The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-26
The NEWS" TURN NOW.

Over 1900 newspaper men have. applied
Tor desk room to report the opening pro-
Inter-Ocean.
The boys will have good time at
Chicago. We would like to DO with
EN-.
The memories OF the late unpleasant
ness are evidently still too fresh In
Georgia to make campaigning there alto
gether comfortable for Union soldier
Journal.
But Northern doughfaces are still, as
In 1897, upholding the hands OF the
Southern unreconstructed rebels In their
efforts to ruin by free trade the country
they couldn't divide by secession.
The astute remarks OF Henry Waiter
son are not breaking out all over our es-
teemed Democratic exchanges Ike the
chicken pox this part OF the campaign.-
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Hardly. The Democratic managers
would like to have the country forget
that Henry Watterson ever existed.
Senator Hills faint praise of Cleveland
was almost as damning as Cockran's.-
When did Cochran ever praise Cleve-
land?
The New York sun argues that the
Chicago tariff plank does not mean what
IL says because certain interested poll
ticians say IL does not This sorS or rea-
soning would play sad havoc with the
len commandments
Well, what have the Ten Command
ments to do with Democratic politics9
Godkin walls like woman whose SEN
sitive nature has been horribly outraged.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
1t strikes us that the New York pa
pers are quite too awfully smart regard
ing this new evidence of the crankiness
OF Mr.. Godkin. He may be silly, but
are they not also foolish to continually
twang the one-stringed harp of smart
comment upon his Stiffness?
III you have a cesspool or dirty cellar go
out and assassinate u germ before break
last. a germ in time saves nlne.-Min-
neapolis Journal.
This Is good advice for all sections of
the country, but much more applica-
BILE here than in the cool northwest.
The editor who wrote the Journal arti-
Gle OH the q. A. X. Encampment at Wash
ington did not witness 1t or he never
would have used the phrase faint imita-
tioD" or have vented himself in "copper"
head criticism. More anon. .-Independ-
ent Citizen.
II isn't necessary for the Journal man
TO see anyi hing in order to know all about
Fan
the more the Journal knows about it.
Ward McAlister's son is likely to he
the principai IN divorce case; This Is
hardly good form, don't you Know
Olneyville Times.
1t is good form in the McAllister set.
but by laws Of their own making.
To put the matter brfy, politics has
come 70 be matter OF very small impor-
tance In this country, except for those
few per'ons who make their living out Of
it-Journal.
Fortunately the Journal is alone in
thinking 80. Other papers, even other
mugwump papers, consider politics very
important indeed.
Like all intelligent Americans who
travel through Europe with their eyes
epri,, the REV. DIR. Parkhurst has re-
turned nome with firm conviction that
municipal administration is far better
managed on the other side of the ocean
thau it is in this enlightened land Of ours.
journal.
If everything is so much better man.
aged over there, why not move the
journal Office over?
But this is all IA mistake. DR.. Park
hurst Is right in thinking Berlin and
Paris better managed than New York
but London is not. Divided into parishes
with conflicting and irreconcilable du-
ties and rights IL is an inapt administra-
tion whose weakness is shown at every
crisis.
But if New York's government is in
ferior to that OF Paris, Glasgow or Ber-
lin-if the worst governed American
city does not shine by comparison with
the best governed foreign cities, why
need we take comparison SO disad-
Why not point to our own
PROVIDENCE as an example of an Ameri-
can city which yields to none abroad in
the excellence of its government