The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-07-16
The NEWS TURN NOW


Mormons are Democrats aud we expect
every day TO read that Democratic are
Mormons. We have been CALLED almost
everything but that already. Newport
Since Mormons are Democrats some
Democrats must be Mormons; no offense
to our contemporary personally.
The defeat of the Stewart bill In the
House yesterday renders IL impossible for
the Republican party In the Easte rn
States To claim any advantage over the
Democrats on the question OF free silver
coinage. Bedford Journal.
Oh! We had supposed the bill was
passed by Democratic votes In the Sem
ate and defeated by Republican votes In
the House. This seems to offer some
small advantage.
The PROVIDENCE News says that 1t does
not now insist that appointments to po-
lltical Office should be made according TO
the numerical proportions OF the classes
from whom the appointees may he drawn.
We congratulate the NEWS upon having
taken one little step forward in the right
direction, aud by and by IL will acknowl-
edge that fitness and capabilities are es-
sential qualifications The NEWS does
not deny that it would kick IL a colored
man were made postmaster in PRovI-
DENCE, for IL says, 'other circums ances
fitting we should not" That is the way
they feel in Charleston. The 'other cir
cumstances" the NEWS prattles about
were not fitting. -Woonsocket Call.
When the News is misquoted and
misrepresented in this fashion 1t would
kick If the weather permitted. The
day not inviting such athletic perform
ance the News will simply remark that
what it has said and now says is
that ''other things being equal
that is fitness and capability be-
ing duly considered" it is as
fair as it is polite that the numerical
proportion Of the classes from which
appointees may be drawn should be con-
sidered. Nine-tenths of the Republican
voters in Charleston being colored, why
should not Charleston, President Harri-
son having looked into the question of
capability, have colored postmaster?
Npe-tenths OF the Republican voters of
PROVIDENCE being white, what parallel
ism is there in the case?
or course the voluntary advance In
wages at Fall River Is due to the prospect
OF democratic success and the triumph OF
of free trade. Who ever heard of a mans
pay being advanced under protection p
w NoonsockeJ rtepOfCer.
Nobody; that is no Democrat who
keeps his ears well stuffed with cotton
wool.
1t is not now likely that Mr.. Glads,on
will live TO see his cherished measure
carried into effect and an Irish Parlia-
ment ruling in Ireland.-Putnam Patriot.
Why not? His majority is growing
and the doctors can see no physical
reason why he shouldn't live to be 200.
Possibly the President OF the Carnegie
Company is arroXant aud selfish, but an
affective cure Of the evil Is to build up
rival establishments which will be bidding
for laborers. Dynamite will not cure the
trouble, but greater enterprise. Paw
tucket Gazette and Chronicle.
Sense, sense With cooler days
Homestead will bring a cooler head to
do its thinking.
There There's are % plenty % Of others % @PRoVYpEsc9 NEws
m None them has been properly
asked yet.-PRovIDENcE NEWS.
That's rough on the Boston Journal-
Attleboro Sun.
You're rough on yourself, aren't you,
for you indicate that Halle, whom the
Journal wants and you don't, isn't a
mediocre man.
Has not the time arrived for Congress
to take its long vacation? A long rest
might prove beneficial to Congress and
the people also. Valley Glea-
ner.
No doubt about the people but as for
those free trade copperhead Democrats
they're past learning. They'll just be
the same or more so, next winter, espe-
cially on the Silver question.
Nobody who knows mis- (Platt's) record
will say that he has not made for himself
as unenviable political reputation as
either the ex-mHvor Of Troy or the boss of
Tammany HalL-PROvIDENCE journal.
It strikes ms that this statement is
libelous. Croker is an unhung mur.
derer. Murphy was the hero of
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Scandal.
Thomas &. Platt is man whose judg-
ment is not inerrant and who has made
grave mistakes, but no authentic charge
has ever been brought against his honor,
nor is there the slightest reason to brand
him rs bad rs murderer.
Mr.. Cleveland's opinions of the Force
OIL, ~ eNpresseu ln ietter 10 need
lessly inquisitive Kentuckian, seem to be
substantially the same as those enter
tanned by the most intelligent and dom
inant elements OF the Republican party.
There In no issue in that matter.-Journal.
Mr.. Cleveland and the Journal would
be glad TO have us believe that there is
no issue. But there is, and every in
telligent man knows there Is, no matter
on which side his sym pathies may lie.
WAGES AT BOMEsTEAD.
When Mr.. Roatner, the Democr atic