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...hundred students marched along Commonwealth Ave. from rallying points at Kenmore Square and M.I.T., but a third line of march from the Dudley St. MBTA Station in Roxbury never materialized...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts has seen many political parties come and go--Puritans, tea dampers, and abolitionists. Yet the current, dominant Democratic party is perhaps the strangest of them all, since it is not really a party. Despite the fact that the vast majority of all elected officials are Democrats, a condition that ought to give elections a dreary sameness, the state's politics are among the most confused and chaotic in the nation. This year's election is hardly likely to vary the pattern...
Beyond these simple verities, however, the Commonwealth's politics grow more complicated. Unlike the newly emerged Republicans of a century ago, proud of the success of their party built upon abolition and the Constitution, today's Democrats are united by the simple conviction of its immigrant constituents that the party of the Yankee mill owner-oppressor should be made to suffer. Little else in the way of ideology, binds together the party's members, who range from Goldwater supporters to former ADA chairmen. The Party is basically a combination of ethnic alliances, traditional hatreds and personal feuds followed by hypocrital...
...crudity of political appeals has been reduced, and it is significant that the comeback try in 1962 of Francis "Sweepstakes" Kelley, an old-guard ward heeler Democrat running for Attorney General was defeated decisively by Edward Brooke, a Republican. Brooke, who has now joined that select circle of the Commonwealth's politicians who are regarded as incorruptible, is regarded as a pretty good bet for reelection despite the Johnson landslide...
There will probably never be a return to the days of a century ago when the dominant Republicans could offer a ticket so ignorant of ethnic feeling and geographical distribution, but the Commonwealth, one hopes, will tire of its simple pleasures of sensational disclosures of corruption and endless indictments, and of voting for the end of a candidate's name. However, one suspects it wouldn't have it any other...