The Alaska citizen., 1912-01-08
PRESIDENT HARMON
 VICE-PRESIDENT TOSS ENTITLED sUoYANcY Foss," CURRENT LITERATURE NOVEMBER
 


convention or the Dem tCTaflC party. but if that convention proceeds 10 nominate for president Judson liar mon. of Ohio. and for vice-president Eugene Noble Foss Cf Massaehu- sets. don't become peeyish if We say We told you so. We may make other guesses before the convention meets: but that is our guess just now With such a ticket. the domi- naut issue would be tariff reduc- ton. and MT. FCss would revel in the fight. The recent election dimin- ished the presidential chances Of Governor Wilson and strengthened those of Governor Harmon but no man seems to have profited more than Governor Foss of Massachusetts. For while the elections in other states were fought chiefly on state issues. that in the old Bay State was issue that is likely to be foremost in he presidential campaign MT Foss was reelected while all the rest of the Democratic ticket was defeated. Having proved his power to carry an ordinary Republican state twice in succession-jusI as Harmon has proved his power to do the same thing MT. Foss figures as a pos sible presidential candidate and a probable vice presidential candidate. Even before the election last month. the magaZine-the National Monthly owned by Norman F. Mack. chair man of the Democratic national com mittee, has presented Foss fourth in it's series of presidential possibili- lies. the order of presentation being u Wilson. (2) Harmon. t3D Mar shall. t4 Foss. Foss was presented as having secured more progressive. constructive legislation that any oth- CT Massachusetts governor has secur- ed in fifty years"
 He is rough and ready business man. this Eugene Noble Foss. built a good deal on the Tom Johnson or der. He is reputed to be immensely wealthy" He is one of the largest owners of railway securities: but ne is n0t railway man. He is a manufacturer. He has built four cotton mills in Massachusetts. He is general manager and treasurer of the B. F. Sturtevant company. which manufactures boilers He is presi dent of the Becker Milling Machine company. He is a director in many companies. among them being the Union Stock Yards company of Chi cago, the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company, the Eastern Steamship company and the Rhode Island Coal company. He is also a bank direc- tor. This is but a partial list of his activities as a business man. and he was poor boy to begin with. He is now about fifty-three And as the last ten years of his life have been quite largely devoted to poli- tics, you can readily see that he has been going some" since he be gan his humble career in Franklin county, Vermont
 He is large, big-fisted man. standing over six feet and weigh ing over two hundred pounds. Every pound of the two hundred contains a few ounces of dynamite. He has the physical energy as well as the wealth of Tom l.. Johnson, and while he is not a single taxer. so far as We know, he takes zealously 10 other political doctrines considered by some to be as radical as the single tax. For instance, he is an ardent advocate of the initiative and referendum and of the direct election Of senators.
 Foss is an unsinable ksort of man. He has the buoyancy, in the sea Of politics, of a life boat Time and again have the breaking waves dashed high over his submerged form and everybody but Foss himself thought that his political career was ended. But he has always come boooing up to the surface again serene and undismayed. not even his feelings hurt. He began his career as a Republican. He secured congressional nomination, not be- cause he cared particularly about going to congress, but because he was mad about the tariff and want ed 10 make the fact widely known. His platform was: Free iron; free coal; free hides; reciprocity with Canada; make Boston something be- side summer resort With these is sues he burst into politics, and, says the Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star, he was just as tender and tactful and graceful about it as drunken sailor get ting into an embroidered nightshirt" :" He begain by assailing Senator Lodge and the Republican state con vention for failure to endorse his reciprocity plank. He was defeated at the polls, but he was not licked