Word: vahey
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Dates: during 1908-1908
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Eben S. Draper has been elected governor of Massachusetts over James H. Vahey, the Democratic nominee, by a plurality of about 68,000. Louis H. Frothingham '93 has been elected lieutenant-governor. The success of the Republican ticket was expected, since the state gave Curtis Guild, Jr., '81 such a large plurality last year...
...good use of his economic knowledge of tariff and labor questions, and can control the government. "Self-government is the key-note of our institutions." Every well-educated man has that power for good or evil in his hands. Mr. Murray, then said that the current idea about Mr. Vahey, the Democratic nominee for governor, that he did "everything with a brass band," was false; and that from actual experience he knew him to be quiet and dignified...