The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1950-10-14
WHY DEVER IS SO
AFRAID Or COOLIDGE

poor, and the afflicted goes for
medicines and food and ban
dages and is not drained off =
as now - into padded pay-rolls
or political slush funds"
Housewives Worries
Although he is famous for his
of the intricacies of pub
lie finance, ne rarely talks of
state budgets in complicated fig
ures. He sees state budgets as
they are reflected in family bud
gets.
Coolidge sees housewives wor-
ried about the rising costs Of liv-
ing. He sees bread winners wor-
ried because rising federal, state
and municipal costs of govern
ment are shrinking the pay en-
velope all the time.
He sees Greater Boston filled
with privately owned homes
which working peoples have
difficulties to keep up. He knows
that thousands of elderly Boston
people have invested their life
savings in modest double deck
ers and find it harder and harder
to make both ends meet.
He sees the working man, de-
ceiyed by the Dever promise not
to raise the MIA fare, now hit
by a Is cent fare and with an
other fare jump in the off1ng.
Coolidge, because he has been
the lifelong lawyer of the poor.
knows how much go cents more
a week in car fare means to the
Boston girl stenographer sup
porting elderly parents or to the
Boston laborer with a big family
of children.
Family Hardships
1t is the family hardShips
which this family man sees when
Spendthrift administration
breaks its promises of austerity
and soakS the poor with crush
ing taxes to maintain its politi-
cal hacks in swank Offices, limou-
sines fit for maharajahs and in
reckless extravaganza.
That is why Coolidge's blood
boilS when he says in speeches,
Governor Dever even tried to
tax the widows savings bank ac-
counts" 1t is a plain ordinary
mans way of fighting for other
plain, ordinary people, who bear
the heavy load when govern
ment is run by wastrels.
Such a man is feared by Dever
and his spendthrift politicians
because they know Coolidge is
only expressing what tens of
thousands of Greater Boston
folk believe. They know that
Coolidge will keep his word.
They know that Coolidge has
once before defeated Paul A.
Dever and they are frightened
that Coolidge will do it again.
Poison Pens Attack Coolidge
And so the poison pens and
the whispering campaigns and
thousands of dollars in various
forms of expensive advertise
ments will be used to smear, the
plain ordinary peoples champi-
on.
But 1t is too late.
The one-term Governor and
his clique of politicians, who
nave prospered While the rest OF
Boston suffered, cannot bam-
boozle Massachusetts, twice. The
plain, ordinary Democrats, hide
pendentS and Republicans have
been fooled too many times by
Dever's phony promises and
Dever's fake charges to take
another bite of Dever's April
Fools candy.
SaltOnstaH Praises Coolidge
This time they are turning to
Coolidge, the man with the ex-
perience and ability to run the
state for the public, the man
with a kind heart and an
iron backbone, the family man
who sees state budgets as they
affect family budgets.
This time they are listening to
their true friends and to Senator
SaltonstaIl who says, "The people
know they can trust Coolidge. !"
JOHN L. DEvANEY,
"a washington st. Reading