Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...issue of the Boston police strike is more than a local one. Law and order, represented by officials of the state and city, have decided that the police were at fault in leaving their posts. Whether Mr. Curtis failed in having the vacant posts guarded by reserves or guardsmen is not the issue. The posts should never have been left vacant...
...National guardsmen are here at small stipends to the neglect of their business concerns. Policeman are staying on their jobs, in the face of disfavor of friends and associates, and the risk that, should the deserting corps by any chance be restored they would be subjects of petty persecution, just as the conservatives were in the station houses before the strike began. These loyal policemen have played an heroic part. They deserve well of the community. Boston Herald...
...papers have been telling us lately of the arrival of the guardsmen and of their rejoicing (comparable to that of the Ten Thousand on catching sight of the sea) as they saw once more the frost-covered Berkshire, etc., etc. They have overlooked to tell us, however, that most of these guardmen have returned too late for registration and consequently will be barred from voting How many votes will either candidate lose on this account? For what candidate would the guardmen, as a whole, be likely to vote after their stay at the border? Perhaps it is to the advantage...