The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-10-16
DOOMED TO DEFEAT.

Another OF Braytonisms conventions was held
late yesterday afternoon and performed in the
usual prefuctory manner the work marked out
for il by the machine With single exception the
legislative ticket OF year ago placed in nonli
nation without the slightest incident relieve the
monotony of cut-and-dried execution of boss
commands.
The candidates proposed for another term of
service in the general assembly need no introduc
ton to the citizens OF Providence They represent
not the people of this community but corrupt
Braytonism and the sinister and malevolent inter
ests for which Braytonsm acts
Though sent to the state house to safeguard
the rights and promote the welfare of the people
of the largest municipality in the state, they have
proven recreant TO their trust, and have been as
servilely subservent to Braytonism the most
gnoble puppet placemen bought by Braytonism in
the rotten borough towns to do its mischievous
work in the halls of legislation
Some OF these nominees men OF character
and standing in the community, yet at the state
house they have fallen under the blighting influence
of Braytonism, that malign power that withers
conscience, destroys independence of judgment and
action and reduces TO the low level of legislative
manikins those who surrender their manhood at its
bidding
What they did but should not have done as
lawmakers they did in obedience to Braytonsm's
commands what they failed 10 do, but should have
done, they refrained from doing under Brayton-
isms orders How completely they in the
control of the oligarchy plainly revealed when
an end to the righteous demand for the restoration
of home rule by amending the police commission
law so as to confer on its plant tools in the board
of aldermen the power to appoint police commits
soners.
That plain and palpabe attempt to be-
fool the people into the belief that the ched right
of local self-government had been restored. It's
actual effect to place the police commission
and the department, the affairs Of which it directs,
in the control of men who are as shamelessly the
tools of Braytonism as any puppet senator sent to
the legislature by the purchased voters in rotten
borough towns.
The men nominated yesterday not only failed
TO demand amendment that would take the
police commission out of Braytonsm's clutches,
but by voice and vote aided in the perpetration of
as despcable piece of partisan chcanery any
American city made the victim of.
Will such men of putty, such willing creatures
OF Braytonism be returned TO the legislature?
Emphatically, MOI The honest citizenship of
Providence has learned its lesson and learned it
we'll
Next November it will send TO the general
assembly delegation of men who themselves
of men who obey the orders Of none but the people
who will legislate for the people, and who will
restore to the people the rights of which they
have been despoiled by Braytonsm's punderbund
The Democratic ticket, headed by Rathbone
Gardner will be chosen by plurality so sub
stantal and emphatic that the opposing candidates
will read i'll the figures the contempt in which their
fellow citizens hold them for the soulless surrender
to malehc Braytonsm.