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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

The defeat of Mr.. j. G. b. Woods for
the Senate, if the official count shall
prove him defeated, is matter for sin
cere and poignant regret. Mr.. Woods
is thoroughly az home in his position,
familiar with his Legislative duties and
more than competent to represent the
great and varied interests of this city in
the upper branch of the General Assem-
bly,. If he is not to return to his seat,
the Republicans who by their negli-
gence yesterday lost the city his SER
vices should take shame to themselves.
The narrow margin by which the SEN
atorial election was carried is crying
reproach to the stay-at-home voters who
could so easily have settled it otherwise.
The extra expense to which the city will
be put in holding third election for the
choice of Representatives is q bur
den of blame which must fall
upon their shoulders also. 1t is a
duty as well as privilege to exercise
the right of suffrage. Had the men
whose honest convictions are with the
Republican party gone to the polls yes
terday, we should have given n majority
to Woods and the greater number of the
Republican candidates for the House of
Representatives. The Prohibition vote
dropped to bottom figures; that would
have made our task so much the easier.
Within ten days the effort must be
repeated. Let every Republican take
warning from yesterday and see that he
does what in him lies to secure an elec-
ton. We must increase our legislative
majority.
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the Republican party, the outgrowth OF
Whigdom, without his assistance.
EASTER SUNDAY.

II is but one of the many gratifying
proofs of the increasing solidarity of the
Christian church that the observance Of
Easter, like that Of Christmas, has be-
come well nigh universal in all denomi-
nations, and the old Puritan suspicion
of forms, ceremonials and festivals
has entirely faded away. Even in
the churches which do not observe
Lent as season in any wise differing
from any other forty days, Palm Sunday
and Easter are now observed with suita-
services of song and sermon, for the
value in Christian education OF this an
nual rehearsing of the old, old story of
Jesus Christ's vicarious suffering is rec
ognized wherever that story is told, now
over almost the entire world. There is
the Easter of spring flowers here, the
autumnal Easter of New Zealand and
Australia, the wintry Easter OF
the far North. and indeed an
inspiring thought it is that as
the Eastern sun takes its western
course tomorrow, one continuous sue
cession OF Easter services following each
other, by zones and belts of latitude
from East to West. The old pagan.
with his fiat earth beneath whose dim
mysterious edge the sun nightly dipped
and his Hellenic or Germanic deities
peopling in human wise Olympus or
Valhalla had no such inspiration of
human kindness. That inspiration
came with the Christ who rose again on
Easter day.
1t now appears that the warm spring
sun will make the day as glorious in
aspect as it is grand in associations.
And from all the preparations for its
celebration which are being made. and
of which some account is elsewhere
given, we may be assured that it will
be well and rightly spent.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

There were forty-eight men and one
woman In the graduating class in the
College of Pharmacy. Northwestern Uni
versity, and the woman, Viola Griswold,
took the first prize.
The late Roscoe Conkling refused TO at
tend his daughters wedding because she
chose to marry railroad train hand. To-
day that young man Is at the head of one
of the biggest railroad systems in the
country. The daughter appears TO have
had better eye for genius than the old
gentleman.
Senator FELTON, acquired his first capital
by watching ystack, shotgun in hand,
for month to repel marauders For this
service he was paid $500 in gold, seemingly
"A fabulous sum, but that was In the flush
times of the argonaut days when bullion
was plentiful and the necessaries Of life
scarce.
Her Won Mumms successor as the sec
retary of the German Legation in Wash
invton will he Baron Won ketteller, who
will sail for the United states next week.
lie is bachelor. about 40 years of age,
and AN accomplished gentleman. He is
already known in Washington, having
visited there more than once Oh his way
10 aud from Peking, where he had been
Secretary of Legation. Oh late he has
been attached to the foreign ofiicr in
Berlin.
The French newspapers report the
death. ut the age OF 20 years, of Nine de
Beirc. the first French woman To enter
Tonquin. She accompanied the first ex-
pedition Of 1874, and had remained i'm the
colony ever afterward. Her heroic endur-
ance OF the early trials of the invasion had
won Tor her high position In the esteem
Of her fellow countrymen.
The liking Baron Hirsch, the Austrian
many-millionire. has for England seems
to be daily increasing Having recently
established himself In n permanent home
IN London. he Il looking about for
country estate. and Is said 90 I've about TO
purchase Bcrcsford Hopes bedgebury
property This estate embraces G.tOO
acres aud il said To be very charming
place.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

