Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-18
IF EUGENE WILL RUN
DEMOCRATS MAY WIN
If Not, Republicans Will Garry State
in Election - Massachusetts About
to Loom UP as Low ariff State
Foss Causes Much Trouble to Re-
publicans.
Especial Correspondence

teresting and eminently energetic per.
sonage. Eugene n. Foss, now repre-
sentative from the Fourteenth dis
trct.
AS the omens run. If Foss is nom
mated by the democrats for governor
he will be elected. If Foss is not nom
mated. then the probabilities are tina,
! the democrats will fail to carry the
state.
Much as the fight between Henry
Cabot Lodge and Butler Ames is talked
about, the big question from the stand
point of Massachusetts politicians is
not the Lodge-Am controversy but
who will be the next governor. One
reason for this is that .Ames is not ex-
pected to defeat Lodge. Moreover. ii
the state should be turned over TO the
democrats headed by a strong man like
Foss, 1t would be a source of great en-
coura cement to democrats all over the
country and F'oss would loom UP as
much more of national figure that he
Is now. Stranger things have hap
pened than that the election of Foss
as governor OF Massachusetts this year
might lead the democrats to seize on
dent.
chusetts is about to loom up as a
strong low tariff state, just as she did
In the days OF Cleveland. But there
are complications which do not augur
entirely we'll for the democrats. These
relate to the question whether Foss
shall be nominated for governor or
yoh hel t,a q
nominee. Valley was defeated in 1908
for governor by Eben S. Draper. who
carried the state by so, 600 In 1909,
Valley came within 5000 OF defeating
Draper Valley, who is Irish-American
and a Catholic, has declared himself
candidate for denomination. Many
democrats think this ill-advised and
believe Foss would make the stronger
race of the two men.
Foss Disturbing Element.
Foss has had more to do with the
republican unrest In Massachusetts
than any other one man. Twas back
in 902 that he burst into the field of
republican politics with the demand for
tariff revision and Canadian reciproc-
lily. He was eight years ahead of his
time and knew 1t. but cared nothing for
office. He had refused to remove an
enormous iron working plant from
Boston to Pittsburg on the ground that
IL tariff conditions were wrong for
manufacturing in New England the
proper thing was to revise the tariff
and not 10 let go New England indus
tries This simple doctrine sounded
strange and heretical in the ears of
the tariff Bourbons of Mass achusetts,
chiefly textile manufacturers, and the
name of Foss became anathema in re-
publican councils. Senator Lodge and
the state machine would Loyalty have
supported Foss in his first campaign,
but the abnornally self-reliant Foss
deliberately picked a quarrel with
Lodge and has kept it up ever since.
He would like to defeat Lodge for the
senate but knows that Lodge Is too
strong for defeat. His next best target
lis Governor Draper, warm friend of
Lodge and a standpatter. E'oss cares
nothing for Legislative life, for his gen.
ius is essentially executive and he Is
a great business genius. 1t is now his
ambition to defeat Draper as the rep
resentative of Lodge and the old ma
chine Friends of Foss say he will
never stop until he has broken Lodges
power In a measure, he has already
done this. for the word of Lodge is no
longer omnipotent except among the
senator's own immediate followers
But Foss Is patient: and he is unique
in that he will go out to defeat as
cheerfully as to a victory. It took Mas
sachusetts years 20 learn this peculiar
Characteristic of the most disturbing
factor in Bay State politics, but the
lesson Is learned now.
Massachusetts republican politicians
have been freely predicting that II
Foss should be nominated for governor
this year by the democrats "withou,
too much of a fight" he would be
elected. Since the legislative record Of
the session of congress just ended has
shown up favorably and since the
promise of Roosevelt to visit Boston
they have taken heart little Never
theless they are looking forward to the
bitterest fight for state supremacy ever
waged
Valleys Claims to Prominence.
Valley, who has been candidate fol
governor twice before owed his selec-
ton the first time to the prominence
he attained as counsel for one Tucker
murderer of Mabel Page, whom a dis
eliminating judiciary ordered electro
cuted. Vahey, as an attorney, turned
the state upside down with protesta-
tons of fuckers innocence but the
judges didn't see it that way and
| Tucker was executed. Nevertheless
| it gave Valley much prominence for he
made an able fight Vahey demands 8
denomination and the republican lead
ers hope he will get it. They think hin
weaker than Foss. Foss is playing 6
waiting game. He wants the nomina
ton but is a friend Of vahey an.
wants no fight with him. Most Of TIL
democrats want Foss to be nominated
for he is many times a millionaire ant
they know that II he is nominated hi
will have the wherewithal to hir
banks and halls and pay speakers tc
| Get at the people" Probably Fos
will be nominated II he is not, tn
democrats may thank themselves onl!
II Draper is reelected.
| While much Is said to the eeffc
Ames has TO show against Lodge, tn
republican leaders are not underesti-
mating the ~ysS<tx at A>Nse 10 rrz1e
trouble. lads ~ EzSpe 'Apa nv 4he fac,
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