The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-22

There is heap of trouble among the
politicians The week begins with tur-
moil everywhere in the Democratic camp.
and il may lead to disastrous demoraliza-
tion. The Wardwell gubernatorial boom
has been tapped on the quiet and SO much
of il has been run out, so the Baker men
claim, that the Brennan Carroll Page
combine is thoroughly alarmed for the
safety of the slate which was last fall set
up bythem for this spring.
Mr.. Wardwell's friends have been meas
uring him for gubernatorial uniform
for the last two months and have also
been in correspondence with two or three
foundry arrangements relative to the
casting of n crown.
But now everything appears TO be going
wrong. Newport's delegation to the State
convention is believed To be pledged TO
David :. Baker. East Providence is posi-
lively known TO be pledged for him, and
now comes the tidings from North Kings
town that on Saturday night Baker dele
gates were chosen there.
This is why the Baker men claim that n
message was sent posthaste TO Bristol.
Sunday, heating the wires redhot as IL
sped across country, requesting EX. Lieut..
Gov. Wardwell TO report at headquarters
this morning for conference with the
gentlemen who are managing his canvass.
The situation has become one of per
plexties. The tidings from the several
parts of the State as given by the anti
Wardwell wing show that Baker is a ia
yorte and that Wardwell is losing
ground. The Baker crowd say that If
Wardwell fails TO get a majority of the
delegates, that the whole slate set up by
the bosses will be smashed and that TO
e.. IL t..ssll l... ~ ottf
word at once not to elect any more Baker
delegates.
such a command as this would at once
set the kid glove and red-heel Democrats,
as the b-hoys call them, on the defensive,
and il would precipitate conflict which
would prove "a costly one.
III Baker can win out so can FitZsim
mons, of Lincoln. who will oppose Heffer
nan. of Woonsocket, the stated candidate
for secretary of State.
The foregoing is the Baker end of the
story. Now for the other side
The story that there was TO be confer
ence of the Wardwell people, was pub
lished in this mornings Journal.
Said Gen. Brennan this morning: THAT
is n fake, pure and simple From whom
did the yarn emanatep Why,tfrom the
Dwyers. They knew that il was not true.
You can say upon my authority that Gov.
Wardwell has not been sent for, and will
any cause for any conference.
Baker may have twenty-three dele
gates in the State convention--the chances
are that he will have less.
1.-The truth is that there has been com
bination between Honey, McNally and
Baker to capture the convention, but we
will show them trick or two.
Down in South kingstown last Satur
day night Bill Clark undertook TO carry
everything for Honey. What was the re-
sultg Why, we swept the hoor up with
him and defeated the Baker-Honey com
bination.
"In this city we are sure of every dele.
cation save from the First Ward, and
there we will have two men nj least. Nc
Nally and Honey have tried to get the
Providence delegates, and to make sure of
their game they have called in little Dick
Comstock TO help them. III show Mr.
CONS took that he can't carry the Second
Ward against me, as he has promised to
do.
Don't forget TO let the public know
that this is Honey -McNally Baker deal
and that we don't propose TO let 1T be car.
ried out.
"The Dwyers are persistent in their edi-
torials in the Journal that we are work
ing a Hill boom. They profess to have a
patent on the love for Mr.. Cleveland.
Why IL Hill should he nominated and
elected, the dawn of the day after the
election would find all three of them on
the doorsteps waiting for Hill TO get out
of bed that they might be the first 10 tell
him how great Hill men they had been.
I'VE are not Hill men, but Honey is,
and the Baker McNally crowd don't know
it. They DO not know that he has been
reading papers in Newport in favor of a
free coinage. They don't know that he
has seen Hill and pledged him support in
this State. Will Rhode Island endorse
...Il
around the city last night for the purpose
ofiecting complete ward organizations.
We captured all the wards in their en-
tirety save one, and that is the First. But
what wish TO speak of particularly is
the queer action OF the mayors clerk,
William n. Walker of the Fifth Ward,
last night. He was approached on the
subject of the selection OF the wards dele
cation TO the State convention, and meek
ly said that he should have TO favor
Honey and Baker.
1--WE told him at once that he had better
come off that perch. Didn't he know that
he was playing against the man who gave
him his Office Didn't ne know that he
was working against Mayor Potter and in
favor of McNallyi
Now either Mayor Potter will pull him
off that McNally- Honey Baker perch, or
Mr.. McNally will have the sole privilege
of nominating and electing Mr.. Potter
next November.
I'VE are placed at very unfair disad-
vantage. The Democratic city committee
paid $50 for complete lists of voters i'm
all the wards for use i'm the coming cleo
tion. First of all IL was necessary 10 have
this list that the proper notices might
be sent ont 20 all the qualified electors OF
the caucuses 10 be held for the election of
delegates TO the state convention.
What did the city committee doY Con.
trolled by the McNally gang, they turned.
these certified lists that we paid for over
To- the McNnllY- Honey Baker crowd and