The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1954-10-30
MASS. NOV. ELECTION FORECAST
BY Monroe Mason


Let us vote.
Let us choose officials with
ability, with courage, with
the will to work, and with a
sense of the Importance of
their jobs.
Let US choose honest men.
Let us select politicians who
deserve respect, and then let
us give them the appreciation
and the credit they deserve.
The above is a quotation
from a letter to the Editor of
The Boston Globe.
ELECTION FOR CASTS
Our Colored voting brothers
and sisters, an outstanding
racial group of those who
cast ballots in this Common
wealth, on first view must be
considered as a tangible as
set of the Old Bay State cleo
torate.
We are On the eve of cleo
ton day and it can be posi-
lively stated that many of the
statewide candidates of either
party, who win, can expect
only close margins of victory.
The present incumbent, u. S.
Senator Leverett Saltonstall,
republican, and State Trea-
surer, Foster Furcolo, demo-
crat, have been running neck
and neck according to keen
political observers to obtain a
seat in the U. S. Senate for
the next six years. During the
past week Furcolo'S hopes of
being elected may have les
Sened on a cloudy concept of
U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy,
the junior senator of Massa-
chusettS, failing wholehearted-
ly to indorse Furcolo, also the
Senator not resembling many
senatorial commitments made
in cooperation with Senator
SaltonStall. Scores of demo-
Gratis, especially those of TIA
Ian extraction, are going to
think twice before casting
their ballots as to whether or
not Furcolo has attained
enough stature for a seat in
the U. S. Senate. Although
he has been member of the
U. S. House of Representatives,
the question has arisen in the
minds of many democratic
leaders the futiIity of displa
cling SaltonStall for Furcolo.
If this undercurrent has
made a statewide spread,
which many conclude may
have some credence, Salton-
stalls victory may be certain
and become landslide. Gov.
Christian A. Herter, republi-
can candidate for reelection,
and State Rep. Robert F. Muir
ply, democrat have been grip
ped in a cat-and dog fight,
since the state primaries, as
to who will be the next COVER
nor of this Commonwealth.
Murphy to date has not made
a campaign mistake to allie
nate any dyed-in-the-wool de-
n1ocratS of Massachusetts.
These are the lock- stock and
barrel adherentS he can de-
pend upon. but not enough to
land him in the State House
as governor of Massachusetts,.
He must wean thousands of
independents including Col
ored voters in order to attain
that exclusive executive goal.
If he does, it will be by very
close margin. And the Coloreo
voters can't forget Herter's
great friendship for them.
HERTER OUTLAWS
MURPHY
Gov. Herter, in the last
weeks of this gubernatorial
campaign, has waged strong
battle, especially in democrat
ic Strongholds. Murphy tried
a counter-fank whirlwind DO
Htical movement in the same
strongholds, which appeared to
expert onlookers Of both par
ties Herter, in comparison,
outfiauked Murphy by a wide
margin in crowds and atten-
ton given either candidate.
If this can be termed a cri-
terion, Herter landslide
would not be a surprise.
UNION LABOR LEADERS
QUASHED
State union labor leaders of
the AFL and CLIO are mostly
democratic moguls, who make
public demonstrations of lin
ing-up their respective mem
berships to support the sym
holic donkey organization. This
Is show-off gesture to lure
chicken-hearted union voters,
who have not learned the
technique of casting an Aus
tralian ballot. Members of la