The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-07
The NEWS" TURN NOW


Bulkeley Of Connecticut Is welcome to
all the comfort he can extract out OF
judicial decision that declares hold
over" governorship to he preferable 10
anarchy and misrule. e.--l'oston oiooe.
Well, isn't it preferable?
The unbounded enthusiasm OF Matthew
Stanley Quay for the candidacy OF the
Hon James q. Blaine IN perhaps the
strongest argument in favor OF the rehoiiI,
nation of President Harrison that coulu
possibly be found-,Journal.
This isn't the kind of logic the new
paragrapher learned at Brown. lie
might as well say that the admiration OF
Sockless Jerry Simpson for picked
onions is "the strongest argument III
favor of Queen Victoria eating tripe.
Some of the new silver coins have been
put i'm circulation at Washington. What
we need is more worth in the silver
already in acknowledgement.
Here the Telegram is not in accord
with the position Of its party In the
country.
The latest scheme credited to Senator
Hill may safely be set down TO the excited
imaginations.of the NewYork Republicans
has passed Why should any Democrat
want the New York presidential electors
chosen by the Legislature when there Is "a
Democratic majority Of iO,COJ In the state.
Telegram.
But there isn't Democratic majority
of 10000 in the State, Presidential year,
as You may have noticed in 1888. And
there will be Democratic legislature
next year, il the gerrymander bill goes
through. And as Hill is equal TO any
audacious scheme to defeat the peoples
will the danger is not imaginary.
Even an agnostic is sometimes incon-
s,stent. Col. Bob Ingersoll, in replying
To structures made by DIR. Buckley of the
Christidn AdC0cate, says: Il cannot ar
ford 10 call DR.. Buckley names. have
good mental manners. The cause rep
resent. in part, is too great, too sacred To
be stained by an ignorant or n malicious
personality Col. Bob by implication
alludes to the doctor as ignorant and ma
lcious III that isn't calling names what
is?-Chicago Herald.
Personality" means reflection upon
% person." Col. Ingersoll said he didn't
want to reflect upon DIR. Buckley by
calling him names. Isn't that plain!
Col Ingersoll may be off in his theology,
but he can give the Herald points on
grammar.
Mayor Pond was elected last Saturday.
On Monday morning he had message of
the ordinary length, and good one too
IL must have been n hard Sunday for him.
--Pawtucket Tribune.
No: he had it all written beforehand.
Cleveland stock appears to be going
down hill very fast before the trickery of
the boss demagogues of New Iork.-Fall
River News
We're not so sure of that. New York
and MARYLAND do not rule the Demo-
cratic convention. The solid South has
TO be reckoned with. Even Crisp is u
Southern man.
Senator Edwards may not be popular
now with the Republican bosses, but he
succeeded in preventing their Senators
from pursuing very unpatriotic ana
silly course The sensible men of the
party will be inclined 10 thank him.-New
York World.
Yet the fact remains that the Demo-
Gratis control the New York Senate by Il
clean steal, if a steal can be clean. This
kind of success doesn't succeed in the
long run.
New York has but one advantage over
Chicago and that is that she receives the
London comic papers twenty-four hours
earler.-Chicago Post.
New York has the advantage, did you
say;
The Boston few who are headed by man
named Means-a Means to no good end
are more injurious. in their friendship, to
Mr.. Cleveland than their enmity ever
could be. They sound u call for "Cleve-
landism against Democracy" on the
ground that Mr.. Cleveland is better than
his party" at exactly the time when it is
absolutely necessary for. "Clevelandism"
to signify Democracy and nothing else or
go to the wall and when it is
vitality important for Cleveland
ism" to have the good will of
the party instead of exciting its i'll will
by assuming % be superior TO 1t. IL these
Boston men desired the political destruc-
tion of Mr.. Cleveland, they could bring it
about in no surer manner than the one
they are pursuing. We are not at all GER
tain they are not foes in disguise. If
they are friends, they are fool friends.
Brooklyn Eagle.
This. from strong Cleveland paper, is
instructive. Supporting Cleveland is
one thing. Putting him up on "a pedes-
tai and worshiping him is quite another,
though eminently characteristic of the
town which skips gaily from Browning
to Ibsen and imagines each successive
craze To be the all absorbing topic of the
universe.