The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-02-06
THE NEWS" TURNNO

1t may be remarked once more that the
essential objection to Boss Hills snap
convention Is not that it is intended to in
jure the personal political prospects OF ex.
President Cleveland, which Is a matter OF
small consequence even TO himself, but
that IL will surely injure the Democratic
party.-Journal.
For which the Journal thus confesses
its ill-natured affection.
This Nebraska illegal holdover proposes
to hold on to the Office of governor At least
until the decision of the Supreme Court
is formally promulgated, and 1t Is re-
ported that he entertains hopes that he
will be able to defy the decision OF the
court.-Telegram.
The Telegram telegraphic service must
be very poor IL it did not receive wcrd,
before this lying attack was written that
Gov. Thayer not only bows TO the
Supreme Courts decision but has all mis-
arrangements made for business ven
ture.
The true Democratic party sentiment.
as far as it has been given expression has
SO clearly, indeed, that were 1t allowed to
govern to-day, ex-President Cleveland
would be nominated with almost unanim-
Observation-Disclosures.
Who stands for the Rhode Island De-
mocracy any how, Honey or Brennan!
The selection of delegates to the nation.
al convention, which has also been billed
for March (at the meeting or the Demo
cratic State Convention), is not as ob1ec-
tionable as the nomination OF senator, Dut
this, too, tends to place the whole respon-
sibilty of inaugurating an important
presidential campaign into the work OF
the primaries limiting the time Tor dis
cussion and forcing definite conclusion at
too early date. The whole thing smacks
too strongly of machine politics. -Woon-
socket Reporter.
But Brennan, you know, has such a
strong admiration for Hill.
A presidential election is drawing nigh,
and the people will not favor rush expert
ments. .--Pawtucke Gazette and Chroni
cle
Still they would like to see the big
quarrelsome. do-nothing Democratic ma
jority do something.
With Presidential campaign formally
opening in June and Congressional ses-
sion that now promises TO last until Octo-
ber, the summer exodus to Europe Is
likely to be very large.-Journal.
The Mugwumps find themselves so
completely ignored that it may be more
comfortable for them to go and talk
things over with their allies in England.
The proposition has been made in Con-
press that the Presidents salary be re-
duced. A better move would be to elect a
man to the Office who can earn the present
salary.-Telegram.
We did it in 'ss and we'll do it again,
thank you.
When the governor of New York was
approached the other day on the subject
OF a half-million Appropriation for the
Empire States representation at the
Worlds Fair, he responded, Rats A
full treasury always breeds rats " Now
this may have been very undignilied for a
governor of the great State of New York,
but there are some people who will see the
forcible expression of an uncNniable truth
i'm what the governor said, however in
elegant the phrase he adopted, and who
will commend the wisdom of his know
ledge in this particular ut least.-Journal.
Since the Journal finds nothing amiss
in Flower, what after all is the matter
with Hill!
The city of Chicago has four hundred
churches and not one public bath.
The city ,of Chicago is asked To spend
two million dollars Il year on high schools
and fancy education and there are 20,OVO
children vainly rapp:ng for admission to
primary grades.
The city of Chicago has a chief Of police
who breaches in pulpits Sundays, advo-
eating that criminals be treated as II they
were sick men, while tine police force
treats sick men on the streets as IL they
were criminals.
The city Of Chicago has five thousand
superb private equipages for its rich and
two ambulances for its 999,99 poor.
The city of Chicago can accommodate in
magnificent hotels 100000 strangers: il
has no place for little boys under arrest
except the companionship OF incorrigible
criminals In q jail or house OF correction.
The Chicago Herald.
Since these things are so, it would be
good scheme for Chicago to mend its
ways before the great fair.
The Louisiana lottery will go out of ex-
istence because the Federal government
prohibited the use of the mails for dissem.
mating lottery literature in any form
whatever 1t was Republican Congress
that passed that beneficial law.-New
York Press.
And it is the Democratic ring in
Louisiana which is cursing the law.
Two thousand signatures to the call foi
the meeting may convince the Hill mana
gers that the opposition TO the midwintel
convention is too serious to be whistled
down the wind.-New York Recorder
And vet Hill is hard to convince. Why
shouldn't he be? His audacity has hith.
erto always been crowned with success
and whatever he has done has prospered
Pride goes before fall.
That wall Of Frenchman over the new
tariff in France, which we publish ia our
telegraphic columns, would be truly pa
thetic were IL not for the fact that its ef
fectiveness was long since weakened by its
frequent repetition by the Democratic
press and calamity howlers in general
When arguments are battered down and
the demagogues are pushed 10 their last
resort they fecbly shout. Charge it &c
Mckinley. ."-Springteld Union.
Exactly. The grip, bacillus and the