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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1910
Page
4
John P. Row, campaign chairman for ex Senator John J. Mitchell, predicts Mitchell will win Congress in the fourth district by about 4000 votes over William H. Wilder. The piece notes bitter GOP contention and local sentiment favoring Mitchell among Democrats and speculates on districtNomination dynamics.
Mitchell campaigns across the district urging anti high cost of living votes. He cites Republican infighting and large sums spent to nominate Wilder while supporters in Framingham and Gardner back him. Roger Sherman Hoar, 28, leads a Democratic challenge in Middlesex with anti cost of living promotions aimed at women.
The speaker claims every Democrat in the ninth district had fair ballots and honest counts. He reports his vote total exceeded Kelchner's by nearly 700, larger than Kelchner's 1902 or 1908 plurality, predicting a crushing defeat and urging change.
James J. Irwin the Democratic candidate for Middlesex DA issues a statement challenging District Attorney Higgins on the Glover case. He notes the secrecy of the indictment, questions the accused’s status, and asks whether the suspect remains at liberty due to ties with assistant district attorney Charles J. Weir.
Councillor William F. Murray the Democratic candidate for Congress in the ninth district plans a Charlestown meeting tonight at the ward room Lexington and Bunker Hill streets. He will be joined by regular Democrats with John J. Mahoney chairing. Mahoney supported David B. Shaw in the primary. Murray dismisses Kelcher as unserious and not a bona fide candidate, claiming he aims to disrupt the party and has refused to abide by the primary outcome.
An old health ad touts Pape's Cold Compound as a quick cure for grippe and severe colds. It claims the formula costs over fifty thousand dollars to develop, contains no quinine, and will end symptoms after two to three doses taken every two hours.
The Democratic State committee reports strong support from across the state with hundreds of letters and telegrams. Observers note improvements in Adams and North Adams and booming enthusiasm for Foss in the fourteenth district amid GOP infighting. Local Republicans voice concern as Cape Cod campaigning ramps up and a Hebrew Citizens Club meeting endorses Foss tickets.
Mayor Fitzgerald predicts a Democratic landslide on election day. He cites widespread sentiment from twenty speeches, labor and farmer dissatisfaction with Republicans, and issues including the milk bill, cattle bureau appointment, railroad and telephone rate troubles, and prolonged mill closures.
Governor Eben S. Draper and challenger Eugene N. Foss both express confidence as the final week of the state campaign opens. Foss continues speaking in Springfield Chicopee Westfield and Holyoke with supporters Thomas F. Cassidy and William G. McKechnie accompanying.
James H. Vahey and Mayor Fitzgerald join rallies in Newton Watertown Somerville and Chelsea while an automobile tour covers Worcester. In Brockton Canton Hall hosts a major Republican rally with Governor Draper George P Lawrence Joseph Walker and Robert O Harris as speakers. Ex Governor Guild appears in Malden with Lodge Frothingham in Melrose. The statewide plan features nearly 400 speakers, the largest in state campaign history.
Hackensack New Jersey ministers commend Wilbur and Orville Wright for not letting their employees fly airplanes on Sundays. The resolution requests the Wrights to receive a copy of the action.
A Massachusetts figure lauds Colonel Higginson in a public letter noting Higginson’s role in his director nomination for the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe rail railroad and praising local industrial investments. He describes his policy of borrowing to build Massachusetts industry and calls for better New England conditions to boost home capital use. He recounts funding Sturtevant works Hyde Park Becker Milling Flow and Maverick mills East Boston with thousands employed.
Franz Hugo Krebs invites James H. Vahey to a public debate at Tremont Temple on Thursday evening November 3 to discuss the issues of the current State campaign. Krebs plans to explain why Governor Draper should be elected and asks Vahey to share the platform.
The Ward 1 Tammany Club of East Boston endorsed Eugene N. Foss for Governor Dr Ede ward S Grainger for Senator and John A Kelcher for Congress at a lively meeting in the Day Square district clubhouse yesterday. Ex Alderman Thomas J Giblin urged support for Kelcher predicting his re election on promises of a large East Boston waterfront appropriation.
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