight was amicably
settled by the nomination of Hon. Da-
vid l. Robinson Of Gloucester. He Will
be a great acquisition to Gov. Cranes
cabinet Had Mr.. Robinson consented,
years ago, to run for the house of rep
resentatives, he would have been one
of the foremost men in Massachusetts
today He not only has fine business
ability. combined fifth ability as a
speaker. but he is man Of convic-
lions. as he showed in 1883, when he
kept his ante-election promise that he
would never sign a liquor license. by
resigning when the alternative came
to Sign or resign" though his city
later INDICATED him by voting no IL
cense and rejecting him. AS most
worthy templar of the Temple Of Hon
or-which meant he was the head Of
the order in the world, he was compel
led to sand by his principles, and so
notified his constituents when he was
nominated That sort Of man counts
when he gets into the General Court.
The sixth. councillor district cOnven-
tion met in Maiden on Thursday, spent
the entire day and most of the eve
ming in debate took five ballots, and
adjourned until Tuesday noon. The re-
sponsibility for this result is entirely
upon the shoulders of William Henry
Irving Hayes of Lowell, who has been
deprived of participation in delibera-
tive assemblies for so long that il
seemed a pleasure to him to get back
where he could make trouble Early
in the day Mr.. Hayes delivered him
self of the sentiment that rather than
submit to some things, the Lowell dele
cation would transfer its vote from
Walter s. Watson to f. c. Mead of
Everett. who had II votes on each ball
lot. This Jolly" kept the Mead vote
solid all day. though it was no secret
that Il was distinctly and absolutely
pledged to Councillor Howe as second