The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-03
CABINET TAKE STUMP IN
 NEW ENGLAND STATES
Republicans Worried Lest Reduced Pluraes in Vermont and Maine Should F0reshadow Defeat in Gen.
 eral Elections in November

, hands for about six months. The lead- | CT of this movement Is Henry M. Whit | ney. President of the Boston Chamber i of Commerce.
 Senator Lodge has been making n ! stern fight against reciprocity with ! Canada. He was instrumental in kill | treaties in the last Congress. He has
 heretofore held that there ought to be
 no reciprocity with Canada except in non competitive products. He fought the reciprocity scheme in the Massa- chusetts State Convention. which elect ed delegates to the Chicago Convention. | and his chief argument has been that the passage of such a treaty would de- stroy the salt-hsh industry of Glouces-
 Recently. however. Senator Lodge has seen great light. No politiG an Senator Lodge. Two years before the St. Louis convention of 1S9S he was in favor of the free coinage of silver to bring Great Britain to her knees. He was laying claim in 1896 to the credit for having put gold fin the Republican platform.
 Senator Lodge is now preparing to gently made a speech in which he de- clared he had always been in favor of reciprocity. and also made the point that there could be no reciprocity with Canada that was mot in competitive products. because we produced every thing Canada did except Arctic furs. Senator Lodge declared that his only and Newfoundland treaties was that he thought the United States would not get as much benefit from 1t as Canada would.
 All of this is taken to indicate that Senator Lodge is preparing for another Gladstonian retreat, and that the State Convention, which meets in a few ernor and other State offices. will adopt a platform which will contain dec- laration in favor of reciprocity-this time in competitive as well as non
 The last big vote the Democrats of Massachusetts, boiled was in 1892. when, they r2iled up l5s,sIs votes for Sos. .sia, and Harrison "sarried the State State by a plurality of 26.0oO. Tho Demo- cratic vote fell to about 1o5.o00 in 1896. while the Republicans boiled very ing 173,2s5. The Republican plurality due to the fact that. 5o,ooo Democrats who w,l,9,I had not voted 1,,, ,n isss were then At the State election the following year. the Republican plurality fell to 7l,oo0; in the next year it fell to 37.000. and 1903 it was about 36,000.
 The same story is told Sf Connecti- cut. Cleveland carried the State in 1892 by 5,365; four years later the State went for Mckinley, giving him .plu- 5 plurality shrunk to 2S.570, and at the State election of 1902 the Republican candidate for Governor won by only 16,000 plurality.
 Rhode Island affords even a more strikingt example t The State was car ried by Harrison in 1892 by a plurality of 26,137. It went for Mckinley in 1s96 by a plurality of 22,978, which was enormous. considering the small ness of the State. The Republican plurality in 1900 had dropped to a nt- tie less than 13,o0o. At the State election in 1901 the Republican candi- date for Governor had a plurality of 6,537, but in 1903 Garvin, Democrat, was elected Governor by a plurality of 1903. So that today Rhode Island is Democratic State. represented by two Republicans in the United States Senate and by one Democrat and one Republican Representative.
 New Hampshire shows the same gem eral shrinkage. The State went Re- publican in 1892 by plurality of 3,547, and in 1S96 the Republican plurality was s5.7s4. It dropped in 1900 to is,- 3l4, and in the State election of i902 the Republican candidate for Governor received only S,2Sl plurality.