The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-12-17
HOT CAMP PAICN
FOR MAYORALTY
Boston Will Experience Lively
Politics During the Next
Three Weeks.
PARTY LINES ARE WIPED OUT
james J.. storrow and John r. Fitzaer-
aid Seem to be Main Performers,
Financial Faction is Split
Over Them.

Boston, Mass, Dec. 1.-THE time for
filing nomination papers for the first
city election under the new plan of
government adopted by the citizens d
Boston last November expired today.
which means that the actual campaign
Is now on and will continue with few
erish intensity until election day,
which will be the second Tuesday of
January. Politicians big and small
are looking forward TO the greatest
carnival in the city's political history.
The next three weeks are expected 10
furnish the greatest amount of politi-
cal gayety ever crowded into an equal
period In this or any other city.
OF candidates there are a-plenty.
The new charter provides that any
registered voter may run for mayor or
for the city council or for the school
board If he will obtain five THOUSAND
signatures OF registered voters Hav-
ing obtained the signatures and the
fact that they are those of registered
election commissioners, his name can
then go on the official ballot. but with
out any political designation whatever,
because ii is the purpose OF the plan %
obliterate party lines In Boston elec-
tlons.
The leading. or at least the most
conspicuous candidates for the mayor
atty are James j. Storrow who has
been indorsed by the Citizens Munich
pal league, and John f. Fitzgerald.
who was mayor of Boston in 1906 and
1907. While these two are regarded
as the main performers, there are n
number of others who have filed their
papers and will make the race. Among
them are George A. Bibbard. the pres
ent mayor: Frederick j. Brand. chair
man Of the board Of aldermen: Mat
thew j. Cummings, national president
Of the Ancient order of Hibernians.
and Nathaniel II. Taylor. a newspaper
editorial writer and a brother of Gen
Charles II. Taylor. publisher of the
Boston Globe.
Mr.. Storrow's entry i'm the race has
split the Boston financial fabric In two
and threatens to result in the biggest
battle between Boston fnanciers that
has ever been waged. Mr.. Storrow is
member of the firm of Lee. Higgin-
son & Co, the state street bankers. He
is man OF great wealth and has been
carefully laying his plans to obtain the
nomination for mayor for the last half
dozen years. In his present fight he is
supported not only by his own firm,
but by numerous other bankers. broK-
ers and financiers, the gas companies
and the mill corporations.
Against Mr.. Storrow i'm the fight arc
aligned the banking firm OF Kidder,
Peabody & Company the New Haven
Railroad. the Boston Elevated Railway.
the electric companies and the great
chain OF banks allied with the Nation
al Shawmut Bank. OF which William
Castor, who has figured prominently
in democratic national policies. Is
president. II is understood that these
large financial interests will throw
their support to former Mayor Fitz-
gerald. who has waged an exceedingly
active and picturesque campaign since
the day the new charter was adopted
1t is expected that more than a half
million dollars will be expended in the
during the next three or
four weeks. and IL is not surprising
that politicians high and low are look
ing forward to such a carnival as they
have never experienced before.