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FITCHBURG DAIXY SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1909. 4 STATE POLITICS JFttcbtmtg Daflp fcentfttel MhUahed (Ullr woept Bundrny by HI SSNTINEL PRINT INO COMFANT. Ml Mala Bt. FJtchbnrg, Vw Concluded from Page One. Vihey on Brink of Defeat for Democratic Chamberlain-Muntress Company.

The result of the Democratic Btate convention was a gobd deal of a Bur- prise to the rank and file of the Uomorroio the jOast 3 ay Democracy. It was also, in some respects, a surprise to the Republicans. The nomination of James H. Vahey of Watertown as the gubernatorial candidate, was entirely expected. It had been foreshadowed for a number of weeks that he would be the nominee of the party.

-OF OUR- nXOBBUBG WEEKLY SENTINEL iMXMd Friday. rU TBAB, la advance, There was, however, great aston The speakers ut the Worcester North convention, to behld at the Orthodox Congregational. church, Leominster, October 15-16. arc of in ishment when the votes were counted and it was found that Mayor John T. Coughlin ot Fall River had secured so many delegates.

It gave the following of Mr. Vahey the surprise of their lives and Indicated clearly that If Mr. Coughlin had made ternational reputation. Tho noonday meetings led by Rev. James A Francis at the St.

Paul convention were largely attended, and full of enthusiasm and Inspiration Don't fail to hear him at Leominster, Saturday afternoon ot the cenveltlon. a thorough and systematic canvass WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1909. Oct. 6 In American History. 1830-Harriet Hosmer, noted sculptress, bora; died 1908.

1883 Albert Deane Richardson, journalist and author, born; assassinated 1869. 1907-Mary J. Holmes, popular novel-" 1st of the romantic school, died; porn 1828. A8TH0N0MICAL EVENTS. San sets 5:31, rises moon rises.

11:12 p. 1:26 p. mooa In Con-junction with Neptune, passing from west to east of the planet. he might easily have secured the nomination. Highland Baptist, Fitehburg.

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as it was consecration service the responses were of more than passing Interest and showed a wide range of thought on the subject and many ex pressed their desire to see a record- breaking season, this winter. The members are reminded of their graduates among themselves are quite as important, and heie again we may observe forces at work which tend to break up the old college solidarity. Thi boy who comes to college Is plunged at once into a life wholly Strang to him, among a crowd so large that he cannot claim acquaintance with its members. He Is liable to f.i'l into clique of associates with antecedents and characteristics similar to his own, and thus miss the broadening Influence or contact with a great variety of other young men. A large college ought to give its students a wide horizon, and it falls therein unless It mixes them together so thoroughly that the friendships they form aie based on natural affinities lather than similarity of origin.

Moreover the change from the life of school to that of college is too abiupt at the present day. No doubt every boy ought to learn to paddle his own but we do not begin the process by tossing him Into a canoe and setting lifrn adrift in deep water with a caution that ho would do a ell to look for the paddle. President Wilson has pointed out the chasm that has opened between college studies and college life. The instructors bellee that the object of college is study Man students fancy that It is mainly enjoyment, and the confusion of aims bleeds )rretiable waste of oppoitunity The undei graduate bhould be led to feel from the. moment of his arrival that college lifp is a senous and many-sided thing, whereof mental discipline is a vital pan.

It would seem that these difficulties could be much lessened if the fiesh-men were bi ought together in a gioup of dormitories and dining halls under the comradeship of older men who appreciated tho possibilities of college life and took a keen Interest in their woilt and their pleasures The most painful delect the American college at the present time is the lack of esteem for excellence in scholarship We do not make our students feel the lomance of scholarly exploration, nor da ve entourage productive Scholarship enough those members of om faculties who are capable thereof. The university touches tho community on many points, and as time goes on it ought to serve the public through channels; but all its activities are moic or less connected with, and most of them are- based upon, tho college A gi eater iohdar-Jtv in college, moie earnestness ol purpose and intellectual enthusiasm would mean much for our nation. When tho young men shall see visions the dreams of old men will come true the convention occurred while Mr. Vahey was speaking. He declared that at some time he would like to nominate Charles Sumner Hamlin of Mattapolsett for governor.

That raised a great outcry: "Do It now, do It now, do it now," from all parts of the hall. The black hair of Mr. Vahey nearly became white with terror at this symptom of defection from his standard Had there been someone, there to lead the convention at that moment and try to stampede it for Mr. Hamlin he would have had no difficulty whatever in doing It. It was obligation toward the mid-week ser- lce.

