The sun., 1903-12-13
BOSTON TO REFLECT A MAYOR
REPUBLICANS INDIFFERENT AND
THE CAMPAIGN LIFELESS.
A Negro Running for Boss OF the Street
Observation-Disclosures OF All Can.
didates Rejected by Good Govern.
ment AdyOcates--lssues Badly Mixed


didates Rejected by Good Govern.
BosToN, Mass, Dec. 12.-Mayor Patrick
A. Collins will be reelected next Tuesday
to the Office he has held during the last
two years. after the deadest municipal
campaign in long time. Practically no
eNort has been made by the Demo-
Gratis or the Republicans to get out a big
rote for the heads of the respective tickets,
although the Democrats have held few
slimly attended ward meetings.
The presence on the Republican ticket
of the name of Isaac Benjamin Franklin
Allen as the party candidate for the Office
Of Superintendent of Streets has disgusted
the rank and file. He is negro, and his
record as hw-abiding citizen has been
called in question.
When George n. Swallow was put up as
the Mayoralty candidate 1t was believed
that he would make good fight against
Mayor Collins, and preparations were
made to start vigorous campaign. But
the disafection of Republicans in Ward IL
nominated Allen. and the prominent mem
bers OF the party made up their minds
that Gen. Collins might as well have an
other two years in the City Hall.
Mr.. Swallow pluckily refused to with
draw when It was learned that Allen would
refuse to take his name off the ticket. But
the chief occupation Of the Republican
city committee at present is keeping to-
gether the skeleton of party organization
Although the Republicans are in the mi
norty in the city there have been times
when the Democrats have had so many
squabbes in their ranks that their OPP
ponents managed to elect the Mayor, and
they think perhaps that time will come
again.
Just now the Democrats are strongly
united, although the candidacy of the
Hon. Frederick S. Gore for the Mayoralty
nomination on an "anti-graft" platform,
and his defeat in the caucus, caused some
hope to spring up in the minds of the Re-
publicans that il he ran independen tly he
might cause detection in the ranks Of the
Democracy and Mr. Swallow would manage
to win out. Mr.. Gore, however, said "No"
to the entreaties of his friends, and his
name does not appear on the ticket.
If it we're not for the Good Government
Association and the Public School Associa-
ton. the last few weeks would have been
lstless, but the effort of these two organi-
cations have precipitated small fight over
the Aldermanic and School Board elections.
The Good Government Association is an
extremely critical organization, and Of
the twenty-five candidates for election
as Aldermen on Democratic, Republican
and indie pendent nominations just nine
have been approved as citizens worthy Of
the office. The other sixteen candidates
the association says it cannot indorse,
although thirteen Aldermen are to be
elected
A pamphlet has been mailed to the voters
by the association discussing the records
OF the men rejected which says: "The
statements published by this association
with reference to candidates of the Board
OF Aldermen and Common Council, are the
result of careful, impartial, painstaking
Investigation covering many weeks
Among the men not approved by the
association is James NJ. Curley, the Demo-
cratic nominee in the Seventeenth ward. He
was convicted last September in the United
States Court of conspiracy to defraud
the Government by the impersonation of
another man at a civil service examina-
ton, The case has now gone to the Court
II Doyle of the Twelfth ward another Demo-
crat, is not indorsed because the committee
of elections of the House of Representa-
yves declared his seat in that body vacant
because of proof of gross and varied fraud
committed in his interest in the election OF
1894 Major Perlie A. Dyer, Republican
candidate from the Nineteenth ward is
o. concern that has derived considerable
income from the city for electrical work
and Major Dyer was formerly member
OF the firm.
The basis of most of the failures to in
ooise the candidates are carriage rides