The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-12
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1t is hard TO believe that veteran in
public life like Mr.. Mills should take
defeat so hard as he is taking his defeat
for the speakership. p.-Telegram.
1t is probable that the knowledge that
he was beaten by Tammany adds the
extra gall to the bitterness of Mr.. Mills
grief which is complained of.
Mr. Crisp Is said to have made little Sc
cret OF his impatience at the New York
Suns support in the late speakership con-
presidential possibilities, William 5. Hol-
man ct al, came TO him in the night
Journal and Bulletin.
The Bulletin should have told the
Journal or the Journal the Bulletin that
Crisp, having had the misfortune to be
born in England is not eligible to the
Presidency.
The idea of putting Gov. Russell Of
Massachusetts on the Democratic Presi-
Genital ticket for either one place or the
other, is perfectly preposterous. Ii Is per
fectly well understood in Boston that it
was started for a bit of free advertising
for some of the papers. No man was ever
nominated by either party who had not
served his party with national distinction.
Surely no one will claim that Governor
Russell has made such record as To en-
title him To recognition by national
onvention.-Newport Observer.
Talk is cheap at this distance from the
nominating conventions. 1t may tickle
Russell and il does nobody, unless Rus
sell, any especial harm.
The piqued and disgruntled state of
mind which led the two Mills men TO at
tribute their bolt To sound money zeal,
has only, il appears, raised a storm OF
ridicule at their expense, and has dis
tinctly injured the cause of sound money,
where a consistent opposition TO any free
coinage candidate would have won for
them the general respece which has been
shown Congressman O'Neil since his
steady refusal To vote for either Crisp or
Mills.-Boston Advertiser.
1t would meet with the general appro-
batting of the country if - Freddie and
Shermie" could be sent back To the kim
dergarten.
1t is an agreeable change to have mem
bers Of Congress from New England who
can attract the attention OF the entire
country by their protests against any tri-
fling with sound ecoISbmic theories. In
the matter of the free coinage of silver
ing of our representatives. ana
Bulletin.
And there isn'st Mills and Crisp, as
above stated, are both free silver men,
and the injudicious Massachusetts
youngsters bartered their convictions for
committee places and when they found
they had lost simply made a bad matter
worse by getting most childishly ratified.
Speaker Crisp has the right idea about
the makeup of the congressional COM
mittees. He is inclined TO conservative
action, but proposes some departures from
precedent that cannot fail TO be bene-
iicial-Telegram.
strenuously to propose up to date is the
keeping out of the Mills men.
No intelligent observer OF public affairs
of either party can afford not to read the
message. The boys and girls of high
school age are old enough to read IT with
profit, and if they want TO know what are
the leading questions in national life they
can not spend an hour or two better than
in a careful reading of this, the leading
State paper of the year. Their teachers
can render good service to the young
Americans whom the State Is training for
citizenship in the public schools by calling
exercise of two or three hours upon 1t
would be time exceedingly well spent
Fall River News.
How many teachers in Providence
will profit by the NEWS exceedingly
sensible suggestion?
CONGRESSMAN Williams and Hoar
showed their loyalty to conviction or
their cussedness-it all depends which
side of politics you are on-by refusing 10
vote for Speaker Crisp.-New Bedford
Evening Journal.
1t would seem that, when you take
into account the fact that Mills stands
for free silver as staunchly as does
Crisp, people of any party or of all par
ties might agree that Williams and
Hoar acted like petulent schoolboys.
1t is interesting to note that in his an
nual report Secretary Tracy Of the navy
pays high tribute to his Democratic pre-
decessor, ex-Secretary Whituey, whom he
commends for his " foresight and good
judgment " in providing a s2.0U0,000 plant
for making the armor plate and big guns
for the new navy. The expenditure was
provided for by a Republican Congress,
and it is an interesting fact that the only
member OF President Cleveland's Cabinet
who won special credit for his administra-
tion was the Secretary of the Navy, who
carried out a Republican policy.-Paw-
tucket Times
For sound business sense and good
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