Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are limits. This wide discretion of a governor to meet crises cannot be made the excuse for the subjection of American citizens to military rule, when there is no emergency. For example, there are probably more gangsters per thousand people in Chicago than in Narragansett Park, but the governor of Illinois can not properly put Chicago under martial law tomorrow. Martial law would otherwise be an easy route to dictatorship...
...orders of the Rhode Island Racing Commission closing Narragansett Park have been set aside by the State Supreme Court. Instead of going before the Racing Commission once more and establishing his case against the track by sufficient evidence, Governor Quinn has decided that it is too late to make further use of the machinery set up by the Legislature for controlling horse racing in Rhode Island...
Instead, he has shut down the track himself by a proclamation of martial law. Generals and soldiers are occupying the racetrack, and patrolling it day and night. Hardly any civilians can enter Narragansett Park except Mr. O'Hara who lives there and a few trainers and grooms for the horses...
...proclamation of martial law last Saturday, Governor Quinn declares that Narragansett Park and all the surrounding territory in Pawtucket within a radius of one mile is "in a state of insurrection." This conclusion rests on the following findings of fact...
...martial law made similarly, necessary at Narrangansett Park by any existing emergency? This aspect of the validity of Governor Quinn's action will be discussed in the third article by Professor Chafee tomorrow...