The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-16
The NEWS" TURN NOW

The protests against the granting of ex-
elusive franchises in our streets are
worthy OF careful perusal and 10 Is encour-
aging to see 80 many citizens interested In
such an important subject of public well
are.-Journal aud Bulletin.
The protests are of undoubted interest.
largely as indicating what an amount OF
misinformation 1T is perfectly easy to
acquire with diligence.
Mr.. Hiram Howard brought to the at
tention of the committee series of facts
concerning street-railway, electric light
and telephone management and rates in
Toronto and other Canadian towns and
cities, which have been very fully and
frequently set forth in the Telegdm.-
Telegram.
But under such circumstances and
with such results that it is little curl
Gus the Telegram cares to allude to
their publication.
The intelligent voters of the United
States do not trouble themselves very
much in advance about what either ma
tional party proposes TO do, They know
from long experience that the choice be-
tween the candidates will involve much
searching of spirit the day before election
and more or less regret the day after,
whichever way they voted.-Journal and
Bulletin.
The Journals doll is stuffed with saw
dust and it longs to get itself hence to a
nunnery. The Journal has indigestion
or the Journal is bored; it takes no
healthy natural interest in people or
things. Long time since the Journal
ceased to care for the things of Provi-
dence, and now il fouts about the things
of the nation. But in speaking to the
men who voted for Lincoln and for
Grant and for Garfield, and to the young
men who are looking forward to casting
their first votes for him who shall be
the standard bearer of American inter-
ests, protection at home and enlarged
markets abroad, the Journal would do
well to dissemble, to feign respect for a
great country's institutions, If it feelf
none.
Nothing on earth can prevent Blaine
being nominated for the Presidency II
he wants it," says Chauncey M, Depew.
Correct, Chauncey; but what il he don't
want it itf-Narragansett Weekly.
Then he must be made to take IL. The
country needs his service, aud in such a
case 1t is his duty to acquiesce in the de-
mand of the people.-Newport Mercury.
The latest rumor that Blaine wouldn't
run having been disposed of by Mr..
Clarkson's statement that the interview
attributed to him was bogus it is now
quite time for fresh crop of fictions to
so start in fertile Democratic soil.
II seems that Miss Lizzie Thayer of the
New London Northern Railroad is not the
only woman train dispatcher in the world
but that here at home we have the X. /.
a ,hx.r ,k.v. lee
Thayer learnt the business. She is Miss
Eta Spencer, "A native of Phenix, and she
is train dispatcher of the Providence divi-
sion of the n. Y. * n. r.. X. R.-a single
track road of SO miles, through Coventry,
Baltic, and other towns TO Willimantic.
Supt. Palmer testifies Of her.-The Jour
nal.
When the NEWS quotes the Journal it
gives full credit as this column offers
daily testimony. When the Journal
borrows an article from the News it
would be newspaper courtesy to give
equal Acknowledgement of the obliga-
tory. The sketch of the woman train
dispatcher TO which the Journal gives
prominence, was prepared for the News
and appeared in its columns some six
weeks ago.
Nothing seems palmer than that the
Democrats in this Congress cannot ac-
complish anything substantial in the way
Of tariff reform, except to place the party
on record for the presidential fight.-Tel-
egram.
Nothing seems palmer than that the
Democrats in this Congress neither ex-
pect nor wish to accomplish anything
substantial for the country's interest, but
merely to manouevre for party position in
the campaign that even now Is on.
Col. Henry Watterson, Kentucky's
editor, again remarks in a friendly aside
to his party that its House of Representa-
tives is dangerously Democratic" The
colonel is an acute and truthful critic
Newport Observer.
And he recognizes clearly this win
ter's peculiar dangers as bearing on
Democratic chances of success in the
rapidly ly-approaching national election.
BY all means let Cleveland, II defeated
i'm the Democratic Convention, run as a
third candidate on Mugwump-Jiboose
ticket.-New York Press.
The coalition wouldn't land Grover in
the White House, but it would make an
interesting three-cornered campaign.
The success of Tammany in this State
and in the organization of the House has
established Tammany tactics as the rule
of the party for the Presidential campaigns;
and Tammany tactics have always been
confined to conducting campaigns by
tricks and expedients instead OF upon
principles and doctrines. What Tammany
wants is not the triumph of any principle
it cares nothing for free trade or free
silver-but simply power and plumber. 1t
made the present speaker; it controls the
present House; it sits in the saddle. Its
programme is agreed upon, and we shall
Tribune
We shall see the hungry tiger spring
ing at the throat of the nation. The
courage, watchfulness and patriotism.