Evening star., 1914-07-30
Trying to Beat Col. Roosevelt
Back Into the RepubIi-
can Fold.
ESTIMATES GIVE MCCALL
A GOOD CHANCE TO WIN
Making His Campaign on Opposition
to Tariff and Other Demo-
cratic Policies.
By N. o. MESSENGER.

By N. o. MESSENGER.
BOSTON. Mass, July 3O.-''we are 60
Ing to get back into the old party as
fast as We can, before Roosevelt beats
US to it."
This is what many Massachusetts, pro-
gressives are saying hereabouts, accord
ing to competent authority. The remark
indicates clearly the widespread impress
sion among politicians that the colonel is
framing UP his presidential campaign for
1915 by first procuring victories in New
York and Massachusetts through the
joint efforts of republicans and pro-
gressives.
+. To indicate the way the progressives
are coming back in this state. in view
Of the gubernatortal candidacy of Samuel
w. Mccall and a prospective republican
landslide. here are some interesting fig
ures from the city Of Holyoke:
Lineup in Holyoke.
Out Of 4,794 voters in Holyoke who have
declared their political affiliation, only "a
have registered as progressives. The
republicans have 1,7S3, and the demo-
Gratis 2,977, the total number of voters in
the city being s,2s4
One of the political 'sharps'' here has
figured out, to his own satisfaction, at
least, how Mr.. Mccall is bound to win
and carry the state ticket with him to
victory. He begins by citing the fact
that in the last subernatoriai election
Gov. Walsh, democrat. polled just ~ per
cent Of the vote of the state. The re-
mainder was divided as follows: Pro-
gressives, q per cent: Gardner. republi-
can, % per cent; Foss, Independent. 4
per cent; prohibitionists and socialists, A
per cent.
He then goes on to insist that nobody
who voted for Gardner will fail to vote
stayed at home because of the Gardner
mix-up will surely go to the polls this
time. That gives Mccall % per cent as
the minimum.
Other Votes for Mccall.
1t is claimed that Foss' 4 per cent
will go to Mccall because there is
nowhere else to go, and that comes
practically to 80 per cent. with only
10, per cent more necessary to equal
walsh's vote. and there Is the 81 per
cent bull moose vote Of last year still
to be drawn upon.
Why" as Col. Sellers remarked.
, there's millions In IT,"
But before calling out the reserves,
this expert lops of per cent OF the
democratic vote on the score Of dis
gruntlement over hard times and the
like. He figures that II one man in
twenty who voted for Walsh last year
swings to Mccall and one man in three
who voted bull moose does the same,
it will elect Mccall by 10000. He really.
however, expects to see Mccall win by
10000 to 10000.
I know this expert "fgurer" and
Mr.. Mccall is outlining his plan of
attack. He will bear down heavily on
President Wilson, his administration
and the democratic Congress. Here is
what he has to say of President Will
son:
Antiquated Tariff Views.
a President and Congress with far
less than a majority of the country
behind them have assumed that they
had received a mandate for enacting
the most extreme legislation. Obso-
lete principles of tariff taxation have
been embodied in law. The President
in signing the Underwood bill is re-
ported to have said that he had de-
sired to do something Of that sort ever
since he was a boy. He was a boy
under the administration of James
Buchanan. His sentiment, therefore,
indicates the antiquity of the economic
theories animating him and his blind
ness to the marvellous developments of
recent times.
"The country has advanced so rapidly
from the time of James Buchanan that
the normal point of view today is not
only from a different, but from an al
most opposite angle. What We have
since achieved has extorted the admira-
ton of the greatest statesmen of
Europe. and profoundly affected the
n
policy to which the President gave his
goes back to a time when the
ruling section of the country was al
most wholly devoted to raising tobacco
nothing for domestic manufacture.
Customs Revenue Disappears.
9'The great increase in the imports
Of merchandise has already deranged
our domestic production, and constitutes
a sinister portent of the conditions that
will exist when the facilities for pro-
duction in foreign countries shall have
been adjusted to the opportunities given
in our markets. The customs revenue
thrown away by this law goes no one
knows where, certainly not to the con-
sumner, and the deficiency is made up
by imposing a direct tax upon property
which already feels the burden Of neces-
Sdiy ldAdllOu 10 SuppOTL state ana
governments. And this di-
rect tax is skillfully adjusted so that
It shall fall most lightly upon states
represented by the architects of the
law. 1t Is reported that Massachusetts
pays greater amount Of individual in
come tax than sixteen southern states
He will hold up the foreign policy
of the administration to ridicule and
reprobation. and will score the anti
trust legislation as inimical to lepiti-
mate business.
The campaign will begin in earnest
IN a very few days. the impending
primaries September % serving to ad-
vance by several weeks the activity
usual in former years.
BODY BURIED IN CELLAR.