The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-16

If silver keeps on falling at It's present
rate Of decline the utter absurdity OF
free coinage will be forced home even.
upon the peoples party. Worcester spy
Hardly. The populists can't be con-
vinced OF their error save by the hard
club OF experience.
1he energy. of the professional politi-
clans Is being wasted so far as the av-
erage voter In concerned. Just at present
he isn't Interested In the alleged issues
worth acent.-Journal.
We should hate to believe that the
average voter" was such a poor crea-
ture. At least the sensible and patri-
otic voter is very deeply interested.
Suspicion is directed toward the editors
VINO know so much more about the Dor
den murder than the police have been
able TO mud out. -Woonsocket Reporter.
Oh. the editors didn't commit the
murder for the sake of an item. They
know it all, !" not by experience but in
tuition.
The Attleboro Harrison and Reid flag
was struck by lightning Thursday. This
is only taste of what will strike 1t In
vember.-Pawtucket Tribune.
A good many people have wished to
Mr.. Cleveland, who is so worried about
the Constitution just now, did not care
rush about IL some years ago when 1t was
In real peril.-New York Recorder.
When the war broke out? Oh, you're
mistaken. He felt so strongly that the
war ought to be put down that he sent
substitute to help
The naval review which is to be held in
New York harbor next April bids fair to
be notable one = perhaps the most
notable one that the world has yet seen.-
Journal.
Bnt would it be notable IL our coast
wise marine were surrendered as our
merchant marine has been, to foreign
ers?
Mr.. Cleveland's letter in behalf OF Col.
ii. Clay King was a mistake. His crime
was revolving one, and deserved the
death sentence, il any crime does. New
Bedford Journal.
A mistake 1t was worse. It was
blunder. The Tennesseans who talk of
lynching King do not admire Grover SO
much AS they did.
We must rebuke the Charleston Ncps
for alluding to Gen. Butler as " Beast
Butler" He is back number now, aud
such characterizations Of him are out
lawed by the statute Of limitations.
Brooklyn Eagle.
It's Of no use. No statute of limita-
tions will ever keep an unreconstructed
rebel from calling Union general bad
names.
Grover Cleveland's friends, and the
wider circle of partisans whose hope Of
getting Office depends upon his election.
should organize Vigilance Committee
to confiscate all the pens, ink, paper, pen
ellis and postal cards in Gray Gables and
hang from the adjacent trees any ped
vicinity of the fat Sage's home with such
articles In his possession on.-Brooklyn
Times
Isn't this trifie extreme? OF course,
Growers letter writing is great nui-
sance but it doesn't justify an illegal
control and restraint.
II you want to read all the effusive and
letters which Grover Cleve-
land Is writing these days, you should
take the New York Sun. No other Demo-
cratic newspaper takes so much interest
in the epistolary efforts of the ex-Sruffed
Prophet.-Springfeld Union.
This is so noticeable, in fact, as to give
rise to the suspicion that the Sun is try
ing to knock out the Stuffed Prophet
with stuffed club.
The stalwart Republican PROVIDENCE
NEWS is astonished that anybody should
suggest the possibility of Mr. Blaine
proving Burchard to Harrison, but it
has no trouble in conceiying the possi-
bility of David b. Hill knitting Grover
Cleveland. The childlke faith of the
NEWS in Republican harmony is charm
ing ante-election spectacle. Worcester
Post.
Thank You for complimenting us on
our stalwart Republicanism. What do
you think of Dave and Cleve yourself,
now that the World has given up New
York?
Unless all the signs fail, there is every
prospect of large prosperity for this town
within the next five years. s.-Attleboro Sun.
Your town and every other which has
sense enough to profit by Republican
success, to which point all the "signs"
Won sneak of