POLITICAL NOTES: Massachusetts Portent

For all their pretensions of wisdom, politicians are comparatively ignorant of what the great inarticulate mass of U. S. voters think about their manner of government. Jobholders from the President down ache for signs and portents. They watch the tall immobile grass of democracy for surface stirrings. Last week out of Massachusetts came an important sign and portent, a shrill whistling wind, like the first ominous pipings of a hurricane, which swayed the tall grass violently for all to see.

The scene of this political augury was the Second Congressional District, carved crudely...

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