On Wednesday of this week the
Democratic majority of the New York
Assembly passed an "act to revise and
consolidate the laws regulating the sale
of intoxicating liquors" to several in
teresting clauses of which the attention
of those vigorous assistant Democrats,
the third party Prohibitionists, is re-
spectfully directed.
The bill as originally introduced con-
tanned section permitting the opening
of the saloons during certain hours on
Sunday. This had to be expunged in
consequence of the tremendous pressure
of public opinion. AT the eleventh hour
another provision, which had survived
all the amendments and references and
recommitments, had to be dropped out
also. This was the famous "spy
clause" which made il a misdemeanor
for any officer or agent to enter saloon
at any hour when the sale of liquor
was forbidden by law and attempt
to buy for the purpose of prosecution.
Eleven Democrats, and it is to be OBJ
served that they were all country Dem
ocrats, declared that they could not
face their constituents after asserting
to any such measure. and rather than
have the bill defeated the Assembly
recognized the exigencies Of the eleven
protestants' petition. But even with
these two clauses eliminated, every
liquor man in New York city has been
dancing for JOY for seventy-two hours
over the bills passage.
These are some of the new privileges
il grants them: W-It makes it easier
to get a license. A board of excise is
forbidden to refuse license arbitrarily.
An applicant under IL has right to writ
of certiorari, 20 be heard by Superior
Court, "a Court of Common Pleas, n
County Court or a Supreme Court or
Supreme Court Justice TO review the
action of the board. and the court may,
at its good pleasure, command the ex-
else commissioners TO issue the license.
a field is here opened up for endless lit
igation.
g)-The bill renders II much more
difficult to "break" liquor license. II
contains some provisions for the revoca-
tion Of n license by the conviction of
licensee .. .on' during the term of
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16
THE PULSE OF THE PRESS.

Republican Mayor Wanser of Jersey
City may succeed Gov. Albeit, instead of
the Democrat McDermott, who expected
to take this pathway to Trenton.-New
York Press.
Jerry Simpson and his fellow-alliance
cranks are going to start paper on $780,
600. They evidentlv don't expect the
gan.-Boston News.
The Indianapolis Sentinel has been poll
ing the press preferences for the Demo
cratic nominee in the State of Indiana. 1t
finds "a for Cleveland, 32 for Gray, and IA
non-committal.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
They say that the new submarine boat.
which has just been launched, can make
a trip to the bottom of the sea and return
without difficulty. Let's hope that 1t
Herald.
The Savannah Democratic papers
cruelty remind Mr.. Hill that because the
Democrats down there received him cour-
teously IL by no means follows that they
want to see him nominated for the Presi-
dency.-Buffalo Commercial
A failure to elect in some instances
would not be surprising, as the third
party men, even when they have no on,
their strength in the first trial and their
continued voting can result only In pre-
venting an election. thus causing expense
with no corresponding benefit, either to
the public or to the third party ITSELF
Burrillville Gazette.
From what I consider very good
authority have this story: Soon before
the Democratic State convention In New
York, Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer of New York
was in Washington. He called upon
Senator Hill and offered the support of
the World IL he, Pulitzer, might name
three Cabinet officers in case Of Hills
success. The senator politely declined to
consider "A proposition so irrational, and
the newspaper began its don't campaign.
Then it went to Rhode Island and helped
TO carry the State for the Republicans.
Extract from private letter, New York
Sun
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16
the license, but short of this, it will be
narticularlv hard To take action.

