The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-11-06
BAY STATE
A STR'M
FOR 1872?
National Issues Will Decide
TOmOrrOw's Massachusetts,
Election

Special to the Daily Leader
Boston, Nov. Ito the observer
coming on the scene in the CLOSING
days Of the spectacular Massachusetts
gubernatoriai fight the first impres
sion is that Eugene y Foss. Demo
cratic candidate for reelection, has
the better of it,
Here national issues. bearing on
next falls presidential campaign are
more to the fore than in any other
state where otf-year elections take
place the coming Tuesday. But in
volyed with the national issues that
are being pressed from both sides is
the personality of Governor Foss. Foss
has been a spectacular and a sensa-
tiona' governor. ani this being a
period when the people are strongly
moved BY the spectacular and the
sensational in administrative affairs,
the Foss personality cuts an import
ant figure
Since the Days of Ben Butler
Inc present campaign IS the most
exciting the state has experienced
since the early 90s or perhaps since
the DAYS OF Ben Buffers greatest
glory In addition To fighting for the
maintenance OF the protective tarin
principle the Republicans are attack
Ing Foss as a freak and a "faker
Governor Foss nas spread broadcast
his record dating back TO his entry
into political affairs. which antedates
his adherence to the Democratic par
ty. and also hammers on the eternal
tariff question from the standpoint OF
q supporter OF the measures proposed
by Democrats in the last session OF
congress
Republican councils have been di-
yided as TO the propriety Or rather TO
the manner Of presenting the tarif
issue The prevailing view, however.
has been that if the manufacturing
state of Massachusetts sees fit TO give
tacit Endorsement TO the bills that
are alleged TO hit at it's industries
nothing 10 stay the Democratic course
already enunciated can be expected
from the West This is where the ma
tional significance OF next Tuesdays
elections finds its advance expression
Admit The Fight Is Close
Conservative Republican leaders
admit the closeness OF the fight from
their point of view By stating that
the election for governor is the toss
OF a coin AT this stage. They admit
that the burden q Republican feel
ing a month ago was one OF despair
but believe there has ben a reaction
since that time decidedly in the Re
publican favor.
One OF the two or three most in
fluence Republicans connected with
the campaign said today that it no
longer is possible 10 make canvass
OF a Massachusetts election in ad-
vance. There are about Onethird or
the voters who always vote the Re |
publican ticket one-third who would |
never vote anything except the Demo |
the other third cannot be |
guaged This particular Republican |
leader has a feeling that rockingham.
nominee for governor, will /
win by anywhere from a bare major
ty OF one thousand up to thirty thou
sand But he knows that Governor
Foss is sincerely convinced in his
)wn mind that he will have greater
majority than that Of last year, watch
vas $4,000
The Democrats here are making
most Of President Taft's Chicago ut
erance, indicating fear OF the Re
publican defeat next year. They are
preajing it as an omen. to urge the
to get on the winning side.