The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-26
THE" NEWS TURN NOW

The copies of the contracts made by
| Gray, Vaughan * Co. with Contractor
| Newman-Gray's ex-partner--for work on
the Cove basin, obtained by us yesterday,
did not show that any bond had been FUR
nished by Mr.. Newman. Inquiry at the
| City Auditors Office, however, reveals the
fact that a bond for zoo has been fur
nished.-Tole1rdm
The Teiegram's charge, in other words,
! was utterly baseless, unfounded and un-
| just. Yet the charge was made both
on the first and editorial pages and re-
ceived all the emphasis of double leads
and black head lines. Will Mr.. New
man and Mr.. Gray be satisfied with this
modest "retractive." Does it repair the
mischief done? Will it set Providence
right before the country to which the
original report went out;
The EVENING NEWS did not stay long in
the penny" field. 1t has doubled 1t
price and trebled the amount of It's local
| and other news.-BostOn Globe.
The Globe has very tersely stated the
| fact.
1t is as hard to find political issue in
| New York as 1t is for the average woman
| to discover the pocket in her dress.-Jour-
nal
1t is perhaps natural for the Rhode
Island organ of the Tammany Democ-
racy to think so. But there are in New
| York the specific issue of the ballot re-
| form. the specific issue of Tammany rule
and the general issue of the tariff The
| Democracy is wrong on all three, and
the Journal is going several hundred
miles out of its way in defending Tam
many.
Everybody is commencing the gift by
! Gov. Ladd TO Brown University, this
week, of fully equipped observatory
| The university may have older friends,
! but none who have stepped in and done II
such favor as have Gov Ladd. The OBJ
servatory was greatly needed. He saw
! the need and supplied IL, while others
"mooned over the question OF how TO
| get the building and the apparatus
! Boston Herald Correspondence.
The Herald deserves credit for its
| generous recognition of good deed
Some local papers We're not so prompt TO
see it.
Cotton having a beautiful red color is
now being grown in some parts of Georgia.
Westerly Tribune.
But the virtuous Tribune man should
not look even upon the cotton when 1T is
red.
1t required but one stroke of Mr. Blaine's
| pen TO give the lie to nearly every Demo
| cratic newspaper in Ohio. And yet what
| he said in defining his position upon the
| Mckinley law was nothing that these
papers did not all know before.-Rhode
Island Pendulum.
The Democratic newspapers do not
| always say what they know or even be-
| heve. It's hard work TO be an honest,
| consistent Democrat. Mr.. Mills does it.
1t looks queer 10 see Tom Mast trying 70
| bolster up the Tammany tiger with his
cartoons. The tiger has seen the day
when il was made 10 roar terribly under
| the prick of Nasts pencil. Times have
| changed, and Mast has changed with
them, probably Herald
Mr.. Depew is right Nast's pencil is
for sale. Mccarthy of the Recorder is
the true tiger torture man.
Pipkin-There Is one thing l want ex-
! planned about these dynamite bombs.
Potts-What is that9
| Pipkin-When they fire one in America
| they expect n rain to set inl; when they
| fire one in Russia they expect reign to
end.-N. Y. Herald.
And expectation is in either case
usually defeated.
| We would advise the Republican City
| Committee TO cease denouncing the Third
| party Let il alone for day or two and
| there will be nothing 10 denounce.-Paw-
tucket Tribune
The third party in Pawtucket is van
ishing into thin air, open air. 1t is an du
plein air party.
is this Hills campaign or Flower'sY
The former is becoming 4ghe Brotber
| Flower ?-Nyack Journal.
| The modest Flower bloometh still
| Beneath the shadow of the Hill;
| But in November's days of gloom,
It's time to go to seed will come.
|
Secretary Foster is now in Ohio. There
| Is reason to fear that he will shortly re-
turn to Washington.-FallR River Journal.
Why should any one fear" the
presence of the Secretary of the Treas
ury at Washington? Why write such
nonsense.
| The silly Providence lubber the NEWS
deserves a sound spanking. .-Woonsocket
| Reporter.
You mustn't strike, little dear. It's
naughty. Good little tots" don't do so.
| Chauncey NJ. Depew's speeches show
| that he can talk longer, make il interest
| ing for his hearers, and say nothing, than
| any other man in America. He reaches
| the high-water mark of modern oratory-
| Newport News.
Chauncey M. Depew can say more in
one half hour than any living Democrat
can answer in a week
| Secretary Blaine has returned to Wash
| ington. The Secretary himself says that
he has fully recovered his health, but the
| Providence Journal still insists that he is
| a sick man-Newport Mercury.
And the Mercury would naturally like
to know, and so would the News, which
| knows best. Blaine has at least received
better medical advice on the subject than
| the Journals free trade doctors.
THE PULSE OF THE PRESS.
"The striped iniquity of Fourteenth
| street" is Mr.. Fassetts latest appellation
| for the Tammany tiger-and his best-New
York Press.
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