the license, but short of this, it will be
particularly hard to take action.
(9--It grants permission to those
holding liquor license to sell for con-
sumption off the premises as well as ON
it. Heretofore every liquor dealer who
filed a "growler" for a customer or sold
pint of whiskey to him, technically
violated the law.
(4)-The bill provides that no suit for
civil damages against a liquor dealer shall
stand unless he shall have received
written notice not to sell or give away
liquor to the person whose intoxication
shall have caused the damage. This in
New York city, be it observed, means
the serving of notice upon 1000 deal
ers, not counting those of Brooklyn or
nearby pleasure resorts, rs. for exam
pie, Fort Lee or Coney Island.
(5)-lt draws closer the connection be-
tween the Democracy and the liquor in
terest in cities by making the terms Of
Office of the Commissioners of Excise
coincident with that of the Mayor who
appoints them.
(6)-It allows an additional license to
be granted when it appears that pub
lie necessity" requires that the premises
remain open between and 8 o'clock in
the morning. Liquor saloons may thus
be kept in full blast the twenty-four
hours through.
C0--It permits liquor dealer who
sells his place of business to sell the Ii
cense along with it.
Sit permits a liquor dealer who
owns dozen saloons to obtain dozen
licenses in his own name.
(9)--It gives the liquor dealers mo-
nopoly of the business by forbidding
druggists to sell except upon physi-
clans prescription.
The bill will be before the Senate
Tuesday and will be passed without diff
ficulty. Is it any wonder that out of
1000 saloons in New York city not 100
are kept by Republicans, and is not a
wonder that third party exists NOM
inally pledged to the suppression of the
liquor traffic, but actually playing into
the hands of the liquor Democracy!
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

It seems to be pretty generally agreed
by members of the third, or Prohibition
party, that their party name is worn
out. IT has stood SO long as synonym
for utter impracticability and implaca-
bic hostility to the party of progress.
protection and common sense that men
who possess the last and believe in the
other two don't like to be known as
Prohibitionists. The third party lead
ers see this. and as they do not see that
any new name would soon come into
equal disrepute, they are hot in search
Of it, promising only that it should not
be changed on the eve Of Presidential
campaign.
The Westerly Tribune. which ex-
hibits all the ardor of apostasy in its
peculiar course. suggests that the party
be known as Liberal" and justifies its
choice as follows:
There is nothing in name. A rose
would smell just as sweetly (''sweetn it
means) IL called something else. A Pro
II known as a Liberal, as did the old Abo-
litionist after he had consented-for the
sake Of removing the prejudice that ex-
isted-to be called Republican.
The name Liberal is fine one, and
has good, generous sound. We likeit.
But to apply it 10 the most illiberal of
parties seems as inappropriate as a cold
potato in a necklace of pearls. 1t seems
TO the News that the "Rule or Ruin "
party, the Free Rum party, the
"Pecksniffian party or some such per-
tinent phrase more aptly expressing the
aims and wo kings OF the "drys" would
be better. The suggestion is made with
out charge.
And. indeed, why change the name at
all? "Prohibitionistv is brief, express
sivs and in as good repute as IL de-
serves 20 be. The "old Abolitionist'
ia not change his ia,ne until the work
g abolition had been accomplished by
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

the Independent vote dictates-and of
every other Northern State.-Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
It's refreshing to quote such common
sense from the very far West. They're
not all silver cranks ont there.
It begins now to look very much as IL
Mr.. Cleveland will have the delegation to
Chicago from every State in the Union
except New York, and, no doubt, when
the uninstructed Tammany delegation
from that State see how the tide is run
ming they will also come over to him.
Then, Of course, he will carry the State,
for Mr.. Hills great forte is that he is a
Democrat, and, as such. he will be too
loyal to his party to allow it to be beaten.
Richmond Times (Dem.)
Thus is the wish father to the
thought in Democratic minds. for in
the same groove do they all run now-a-
days. Mr.. Hill may have to come to it,
with wry face.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16
AS 1 WAS SAYING.
Over on Eddy street this sign may b,

Over on Eddy street this sign may be
read:
auction Sale of
Ladies' Garments
"Now On"
The question is: Does the lady 20 with
the garmontsl
The laugh is on party of fishermen
who do business on Dyer street. They
went fishing and returned with hand
some mess of trout much to the chagrin
OF another party who thought they had
gone fishing at the same place. Come to
find out the fish were caught somewhere
else, and some one is telling fish stories.
The animals at the park feel restless
and uneasy at the approach Of spring. The
prairie dogs have been turned out OF doors
and promptly dug themselves out of sight.
The curassom, with one wing clipped,
stalks around in the deer pen and makes
up faces at the peacocks. The little bears
cry and paw to get out There are young
rabbits, tiny morsels of white or brown.
The hedgchogs and woodchucks stay
awake two hours out of the twenty-four
instead Of thirty minutes Outside the
workmen are raking up the rubbish aud re-
newing grass sward and small plantations.
The park is very interesting.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16
sBuilding.

