The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-10-13

NO kinks" IN A RIGHT PRINCIPLE
An contemporary Evening Reporter
quoted in full its Saturday paragraphs
of editorial published The News the preceding Wednesday,
in which stated that Col Colt Mr. Utter the Republican
governor
ddae judged from their records business and public
Following this quotation speaking
says:
If opposition may
be down of the peculiar kinks campaign The thing
which The News sticks that before last Republican legs
ure created police commission city of Providence The
News contends bad commission Other contend it is
good 1t notorious that considerable opposition this
manifested Providence that the people who
foremost in that opposition later became friends the and
considered that results had amply justified step taken
No peculiar knk" in this any other campaign will dictate
the policy of The News stands today where has stood
since the outrage perpeated and unateraby opposed
police by which the citizens of
desp of the right of home rule and its taxpayers robbed of voice
the selection of annually hundred
thousand dollars of their money There kinks righteous
principle principle of municipal
scgovernment The News battling today The question of
whether the of the police commission good bad
whether efficient inefficient is of consequence
with whether
of that citizens have stripped of rights
cised foundation the municipality
toned asaed until through the agency desable ring
hchd from them transferred the house. where
through strained of caly devised law they have
been usuped by Block Island from
West Greenwich and their colleagues smaller the
robbery place long the police
commission law remains in present form the will be
continuing upon the prerogaves of free American ci
an outrage which false pleas of promoting better moral cond
tons In the community OF driving and of
neither obscure
The Reporter is wide of the mark and far
that the people who opposition
police the
considered that results justified step
The the protest against passage
of the robbcr police commission law when
the general assembly hostile today they when
they made their brave but Intellectual effort
They caught by the spous that
jufes the They realize that the citizens OF Providence
outrageouy despoed of rights they and they
should enjoy and they will be found November sd next
with their ballots candidates pledged those rights
the of this vicious spoaion they did in November
Bishop McVckar among the leaders in that movement of
protest and warning At the meeting Infantry hall he ad
vised all loyal citizens the scheme railroad the police
mission law through the general assembly should be carried
put the OF those who aided its list and
ne added significantly e be black list That advice fol-
lowed by the citizens Providence candidate who voted
tor the noxious approved apoogzed for
was returned to the legislature. ="
mat there had been change the bishops attitude
plainly SHOWN oy his significant reference the police
outrage while urging before legislative repeal of
that other soevous attack the right Of home rule Block
Island license law Still later in May addressing the
Episcopal convention OF Rhode Island he prompted
by his realization OF the enormy outrage and Injustice TO
which the people had been subjected to make ringing plea for
Christian citizenship, in the Of which he said:
That the political machinery by which governed cor
much
Aaeran defiant and its effects community are every
ero felt 1t Is bad enough governed |, ia
vorss 10 know which the Offices for
t Of scheme no matter how selfish evil