The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-05-09
COL. GODDARD'S BATTLE.


convention to nominate popular candidate for the
United States senate The convention will be held
in Music Hall on the ED of the present month.
That will be an enthusiastic and united one can
not be doubted
Colonel Robert Hale Ives Goddard will be the
candidate named and he will unqucstionably have
the vote of every delegate in the body. He is not
the choice of any party but of the good in all
parties. He advocates not partisan success but the
success of the whole people of the state in their bat
tie for honest government and decent political
methods.
The selection Of Colonel Goddard has been
made simply because he is the best type of the
states citizenship, and because he has had the
courage to break away from party ties in order to
aid the people whole to throw off the thraldom
of discredted and disgraceful machine and secure
to themselves control of the government under
which they live.
Colonel Goddard is Republican, and through
a long and honorable supported the Repub-
lican party; but he finally realized that that party
ought to be reformed. He hoped the reform would
come from within but that hope was justi-
fed. Now he believes the reform must come from
without, and he cheerfully leads in the movement
to bring it about.
The rank and file of the Republican party is
not dishonest it is made up of patriotic and sincere
men, but the machine which has of late con-
trolled the Republican party has been and is the
most sinister agency for corruption this any
other state has ever known.
Colonel Goddard candidacy is aimed not at
the destruction of his party, but at the destruction
of the machine. He realizes that the Republican
party is not wilfully maintaining dangerous theories
or wantonly seeking to subvert the fundamental
principles of free and decent government. AS
lofty principles and as worthy aspirations for the
common welfare are to be found among the great
mass of Rhode Island Republicans as among the
citizens of any other political faith.
Today Colonel Goddard is leading the forces Of
reform against the Republican party, not because
of the wrongs committed by the honest and decent
membership, but because of the outrages COM
mitted in its name by Braytonsm.
The peoples leader will win next November,
simply because the party of which he was once a
jealous and honorcd member has forsaken its great
principles and has come TO be party of an oil
garchy that has scandalously and hagranty despol-
ed the people
Braytonism has for nearly thirty years success
fully resisted every attempt to adequately amend or
properly rewrite the constitution Braytonism in
sists that the possession OF small real estate hold
ing shall constitute the basis for the exercise of the
full suffrage, rather than manhood and good cti-
xenship.
Braytonsm has made the board of canvassers
and registration in this city neterieasy insolent
and partisan body. 1t is responsible for the sale of
the votes of law makers and of the laws when they
made it is behind all the corruption, deceit and
chicane that has dsgraced Rhode Island in the eyes
of its sister commonweaths.
Is there any reason then, why such thorough
going Rhode Islander as Colonel Goddard il; ; such
a man jealous of the good name Of his native state
and ready to fight for its vindcation should not be
the leader OF the hosts Of civic righteousness?
None.
Colonel Goddard is fighting the battle OF
the people and the people will reward him bv
tremendous triumph on Nov. next. We are going
TO have representative government here we are 90,
ing TO have civic decency; are going moreover
to have Colonel Robert H. l. Goddard for the states
representative in the next senate of the United
States.