Ex-Speaker Reeds appearance on the
stump In Vermont, thus early in the cam
paign, looks as If the Republicans were
determined to hold on to that state at all
hazards. The present outlook is that they
will pull through up there. - Boston
Herald.
Yes, we hope so, although we have
heard of three new Democrats being
naturalized in Rutland.
Undoubtedly Mr.. Cleveland II pro-
not always be the Democratic candidate
for President. Sooner or later he knows
there must come n time when not even
his most enthusiastic follower will insist
that he is available. Herald.
Possibly. but it is quite as possible
that Mr.. Cleveland thinks he will run as
long as Andrew jackson, for whom they
are still voting in the back country dis
tricts.
The Republicans of Texas have nomi-
mated Andrew jackson Houston, son OF
General Sam Houston, for governor
Newport News.
And considering what his father did
for Texas and what the free wool Dem
ocrats are trying to do now, Houston
ought to be elected.
The payment by the government Of the
United States of S25, 900 to the heirs Of the
three Italians among the New Orleans
victims who were found TO be Italian citi-
zens will hardly be relished by the Ameri.
can claimants for damages from Chile,
who have figured on very different scale
of compensation.-N.Y Y. World.
The circumstances are entirely diff
ferent. In the mob which hung the
Italians at New Orleans there were no
officers of the law. nor were the murdered
men Italian sailors I'm uniform, but
ordinary criminals. They were not
killed as Italians but as murderers.
Quite otherwise in Chill. But Of course
an un-American journal could not be ex-
pected to see 1t.
Mayor Honey of Newport finally count
ed himself In as member OF the General
Assembly, despite the fact that the peo.
pie voted against him, and then ordered
the ballots burned. ed.-Woonsocket Re-
porter
And thepeople will see Honey combed
next time.
The Democrats cannot carry Connecti-
cut this year IL they take up free coinage;
1t is State which Is absolutely controlled
by the independent vote. That vote gave
IL to Tilden IN 1876. TO Garfield in 1880, TO
Cleveland In 1874 aud 1855. and will give ~
To Harrison, " the issue " free coinage. IN
ieJ. What il true Of Coppecticut IS
equally true of New York which sces as
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16
His Vote, AnyhoW.

III h.sNToN AVENUE, PROVIDENCE. April IA.
To the Editors Of the Netcs:
Every time read the Democratic organ of
Rhode Island II makes me sick. Tonight IL
IL telling OF the loose ways Of men selling their
votes 10 the Republicans, and how honest they
are In their dealings, and that every vote they
get has been honestly won and n lot OF other
stun. Let me now tell you what the Demo-
Gratis have been trying on with me. and see III
this Is honest. just before the past election I
received notice TO go and vote. Now, to-day
! have received another notice which runs as
follows; "The election "Wednesday, April Il,
shows that the failure Ia elect our city ticket
was owing 10 the fact that all the Democrats
did not vote, &c." Now l will show You
where the fun comes In. They are after my
vote. II they can get II, honestly or dis
honestly. They want me TO go and vote when,
ne yet. l have not taken my second papers
out. III / werc 10 do this IL would b. dis
honesty. yet | believe they would bc willing
To look over that and call IL square. And I'm
spite OF all this the, say they are honest In
future LEI us have little less wind In proyi-
dence, apywey. Yours very truly,
JeuS Bull.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

