The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-02
STAND By RHODE ISLAND.

ioio tho hiot ototo cAcction VI AIcpiucH
tial year. 1t is impossible to overesti'
mate the importance to the aus OF
American labor, to the of Ameri
can industries, to the cause of homes,
money, to the cause of clean, business
like administration for which the Re
publican party stands, that that party
should win the first battle. From Maine
to Southern California it will put into
the campaign the enthusiasm that means
victory if Rhode Island is true to her.
self, true to those principles under whose
workings she has become what she is.
By every consideration of political ex-
pediency in the national situation, and
by every consideration of local pride and
State honor and loyalty, ID. Russell
Brown should be chosen Governor by a
generously emphatic popular majority.
1t Is not enough to carry the Legisla-
ture. IL Is not enough to throw the
gubernatorial election into the Legisla-
ture. A plurality vote will be accepted
outside Of this State as q defeat.
A failure to elect Mr.. Brown by the
direct and unmistakabfe voice Of the
people would cast a wet blanket on the
hopes Of thousands of Republicans in
every State of the Union who are look
ing to Rhode Island to set them a wor-
thy and an inspiring example. The
head Of the State ticket is the mark on
which they fix their eyes. No other
victory, however glorious, and no de-
layed victory, however substantial.
could compensate for the loss Of the
moral effect which a triumphant major
for Brown at the polls next Wednes-
day viii carry.
If no national prize were at stake,
still Rhode Island would owe 1t to her
integrity to vindicate her fair
from the ISLANDERS which have
been SO foully cast upon it. The New
York newspaper which has crossed u
unasked and unwelcomed, has
blackened our reputation in the eyes of
the country. Though it poses at the
moment as a supporter of Cleveland. it
has been a rotten Hill Tammany organ
FOR years, and it has import
ID into this State the filth
EST Of Tammany's methods. To
the unclean all things are unclean, and
the gift enterprise sheet, which
in the infamous Duchess
steal last autumn, and congratu-
lated tricky Dave on his corruption of
sworn State officials and his Illustration
Of the peoples will, has come among us
with rottenness IN its mouth and rot
in its eyes and made us a stencil
the nostrils of decent peoplei
Our clergymen, IL says, sell their
Our farmers won't vote unless
they are paid for it! Men worth $780,
300 are open to bribery! Cumberland,
it charges. is "a money town." Lincoln
Is a money town; North Providence is a
doodle places" in North Smithield men
want cash for taking the trouble to go
10 the polls. Exeter is a Subsidy" cen
ire; Charlestown Is San easy borough to
in West Greenwich "nine of
every ten OF the voters will vote as they
are paid to dor
This is the dirt the World is ~finging
On Rhode Island at the moment when
he country turns its gaze In our direc-
ion. Its own reputation being Of the
shadiest, its own political affiliations be-
ng Of the nastiest, il has no conception
hat a good name is rather to be chosen
han great riches, but day by day, IL
pens the food gates of it's ~vileness,
disgusting even the party it assumes
o help and-save the mark 3
II in the name of political purity!
Will Rhode Island submit to be writ
en- down as an Augean stable so vile
hat the polluted waters Of the World
ire yet efficient 10 wash il clean. Win
his State caer the country any shadow