The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-29
BAY STATE POLITICIANS
HALT NOT FOR SABBATH
Taft and Roosevelt Orators
Plead With the Willy French
Mill Workers.
COLONEL MUCH PLEASED
Impartial Observers Admit Out
come Of Tuesdays Pri-
mary Is Uncertain.
COLONEL MUCH PLEASED

BOSTON April 2S.-Boston settled back
into its sober intellectually to-day. after
the indecorous way 1t howled for Roose-
welt last night at the ringside in the Arena.
Col. Roosevelt rested and walked but
did not talk to-day. 40 Boston contented
itself with the orators and socialists and
religionists who have held forth on Sunday
afternoons on the Common ever since
the cows gave 1t up a. pasture.
Col Roosevelt is the guest Of DR.. William
Is. Bigelow. He went for a walk this
morning and this afternoon visited the
Roosevelt headquarters to meet and take
tea with the staff This evening he con-
ferred with Mathew Hale. Arthur Hill
and others OF his Massachusetts friends.
Mr.. Roosevelt would not he quoted
to-day on the Massachusetts situation.
He is pleased with the effect Of his
speech last night and was especially
tickled that he was able to put over to the
Bostonians quotations from Emerson
and Lowell that to his mind just touched
on the points he has been hammering
on in the campaign.
The Colonel was never in better spirits
than to-day.
Mr.. Roosevelt will leave Boston to-
morrow at 8 o'clock in the morning on q
special train. He will make car-end
speeches In a number OF North Shore
towns. a fairly long speech to the mill
workers At Lawrence at noon. and will
speak at Pittsfield in the evening. He is
due In New York at Q O'Clock Tuesday
morning.
President Taft will be in the region
Hhat hn CNlan~1 t<,,,nhAl CsH,, -.
and will speak at Lowell. where the Colonel
also speaks tomorrow. At times the
President will be within q few miles OF
the Colonel
The efforts that are making to win the
Massachusetts, primaries on Tuesday
are said bv old timers in the political
game to equal those OF any Presidential
election fight OF recent years. Everywhere
it is realized that this battle on Tuesday
is the crucial point in the Republican
nomination struggle. A vote equal to
that brought out at Presidential elec-
ton ia expected. for the State Is aroused.
Both sides have been spending much
money and the work Of spreading litera-
ture and oratory is everywhere appar-
ent. In Fall River to-day to reach the
French mill vote each side held three
rallies. There il lots OF noise everywhere.
The Roosevelt people say they have
the Taft bunch on the run and thor
oughly frightened. They say that never
before in struggle Of this kind has a
faction been 80 alarmed a. to summon its
! entire strength in Congress- home to help
the campaign. This. the Roosevelt men
say. the Taft people have done. Since
last Monday every Congressman has
been home from Washington stirring his
district.
The Roosevelt people are just as ener-
getic with the resources at hand and are
sourrying everywhere for speakers.
They are bringing them all the way from
kansas. Gov. Stubhs has been here all
week and Senator Borah ia expected
He was TO have appeared last night.
The Roosevelt people are claiming, a
majority OF the delegates. but will he
thoroughly we'll pleased if they split
even. The Taft leaders claim thirty
four OF the States thirty six. but they will
be we'll satisfied with bare majo rtv
Senator Cranes personal influence is
counted on as one " the strongest facto RS
| in the Taft fight.
A strong indication of the uncertainty
| 10 the way the man In the street will tell
you that the other side il gaining strength
aud that it would not surprise him If the
other crowd carried the State.
he will tell you that the President a
speech halted for while the wave Of
Roosevelt sentiment that was sweeping
over the State after the Roosevelt Western
| landslides. He will also say most EN-
phatically that the Colonels retort was
q heavy waliop OF the President and went
far with the plain people who like action,
especially in view Of the Colonel'e silence
on Taft after his one blow at Worcester.