The Washington times., 1911-03-29
Revolt to Be Started in
Gubernatorial Fight in
Massachusetts.
SPEAKER WALKER TO
LEAD THE INVADERS
Success Would Mean Loss of
State to Taft in 1912
Race.
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him to run. A fine Endorsement it would
be, indeed, for Lodge, if mis- campaign
manager should run for governor as a
reward for merit-and get showed un-
Ger; ,,iH No such chances for the Senator
governor, would like to become chief
executive. He is accounted highly re-
spectable and cOlorless. So would Rob
ert Luce, called the father of primary
elections in the East He was long a
member of the Legislature, and Is re-
garded radical sort of person, of the
sort who doesn't ordinarily take orders,
but on the contrary plays hF own
games. Some people say he is Just as
radical as Walker, and some others
even allege that he invented radiCalism
which Walker has latterly adopted and
Is now making his best asset.
Hint As to 1914.
At any rate, the situation in Massa-
Chusetts has so curiously developed that
this years contest for guhernatOrial
nomination and election is now regarded
as the first straw in the breezes which
blow toward 1912. The Republican pro-
gressive organization figures that II it
could get Walker nominated as a repre-
sentative of the new insurgent element
In the party, and then could beat FosS
with him, the result would convince the
entire East that insurgency was the
card for the national party to play in
1912.
The insurgcnt Republicans have been
looking into Speaker Walker pretty
carefully. They believe he has a good
chance to be nominated, if the National
Republican Progressive League will get
behind him. Once nominated, they be
lieve he could be elected because the
Massachusetts regular Republicans
would feel compelled to support him,
while the insurgents, who last fall
voted for Foss, could be brought back
A. ~ FAnl Al T..
surgent campaign in the State. Walker,
if nominated. would command the en-
thusiasuC services of La Toilette, Cum
minis, Bristow, Bourne, Borah, and all
the rest of the insurgent leaders. He
would be able to bring Madison and
Murdoch from Kansas, Norris frola
Nebraska, Hubbard from Iowa. Cooper.
and LenrOot from Wisconsin, to explain
the new Western gospel of progressive
Republicanism, and to give assurance
that Walker was the real article.
If, after such a campaign as this,
Walker should be elected it would put
enthusiasm into :he purposes and d
right strong argument into the mouths
of Republicans all over the East, and
particularly in New England. The Ma
tional Republican Progressive League
Is convinced, on the strength of its ad-
vices from Eastern States, that 1t has
The only program that represents any
reasonable chance of Republican vic
tory in 1912. The theory is going to be
tried out in Massa chusetts.
If Speaker Walker wants to be the
insurgent candidate for governor, he can
have the insurgent support. If he gets
II, and wins, then he will be expected
TO deliver an anti-Taft Presidential dele
cation from Massachusetts in 1912. If
Massachusetts, in this fashion, can be
pried away from Taft, then the in
surgents calculate that the rest of New
England will go along, and that the re-
nomination of Taft will be hopeless.
Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon,
president CT the National Republican
Progressive League, is to speak in BoS-
ton on Thursday evening, March 30.
There have been intimations that he
was going to launch Presidential boom
for La Toilette. AS a matter of fact,
he will do nothing of the sort, but his
mission in New England is that of
John the Baptist. He will lift up his
voice in the wilderness, and then the
National Republican Progressive League
will sit tight with its hand to its ear,
listening to the echoes and hoping for a
tone of encouragement in them.
Later on, if Massachusetts gives suf-
ficient encoura cement to these insurgent
overtures, and If Speaker Walker de-
Velops a proper Willingness to join forces
with the Progressive League. Massa-
chusetts will likely become the battle
ground for the Concord-Lexington en-
gagement in premonition of the revolu-
ton of 1912.