NEW HAMPSHIRE POLITICS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2350, 17 November 1908, Page 7

NEW HAMPSHIRE POLITICS

- A NOVELIST’S CAMPAIGN.

Mr. Winston Churchill’s political novels are commonly accepted as being romantic, but it is well known in America that they have a • very definite and serious purpose. The novelist lias been devoting himself to politics in recent years, and in 1906 he was a candidate for tlie Governorship of New Hampshire, in tlie reform interest. His political novels are said to- give a very clear view of tho position in the 'State. The country is managed by the Republican “machine,” and the machine is controlled by the railways. This year Mr. Churchill himself stood down, but threw his weight into the scale in favor of Rosecrans -Pillsbory, a strong reform candidate. The reformers stood to win, however the election might go, because even the Republicans had 1 decided upon a stiff taxation of the railway profits. “Whether the reformers of the old ‘stand-bys’ control it,” said .the “New York Sun,” referring to the State Convention, “Mr. Churchill and his allies have won. Mr. Flint and Jethro Bass and the rest of the railroad and political bosses have got notice to be good or quit. To put it cynically, the desire to get more taxes out of the railroads seems to have overcome the passion for free rides and other favors. The Rooseyeltian. mania against railroads has helped the reformers. The national disgust with bosses has helped the _ reformers more. Their critical time will come when they get into office. Meanwhile, Mr. Churchill is seen to be no romantic politician. We congratulate him on his success, political, reformatory and literary. As a result of his studies of Mr. Crewe and the rest of the New Hampshire worthies, the politics of that State seem like a novel.” Mr. Churchill’s campaign has been unremitting, but it lias not yet been crowned with the success that attends the work of the brilliant young hero of “Mr. Crewe’s Career.” ;