The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-09-23
LA I ES I
MAY0RAlLTY.
Plenty of Good
Timber Ready.
Two Desirable Republican
Candidates.
Colonel SpOOner and Mr.. COvell
Are in Race.
City Committee to Meet at Head
quarters This Evening.
Will Then Fix Dates for Holding of Pri-
maries and City Convention.
Colonel SpOOner and Mr.. COvell
Are in Race.
City Committee to Meet at Head
quarters This Evening.
Will Then Fix Dates for Holding Of Pri-
maries and City Convention.

The Republican city committee Will meet
quarters 20 fix the dates for the prim.
aries and the city convention.
This will be the formal beginning of
the municipal campaign although moth
ing definite may be expected for another
fortnight.
There are no torchl,ght parades in evil
dence and the voters are not asked to get
together in halls and listen to what
they already know. But there is a cam
paign in progress nevertheless. 1t Is of
the sort that can be and is being carried
on in the offices during the lunch hours
at the restaurants, among the workmen
in the shops, in the side talks of the
homes of the voters, yes, even In the big
boarding houses. 1t Is campaign OF
earnest, sensible talk in which everyone
is participating. 1t can hardly be called
one OF argument, for there is no reason
for argument. All the evidence is on one
side. That this is true Of the National
campaign there is no question. 1t is
equally true of the city campaign.
Voters are Repu blicans this year and are
not drawing needless and meaningless
lines of demarkation between Ma
tional and local affairs. The
body politics. of Providence is cured
of last years pest of Goo-Gooism
and year of one-million-d ollar-tax-rais-
ing misunderstanding reform has taught
them that party does mean more than
individual sore medicines disguised by
preterse of non-partisan zeal for the pub
lie welfare.
The Repu blicans who did make the
mistake last November are ashamed TO
admit it today and are back in their
party. The Democrats are the ones this
year who will do what deserting there is
to be done. The honest independents,
and there are few, will, according to
their own political creed, which demands
a vote for the best, support Republican
tickets, national, state and local. The
Goo-Goos, that riff-raf OF the Burbank
type, haven't corporsl's uard in this
town, and each party hopes that they
will vote with the other.
The most absurd claim Of the cheap
Goo. Goo crowd, with whom self-respect-
ing Democrats resent being elassed. is
that there will be no Repu blican nomi-
nee for Mayor. Mayor McGuinness doesn't
believe it, and neither does the chairman
of the Democratic city committee.
Two OF the most prominent men in
the Republican party are ready TO be at
the head Of the ticket. Hor. Henry j.
Spooner will positively accept the nomi-
nation for Mayor If it is tendered TO him
py the city convention and Mr.. William ii.
Covell has formally declared himself as
candidate. And this, strange as 1t may
seem, is in spite OF the fact that the ex-
organ of reform has declared that no man
could be found to run against Mayor
McGuinness.
There is at least one Characteristic COM
mon to both the Republican "possibili-
ties" which meets with the expressed APP
proval OF the Democrats who can't
swallow Bryanism, and that Is their en-
phatic declarations in favor Of a sane and
honest currency system.
At the present time the voters OF this
town want to know what a candidates
views are on National issues, no matter
how humble and how local the Office to
which he aspires.