The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-04
The Lack of Excitement in the
Contest For State Offices is
Beyond the Memory of the
Oldest Voter
APPOINTMENTS FOR
HERBERT PARKER TO MAKE
HoIIOWeII and Hammond of the
acknowledgements Staff viii
ReSign-Four Other Members
Are Expected to Hold Over
Carey Likely to be Re- eIeCted

! Boston, Nov. Sit would be difficult
to find politician in Massachusetts,
unless he was very aged, who could re-
call a campaign so utterly devoid of
interest and excitement as the one
which will close at the polls Tuesday.
Certainly there has been none since war
times, and while the Democracy may
have seen them as peaceful, the Repub-
lican party has not. A campaign in
which all the candidates on the state
ticket of the Republican party take a
vacation, leaving the oratory entirely
to candidates Quincy and Coughlin and
the Socialists, is unique, and while we
have it, we may as well make the most
/ of it; for it is extremely doubtful if
ever there is another like it in the life
time of any of us.
The writer does not hesitate to proph-
lesy that when the election is over, what
seemed a rather shrewd piece of politics
will prove to have been at the expense
of the morale of the majority party. 1t
may be true that voters depend more
on the newspapers than on rallies for
information as to the political situa-
ton in these latter days, but the present
situation in New York city is a most
/ excellent proof that when it becomes
necessary to arouse the people to meet
an eXigency, the stump speaker is as
useful as ever he was. What would
I Henry Wilson, Adm Thayer and other
war horses of early Republicanism have
thought of a campaign where the party
/ they directed deemed arguments I'M
necessary?
! But criticism aside, there must be
reason for the silence of the party
leaders, outside of the obvious purpose
to leave the Democratic orators talking
| into the empty air This reason is
probably because the party leaders see
| that we are today in a transition
| period. While not a party composed
! of opportunists, as Josiah Quincy
would have the opposition party be-
come, it is clearly necessary for the
Republican party TO accommodate itself
/ TO conditions caused by two events:
one, the policy of reciprocity-of which
James G. Blaine was the prophet-out-
/ lined by the revered Mckinley in his
Buffalo speech; and the other the sue
! cesion of Roosevelt to the presidency
through the dastardly act of an
assassin.
Until President Roosevelt has had
time to settle the details of the policy
only dimly outlined in Mckinley S
speech, but to which he has fully COM
mitted himself, it is undoubtedly wiser
for the spokesman of the party upon
the stump to refrain from discussing
1T. That policy will undoubtedly have
crystallized by one year from this time,
and congressional campaigns will be
! made upon 1t. So we may commend
| the course Of Chairman Goetting, in a
measure, while we all sincerely trust
1 he will never do so again. An atmos-
phere of confidence has pervaded the
state headquarters for several seasons.
| it may develop into over-confidence if
we do not beware.
Gen. Patrick A. Collins is upon the
I stump with Quincy in these closing
days and the loyal and sanguine De-
mocracy does not hesitate to greet him
as the next mayor of Boston. This is
not so sure, however. The alleged dis
satisfaction with Mayor Hart, which
some assumed would find vent In a
contest for the nomination between
Hart and George N. Swallow, fizzled
| out, and now we are told that what
ever differences existed between Hart
and Chairman Hutchinson of the Re
publican city committee have been adj
justed and that Hutchinson will direct
the Hart campaign. OF course he will.
He was elected president of the body
for the purpose of managing it's cam
paigns, and nobody else will run them
for him. More than this, Lieutenant
| Governor Bates has no more loyal
friend than Mr.. Hutchinson, and to as
sumo that the latter would permit the
municipal campaign in Boston this
year to lapse, through differences with
Hart or anyone else, was altogether too
absurd for belief by any person who
knew anything about the matter.
The campaign from now on in Boston
will be very different from that during
the past few weeks in the state at
large.
A good deal of curiosity has been. felt
by many as to who will be called to
serve as assistants by Mr. Parker, the
new attorney general The indications
are that Messrs. Hurd Nash, DeGoosl
and Greenhalge of the present attor-
ney generals staff will be invited to
remain; while Messrs. Hollowen and
Hammond, the remaining assistant at
torney generals, will go into a law
partnership with Mr. Knowlton. and be
succeeded by new men
| The General Court returns to the
State House on the 18th for brief spe-
cial session, to enact into law the Re
vised Laws, as they win be hereafter
known. The clerks of the special revis-
ion committee have been very busy
ever since the last meeting, Oct. 16. in
preparing copy and reading proof OF
the report of the committee, which en-
bodies the statutes as revised. The
state printers have the two volumes all
in type, and these, with the journal OF
the committees work-a book of about
$50 pages-will be ready for the men,
bers of the Legislature when they meet
An effort will probably be made by
the secretary Of the Commonwealth ia
have the General Court depart from its
rule, and by the suspension of the 18th
joint rule, or by a message from the
governor, admit a resolve for the pub
LEGATION of a thick volume of special
laws. covering the period which thu
general laws embodied in the work Of
the revision committee has also COW
cred.
Haverhill is endeavoring to get rid
of Representative Carey. but as the
ward which makes up his district is
colonized by the Social Democrats, the
issue is at least doubtful MANN.