The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-14
THE "wORLD, IN RHODE ISLAND.


The New York World wants to take a
hand in the fight in Rhode Island. The
Telegram having bolted, the case per-
haps warrants and certainly tempts out
side assistance, but the Worlds recent
successes in New York politics have not
been brilliant enough to justify any high
hopes of its proving mascot to its party
here.
1t signalized its New Years issue with
n dUubfe=feHdud editorial; announcing
with blare of trumpet and beat of drums
its lofty mission for the coming year.
It's abounding energies We're to bend
themselves with single-minded devotion
to the election of Democratic Presi-
dent. What was the first step it took
toward this important end?
Having stood by David B. Hill through
each and all of his political villanies;
having supported him consistently as
Governor, nominated him for Senator,
justified him in ignoring his political
duties in Washington to pull wires at
Albany; having held up his hands and
glorifed his trickery and theft in the
steal of the New York legislature, it
turned upon him of sudden and with
out warning, and with petulant fury
shook the pedestal upon which it, more
than any other influence, had exalted the
little bald-headed politician, until it
rocked again.
And what prompted this treachery to
its long time idol? Joe Pulitzer's bull
dog English secretary had a little pas
sage of words with Hill in Washington,
whereupon the gentleman from Austria
and Missouri telegraphed to New York,
''Down with Dave!'
- - This was the way the great Demo-
cratic paper proceeded to redeem its
grandiloquent pledge to elect a Demo-
cratic President. 1t has embroiled its
own party in its own State in
hopeless quarrels. II has lost New
York the Democratic nomination.
Piqued with Hill, Cleveland
hater from tradition, trying to force
upon the Empire State an unwelcome
candidate from some other section un-
certain, since it left its old moorings, of
its own course or drift forced by party
pressure to eat the most offensive of its
own words, distrusted, discredited in
party councils, it looks about for an is
sue upon which to redeem its lost pres
tige, and hits upon-as being conven-
iently far from home--the situation in
Rhode Island.
The Democrats of this State will feel
at first blush neither elation nor graft
tude. To be reckoned ''in connection
with New York, pivotal State this
year" is delicate bit of fattery, but it
viii hardly compensate for the inter
ference in estate where factions are
marked by some bitterness" of news
paper whose abilities are so conspicu-
ously great in converting bitterness into
broil. And yet Rhode Island Democrats
should not judge the World harshly.
The World, like the Telegram, is a
bolter; unlike the Telegram, it is at the
moment a repentant bolter, and proba-
bly, sincere in its wish TO atone by
straightforward service in State whose
principal Democratic organ is dis
gruntled, and where Republicanism has
for the first time in many years
staunch supporter in its principal city.
for n too rash and hasty kicking over the
traces in its own familiar stamping
ground. The World. as disinterested
outsider can hold the lines fairly, as be-
tween McNallyism aud anti-McNally-
ism. 1t has no discoyerable motive for
leaning to the side of Carroll or that OF
Honey. II can be impartial rs to Ward
well and rs Go Pond. Rhode Island
Democrats. therefore. should be mag
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