Hay we not see a large number present, Wednesday evening and experience an evening of much joy as wen as strongmen tne pastor in ins work First Baptist, Fitehburg. The meeting, Sunday, was led by Jennie McNaught, and the response to perfectly clear Intimation to Mr. ChatnberlainMuniress Co. Vahey that the convention was not i glued to his personality in any way whatsoever. roll call was -sery good two names vere voted on for membership, a veek ago.

and two more arc to bo otcd on, next week. Subject of the meeting, next Sun The most astounding thing In con- 14U14 7 SfCain Street. day night, "How can we help our pastor?" Leader, Eugene P. Rosncr. It Is hoped a.

large number will be present with suggestions about the nection with the whole convention, however, was the nomination for lieutenant governor 'of Eugene N. Foss of Boston. Mr. Foss Is a large employer of labor In the Sturtevant Blower Works at Jamaica Flam and topic. Rollstone, Fitehburg.

The meeting, Sunday, was led by Harold Brown and Iia Joel. It was a very helpful meeting and many lessons from "Paul's epistle to the Ephesians" had been learned. There were a pretty good number present but it Is hoped more will come next Sunday. Our meetings are for all who would like to come and It Is hoped Strangers will feel at homo here A Good Place to Trade THE WHITE STORE. See Window Display he does not recognize the labor union.

The labor union leaders have for a long time had their knives out for Mr. Foss. It may have been this which defeated him for congress when he was the Republican candidate in the (Eleventh district some years ago. At any rate John A. Sullivan ran nearly three thousand votes ahead of him in that canvass and was elected.

FFRSliNANfl RN RF ffl CREDIT CASH Harry Whitney's Experiences as an Arctic Sportsman. The fortunes of Polar exploration i When the labor men heard that ijlifLFU i 11 1LP illMlllHL JJ Sole "Dining Room Furniture agjte Foss was going to get the Democratic PUNK IN PLATFORM. hfie thrust Harry Whitney, the New IIaen sportsman prominently into th foregiQund of one of the most interesting controveisles of history The mere fact that he was the first wnue man who met the emaciated Cook I when the latter w.n returning from i his Polar search makes his testimony most important toward settling the. claims of the Brooklyn physician. I Mm-ever, his shipping southward with Peary, after he wns comptlliti lo leave behind Dr Cook's instruments, serPs.

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it is into rival Peary and Cook ckmps. But it not bo forgotton that Mr. Whitney has, apart fidm his relations with Peaiy and Cook, won' vfiiy honorable laurels as i spoi tpinan pioneer Until Mr Whit ney set out for the arctic on his hunt, no sportsman had even penetrated into that waste and desolate region. As a pure and simple, Mr Whitnev spent two years above the Arctic circle, having planned his cam paign lor securing the best ot the Congressman Gillett Is still pushing-his bill to take care of the superan-. nuated clerks at Washington.

But no good reason has been shown why they should not be obliged to provide for their own old age, the same as other people, especially since they have about as soft a snap as any mortal on the face of the earth. This Is the day when every cap and gown which Harvard can command will be pressed Into the vertices of Inauguration day and when Invited guests will contribute their share to the formal dlsblay of cloth of. the day As far as things can dazzle the eye, then the eye will be greatly da2zled on Harvard's campus, today. It Is hoped that the genuine Intellectual stuff will be equally strong, if not equally visible. Without regard to party, every man in the state with spark of humanity in him will sympathize deeply with Gov.

Draper in the complete destruction of the treasures of his BacK Bay house by fire, Tuesday morning, Money cannot replace them. They Included the curios and friendship tokens of a quarter of a century, as well as art treasures of high standard by art criterion? Everything wa swept by the flames and he feels as if It were the greatest loss which he ever heard of as befalling a house by fire where no lives were sacrificed. The cause of the fire is not known It Is singular that Eugene Foas should have had a small fire about the same time In his office, but there seems to be no connection between the occurrences, nor does any one seem to think that there Is any political aignillcanee In either of them. Reform in tho Cities. President Butterfteld of the agricultural college gave the homestead commission some sound counsel.

