The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-10-11
BRAYTONISM'S CONVENTION.

Todays convention in Infantry hall was Re
publican in name only. Actually it Brayton-
isns convention approving the candidates Bray
tonism had chosen and endorsing the platform
Braytonism had framed.
If there remained any lingering hope that the
manhood in the Republican ranks would assert
itself and attempt to rescue the party from the
unscrupulous olgarchy that has ruled it to its ruin
IT must have been blighted by the absence of any
attempt TO take the control of the organization out
OF the hands that have dsgraced and dishonored
once great and potential party.
OF the candidates named all that need be said
is that they Hs<Braytonisms candidates. How
ever estimable they may be as privateAstizens, as
public servants they Braytonisms puppets
obeying its orders and promoting its interests,
while at the saYe-time fouting the popular will
and treating the interests of the people with scan
dalous disregard.
They men who by sustaining Braytonism
and servilely obeying its mandates have helped to
increase its mischevous power; and for that reason
the honest citizenship OF the state should unite in
an emphatic reputation of them at the polls.
1t is Braytonism platform that was adopted
also, and feeble, futile, deceitful and cowardly
pronouncement it is Its obvious purpose is to
dupe the public into the belief that Theodore
Roosevelt president of the United States his adj
ministraton and his policies are the issues here in
Rhode Island
The outraged and houted electorate, people
plundered of their privileges and denied the in
alenabe right OF representative government in
ming phrases to vote to continue in power an oil
garchy that has reduced them TO a condition of poll
cal slavery that Roosevelt may not be discredted
at Washington.
To such potroonery there be found paral-
lei in the whole political history of this or any
other state? Braytonism, covering in terror and
dismay before the people its iniquities have inn
PEELED to righteous wrath seeks to hide itself be-
hind the name and achievements of an honorable |
president.
No such ard w will xa1 he IL
OF Rhode Island are not to be turned aside from
their purpose TO chastise corrupt Braytonism
by sounding platitudes about the benefits of pro-
lection, the benehcence OF the work of the fifty
ninth congress, the enforcement of the antitrust
laws and the protection of negroes from the fury of
southern mobs
They are willing to let others discuss the
tariff, the advantages of the railroad rate bill and
the magnitude of the Panama canal enterprise
while they discharge the present and paramount
duty at home-the duty OF rescuing Rhode Island
from the thraldom of the most maevolent and inn
pudent oligarchy that ever succeeded in entrench-
ing itself in any state in the union
With the mendacous assertion that the Re
publican party has never evaded sought 10 evade
discussion OF state issues when properly presented"
the Braytonzed platform goes on to point TO the =
wonderful development and prosperity that h
have come to the whole country" during the fifty {
years the Republican party has controlled the GOV
eminent OF Rhode Island
Is that any answer TO the charge OF the people n
that Braytonism, in the name OF the Republican
party has banished representative government and
set up government by a corrupt machine?
Population has i1c.ea I'd 2s per cent in the a
last decade and industries have multiplicd in = n
greater proportion, says the Braytonizcd platform,
Does that answer the peoples charge that y
public Offices are sold to the highest bidder on a
Braytonisms auction block a
Deposits in the - savings institutions have
increased 10 the enormous SUM OF more than St22- =
'ooooo says the Braytonzed platform N
Does that answer the peoples charge that NJ
.eislation is made the subject OF barter ard sale b
y the visible agent aud active instrument Of Bray
'nism in its dcbauchery OF LEGISLATORS and ec. Is
rate alike ID