The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-27
THE" NEWS TURN NOW

Aiuou Dy tno increase In poPuiociou eu0
reduced between 1880 and 1890 from s38. SO
to $l4.24, good deal more than % per
cent. IL should be added, also, that In
the same period the value or property as
sessed for taxation has grown from sew
enteen thousand million to Twenty-Five
combined record of dcbt-paying. and
matchmaking. such as has probably
never been duplicated.-Journal.
Even Mugwump calamity press Is
forced at times to bear reluctant witness
TO the success which has attained the
Republican party's financial policy.
The election yesterday caused almost as
much excitement in the city as parade
of the Prohibitionists on Fourth OF July.
Journal.
And the amount of excitement cre-
ated by the Journals efforts o. to bring
out the vote and secure majorities for
nine representatives from this city
might be compared with the stir pro-
duced by canker worm 'inching It's
way over leaf leisurely.
Every Republican platform that Is
adopted. repeating the party's insolent
defiance OF the people, emphasizes the
demand and the pledge Of the World that
the merit President must be Democrat
n. Y. World.
This is characteristic example of a
species Of blamed fool political writing
not uncommon in Democratic papers.
A man can rattle off such "pony para
graphs" at the rate of column an hour.
but what's the use? The Republican
platforms do not defy" the people.
Great Scott How can they? The Re-
publicans are the people, or part OF
them.
The excessively high freight rates that
our people are compelled to pay are
milestone hanged about the neck OF every
Westerly industry. And yet, you will
hear men talking about tariff" and
about voting 'the party ticket" instead
of putting their shoulders to the wheel
and striving TO life the town out OF the
mire. in which il has been left by reason
| Of a lack of railway competition. Yves
terly IriDune.
| Why not support the tariff and work
| for lower freight votes, too! That would
| be common sense.
IL is easy enough, dog having a bad
| name, To make his reputation worse even
| il he does nothing to warrant it.-New-
| port Herald.
Which is an excellent reason, good
| dog Honey, for taking care of what poor
shreds of reputation for political honesty
You may have left to you.
| Messrs. Borrowe and Fox have fought a
| duel. We regret to announce thai neither
one fool nor the other was killed.-New
Bedford Journal.
| 1t is rather discouraging to the man
/ x~xlx< al 10 haI, ia "a II
righteousness of the system of things
that the death to result from the dis
| gusting scandal should be that of the in
nocent father of the very possibly inno-
cent woman, and not of one or the lot of
foul.tongued men who, with their idiotic
talk of "honor,r have dragged her name
in the dust without warrant or neces-
sity.
The one thing left to Hill is to kill of
| Cleveland. He has already killed himself.
Newport News.
The Ne,rs may be right as to substance
| Of doctrine, and yet, being dead, how il
Hill to cause anybody else to die?
Here comes one of Millionaire Calvin
Stewart Brice's college classmates telling
how he used to loan Brice shirts, to say
nothing of other articles of clothing, when
he was in college, in order to help the
poor boy along. This looks as IL Brics
might be looming up as Presidential
candidate.-Boston Herald.
He'd be an easy man to beat. Just
show up the nickel plate bunco game
and Brice would be dead as doornail al
a candidate.
Democratic success in 1890 proved to
- rofnr nd ho 10,
nomination Of Mr. Cleveland in '92. but
the gravest peril to the currency AN the
theft of one branch of the Legislature In
New YorK.-Harper's Weekly.
The discrepancy between the vows oil
the devil when sick and the conduct o
the devil when restored to health is toe
familiar to need more than brief mention
Gov. McKinley's mother celebrated heI
S4th birthday last Friday. The governors
father and mother are both hale and
happy old people, proud of their distin
guished son. May they live to see him in
the White House Chicago Inter-O Ocean
1t looks now as if 1896 might easily be
McKinley's year.
Should Blaine and Mckinley be the
standard bearers, on the business platform
of protection, reciprocity aud an honest
currency, the Republicans would sweep
the country like a whirlwind.-Woon-
socket Reporter.
The platform and the principles will
be the same whatever names are on the
ticket, and it is through the sponta.
neous endorsement of its principles by
intelligent Americans that the Republic
can party looks for victory. 1t is not
driven, like the Democracy, to define
itself or dodge definition through the
personality of its candidates.