New-York tribune., 1922-10-16
Lodge Expected
To Win by at
Least 10000
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Whipple fought for the league and
CASTOR against it, CASTOR won over,
whelmingly.
Now the Lodge opponents find that
his rival, Colonel CASTOR, is against
the league, is a conservative--he Is
president of the National Shawmut
Bank of Boston and is the possessor
of cellar which has q statewide repu-
tation.
The real question, to which no one
will be able to give the exact answer
until the votes are counted, is, How
many of the voters who are against
Lodge for one reason or another will
vote against him despite the fact that
they are just as strongly opposed to
the principlcs of Colonel CASTOR? For
while CASTOR stands for almost all the
issues against which the bitter anti
Lodge people would like to vote, there
is no escaping the fact that he has
not angered people to the extent that
the senior Senator has.
As against this CASTOR has some
weakness. For example, he was very
strongly attacked in the primary by
sherman l., Whipple on the i0-cent
streetcar fare in Boston issue. Gas
tons firm represented the Boston
Elevated in it's successful fight to put
the carfare at 10 cents. Mayor Curley
was elected on the promise to reduce
that fare, but he has not got very
far. Some small outlying car lines
| charge only five cents, but most of the
| lines, including all the downtown
lines and the elevated, charge 10 cents.
Then there is the curious Pelletier
case, Pelletier was disbarred, on pro-
ceedings instituted by the Bar Asso~
clation and sustained by the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts, Now he has
won the Democratic nomination for
| District Attorney of Suffolk County,
which includes Boston, by an over.
wheiming majority, and most people
] peheve he will be elected despite tne
legal requirement that his Office be
filled by a lawyer
| Pelletier Case Embarrasscs
Both CASTOR and John F. Fitzgerald.
the Democratic candidate for Governo.
/ against Channing Cox, who is seeking
se-eiectlon, are terribly embarrassed
by the Pelletier case. Out in the
! state there is loud clamor for Gas
ton ana fitzgeraid to repudiate Pelle-
tier. 10 DO SO would gain them votes
! IN central ana western Massachusetts,
/ but IN the Boston district a tremen-
dous number of people COMPRISING
/ apparently the majority of the Demo.
Gratis believe that Peiietier has bee,
made the subject of religious perge-
eution.
Peiletier is actually IN Irishman. ac.
| cording to his friends in Boston. bu,
the French Canadian element, alwavs
desperately anxious to vote for and de-.
fend one of its own, rallies to his
french Canadian name, There is no
doubt that CASTOR and Fitzeera|,
would suffer severely all through tho
eastern part part of the state if fhey
should take the step demanded by
their supporters in the west.
AS against this, though very much Ia :
OF q vote swinging possibility. is .ha
Harold L. Wilson case, Wilson was nro.
hitlon enforcement officer, and lust
before being removed staged the snec-
tacuiaf Quincy House raid. nine
days sensation in Boston. in which
many very prominent people, includ-
ing the Governor, were more or less
embarrassed. The liquor was not he.
ing served at the banquet. and manv
persons present, including the Gov
ernor,. did not know that It was being
served in another room in the hotel
But the raid was big success.
Now the Prohibitionists are claim
ing that 1t was because Of this raid
that Wilson was removed. After the
Massachusetts, fashion of seeking =
yindication, 'ison ran for Attorney
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