THE passage OF bill comforting the
suffrage on women by the New York
Assembly is something of triumph for
that cause, even though it may get no
farther than the doors of the Senate
chamber. II it becomes law the foul
speech Of Phil Wissig, Tanmany men,
Der from de Ate, which helped materi-
ally to pass it, will become historic.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND
PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
y MS ExcELLENcy HERBERT W. LADD,
GOVERNOR.
~ virtue OF the authority vested In me by Chapter
of the Public Laws hereby appoint
FRIDAY. MAY eTH, 1892,


nd Iearnestly recommend that our people observe
the day by the planting OF trees shrubs and vines
They Will adorn and enrich our landscapes and con-
tribute directly In large measure TO the health OF
our communities and to the happiness OF ourselves
and OF generations 20 follow in many OF our towns
waste places exist, uncultivated and prontless.
which might be transformed into woodland and
forest; and urge upon the people the benefit 10 be
derived from redecming such spots by the planting
II hardy trees.
Let teachers especially instruct their pupils In the
practical and aesthetic reasons which have caused
the establishing Of this holiday. that our children
may have an appreciation OF the wisdom and value
to he found in the planting. cultvatng and protect
ting Of our trees.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. have hereunto
~~>-~> set my hand and caused the Seal OF the
State to be af1ixed nc Providence, this four
}sEAL teenth day of April. In year OF our Lord
- two. OF the founding of the state the two
bundred and nfty-sixth, aud OF Independence the
one hundred and sixteenth.
HERBERT w. LADD.
y the Governor:
GEORGE III. UTTER.
Secretary Of State.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

THE ex-organ of the minority faction
Of the Rhode Island Democracy says
that Gov. Hill is beginning to have his
innings. The ex-organs sayso reveals
its own i'll hid desires but does not alter
facts. Hill is dead.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

GEN. o. o. HOWARD wants to be the
Prohibition candidate for the Presiden-
cy, but it seems a pity that man with
initials of such a bicycle nature should
waste that enviable advantage on such
poor running track.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

AN alleged mad dog on Fourteenth
street New York, and a battle between
train hands and tramps in a Jersey
swamp were two Of yesterdays contrib
utions to the literature of curiosities.
There's nothing monotonous about this
world Of ours.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

The vote in Providence is great and
well-deserved boom for the Providence
"News, Z" the new Republican paper,
which is the only uncompromising advo-
cate Of Anaerlean- pFineiples In that city
New York Recorder.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

RUSSELL A. ALGER is a good man, but
le will not be elected President this
time. Good men. fortunately. are plen-
ty. Blaines, Harrisons and McKinleys
come one at time.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

In this hour of victory In Rhode Island
uc crtcnd our Fluctuations to that plucky
standard bearer Of the UictoriOus Repub-
ucan pdrty - the PrOrtdencc NEWS.
Brooklyn Times.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16
CITY ADVERIISEMENTS
THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE.
PUBLIC HEARING.
once Of the Clerk Of Committee,

once OF the Clerk OF Committees
City Hall. Providence. April IS, 1892.
The Joint Conimittee on ordinances % whom was
referred bill for an ordinance granting permission
90 the Providence Telephone Company 10 put M
poses In Dexter street fro We<tae4 etfe~i 20 Pot.
ters avenue; Wilson street. from Greenwich stree
70 Fuller street Fuller street from Wilson street "a,
westneld street. aud westneld street from Green-
wich street 20 Dexter treet.
Hereby give notice that they win give Public
Hearing upon said bill for an ordinance in Room H.
City Hall. on FRIDAY, April -. 1874. at 3 O'Clock
ned 20 appear u they shall see ht and De heard
thereon.
WILLIAM p. VAUGHAN. Chairman.
y. r. HArpEN Clerk CT Committees Abis-et
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

RHODE ISLAND Democrats must have
noted with peculiar interest the force
and eloquence with which Congressman
Bryan, who travelled post haste such
short time ago from Providence to
Washington to warn the Democracy to
lie low on the silver issue until after our
election, battled for free coinage on
Thursday in the Omaha convention.
That he was downed in the end was
proof not that Nebraska Democrats love
the white metal less but that-until next
December--they love Cleveland more.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

If Nebraska Democrats love tariff re
form more than free silver they are in
deed expressing choice of evils.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-16

MAyoR-ELEcT WANsER of Jersey City
has as big job as Hercules in the
Augean stable.