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There are no knights in shining white armour for Massachusetts voters to choose from in this gubernatorial race. Although both candidates--incumbent Democrat Paul A. Dever and Republican Arthur W. Coolidge--are making the usual claims to virtuous administration, an independent voter will find his choice is not between black and white next Tuesday...
...Dever must necessarily run on his record of the past two years. He is claiming that he has built new roads finer than the state has ever had, that his administration has constructed new schools and has generally given the people good government. For the future he promises completion of the highway program and continuation of honest administration...
...charges that the road program has been wastefully put into effect in a time of inflation, has involved a good deal of boondoggling, and is not Democratic property anyway. The Republican candidate says his party planned to build new roads to replace the horrors of the past, and that Dever merely carried out those plans--at the wrong time...
While the Republicans are arguing that the fifteen-cent transit fare, on a system that the state owns, was put in by Dever in direct violation of his campaign promise, the Democrats say that the price could have been even higher. Had the Republican commissioners had their way, Dever advocates claim, it would be twenty cents for a large number of riders...
Democratic Campaign Headquarters, Gootenberg stated, called "insulting" Coolidge's offer. The offer, made through the H.Y.R.C., called for a debate with Dever in the Square on a loudspeaker truck as part of Coolidge's "street corner campaign...