Evening star., 1926-10-28

9ustere temperament. Walsh is a
liberal. a poor man, and a person of
unusually engaging personality. But
Ter makes no pretense of being
speaker. Walsh is an eloquent and
accomplished eampaigner. Butler has
never run for Office in the State at
| large. Walsh has been before the
people many times.
On outstanding issues there Is as
wide a gulf between Butler and Walsh
as between their personalities. Walsh
is wet. Butler is dry. Butler is
preaching prosperity and claiming
| that the Coolidge administration and
Republican policies have produced IT..
Walsh points to the closed textile
mills and shoe factories throughout
stores in the mill towns and cities, the
omnipresence of unemployment, and
charges Butler with acclaiming a pros
! perity that has no existence.
! Butler advocates maintenance of the
| protective tariff as essential to Massa-
| chusetts' well-being, Walsh pledges
himself never to vote to reduce any
/ tariff essential to Massachusetts in
dustries.
| The prohibition proposition, next to
the Coolidge factor, is the shining
! thing. Walsh is not as wet as Col.
! William A. CASTOR, Democratic can
didate for governor, but is leaving no
doubt of his anti-Volstead views. But
! Ter is confining himself to law-enforce-
ment, but ranks as a dry. The Con-
Stitutional Liberties League, the foun-
dation of the late Louis A. Coolidge,
| Republican. is giving the Democratic
wet candidates for Senator and gov
ernor all the aid it can. This aid is
coming, to a large extent, from dis
tinguished Republican drys like Mrs.
Curtis Guild, widow of a beloved Re-
publican governor of the State, who
has lust come out for Walsh and
CASTOR.
Fear Exodus of Vets.
On the other hand, another promi-
nent Republican woman wet, Mrs.
William Lowell Putnam, sister of
President Lowell of Harvard. and of
Amy Lowell. poetess, has renounced
the Walsh Castor ticket. She says
that desirable as modification may be,
it is more important to avert Demo
cratic misrule," so she eSpOuSeS the
cause OF Senator Butler and Gov. Full
er Fears of heavy Republican de-
fections to Walsh on the liquor issue
are real and widespread in the Butler
camp.
There is an eve-of- battle Democratic
attempt to discredit Butler as "a pro-
fessional lobbyist. The Democrats
are telling from the stump and in
their newspapers that the Senator for
years. particularly while in the Legts-
ture. was a recognized representative
of the Interests" Butler is aSSa1led
as the same kind of lobbyist" for ma
tional Interests" as his foes alleged
he used to be for Massachusetts in
terests" Gov Alvan T. Fuller seems
to he in stronger position than Sena-
tor Butler. Politicians. many who eX-
nect Buffers defeat, foreshadoW Full
lers reelection. The latter has made
a. popular executive, and ranks as d
man of the people. His Democratic
opDonent, Col CASTOR, is a bank chair
,47an. public utility man. enormously
rich and identified with New England
high nnanCe.
Castor is the sopping-wet end or
the Democratic ticket. His final cam
paign blast is document entitled
"a New Declaration of independence,
which calls for annihilation OF the
eighteenth amendment and the Vol
stead law. Gov. Fuller is as bone
dry as Col. CASTOR Is ole-heartedly
moist CASTOR counts on wide sup
port from Republican vets, especially
among the wealthy classes.
Hope of Republicans.
Republican hopes senatorial and
pubernatorial, are founded on two
primary factors-first, that Massa-
chusetts is normally Republican by
a huge majority; secondly, that. bar
ring metropolitan Boston, the State
is normally dry by an equally large
margin, as proved by two Statewide
liquor referendums. These conditions,
plus the Coolidge factor, give Butler
Fuller managers confidence that their
ticket will triumph.
test seems destined to be close. How
ever, it was close in 1922 when the
late Henry Cabot Lodge defeated
William A. Castor by less than 5000.
1t was close in 1924, when Walsh
missed reelection over Gillett by only
$4,000. The heavy upstate Repub-
lican votes, is, as usual, relied upon to
swamp Walsh's certain big majority
in Boston.
Stearns Aids Butler.
Frank w. Stearns, Mr.. Coolidge's
close friend, has, following the Presi-
hand in Senator Buffers campaign.
The Boston merchant prince has adj
dressed shoal of personal letters
to men and women soliciting support
for Butler The Stearns' letter is
accompanied by statement In which
Stearns lists a variety of reasons for
Buffers election-principally his de-
voted services to President Coolidge.
Mr. Stearns makes a particularly
fervent appeal to Republican voters
to go to the polls. On bringing out
big vote Buffers chances admittedly
depend to considerable extent.
Some Butler meetings have been so
thinly attended that Republican man.
ayers are genuinely frightened by G.
o. p. apathy. In that circumstance
lies the real explanation Of President
Coolidge's intention to travel to
Northampton to cast his ballot.
The Butler-Stearns camp is hope
full that the presidential example of
electionday duty will prove contagi-