The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-14
RHODE ISLAND.

Another election was held in Rhode Is
land, Saturday, to fill vacancies in the leg
islature occasoned by failure to elect on
the preceding Wednesday. There was
again no choice, except in single instance
and then Hazard, boiling republican and
prohibitionist, scored one. At the general
election, on Wednesday Of last week, it
will be remembered that there was no
choice for governor, HenryF. Lippitt, reg
ular republican and liquor league, receiv-
ing few hundred votes less than Roland
Hazard, while Cutters, democratic, vote
was trif1e more than one-half of the vote
of Lippitt. By the laws of Rhode Island,
in cases of no election by the people, the
duty of choosing governor devolves upon
the legislature, the choice being confined
to one of the two highest candidates.
There were some twenty-five instances of
a failure to elect members of the lcgisla-
ture, and the temperance proclivites Of the
members to be chosen may determine the
result. AS it now stands, the anti. prohi-
tionists have majority of the members
elect, so that unless future elections should
change the complexion of the legislature,
Lippitt, although receiving the smaller
number of votes, will probably be chosen
governor. The contest is so close, the re-
suit is so uncertain, that it is now diamond
cut diamond, or, rather, dog eat dog.
Thursday, the day after the election,
Hazard, following the example of the Con-
uecticut Greene, issued q card of thanks to
his supporters, therein stating that his
nomination was the indignant protest of
the community against the use of party
machinery for mere personal ends,
"against the trickery, fraud, and bribery
"ot the professional politicians, and
"against the prostitution of the honorable
offices of the state. Whether am elect
ed to the office of governor or not is a
matter Of small Importance, but it is a
"matter of the utmost Importance that
the protest so emphatically made yester-
day shall be sustained. Let it be under
sLUuu tnaL neuUefortn lriCkery, cOrrup-
" ton, and bribery shall fail to succeed
land the disgrace which has SO often made
Rhode Islanders hang their heads in
"shame, will be wiped out Lippitt is
| aroused, and comes to the rescue of the
regular convention and regular candidate.
He saws he amt that kind of man, but
that Hazard is another, and that the allie
cations of bribery, fraud, corruption and
trickery,' so freely INDUCED in, repel
with the scorn they merit. have lived
in this community longer than either of
the gentlemen whose names are attached
to this manifesto, and defy any one to
"assert with truth that l have ever de-
scended to such practices to accomplish
"my aims; nor has my name been tainted
"by connection with questionable transac-
tions in or out of our state" And SO
they fight. The republicans are sure of
the state anyway, and so James Lloyd
| Greene lets off another hundred guns for
the Rhode Island victory. Seeing that
Hazard is ahead, and he "got ahead by
republican boilers, 1t is rather amusing to
notice how tavorably the boilers are regard
ed and to contrast it, in Imagination, with
the unfavorable comments which would
have been ELECTED if Cutler had been the
winning man. What terrible men those
Connecticut temperance voters were But
the Rhode Island prohibitionists are alto
gether lovely party, because they sup
ported good boiling republican and gave
him plurality of votes. 1t is strange what
difference there is betwixt twedledum
and twcdledee.