Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-31
Talk of Senator Weeks Sub
sides as Possibilities of Bay
State Governor at Chicago
Wax in Volume,
OFTEN AT L0GGERHEADS
WITH PARTY LEADERS
Candidate After New Eng
lands Heart Once Was
Offered Presidency Of Dart
mouth College, Is Asserted.
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washington, Jan. 30.--The old com
monwealth of Massachusetts has lately
awakened to the fact that she has
real presidential possibility in Gov
ernor Samuel Walker Mccall, not IN
senator John Wingate Weeks. who
has been flirting with New England
in the hope of being designated as the
favorite son of a territory very loyal
10 republican principles but never
bonored above the vice presidency
when il came to naming the ticket.
Samuel w. Mccall will be ga years
old on the 2Sth Of next February but
his tall full figure gives no sign or
decay. He is q vigorous physical ana
mental entity.
lie Is of the type that New England
favors, .he scholar in politics. Henry
Cabot Lodge Is one example. Mccall
is better, for while he has not writ
ten so many books as Lodge, those he
has written are better and he is man
Of broader culture and more genial
sympathies.
His alma mater, Dartmouth, tried in
vain TO get him to retire from congress
and accept her presidency. He was
educated for the law and practced but
has also been man of business and
an editor on the Boston Daily Adver-
tser.
He was three times member of
the Massachusetts general court or
legislature, and rose to the chairman
ship cf the judiciary committee.
Talk Grows Rapidly.
In 1892 he ives elected to congress
from the Eighth or Harvard district
and continued to be reelected until
1910 when he retired with the inten-
tion of running for the senate. He
was beaten by-Wceks and later tried
for the governorship.
He went down in the landslide
which the split in the republican party
brought about David I. Walsh, dem
ocrat, became governor of Massachu-
setts. Walsh then in turn beat Au
gustus Peabody Gardner, but last year
Mccall came up again and beat Walsh
decisively. There began Immediately
10 be discussion of Mccall as a presi-
dental possibility, notwithstandins
the fact that Weeks had been cam
pagnng all over New England and
there seemed no room for another
New England entry. There is not in
the same sense that Mccall can get
many instructed delegates but the
feeling is that Weeks will not get fur
ther than q complimentary vote if he
starts at all and that then there will
be room to develop the Mccall move
mont.
Talk Of Mccall is based on three
things
First, his mature and high grade in
tellectual attainments.
Second, his independence as mani
rf. f..Lt
Third his availability flowing from
the other two conditions.
His mental equipment has been al
luded to. There is no doubt of the
great attainments of Mr.. Mccall. His
speeches in the house showed fine
grasp Of public questions. A playful
humor ran through them.
one of the most notable of his
speeches was a complete answer to
the attempts to make Roosevelt
thlrd-term candidate. In beginning
his speech Mr.. Mccall said, amid
laughter, that he was convinced it
was going to be a good speech and
added that his confidence was based
ON the fact that it would be made up
of quotations from very eminent au-
thority on the subject he was going to
discuss.
Authority on Tariff.
lis tariff speeches were of the same
high-grade character He stood for a
moderate tariff. He disagreed from
the extreme protectionists and his in
dependence prevented his promotion in
the house. He was known as the bad
boy of the house, but when there
came the onslaught on Speaker Cam
non, Mr. MvCall though he had been
Al, l. II
by Cannon, published in the Saturday
Evening Post an elaborate defense of
The speaker and sought to inform the
country by an array of facts and fig
ures of the wonderful service Mr. Can
non had rendered his country in con-
sress The article. like everything
else Mr.. Mccall has written, was
scholarly, trenchant and comprehen-
slNe But this was not the most re-
markable thing about il. The novel
W OF the article was that II was pub
ilshed by man who had never been
taYoritc of the speaker at time
When the fight in congress against
cannon was the hottest. This was like
Mccall.
Showed Independence.
he could not be accused of toadyin6
70 Cannon. It was only to be attribu-
Ted TO his hatred of sham or brutal
iishts. Mccall above everything else
ioves fair play and real contests.
His congressional district liked him
Tor his Independence. He could re-
main in congress forever, forever
Ilouting the powers that be. said one
OF MS opponents. But a time came
when Mccall, the independent found
himsef Mccall, the regular simply
neeause the wave of radicalism flowed
over and past him
de would not he driven by ii. He
lhsurged when it cost him something
10 insuree He became regular when
he believed that the new regularity
Was conducive to good government
THUS he ALTERNATELY yof tha curses