The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-20

as uufy OF tntlf cltiLensnlp Vo NOtc Il ucs-
day against such creatures OF monopoly as
Charles Sydney Smith, William Il.
Vaughan, William w. Batchelder, David
Burton, Spencer Il. Read, Frank 3. Arnold
etc.-Telegram.
When so respectable and honorable
body as the Republicans of Providence
have nominated SO good man as Mr..
Smith for mayor it will be likely to take
advice from some other source than the
telegram 10 induce them to vote against
their own choice.
Hundreds of intelligent and conserva-
tive Republican citizens announce them
selves as opposed to the present city ad-
ministration on account OF It's scanda!ous
indifference TO the public's welfare. Next
Tuesdays vote will tell the tale.--Teie-
gram.
How many hundreds? Have You got
any evidence to support your bare asser-
ton?
Citizens should remember that a vote
on Tuesday next for Charles Sidney
Smith is a vote to make monopoly the
master, and that vote for William X.
Potter Is vote to make monopoly the SER
want of the people.-Telegram.
How meek and lowly Mr.. Potter is,
but what do his shouters expect to get
out Of it?
Mayor Charles Sidney Smith, by his in,
difference to the interests OF the city ana
his trucking to grasping monopoly, has
lost the esteem Of the best elements in the
Republican party and will fail to obtain
their suffrages Tuesday next.-Telegram.
So kind of the Telegram to tell us.
How else could we ever have found 1t
outp
It has not permitted itself to overstep
the bounds Of faithful performance OF
duty in its zeal to justify itself.-Tele-
gram.
Does this refer to the whole investi-
eating committee or to the member who
acted as prosecutor in his zeal to justify
himself. Zeal to justify ITSELF" Is
pretty good.
We present to-day in another part OF
this issue short resume of the history of
Mayor Smiths participation in the shame
full warfare made upon the department OF
public works last spring, which resulted
In turning that important bureau OF the
city government into political machine.
Telegram.
What warfare was there except that
Mayor Smith desired different commits
sioner and appointed man against whom
the telegram has been unable to shrek
since he displayed his ability in the de-
partment.
The public still holds freshly in mind
all the principal facts in the case and re-
members how the mayor treated with
contempt the protests nude by reputable
citizens and influential taxpayers, and
deliberately stultified himself after declar-
ing Commissioner Coleman most effi-
r'official.-Telegram
There are plenty of people in the city
who remember with Indignation how
Mr.. Coleman and his friends persuaded
the General Assembly to compel the
city to accept an official at salary
which it was unwilling to pay.
II would require leader with good
big club or plenty of blarney to unite the
Democrats of Rhode Island. If such
one is inhabiting these plantations his
identity has been carefully concealed; it
is possible, however, that he Is not yet
born.--Journal.
If the leaders haven't the blarney
some of their supporters" have. Well,
it's like the Journal to wait for leader
to be born with blarney and a club made
to order.
The ways of the present mayor are al
most 1nexplicable to those who are not in
such position that they may know the
why's and wherefores that actuate the
chief executive in discharging the duties
of the Office to which he was elected
Telegram.
That's just it! The Telegrdm's local
department realizes that it is not in a
position to know the why's and where
fores that actuate the mayor and il
knows, too, that he is discharging the
duties of the Office to which he was
elected.
New York city will not do for the Re-
publican convention next year. There is
not water enough for the simplest neces-
saries OF life, like baths or washing street
cars, and there is not dynamite enough in
the world to bring rain out of a cold wave
from the Northwest.-Journal.
Under these circumstances the Demo
cratic party is the only one which could
be expected to try 10 hold convention
here.
A Democratic State should have Demo
cratic legisl ature. Taxation without rep
resentation Is tyrannous.-N. Y. World.
How about the attempt to give Re-
publican State Democratic legislature.
Il is not easy to understand why the ad-
ministration should bee attacked for it's
successes in Reciprocity. The treaty made
with Brazil is highly advantageous to the
business interests Of the country.-New
York Tribune.
The treaty was not Democratic
measure, that is all.
There is, however, pretty strong drift,
developed during the last twelve months,
in the direction of the Democratic party
New York Herald.
Independent papers like the Herald
always see such drift, if possible.