PROF. HART A CANDIDATE

Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80, of the department of Government, was nominated for the Massachusetts Senate on the Progressive ticket last Monday. He will be placed, like all the Progressive candidates by petition, on the regular ballot for the second Middlesex district. In an interview for the CRIMSON Professor Hart announced his intention of making an energetic campaign during the next few weeks.

"There is no strange reason for entering the Progressive party, or accepting a nomination for state senatorship," said Professor Hart. "Progressives apoligize neither for their existence, their principles nor their platform. They are doing just what the Republican party did in 1856. Harvard professors have occasionally been candidates for office, and in this campaign many college teachers and officers are in the thick of it. Professor Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia was a leading figure among the Taft delegation from New York at the Chicago convention, and had a large influence on the Republican platform; a former professor of Princeton is closely associated with the Democratic presidential canvas. It is a good thing that college men should divide in political issues and should discuss their principles.

New Party to be Permanent.

"I am a Progressive clear through and I will work for the third party candidates from State Representatives to President. We are going to build up a new party that will be permanent, and that will appeal to the voters, who have discovered that there is little fundamental difference between the two elder parties. A wide spread popular uneasiness has sprung up, because the people have not been getting what they want either in methods or in measures.

"I am not making this campaign for any other reasons than such as would actuate any good citizen to strive for better conditions and for measures that carry the assurance that the will of the people will be carried out to the letter.

"It is to give a lasting basis for development that the Progressive party has nominated candidates for state offices in districts that are normally conceded to one or the other of the older parties. I will take up the work of my campaign at once, and will stump my district.

"I will stand squarely on the National Progressive platform although I do not believe that all the propaganda contained in that document can be embodied in practical measures in one or even in several sessions of legislatures and Congresses. I am firmly convinced that the Progressive party will persevere until it gains complete control of the Massachusetts legislature; and therefore it must begin now."

Professor Hart has not recently held public office. He was a member of the Cambridge School Committee for some years. He has served by the Governor's appointment as one of the Commissioners of the Massachusetts Nautical Training School; and was a delegate at large from Massachusetts to the Chicago Convention last June.