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Show i GOVERNOR'S MISTAKE. Governor-elect Foss of Massachusetts is over-stepping his bounds of right conduct when he notifies Lodge that he, as Governor, Gover-nor, will do everything possible to defeat the senator for reelection. re-election. When he becomes governor, Mr. Foss will be serving in the executive ex-ecutive branch of government, which is supposed to be distinct and apart from the legislative. The governor of a state is expected to refrain from interfering interfer-ing with the legislative branch of state government beyond certain well defined lines, and Mr. Foss errs grievously when he, diregard-ing diregard-ing the restrictions placed on his powers, attempts to say who is to be Senator Lodge's successor. |