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Newport Mercury.
Next Wednesday, April 3, occurs the
State election for Rhode Island. Thus far
the campaign has been very quiet one,
and il is likely TO continue so TO the close.
The Republican party has put up good
ticket for State officers. The candidate for
Governor, Charles Warren Lippitt, is man
well known throughou he State. He is a
business man having large manufacture
ing interests in Providence and Woon-
socket He is a man of sterling integrity,
and will make a good chief executive.
The rest of the ticket is made up of the
men who are now filing the offices most
acceptably. The people will doubtless
argue that there is no reason, to remove
them to make room for Others of no ex-
perience as to the duties OF the positions.
In this city the Republican General
Assembly ticket is good ore and de-
serves the earnest support of all good
citizens. Messrs. Burdick, Sheffield,
Rogers and Buffum are already serving
the people as their representatives.
There is no reason why they should not
be reelected. Messrs. Higbee and Moi
fit have had considerable expert
cnce in city affairs and havo proved
themselves efficient officials wherever
placed. The Depocrstic ticket was evil
IDENTIFY not made up with any expectation
of It's winning. The original nominees,
probably recognizing the fact that this is
bad year for Democratic success, nearly
all declined. OF those who renamed, their
nominee for Senator, Colonel Howard
Smith, sent in his decliDation as soon as he
learned that hrs name had been used, but
too late to get it off the ticket. Their
nominee for first Representative can
hardly be expected TO work in harmony
with his party as he is reported to be one
OF the signers OF the nomination paper of
the Socialistic candidate for Governor.
The names of the party leaders are con-
spicuous by their absence from this
ticket, and the persons nominated are
probably not resting under any very
sanguine expectations OF being elected.
Call off the Dogs!
Newport Mercury
The Providence Telegram is terribly
agitated over the proposed amendment
to the constitution providing for bien-
NAL elections, and is frantically calling
upon its party TO up and fight it. But
the party does not seem to be in much
Of q fgting mood just at present. Its
leader was basking in Southern
cline and the rest are just now
seeking shelter from the cold wave due
here about Wednesday, April 3. Why all
htft In hol In a ha nioI
amendment, we cannot see. Biennial
elections have been the party cry for
years. Now that the proposal is to be
put to the people the party is just as un-
happy as ever, II not more so. They
know that this amendment will make it
all the harder to get q constitutional
convention and that is the secret OF their
opposition. The people of the State have
no desire for a constitutional convention,
but The Democratic agitators have put
that as text for years and they do not
want to give 1t up, knowing that they have
nothing else for war cry The constitution
of this State was drafted by some of the
ablest men the State ever raised. II is
sale document for the people of the
State to live under and we trust that it
will be a long day before the rabid icono-
clast will get hold of it TO tear it to
pieces. The amendments proposed from
time to time and adopted by the
people keep IL abreast of the times and
that is all that is required. The amend
ment now proposed can be voted for by
every good citizen. There is nothing in
1t to harm any one, and no injustice is
done to any party or locality.
Ehe Republican Leader.
Pascoag Herald.
Charles Warren Lippitt, the Republican
candidate for Governor, is descendant
Of old Rhode Island families, numbering
among his ancestry Roger Williams, the
founder OF our State, and many OF the
most distinguished patriots OF colonial
and revolutionary times. Mr. Lippitt was
born in Rhode Island, and, like his
forcfathers, has ever cherished a fond i'm
terost in his native State, being ever
ready TO do that which was for its ad-
vancement, his motto being "Rhode
Island first, last and forever" Ills
father was one OF our most competent
and respected Governors. so much
for the ancestry OF the Governor elect.
Charles Warren Lippitt ia bright,
wide-swake, energetic business man,
and has the respect of ais associates