The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1834-11-12
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queht TeIhOSal oi usclui puoiic we De-
lieve thut the Government have not removed public
officers without filling their places by others;
that the public have suffered by their remaining
vacant. But We suppose that the great difficulty
is this ''that they have turned out Bank-Tores and
put in Republicans" That they have done SO in
many instances we freely admit, and only
surprised that the House had not more to complain
of on that account. Theirparty has overwhelm-
ing majority in Newport Do they give up sin
gle Representative town officer to the friends Of
the Administration and they not aided in their
proscriptive by the very who hold offices
of profit under the general government in the town?
Where the permanent inspectors of the Revenue,
with their three dollars per day, one of whom holds
his Office by hereditary tenure, (which is be sure,
too sacred title be nterfered with in this pure
Wig tocn,l although he hates and would annihil-
ate the power which employs and feeds him. And
another holding like Office, whose only title to the
favour of the Government is derived from the servi-
of our sage Senator for joining the last winters
senatorial crusade against the President and declar
ing that American liberty had found its grave, or
words ofthe like import Such are the unans,cer-
able reasons which may be offered for keeping such
men in office If we follow the list, there are the
weighers and guagers, the temporary inspectors,
and even the boatmen they are all ofthe same po-
ltcal church, and lose no safe opportunity to wig
it, and cry up the Bank and down the President,
some of them openly and some covertly, some with
all their dependents at the polls and others by their
aid otherways. Yes, this very array of officers have
done all they could, dared to do, to elect Repre-
sentatives who would aid in sending Tristan Bur-
,Io Oh, ,,l
and through him, the great body of Independent
American freemen who have repeatedly sustain-
ed him, and who by their late vote have again sane
toned and approved his administration and
of his has been gratifying to the American
freemen than that Of putting Bank Tories out ofof-
flee. If those men in Newport who heretofore
thought that the world made for them, expect
their political friends to hold all the offices, let them
show some concession their part 1t is time tho
Republicans took the advice of maj. Noah as given
in the Evening Star, Bank Tory paper in New
York Of Oct 4th 1884, after its long and bitter abuse
of the Administration for removing political oppo-
nents from Office 1t publishes the following article
relative to the city officers
| "Many of our friends ask, where is the Justice i'm
removing some of our opponents street inspectors
and keeping others in. We ask where is the
son and justice in keeping enemies in Office when
we have the power to remove them. Firmness
will do no more good this time, than temporis-
ing policy" Wewill give another extract from the
leading Tory Whg paper in that city the Courier and
Enquirer, which will be equally to our purpose, and
shows that the justice we ask of the Administration
is modesty itself, compared to the rawlings of Webb
since the New York election.
ave recommend that the wards should immedi-
ately be called together and and efficient
organization be made with view to the spring con-
test. We have now possession of the City Govern
ment, and if we would hereafter hope to triumph
over the common enemy, we must not suffer him to
regain possession Of the Corporation and the inn
mense power It gives to a corrupt party Weknow
that it has not been of much direct service to us,
because we have never used it Improperly; but
knowing how unscrupulously the Tories have always
used this power, have no hesitation in saying
that if they had retained the Corporation last spring
they would have carried the recent election by at
least siI thousand majority.
| One of the first things to be done is to emanate
from this body They have the power, and at the
very first meeting in joint ballot, they must s'oetp
from office erery Tory that has been permitted to re-
tain his place and ,chen the period for re-dppointing
the card Justices and their clerks arrires, erery To-
ry among them must be promptly removed. This
will accomplish much; but there is another and
more important duty which every citizen is bound
to resolve upon at The Tories is well
known and as is their boast will not have a Wing i'm
their employ, and one of our large houses said only
yesterday, that every Clerk, Bookkeeper, and Por-
ter in his employ required to vote the Tory
ticket! Nay they go further, and if their Butcher,
Tailor, Shoemaker, or any other person with whom
they deal, does not vote with them, they GO to 9TH
ers and give encouragement and support to those
who known to be of their party. We do not
complain ofthis-they have perfect right to 90
so, and while they continue the practice they VIII
always carry the city, If the WHIcs will continue
to neglect the mechanics traders and Labourers