The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-25

able TO maize heavy enoagh draft TO So
euro their election.
Ward presents the ap,azIng spectacle
OF aformer Republican Office holder con-
testing the election OF the Repu bican
candidate for Alderman, Mr.. ALBERT q.
WHITE, a man OF splendid public re-
cord and the highest -spute among his
ncighbors. The same anti-corporation
auspices that feverishly sustain Mr..
ELISHA IL. HOWARD as a Council candi-
date in Ward 1, oppose Mr.. WHITE a.
Aldermsnic candidate in Ward 2 Mr..
HOWARD. however, has interests and
connections that identity him with the
telephone company far more rotably
than does Mr.. WHITES office in that
corporation. But as 10 the issue of"anti-
corporation, about which so much fiap-l
doodle has been talked, Mr.. NICHOLS OF
Ward is agent for the biggest mon
opoly on the face of the earth and Mr..
STURGEs, q candidate in the same ward,
J would hardly vote against the interests
~ hat
Providence Gas company. II he had a
seat in the Council. Corporal ons, how
ever, have ceased to be an important
issue in this campaign and we only men,
tiou these little facts to show how absurd
has been the pretensions that they evsr
were an issue. The spirit Of Socialism,
Crankism ana Democracy is not yet
dominant in this intelligent community,
and the cry of cooperation" has
been nothing but bugaboo in this
campaign.
In Ward 2, also, Mr.. RATHBoNE GARDNER
Is rum ing as cand date for the Council.
Like Mr.. BURBANK, he is a "Demo-
cratic-Good Government" candidate
Democracy before "Good Government"
every time. But from vi hat we have been
able to note OF his canvass, we should
think the tax-psying voters of Ward 2
would hesitate to accept MIR. GARDNER
as a representative, or Mr.. BUBANK, or
any OF their fellows on the hyphenated
ticket when the Republican ticket, head
ed by Mr.. WHITE and comprising Mr..
BARDEN, Mr.. CUSHING, Mr.. PARK
HURST and Mr.. +. L. WHITE, is available,
even although still further choice is
| presented in ne candidacy Of Mr.. JAMES
| SNOW, Jr., VINO is the only "Independent
Repu blican" in the whole big list. And
Mr. SNOW is Republican, sure There's
no question about that, even though he
is "Independent, for present election
purposes only.
The taxpayers of the Third, Fourth
ana Seventh Wards are not to be bother
ed by complications outside honest and
party fights with no byphenated hypocrisy
about them The Fifth wsro is unanimous
ly Republican in the matter OF candidates.
In the Sixth Ward the Goo Coos call
themselves Democratic-I Independent Citi-
zens, a title that seems to be sufficient.
Iy comprehensive to take in all the Re-
publican Ieavings- are not consid-
erable in the Sixth. In Eighth Ward the
situation doesn't differ from that Of the
anu JtNtul0, except tnal
instead of democrats" the candidates
that stan: in opposition to Republicans
call themselves "citizens" In the Ninth
there are more hyphenated candidates,
all Democrats, we believe. Ward 10 is
too much Of a mix-up, as it always is,
for any analysis.
Except In Wards 8 and 10, the majority
sentiment Is Republican. II ia not the
custom to elect Democratic Councilmen
anywhere but in the two big Democrat
fc wards. And the byphenated candi-
dates tomorrow can only be elected by
an extraordinary detection from the Re-