Massachusetts, There She Is!
Thompson, Charles Willis
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By CHARLES WILLIS THOMPSON
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tween Democratic and Republican spokesmen anent...
...opinion there that the Boston Herald, which had an...
...for the Boston Transcript, in a striking forecast of...
...this matter alone:—unique...
...I asked him who...
...is that the Republicans will...
...carried Massachusetts for Smith over a down-trodden...
...states as Kentucky got into Massachusetts...
...charge in its headlines or in the first column, and one...
...litical propaganda which denied two "individual rights...
...lics there and they all voted for him is not altogether...
...present in Massachusetts a great tiredness with dumb...
...it so strongly, but that was the idea...
...crat was that cast in the same election for Senator...
...Smith...
...sachusetts...
...Now, bigotry has, or rather ac...
...The talk about...
...Prohibition and religion, the issues which swayed more...
...Liggett saddled the blame for...
...politician ever had done so, and they liked the sound...
...This did not...
...them on exhibition at his headquarters...
...Another en...
...The Democratic state committee will tell you...
...proceedings against Mr...
...parvenu communities, but did not register with the...
...ber of enthusiastic and uninvited offers it received from...
...with certain Republican proceedings in the Hoover...
...Jonahs and nominated Mr...
...estants and Catholics alike and making votes for Smith...
...They did...
...in Massachusetts...
...difference did not represent an abnormal and unnatural...
...largest ever cast for any candidate of either party in...
...me, "They were tired of dumb-show in politics...
...To so high a pitch did this rise that the Democratic...
...and the "right legally to take a drink...
...Since...
...out by Republicans, Democrats, Catholics and Prot...
...tween two prominent poli...
...where, it is well to say in an aside that in Massachusetts...
...Not only did the wealthy and influential and "aristo...
...of bigotry "in Massachusetts than in any state" and traces...
...religious and racial prejudice has lately been a factor in...
...the Republicans and the Democrats try, with equal...
...seven should interpret the word in the terms familiar...
...publican National Committee...
...The situation...
...and, many of them, voting for him...
...seven sisters...
...Curley...
...to the power to which they are bowing—public...
...This time it...
...old-line, dyed-in-the-wool Yankees of the old stock...
...off-year election in decades, and because of the two ques...
...Paul to Tallahassee...
...since slavery—prohibition and religion...
...except perhaps among the ignorant in the rural dis...
...quotation marks and the capital letter...
...and Catholics alike detest the subject so much that any...
...theirs, but did not get it last fall...
...no man will take his po...
...The common assumption that Smith...
...THAT invariably inter...
...and governor and intended to run again for mayor this...
...the state when a certain experienced politician sug...
...And, as one...
...or about to undergo, the explosion of the same phe...
...In any other state Liggett's speech would not be...
...Virginia and other states too numerous to mention...
...aware that to mention prominently even the fact that...
...For this...
...Smith...
...third reason less on the sur...
...predicts has already come to pass, such as Virginia...
...tween Democratic and Republican spokesmen anent the...
...setts deduced editorially and otherwise that the com...
...There was nothing the committee could...
...or Alabama—or New York...
...And for this the nation's thanks...
...Massachusetts, though the "liberals," with their...
...Only among the crassly uneducated...
...and Mr...
...history, and for that matter American history...
...tore its hair...
...Young's Hotel and attracted more attention than the...
...Canadian from Marlboro to the bench, and the Re...
...These...
...Curley is a...
...Hence it was that blue-bloods who had been voting...
...Thompson offers a lucid and entertaining analysis of the...
...Ward Society, will hoot the assertion, is a broad-mind...
...in the ranks of "the newcomers...
...Unless all signs fail, there is a row brewing that will...
...by the Suwanee River...
...sent the gentleman posting back home to report failure...
...It so alarmed them...
...But there is less of it in Mas...
...Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island...
...friendly as to be mixed with hope—among the famous...
...politics, and why Massachusetts is almost singular in...
...Massachusetts, as here...
...Liggett ever get to a court...
...in the charge of dragging the subject into politics...
...helped him with them fully as much as it did with the...
...forty-seven to understand it...
...physically tired...
...Massachusetts, is...
...under cover, it is stamped out of sight with loathing...
...there was plenty of it, last year...
...politics, and with no motive for minimizing "bigotry...
...The Republicans are accustomed...
...else...
...to advantage in this respect beside any other, and pre...
...is bigotry everywhere...
...tions, including one from ex-Governor Fuller, who de...
...none of...
...nection with the campaign, which was run by the state...
...lican National Committeeman for the state, made a...
...Hoover, like all previous can...
...deal of uninformed comment in the rest of the country...
...ing right out too...
...Another said...
...Boston, a Democrat, for the purpose of arousing Cath...
...the habit of Republican loyalty prohibited a vote for...
...way, is not exactly the fact...
...The...
...entirely to copies of the Fellowship Forum...
...River over the allegation that he is the first French...
...may go as mad as it likes...
...who are coming in from Great Britain and the provin...
...and baleful meaning in nearly every state in the union...
...the Catholics don't want it...
...politics, and that fact alone magnificently illustrates...
...own surprise, and Mr...
...much as Catholics...
...The organization put him on...
...everybody's gooseflesh...
...does not exist...
...went on to displease certain Democrats even more...
...to repeat that Massachusetts is unique...
...Where, then, is there any bigotry, such as there is...
...libel...
...Massachusetts was not set going by the Republican...
...who made such havoc from St...
...same feeling among the less celebrated strata...
...year, any of that behind-the-back-of-the-hand approval...
...combined, excite the public mind to a greater extent to...
...a newspaper office in any other state...
...campaign by a prominent political leader...
...523...
...Some...
...tic support than in the old-time Yankee and Protestant...
...Liggett as Jonah-in-chief...
...house canvass, conducted, of course, by women...
...charge of bad faith and political malpractice, that was...
...rooters in other states, accompanied by official dis...
...experience of being mis...
...crats any good among Catholic voters...
...so they sent, hopefully, some "literature...
...from another state appeared in Massachusetts, but...
...ley circulated anti-Catholic literature...
...on prohibition, but in the main it came from approval...
...Hence ex-Governor Fuller's...
...ject of "bigotry...
...fire to several others even...
...is that the Democrats will...
...state—perhaps the one state...
...speeches and see if there isn't something anti-Catholic...
...Republican machine...
Vol. 10 • September 1929 • No. 21
