The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-08-19
As I WAS SAYING.

saw John Swinton on the platform Of
the Sixth avenue elevated at Ninety
Third street, New York. yesterday after
noon. He was reading the Sun, which
means that his eyes are better. 1t was
hot, and Swinton didn't like IL any better
than the rest Of us sweltering mortals.
He sat on the platform settee with his
(truth to telD very badly rufied beaver
tipped back from his broad flushed face
and white, bristling eyebrows. Swinton
Is not an ornamental man precisely, but
his face has power in 1t, and the veteran
journalist stands out conspicuous in any
assemblage OF average humanity.
New York begius to show at every turn
that this is Presidential year. The cam
paigu banners are out in strong force,
and as went through Fourteenth street
the blood-red front OF Tammany Hall SO
fascinated me that I walked back and
stood upon the opposite side OF the way
studying the full Rorgeousness and pos
sible significance of the enormous three
panelled crimson transparency that
covers almost the whole front OF the
building, and carries in the middle the
names of Grover and Adlai in huge white
letters. At the top of the screen are
mounted very bad pictures of Steve and
Cleve, to name them In the revised order
VI PTctcucuCC ub A6uiiudn1 SEoo bhSul,
and below the portraits is tho legend,
Regular Democratic-Republica Nom l.
nations" 1ammany's retention Of the old
name OF the party puzzles half the pass
ers, and the Others grin as they read at
the foot Of the panel a long arr soapy ex-
tract from Cleveland's enlogistic letter to
that platitudinous praise" said a man
behind me, 'just to make Grace cuss,"
and it doesn't look unlikely.
The side panels are empty, waiting for
the local nominations, and Grace may de-
velop new possibilities in the use of swear
words IL few weeks from now Dick Gro
the portly gentleman, his former idol.
from Buzzard's Bay.
There are no very good campaign pic
lures yet. The Tribune has the most am
bilious ones adjoining it's polished gran
ite front on Newspaper row. Its portraits
Of Harrison and Reid are big, and abound
in flesh tints and have any amount OF
bunting painted about them.
The Press has some huge cylinders of
American tin tied up with rod, white and
blue in its windows. Col. Shepard has
the regular campaign Autographs and SO
has that bolting Democrat. Col. Cockerill
of the Advertiser and Morning AdUer-
tiser. The Recorder Office has cousid-
OI6oio voLiCby VA VI CohQiuoOcS,
but none especially notable.
The man who Is making himself most
conspicuous at present Is the campaign
portrait painter, who swings his adver-
tising banners everywhere with beautiful
impartiality, . very whte-haired Harri-
SON on one side aud q very red faced and
apopletic Cleveland on the other.
But they don't talk politics very ex-
citedly in New York; it's too hot. They
talked mostly about Nancy Hanks yester-
day and the lively snake-up there is
going to be on the World just a. soon as
Pulitzer gets home.
In support of its assertion that the
headlines In Boston papers are frequently
unspeakably bad the News merely In
stances that horror, Day Criminai,"
in this mornings Globe. One might sup
pose that some one named Day had been
cutting up some monkey SHINE, but the
context all refers to peckham's crazy
confession at Fall River. Perhaps the
headline means .One Day q Criminal, =
or "a Criminal for Day. Even that
would be pretty tough on Peckham, fol
he is only n sham criminal.