Tuesday, regarding the possibility of getting the people from the slums of the cities out to the land. It is a well known fact that It Is almost impossible to persuade these people to leave their dens of poverty and vice it they were as anxious to get away as their friends are to have them, then the problem would be easy of bOlutlon But plenty of experience has proved that It is a very difficult thing to persuade them to change city for country. One of the points made by President Butterfteld was that if a man is an efficient worker at a trade In the cl'fy, it Is to be presumed that he will be better off working at his trade than he will be to ahadon his trade' and to take up agriculture. The other part of the proposition is that If a man is inefficient in the city, he Is pretty sure to be inefficient In the country. Therefore the prospect of bettering his condition is not hopeful.

Another view of President Butterfteld is well worth the attention of the commission, and especially of members of city governments and of city reformers. It Is that the first step for reform is not for outsiders to try to move people from the slums to the country, but for the city Itself to take hold and reform its own internal conditions Without regard to the possibility of relief by sending people to the country, it is for the city to clear up its slums, to put an end to unsanitary conditions, to break up the nests' of vice and to make sqch a healthful and moral city life that slum conditions will be Impossible If reformers will turn their attentions to those matters, instead of making people flee from the horrible life of the elums, then the problem of the slums will disappear. This discussion, like the far more popular and chronic discussion of tho growth of trusts and the peril to the people in the combinations of Wealth, emphasizes more than over the fact that the constant problem of our people as a whole, just as constant and as urgent as the problem of a livelihood for the person In his private capacity. Is the problem Of government. This problem demands the constant attention of the beBt and most patriotic brains which are at the command of the state, and of all Other sorts of brains also.

It is Impossible to solve these problems without constant attention to them. Public life ought to be as frequently In a man's mind as his private Hfe, If the state is to get tne service it has a right to. claim. This means attention to public affairs by the voters every time wo have an annual election, which i none too often for the public welfare, and by our legislators as often as the legislature meets, and even then thoy cannot transact the public business with the necessary thoroughness. Don't feel too much' flattered when a man comes to you and asks you respectfully fpr your advice about a seri Arctic game as carefully as Cook or Peary planned theirs.

ANEW LOT OF wncn air. Whitney lanaea at iruro, Nova Scotia, Thursday, he told a representative of the Outing Magazine something of the long and lonely 50 Parlor Stoves TO SELECT FROM months he spent. He lecounted sev eral thrilling experiences of hunting Sideboards and Buffets TO CHOOSE FROM ovor the ice after the fiercest of bears, after sal, musk oxen and other game. Indeed, Mr "Whitney's hunt mattrkssks comkortehs sets a new record for sportsmanship. That at the end he should happen to descry tho weary Cook approaching his camp from the North serve? to sharpen with a decided dramatic al- FERDINAND FURNITURE 00.

219-221 Main Street le the popular Interest In a pne. man xpedition after big game that stands vlthout a parallel. He has contracted to write the full iccount of his hunting expedition and of his relations With Cook and Peary for the Outing Magazine. The first nomination for lieutenant governor they were wild with rage. One of their leaders, former Alderman Fred J.

Kneeland of Boston, was a delegate to the Democratic state convention. He announced that he would oppose the nomination of Foss on the floor of the convention In the name of organized labor, and in this he was backed up by the rank and file of the movement in the Hub. However, he did not do It. The men who had prepared to denounce Governor Draper, because he vetoed a measure to amend the eight hour bill, got at work immediately and squelched Kneeland. It was a hard task.

However, at last the persuasions of some of the Democratic leaders in Boston and especially, as It is claimed, the influence of Ex-Mayor 'John F. Fitzgerald, were sufficient to overbear Mr. Kneeland and to silence him on the floor of the convention hall. When the name of Mr. Foss was presented there was not a "yip" from any of the labor men who were delegates there.

The Boston Herald an independent newspaper with Democratic leanings, had a cartoon the day following the convention showing the Democratic donkey holding a large money sack under a Foss barrel, the bung-hole of which was spouting paper currency into the Democratic receptacle The flood of wealth was labelled "Foss Nomination" and-the grin which overspread the face of the Democratic donkey was of the kind that won't come off. It was, perhaps, this cartoon which caused Chairman McLeod of the Democratic state committee to issue a statement solemnly asseverating, that the nomination was not made in consideration of any contributions which Mr. Foss would give to the Democratic campaign fund and declaring that-he was named simply because the partywanted someone like him on the ticket for its moral effect on the campaign. Does not that sound really too good to be true? Be that as, it may," Republicans are laboring under no delusions in regard to the purpose the Democracy in placing Mr. Foss on the ticket.

