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Show The Mayor of Boston. ENERAIj PAT COLLINS, the new-Ij new-Ij ly elected mayor of Boston, is being be-ing pointed out as a future national na-tional leader of the Democracy. Last month the popular Josiah Quincy. Democralu: candidate for governor, ! carried Boston by only 7,500 majority, and yet Collins defeats Mayor Hart, who had 2.S00 plurality hist year, by over .1S.000 majority. General Collins made a canvass for governor that was memorable, and having organized and won a sweeping victory in the city, he takes his place in the front rank of American Democratic statesmen from whom Democratic leaders for the future fu-ture must bi; chosen. Speaking of his individuality, the I Boise Capita! Xews says that General Collins is furthermore a shining example ex-ample of what poor but gifted boys can do with American opportunities. At 14 he was working in the coal mines of Ohio. At 20 he was a Boston cabinetmaker cabinet-maker by day and an enthusiastic law student by night. Before he was 30 he was eminent as a lawyer and a national nation-al Democratic leader. At 49 he was in congress, and his last post of public service was as our consul general at London. Boston worklngmen, from whose ranks he graduated, are naturally natu-rally proud of him. A huge petition containing the signatures sig-natures of over 2,000,000 people will be presented by the sixty combined Dutch societies of Brooklyn, asking President Roosevelt to shut off English war supplies, sup-plies, and it is contemplated to send a delegation of 10,000 persons to Washington Wash-ington with the same end in view. Captain Cap-tain Hassell, chief promoter of the movement, said that if the Boers were only permitted to fight out their battles, bat-tles, and if all help were withheld from England by the other nations, the Boers could bankrupt Great Britain within five years, for they could fight that long. |