The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-19
|" A"PUSHER" NEEDED NOW
Great City Improvements Suffering
From Executive Neglect.
ALL READY FOR TUESDAY.
Republicans ASS Feeling Quite Con-
fdent That The Good Sense of The
Man with a Mind OF His Own Into the
Mayors Office.

There Is not much TO say about the
political situation which has not already
been said. Arthur III. Watson, the Re-
publican candidate for mayor, is grow
ing in strength daily. His firm, manly
attitute on the questions of greatest in-
terest to the people of Providence at
pr, sent. the public improvements, which
are delaying progress by their standstill
condition are attracting great attention
and the conviction is growing that unless
the city can make up its mind TO give up
all such improvements for another year,
Mr.. Watson must be elected mayor of
Providence.
In all his City Council work he has
proven himself wonderfully prompt and
precise-a pusher who is impatient of
haranguing about minor details aud OBJ
struction for petty or partisan reasons
"A prominent member OF the City Couu-
Gil said to-day: "When Watson sets his
head that "a thing is right aud must 20, it
goes. Didn't you ever notice how he Sc
lects the right from the wrong in deciding
points in the council aud how quickly he
stamps out trivialties and obstruction.
We need n mayor who will inject
his personality into all the de-
dartments of the city's affairs
and advise where advice is needed, it,
struct where instruction is needed and
suggest 10 the City Council things need
full from time to time. That is what we
want chief executive officer for in this
city. The couDcilmen ana aldermen are
ready to-push all public improvements il
they have wide-awake live man to lead
them and nos a mild, little fellow to sit
in the mayors room and betray big in
terests after they have been attended TO
by the council by letting hem lie and die
by slow torture in n pgeonhole. When
important matters are being considered
the mayor should work with the two
boards and keep step with them When
they are done with matter he should
know just how 1t stands and be ready To
act intelligently Instead of childishiy
leaving 1T to go by default"
The other candidates on the ticket.
Charles III. Thurber tor overseer OF the
poor and William II. Gladding for har-
Dor master, while not attracting so gen
eral attention aus the head of the ticket,
are making good run. In the list of
Republican candidates for justices of the
peace two changes have been made, "a
will be seen by reading the list OF can
didates published by the News. Isaac
III. Soutnwick takes the place OF Charles
+. Nichols, and Frederick Rueckert that
of Walter III. Barney.
Everything is ready for the voting on
next Tuesday. and Republicans will do
well to remember that their business is
TO vote on Tuesday, November 2s Also
all other citizens who are tired OF havinps
the city's interests go % wreck bv ex-
ecuiive incapacity and executive obstruc-
ton.
Mayor Potter's champions now claim
that he let the Charles street matter 20
by default on purpose because lie didn't
approve OF it's being done under the bet
terment act. He has never said 30 but
has intimated that he let it go because he
hadn't time to attend to il, or because
there were appeals. That was only An
Illustration OF the manner IN which Mr..
Potter does things.
IL was indeed unfortunate that Mayor
Potter should, in advertising for house
mold help, inadvertently allow his real
feelings toward large element OF his
party TO be betrayed 10y excluding
from the applicants all but Protestants,
but IL Is even more TO be regretted that
he chose for this exhibition Of his un-
American sentiments the natal day OF
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