The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-02
POLITICS IN NEWPORT.
Trouble Over the Edcts Of the DEM
ocratic Gar.
THE POLICE FORCE TO SUFFER.
Heads in That Department to be Chopped
or this Evening-A Record Of Drastic
Innoyations-B Year will Pass and
the Honey Regime End.
ESPECIAL TO THE NEws.l


NEWPORT, Feb. 2.-Shepolitical cauldron
is not only boiling, but seething over, and
IL seems before long as If somebody must
be scalded.
With the Inauguration of the new Demo-
cratic city government it was generally
and quite naturally expected there would
be general upheaval as regards the
Offices, but no one supposed for moment
there would be such drastic innovations
and defiance of precedent and law as has
taken place during the last month.
In the first place one OF the most perfect
fire departments in New England has been
dismembered and ruthlessly torn apart on
purely political grounds. and veterans OF
ten and fifteen years standing have been
decapitated TO make room for green
horns" in every sense of the word. An in
stance of this was given on Friday even
ing last, when the new number seven COM
pany took out their machine for trial
run and practice and went up Thames
street displaying green flag. While no
one has any objection to display Of the
flag of the Emerald Isle in its proper time
and place, still the incident above alluded
to has created a profound impression and
it Is pleasant to learn that the new officers
and men of this new company disclaim
any idea of giving any offence by the ex-
hibition of the emblem.
At the close of last week long syste-
matte robbery Of the Goodridge Rubber
Company was brought to light, the offend
ers arrested, plead guilty and were bound
over to the March term of the Supreme
Court. Not particle of information was
allowed to be given out at the police sta
tion to reporters, yet, in spite OF Mayor
Honey's (Russian) bann forbidding the
giving OF any news from the station, the
ha cfn m
all its completion. So much for the
Honey Ukase." If he likes to make a
fool of himself no one will kick A year
will soon pass over and Mr.. Car Honey
will bow with as good grace as possible to
his successor.
vote in the council appropriating $4,000
for alleged contemplated improvements
under the guise OF "new work" In this
matter the Republican members of the
City Council had the wool pulled over
their eyes in great shape by the lawyer
mayor, and are now kicking themselves
mentally for allowing themselves to be so
hoodwinked. Chairman Hammett of the
finance committee feels very sore over
what he terms the unfair conduct of His
Honor in stating unequivocally that ex-
City Solicitors Peckham of Newport and
Van Slyck of Providence had declared
such action was quite legal. The former,
Van Slyck says that while he said some
thing of that kind unofficially, yet when
his attention was drawn to q provision in
the Newport city charter forbidding an
expenditure above 5000 without first
submitting the question TO the people, he
should have replied quite differently.
Tonight the City Council holds it's
monthly meeting when, rumor saith. the
Democratic headsman will be present and
at the bidding of the czar will lop off the
heads of many members of the police de-
Dartment