The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-02
4 NEIGHBoR,s PERI

ticket At present the State Is con- cerned with "a tentative framework" upon which to hang the regular nom- nations when they are made. The Democratic aspirant for the nomina- tion is Henry M. Whitney, a brother of former Secretary of the Navy Will liam c. Whitney and the traction gen. jus of Boston. He is not the only as- pirant for the nomination by any means but he is by far the most earn est and convincing from the point of view of a serious campaign which reaches farther than an ambition to wear the cockade. He wants to be the nominee of his party in order that certain definite policies which are in dispute may be- passed upon by the voters of the Bay State
 The war correspondents of the State have been eagerly speculating upon the attitude of George Fred Williams, the leader in that State of the friends of William J. Bryan The days of speculation are over, The Honorable George Fred has returned from Europe with this announce ment. He is against the nomination of MT. Whitney and will vote against 1 him if he receives the endorsement of the party. More than this he calls upon the friends of Mir. Bryan to op- pose the candidacy of MT. Whitney and to vote against him if he Is nom mated. That is what is usually re- ferred to as fighting talk" Doubtless Mr Whitney had discounted MT. Will Hams attitude just as 1t Is certain he could not be brought to ask for 1t should that suggestion be made. As politicians they look at things from different angles. The policies which have received the endorsement of MT. Williams have never been approved by Mir. Whitney nor by the Democrat 1 ic voters of that commonwealth The one has been trained in the school of Experiment, the other in the great university of practical affairs. The one belongs to the oratorical class which is forever inveighing against things as they are because they are, and not because they are not suscep- tible of useful enforcement in the right hands. The other sees certain practical reforms which from bus- mess mans point of view relate closely to the industrial welfare of this section of the country. The one would array labor against capital for real and fancied reasons, the other would make his appeal for unity as between the two that good might come to all. Those are in brief the distinctions which make harmony at the polls impossible for Williams and Whitney.
 it is not possible at the present moment to say just what MT. Will Hams has to offer in the way of politi- cal reform. If he has been away long enough from home he has yet to learn that the government ownership of Ipublic service corporations has been abandoned by MT. Bryan and a fed eral license scheme substituted. The referendum and initiative have been decently laid aside for possible con- federation in the future. The silver Iquestion is dead and buried and the candidate for office who Is ready to lpromise the reorganization of the courts in the interest of experimental lphilosophies could not buy in Lynn a Ipair of shoes which would last him through the race. It Is possible to say for what MT. Whitney stands whether one likes his corporation prominence or not. For one thing he favors the adoption of tariff policy which will give the manufacturers of Massachu- sets their raw materials free and will remove all taxes on articles which can be more cheaply made at home than abroad. He favors reciprocity with Canada. He is no more advanced ir these particulars than other men ir lboth parties. He is simply unique ir
 wishing to submit his views to the voters of his State in order that they
 may say what the attitude of the gov.
 ernment shall be so far as Massachu. setts Is concerned He is opposed tc President Roosevelt's plan of bringing lpublic service corporations under fed.
 eral control, which makes him an op-
 ponent of MT. Bryan's counter plan tC lbring them under a system of fedora license. He declares that the States
 which have created these corporation:
 are fully able to control them wher
 they fly in the face of fair deal Ht
 fayors the merger of the Boston ant
 Maine railroad with the New Haver
 because he believes that such a con,
 solidation of railroad interests would
 add materially to the industrial pros.
 perity of Massachusetts and hence tC