The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-11-22

nomination paper in Ward i Tor In
stance. The names Of only y few more
than 200 tax.peying voters were
attached 10 it. But there
are n thousand t%ax-payng voters, more
or less in that ard, and at least five
hundred OF them had the right, II it were
not their duty, to attend either Republic
can or a Democratic caucus or an lndepcn-
dent caucus or some kind OF q csucu
where candidates might have been discus
sed-rather than leaving their selection
to a mere handful OF men, by contrast
with whom even ''party managers
would have been a highly representative
body, the selection SO made in privacy to
be subsequ emily submitted to . few
voters and to be put in nomination re-
CARELESS Of tho number Of citizens who
endorsed them SO long as the number re-
quired by law was reached. We should
say, Mr.. VERNON, that the chances for
being:mistaken for "chiidren or fools''
are much greater IL we allow ourselves to
be led by q string hat is secretly pulled
from q point of vantage in JOHN Ma
CURES saloon than would be the case il
we had all gone to the caucus and had it
out with the so-called ''party manage-n"
and found cut for sure whether they or
We represented the prevailing sentiment
in either of the parties. or course it is
pleasant. and we have the right to vote
against the majority Of our fellow-citi-
zens, either by voting with q minority
party or voting with another minority
that calls itself by no party name. But
we can never claim that we of the mi
nority are right and the majority il
wrong-not in the Republic OF the United
States OF America.
As to a case in point OF non-partissn-
ship-the offices of city treasurer and
overseer OF the poor, you may recall that
our efficient city treasurer was elected to
office as a Democrat alta time OF a DEM
cratic tidal wave. He displaced a tried
and faithful public official who had been
elected as a Republican and retained rs
a"non-psstisan" until the time when
the Democratic party saw their way
clear to elect a man who called himself a
Democrat, and no longer. Twice since then
has Mr.. GRANGER been the Republican
candidate as we'll as the Democratic cam
didate. This year, however, the city govern
ment was assailed! 1t was attacked as q
Republican city government because 1t
was Republican. There was no non-par-
tissnship about the attack. Indefinite
charges, outrageous calumny were heaped
upon the heads of the city governm emit
for no other reason than that its indi-
vidusl members were Republican. An
attempt has been made to discredit the
city in the financial centers of the world
because Republicans were In office. No
charges of incompetency were too strong |
to bring to b~ear--nope was SO small as to
be susceptible OF proof. Under these cir |
cumstances, we take il, the men who call
themselves Repu blicans must have felt
compelled to stand up for the convic-
tions that that name carries. They put
up q straight Republican ticket to DEM
onstratc, we take it, that they were not
sshamed nor afraid to accept the chal-
to meet the assault as Republicans
as good citizens who, for years, have
voted for a Republican city government
and have seen it demonstrated that .
government that bears hat name stands
for good government. we'have no doubt
that other men would make as efficient
city treasurer as Mr.. GRANGER. We
have no doubt that Colonel SPooNER
would be as efficient. Nobody doubts IT..
Some OF us may even believe no would
a more efficient member OF the city