Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-08
MORAN MAY RUN
FOR THE HONOR.
Massachusetts Machine In a
Plight to Head Him Off.
OTHERS LOATH TO ACCEPT
Efforts to Force Gubernatorial Nomi-
nation on Henry M. Whitney.
DOUGLAS POSITIVELY DECLINES
Grand Jury After Going Into schaeffer
Charges Refuses to Find a True
Bill-1nteresting Fight.
OTHERS L0ATH TO ACCEPT
Efforts to Force Gubernatorial Nomi.
nation on Henry M. Whitney.
DOUGLAS POSITIVELY DECLINES

All the star democrats in the
Bay State are running away from
the gubernatorial contest with the
fleetness of the winged Mercury of
yore-except one Moran. That
gentleman, according to the adj
vices of staff correspondent, is
making hard canvass. Efforts
are being made to force the NOM
ination on Henry NJ Whitney. But
the latter seems reluctant to ven-
ture out in the democratic lime
light. Meantime the fight goes
merrily on, with some grand jury
side issues included in the menu.
Special From a Stan Correspondent
BOSTON. Mass, September s-The
springtly story of the adventures of
Mr. Moran of Boston town, in his search
for the golden fleece of the democratic
gubernatorial nomination, with its daily
new chapters. Is source of never-ending
delight to politicians hereabout Likewise
the perturbation and CONSERVATION of good
old Dame Democracy, with her curl papers
and f-flls, as she is disturbed by the pranks
OF this bad boy In politics, amuse and in
terest the irreverent.
1t is all kind OF joke this democratic
muddle, to the rest of the people except
Mr.. Moran. but he is In dead earnest and
is after that nomination. 1t is rather odd
to see all the other big democrats side.
stepping the honor which Mr.. Moran seeks
with such avidity and there is touch of
pathos In the plight Of the regular demo-
cratic machine In its effort to head on
Mr.. Moran.
The other available democrats run from
1t as Mr.. Moran runs after 1t. There is Mr..
Douslas, former democratic governor, who
positively declines the honor With him ft
Is verftably case of Shoemaker stick to
your last" They say that it cost Mr..
Douglass $150,000 to get the governorship
and that he found the game not worth the
candle. Some business folk hint that IL
was not bad bargain, however. in that Mr..
Douglas in the governors chair advertised
Mr.. Douglas in the shoe factory to his
great financial Increment
Ex-Representative Thayer won't have it.
Col CASTOR, with the recollection of two
other defeats still sore, won't have it. Mr.
Henry M. Whitney won't have 1t, and the
last to falter was Mayor McNamee
All these people think this is bad year
for democrats and unfavorable time for
opening private barrels" They do not see
any issue in sight for the democracy. Tariff
revision won't do for the republicans have
first call upon that and upon reciprocity,
and can outclamor the democrats for those
policies
A Policy of His Own.
But there is Mr.. Moran, with a policy and
platform peculiarly his own, who says he
wants the nomination, and thinks he could
carry the state for his party with himself
at the head of the ticket.
Mr.. Moran is an interesting figure. He
is combination of William Travers Jerome
and William r. Hearst, with a larger modi-
cum of Moran, and the Moran element is
distinctive. He is reformer, a st. George
and st. Patrick. He is after all kinds OF
dragons and driving out all kinds of snakes.
He is a bad man from Bitter creek in a
fight, and when he goes into the scrap II is
to clean out the other fellow. strangle-hold
collar and hip-hod tooth and nail. bite and
gouge.
He has been prominent in local politics
for ten years, and at present is district at
torney of Boston. When he took that Office
he announced to his friends that he in
tended to make record in 1t which would
put him in the line for the governorship.
He said he would fight evil wherever he
found 1t, and would just as soon fndict
his grandmother as any one else If that
eStimable person were found derelict. He
has done a good deal of ndicting.
He brought the ice trust officials to the
bar. He closed up the big Boston hotels
for violating the liquor law. He went after
law breakers wherever he smelled them out
and has instilled wholesome dread in
many quarters. He is a mighty handy man
with the indictment. His platform is to
make Massachusetts, honest and pursue
graft. In his campaigns in the past he
delighted in personalities and did not hesi-
tate to use them He did not maunder
tons of coal, but got out and hollered fire,
called his opponents blackmailers, scound-
rels and other terms which the newspap-
ers could not print for fear Of libel.
Next night he would call attention to the
omission and say the papers were con-
trolled by the corporations because they
would not publish his infiammatory talk.
He Is as ti-plutocrat as Hearst and anti
graft as Jerome. with more personal force
and daredevil courage than either or both
put together. Hearst's papers at one time
that Hearst is now backing him. but he
denies this and people who know him well
say they believe him.
Enemies Cry Fakir.
yI.s enemies call him fak!r, but his
friends believe in him thoroughly. and that
he has friends is shown by the fact that
he has practically won. far In advance of
the convention. the delegation. and con-
trolls the Boston machine. He is now go
ing after the state machine. to which wob-
bly, and creaky institution Josiah Quincy
and his group OF old conservatives are
with desperation and shrieking for
help against this wiry young Irishman.
The last desperate cry of the old ma
chine was made yesterday In appeal OF
the voter to send uninstructed delegates to
the convention October 4.
The plan Is to nominate Henry M. Whit
ney and make him take 1t against his will.