The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-09
The NEWS" TURN NOW.


How much did you get for your votes
How much were you paid to stay at
home?
The campaign is over. Now, let's pull
for Westerly.-Westerly Tribune.
Do you imagine you pull for West
erly" by accusing Westerly men OF sell
| ing their votes2
1t was a greater day in Rhode Island
for the deep dyed-in-the-wool Mckinley
ism of Aldrich than for the reciprocity
p~retensions OF Benjamin Harrison.-New
York World.
Inasmuch as Harrison is as strong a
protectionist as Aldrich, and Aldrich as
strong a reciprocity man as Harrison,
there seems to be rather more h a the
usual proportion of blank idiocy about
this World paragraph.
Mr.. Cleveland must regret his going to
Rhode Island so early in the season. The
clans were not ripe.-Worcester Spy.
Come again later, Grover.
We give our word to our readers that
we will talk Of something besides politics
soon.-Pawtucket Tribune.
Should think you would!
Pawtucket evidently does not care for
"Hughey" Carroll now. The majority
against him in the election yesterday was
the largest, by over one hundred, OF that
against any other candidate on the Demo
cratic ticket.-Newport News.
Mayor "Hughey" and Mayor "Sam'
say that "misery loves company
In spite OF it's being n State election
there were really no state issues, all effort
being primarily directed to the election of
a General Assembly which will elect a
United States Senator. - Burriliville
Gazette.
Yes, there was a State issue, which
was that the State ought to go Republi-
can. Which it did.
The Democrats in Congress have at last
passed a bill placing wool on the free list.
This is good as far as 1t goes, but must be
followed by a complete scheme Of revenue
reform.-JournaI.
Such utterances must tend to tran
quilize the fears of those who thought
that the Journal had abandoned its hos
tility to American industry and its
friendliness to Australian wool farmers.
II more than 1000 Independent voters
refused to support Wardwell and will
vote for the Democratic candidate for
President, the Democratic President who
will be elected next fall may still have
Rhode Islands o u electoral votes.-New
York World.
If the sky falls we shall catch larks.
But why did '.mere than loco indie
pendent votes refuse to support Ward
well? Was it because the Worlds
sweetish,- sickly pen portrait of the
Wardwell mendge at Bristol gave 'em
nausea!
Rhode Island will elect a Governor to-
day. He will be a Republican and a pro-
t~ectionist.- Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Good guess, because it wasn't O guess
at all, but a logical deduction.
Oklahoma proposes to send as n dele
gate to the National Republican Conven.
ton at Minneapolis a full blooded Indian,
who is said to be "chief of the Shawnees
and a acknowledging Republican" He
will undoubtedly attract attention among
the war tariff advocates as "a living exam
pie of what the American would be to-day,
IL there were no abroad. journal.
He'll be a real American representa-.
tive of a genuine American policy, al
any rate, though in blood foreign to
most Of us.
The Democratic bosses, who kicked
Baker out OF their State convention be-
cause he was not able TO "whack up" the
necessary amount, and selected a cheap
labor a can now realize the fact that
it will not do to insult organized labor.
-Woonsocket Reporter.
Wardwell was defeated by working