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FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 81. 1912.
RHODE Island.

The war Of the Rhode Island patriots
seems to have reached most nglorious end.
The noble bard who had sworn to maintain
the " Peoples Constitution" to the death,
found that their patriotism could not abide
the smell of gunpowder, and dispersed with
out striking a blow. Governor Dom lies
dormant somewhere among the Mass.hlls, Il
DUTEE J. PIERCE, though he may not yet
have returned to his duty, has been pierced
with sense of his dangerous position, and
retired from the eye Of the law. A constl-
tuition, extending the right Of suffrage, will
doubtless be formed Immediately, and little
Rhody will again enjoy that quiet which was
her chief glory Of old.
The manner in which this band of fac
tious and desperate men have been coun,en-
anccd in their wicked and traitorous pro-
cecdings by Inc leaders, OF the L0-cioro
party, slould open the eyes of the people to
their true character. The plot originated in
the eflortsof Locofocos to regain an ascen-
dency in tie State. 1t is nonsense to talk
about theircontending for the right of suf-
frage. They contended for no such thing.
The right of suffrage was offered them, and
confirmed by constitution full as liberal
and democratic as the one they themselves
formed, and his constitution was rejected
by the votes and exer'lons of these very
men who have clamored SO loudly for the
right of'sullras,." The whole affair was a
deliberate plot of treason against one of the
sovereign States of the Union, for the sake
OF political asendency.
The prime movers of the plot were known
leaders of tn. Locofoco party in Rhode
Island. Pierce, who has been The main
support of Doris administration, was a
member of Congress only four or five years
ago, and notorious as one of the most noisy,
rabid, ran,ng Locos in the House. Tamma-
, nv Hall has been the central post of their
friends in New York. c. c. Cambreing,
the leader of the party in the II. of Repre-.
scntatives duringVar Buren's administration
having Just returned from Russia, where he
e was appointed Minister by the Magician, pre-
3 sided at the meeting of sympathsers in tn
: Park. Aaron Vanlerpoo, known as tn
!, Undertook ,oa1er, Mr.. Van Buren's bosom
E. friend, Alexander Ming, jr. editor of til
o New Era, Lew j. Slamm, who held plac
! in the Custom House under Swartwo out, an
ID Jesse Hoyt, all notorious and acknowledge
d leaders of the Tammany party in New Yorl
'r pledged themselves to furnish men and arm
er to oppose the lawful authorities of neigh
e. boring state, and of the United States. Nv
h ery one of these men are indictable unde
the laws of the Union for aiding and abe,
/ ting in this treason. William Allen Of OHIO
Sc a man whose mingled fcrocity and s,upidi'
have made him the contempt of the Who'll
n country, defended Dorr and his party on tn
y floor of the United States Senate, declarin!
, that under the present constitution the Sen
alors from Rhode Island had no more RICH
g to seats in that body than in the British par
lament. George Bancroft, who in his lat
Histo'y No W VI
= government of Rhode Island, with Benz. I
. llallett, and other worthy coadjutors, hav
been laboring in the same cause in Boston
\ The new Era, the Albany Argus, the Bosto
E Post, have all lent their influence to the sid
of treason, and our neighbor of the Patri,
follows in full cry.
The ground on which all these proceed
, nss are based, is that the constitution unde
, which Dorr claims to rule was ratified b
the people. This assumption is whoiiy false
. and every man who has paid the least atten
. ton to these matters knows it. The Dorr-ite
! claimed but bare majority of the voters o
t the State, and it has been fully proved thu
the polls were held without the least precau
ton against fraud, and tina, every species @
|, illegal voting was resor,ed to, Men carrie