The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-19
The NEWS TURN NOW

I'LL NLHO lUl\lNNOH
In the face of the evidence disclosed by
the investigation of the Committee on
City Property how can the voters OF the
Seventh Ward cast their ballots for VILE
liam w. Batchelder f-Telegram.
BY putting them into the ballot boxes.
IL shall not, as far as we are able TO pre-
vent, be permitted to escape the attention
of the citizens that the election OF Charles
Sidney Smith to the mayoralty at this
juncture means the consummation OF the
scheme by which the city is TO be delivered
to the four allied monopolies for the space
OF twenty-five years.-Telegram
II shall not, so far as the News is able
to prevent, be permitted to escape the at
tention of the citizens that the election
of Charles Sidney Smith to the mayor
atty at this juncture means continual
tion of the wise, businesslike and farsee-
ing municipal policy which has pushed
Providence into the front rank OF Amer
lean cities and ought to be permitted to
hold her there.
The municipal election next week Will
evidently arouse from their lairs all goou
partisans, who would vote for their re-
spective tickets under any reasonable
teresting as showing accurately the mum,
Der OF dyed-in-the-woo Republicans ana
Democrats-Journal and Bulletin.
This is rational and patriotic view, is
it not, to take of an event OF so much I'M
portance TO the city as the choice OF its
governing officers. 1t is easier to for
give the most rabid and wrong-headed
partisanship than it is to excuse the cool
Indifference and the supercilious assump-
tion of superiority on the part OF the
Mugwump who sits aloof and says,
None of these things concern me"
The Mugwump is most peculiar ana,
to the unregenerate, irritating sort OF
animal. He needs to have his ears boxed
at frequent intervals.
AS winter closes in upon us how CRATE
full must those of us who live by what we
earn be to the Mckinley tariff that has
caused boots and shoes 10 advance 20 per
cent, clothing 20 to so per cent. that po-
tatoes are taxed % cents bushel; that
beef is cents pound higher; that the
tax on the pane of glass to replace
broken one, is lis per cent, and that the
tax on the tin ware that must be bought
for the kitchen Is ia per cent. Has any
body heard of any raise of wages to meet
this extra expense Of living Telegram.
This is the kind of rubbish that pa
per of any intelligence ought to be
ashamed of repeating since it has been
refuted over and over until 1t is no
longer worth the trouble Of refutation.
The largest tin plate mill in the
country is TO be located at Milwaukee,.
Mind YOU, il sis to be-" like all the others
talked about. We shall all be glad to
welcome the first real tin plate factory in
this country when it is built. Thus far
American tin is one of those things con-
cerning which it is deemed excusable to
tell lies.-Newport News.
Especially in the way of denying what
everybody of ordinary intelligence
knows, that tin plate is now made and
put on the market in increasing guam
titles in this country.
Unless the man selected for the speaker
ship-whether he be Mills Crisp, McMil
lin. Springer or Hatch-shall stultify him
self, his party and his party's record in
| Congress, the committee on ways and
means will be headed by free trader,
and the committees of banking and cur
! rency and of coinage, weights and meas
ures by free silver coinage members.
| Measures will be presented in accordance
| with the composition of these committees.
| There is no escape from the committal of
the Democracy upon these questions in
| the form of legislation before the battle of
| 1892 comes on.-New York Press.
The Democrats are afraid to face these
issues and have tried hard to evade
them, but it can't be done. A direct
contest is what we are in for, with the
odds all in favor of the Republicans.
The Ohio Democratic politicians declare
that if they had had money enough they
| could have won. or, in other words, that
| an Ohio Democrat won't vote in the sacred
| cause of tariff reform unless he is paid for
it.-New York Recorder.
| Considering the woes that tariff re-
form would bring upon him the Ohio
| Democrat or any other Democrat ought
to be paid pretty well for voting for it,
| Considering his obligations to Tamma-
ny hall, if Mr.. Cleveland were elected
| President, wouldn't he be Obliged to make
the silver-tongued Thomas +. Grady his
attorney general?-Springfeld Union.
Tammany, it must be admitted, is
quite capable Of rubbing it in.
| The four corporations seek to be the
masters of the public for half century.
| Citizens, vote against them and their sub
servient tools, Charles sidney smith, Will
| liam r. Vaughan, William w. Batchel-
| der, Spencer T.. Read, David Burton,
| Frank :. Arnold and the rest of the
monopoly nominees, next Tuesday.-Tele-
| gram.
What reputable citizen is there who is
not in the Teiegrdm's clique whom it
| has not attacked rs monopolist and
called hard names, and who are the
people it calls its friends?
The New York Telegram remarks, "It
| takes Rhode Island deacon to make us
wonder at crime" Apropos Of what,
esteemed pinkeye S-Telegram.
The name Telegram seems to have a
bad effect on journalism.
The record of William X. Potter is one
| of untiring devotion and of faithful SER
vices i'm the cause of the people; that of
! Charles Sidney Smith is one of trucking
| and unquestioning obedience to mono
| poly behests, Voters The choice is
| yours.-Telegram.
Who are these people who are so
| anxious to push Mr.. Potter, and what
claim have they to be considered in the
interest of right, anyway?
The Boston Republicans have persuaded
| Horace G.. Allen TO offer himself as a sac