The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-23
DOUGLASS BAY STATE FIGHT.
PICTORIAL CAMPAIGN IN HIS
RACE FOR GOVERNORSHIP.
The Democratic Candidate Using Adver-
Using on y Grand scaie-Pictures OF
His Struggles in Life-Laber Union
Is Opposing Gov. Bates's Reelection.

His struggies in Life-Laber Union
Is Opposing Gov. Bates's Reelection.
BosToN, Oct. 22.-Although they know
that Gov. Bates and the entire Republican
State ticket will be elected next month
there are no signs OF encouragement on the
part OF the Democrats in this State. Ihey
have started on an aggressive campaign.
Candidate Douglas has opened his bar
rel" and opened it wide and from now on
he will prosecute the campaign with vigor.
MrDouglas Is not an orator but he knows
the value OF advertising. Instead OF max
ing personal appeal to the voters, columns
Of space have been purchased In the news
papers OF Boston and all the cities, in which
the Democratic candidate is pictured as a
plain, sek-made man. In addition to this,
circus posters of large size and printed
in brilliant colors have been prepared and
the State Is to be plastered from one end
to the other with pictures depicting the life
of the Democratic candidate.
The posters are in a series. The first
shows the boy Douglas pegging away at
shoes when only years old. At the age OF
is he is at work in a cotton mill at daily
wage of SO cents. The third OF the series
represents the candidate driving prairie
SCHOONER" across the plains. In the fourth
he is shown working at the shoemaker's
bench when just 81. Another picture rep
resents him as the employer Of three or
four hands in shoe shop. The sixth shows
Mr.. Douglass first shoe factory along
side of the present mammoth structure.
The greatest card the Democrats have
to play is appealing to the labor element
TO vote for Douglas, and there is hardly
a doubt that the candidates record of
treatment Of his employees, as we'll es
the fact that he started on the ladder as
workingman himself, will draw votes to
him, particularly from the Socialists.
The labor unions have been denouncing
Gov Bates for several weeks because OF
his veto OF what has been termed the Over
time BILL passed last winter by the Legs
lature, prohibiting women and children
from working in shops and factories after
o'clock at night. Union after union has
passed resolutions denouncing the Governor
for this veto and calling upon the members
TO support Douglas at the polls The
Of some such action has alarmed the man
ayers here, and Gov. Bates defended his
veto in an address last Saturday. He said
in part:
the right Of the manufacturers to make
up in the evening the time lost during the
day by the breaking of machinery. AS a
matter of fact, it was so drawn that it also
affected women and children who are en-
ployed in mills in various parts Of the State
not in the daytime, but whose only OPP
portunity Of employment is in the evening"
An immense vote will be cast in Massa-
chusetts, and here in Bost on the total regis
tration exceeds all previous years. In
Brookton, the home Of the Democratic
candidate, the Democrats have been very
active, and big vote Is promised Mr..
Douglas by his ,fellow,,townsmen. Mean
time, the Republicans have not been idle.
Senat or Lodge has been the moving spirit
and has made speech after speech. Gov.
Bates will take the stump and go out into
the country dist riots, where there was a
considerable falling of in his vote last
year.
Whatever may be the result OF the unique
campaign planned by Mr. Douglas, the
denunciations OF Gov. Bates by the labor
unions, it is believed that he will be re-
elected by fully 80 900 plurality, and possibly
the figures will reach 10000