Whenever Mr, Foss has been a candidate he has been an energetic one and dispensed large sums of money to accomplish his purpose, whether a nomination or an election. It Will be up to the Republicans to make, a good, hard fight la any event. If Mr. Foss is the angel who Is to finance tho Democratic campaign it will not do for the Republican party to go to sleep This is an off year and the cbief danger lies In that tact. The reat work consists In getting the voters aroused and bringing them to the polls.

So good a man as vUovainor John L. Bates was defeated in the presidential year of 1904 by the over-confidence of the Republican party. That instance ought not to find a repetition this year in the case of Governor Draper. The Democrats Intend to get lmme dlately to work. They propose to make a sharp speaking campaign which shall cover the commonwealth and to arouse the voters of their party as has not been done since the famous Gaston year of 1903.

The whole question on the Republican side Is to get their voters to the polls. If they can do this the victory is easily assured. But with the labor union, installment will appear in the Decem ber number of Outing. Somo Claus in th Hayes-Hamlin Document on Which Democrats Cannot Unite No Real Issue in Massachusetts. Hartford Times.

Dem 1 It seems necessary to have a certain amount ot punk in every jmliticil platfurm in these days The declaration adopted by the state convention of Democrats- in Massachusetts is not destitute of it. Take the Indoisement of the income tax-amendment, for instance Who aie the income taxers of the country" Republicans and Populists, for the most part. What is the character of the income tax agitation evervwhere? It is socialistic The thcorj of the income lax that the object of taxation is not to raie revenue for the support of the government, but to dimmish 'swollen fortunes" and to redistribute the wealth of the country At the lecent Democratic conference in New York, where every county in tho state was represented there was almost an even division on th question of adopting the proposed amendment to the Federal constitution Obviously that is not an issue upon which the Democrats the country can easily or quickly get together. The scheme for a Fedeial income tax involves a diminution of the power ol the state over taxation, and Is an invasion of "state lights." It is not Democratic The Massachusetts declaration fa-v-ois "election of United States senators bv direct vote of tho people That is another innovation more liked bv Republicans and Populists than bv Democrats. tr-nds in tho direction of making it difficult for anv senator to stay ofTtco more than one term of six veai- The largo influence of New England the senate results from the continuance of so many of the 12 senators from this section for three or more terms.

Wherever the plan has been tried it has operated put into the senate lecturers and orators, men who are popular favorites, or meiely rich men With this may be coupled the declaration at Boston in favor of direction at Boston in favor of direct nominations That is another "wrinkle that "is on 'tiial in various parts ot the' country and I hat seems everywhere to be increasing the expenses of those who obtain public office, and giving rich men the advantage over poor men in Offlce heading What is there democratic, about that? "The extirpation Of the state hnuf-lobbv" which the Massachusetts Democrats declared for is pure punk. As long as legislatures exist In the United States, it will lie the right or every citizen to go or send a paid -agent to the state house of anywhore, else and talk with members nf the legislature. This talk about the lobby Is as old as repiescntative institutions Neither "the lobby'' nor the outcry will eeav we 1 suppose Members of the legislature are not obliged -to be seen or to confer with "the lobby" unless thev so elect. Declaration eleven of tho Massachusetts platform' is "Refoim of injunction abuses." What arc injunction abuses in There aie none Thjs Is humbug, or punk, as we set out to call all this rubbish Vhlch Mr. Hayes of Springfield and hjs committee produced at the Boston convention.

There Is more of the same sort, but we lyivo probably specified" enough There are some good things In the medley a demand, for genuine tariff reform, for freer nnd larger trad with Canada, home rule for cities and Investigation for the state finances. But any well trained Democrat 'like Charles S. Hamlin could find more to argue Against than to support in this curious statement of "principlcr tyVmcU emphasizes tho absence in Massachusetts of miy really lnioitaiU political issues at this time. REMOVAL ELECTRIC EXPRESS. FHOK Fitehburg Freight House, 105 Water St.

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the Republican organization should do everything in its power to make the election of Mr. Draper and Mr. Frothingham both, not only certain, but by a "big majority, There are some who 'believe Mr. Foss has been promised by the Democratic machine the nomination of that party next fall in one of the congressional districts In Boston. There are only two where such a trade could be made, the tenth and eleventh.

In the -tenth Congressman Joseph F. O'Connell Is now the repre-' sentative and he would undoubtedly fight for a renominatlon- In the eleventh Andrew J. Peters is the present congressman and no doubt ho would be Willing to serve another term. There are still others who believe Mr-. Foss Intends next year to elbow Mr Vahey aside and take the nomination for governor in case his run this year is FRANK A.

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