The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-06
The NEWS" TURN NOW.

These are tho days which Prof. Tot
ten predicted were to be the beginning or
the END Of the world. The world seems
slightly dattened ut the poles.-Pawtucket
Times.
Yes. but the New York World is
being considerably fiattened at the polls.
Although the free silver coinage bill
was not passed when its passage. was ex-
pected, and the disaster is for u time post
poned, there Is no doubt Of its final pas
sage, nor Of the disposition Of the house.
The important political fact Is that tho
great majority of the Democratic repre-
sentatives are in favor Of free silver. coin
age with all its consequences, the
triumphant passage of the bill at the emo
OF the debate WAS prevented only by he
publican action. -Harper's Weekly.
George William Curtis, though q
Mugwump, is honest enough to look the
truth fairly In the face now n then
when it's big and compels him.
Candidate Heffernan thinks the Randall
school of Democratic Protectionists is a
myth. Wrong, John. They hare simply
gone from your gaze by reason OF having
outgrown your class.-Woonsocket Re-
porter.
And next fall they will, if they are
wise, be found again voting the Protec-
zionist ticket.
Who says Rhode Island is the smallest
State in the acknowledgements News.
Who does? Produce the man. Let
him be boiled in oil or something.
The Herald ticket for the Republican
side is Blaine and Reid or Lincoln and
Reid.
The Hcrald's ticket for the Democratic
side is Watterson and Hill or Campbell
and Hill.
You pays your money and you takes
your choice.-New York Herald.
Good tickets for the Republicans,
both. But the Herald betrays its ignor-
ance of practical politics by putting
Blaine and Reid, both Eastern men, on
the >ame ticket. One of the nominees
must represent the great West.
II the tariff reformers succeed in carry
ing Rhode Island what q shout OF triumph
will go up from the manufacturing barons
of Great Britain. New York Recorder.
Sh! The hen is on. Walk softly till
tomorrow.
However Mr.. Blaine may be looked
upon in the other New England States, he
is not to-day as popular in Rhode Island
as he was four years ago.-N. Y. World.
This is on a par with the rest of the
Worlds campaign methods. Mr.. Blaine
had never more friends i'll Rhode Island
than he has to-day.
The Rhode Island election will show
whether manhood or money votes best
n. Y. World.
1t will, old bungler; it will. AT least,
we hope and believe it will.
1t must be confessed that the political
campaign has not progressed with the
vim, the ardor, the general clan that
| characterizes the work done by the Demo-
cracy in other States. World.
This is the forced confession of the
intrusive outsider as it looks back and
surveys the small results Of the work of
its /" bureau"
In his Providence speech Saturday
afternoon. eX-President Cleveland said
the national Democracy would hardly
crafty the wish of its adversaries by turn
ing its a upon the peoples cause, to
wander after false IN unsteady lights in
the wilderness of doubt aud danger"
Wasn't that a thrust at the free silver
craze?-Worcester Post.
If 1t was it was such a delicate and
dainty little joke that the fat joss is to
be congratulated upon his light hand.
An increase in ten years of over 100
wooden factories in Massachusetts, alone
does not look as though this branch of
manufacturing is "decaying" very rap
idly. 1t is because of such i~ndisputable
facts as these that IL is very uphill work
advancing political ideas which depend
largely upon the "decadence-of- New Eng
land" theory to give them any logical ex-
cuse for existence. Worcester Spy.
Industrial New England seems to be
all right in spite of the lugubrious notes
of the calamity croakers.
A man is not all wool because he is sew
eral yards wide. New York Sun.
And though silence is golden, yet a
little speech from Cleveland might have
been silver and still valuable.
Ex-President Cleveland / being hearth
~ endorsed In various parts of the coun-
try as the next Democratic standard
bearer. In the meantime enato Hill Is
Lying low" and allowing nothing to es-
cape his notice. -~Narragansett Weekly.
Mr.. Hill hasn't it'in his power to do
his party a great service by agreeing to
wait four years. For him, the longest
way round is the shortest way home.
Will he see it SO?