The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-18
THE NEWS" TURN NOW

THE NEWS" TURN NOW
II what Is generally said OF Mr.. John
w. Fosters qualifications for Secretary
OF State be justified. the President could,
perhaps, do no better than to confer the
appointment upon him.-boston Heeaid.
II Foster insulted Blaine at the
Canadian conference as alleged he'd be
the last man--but then probably he
didn't.
Why not omit the Latin oration at COM
mencements. Nobody understands IT,
not even the man who delivers u. such
a farce is unworthy Of college ana OF
college graduate. Let it be abolished
with Fast day.-l5oston Globe.
Why can't the flippant Globe advance
a good idea--for il Is good-by good ar
guments? OF course the orator under
stands his gibberish if no one else does.
Probably his professor does. But It's a
bad custom.
The Cleveland boom grows daily, until
il has assumed such proportions that IL
need not cause surprise II he Is nominated
by acclamation. Hill's friends rldicule
this idea, but IL is rapidly taking definite
form. Woonsocket Reporter.
What a sanguine temperament some
body must have who writes for the Re
porter! BY acclamation! Will Waiter
son and Murphy join in the acclaim!
Senator Gorman's name will be heard
quite frequently at the Chicago conven-
ton, and the Maryland Senator Is among
the possibilities as the nominee OF the
party. No one can doubt Mr.. Germans
Democracy. News.
Baltimore plug uglies consider him a
Democrat but the Mugwumps OF late have
claimed him for their own, and though
the NEWS can't quite see how they make
it out, yet surely the Mugwumps ought
to know.
Rhode Island people, as a rule. would
have preferred James q. Blaine as the
nominee, but they all agree with that
great leader In his expressions OF loyalty
to the ticket and will work with him for
the success of the Republican party and
the grand principles 1t represents.-Bur
rillville Gazette.
The Gazette voices sentiment which
every Republican will echo heartily.
The party is united and determined.
It Is now proposed as a sort of COM
promise that the machinery at the Worlds
Fair be stopped on Sunday but that the
exhibition be open TO the public. This
would be satisfactory to the majority OF
visitors. -Woonsocket Evening Call.
Probably, and yet the offence to the
Sabbatarians would continue without
giving the full advantage to the work.
ing people aimed at by the opposition.
The american Economist Is keeping
tabs on the workings of the Mckinley
tariff. 1t has published the names of 3Oa
new industries started as the result OF the
tariff. They represent about s3O,o00O0
capital and give work to over 22,0OO
hands. Such figures make free trader
feel as though he had taken a mustard
bath and been dried off with sand paper.
bridgeport News.
Good, strong, expressive simile. And
the Chicago convention won't shake out
any rice powder for sensitive skins.
The New York sun and the Atlanta
Constitution are going to pay high
price for crow next week. Here is a
chance for the speculator. Trav-
eller.
The Constitution may eat but the Sun
won't, probably. If Cleveland gets the
nomination the Sun will kick the table
over and throw plates, knives, forks and
crow through the window.
The people may expect the most high
handed partisanship and unfairness from
the General Assembly in the Newport
election case.-Pawtucket Tribune.
The people have certainly got up to
date good many things the Democracy
hasn't wanted, but they have come in
the shape of sworn testimony, good
part of it from the defense's own wit
nesses.
In Boston, not many years ago, promi-
nent daily published the portraits of sew
eral young men who took part in a type
setting contest In that city. The like
nesses were more than ordinarily good,
but it was somewhat of a surprise to the
originals when. a few months later, the
same pictures appeared in an advertise.
ment of minstrel show as four cele-
brated members of Dockstaders' troupe
Newport Herald.
You go too far afield for your exam
pies. 1t was only last week the i'm
ported refor1ner OF Providence published
picture of Warren r. Perce as that of
President Polk, late of the National
Farmers Alliance.
An eloquent reference TO the great and
glorious country in which we live brings
us TO our feet and we cheer till we are
hoarse. This Is all commendable in a
measure, but it will not do for ordinary
mental diet.-Providence Journal.
Providence is mercifully preserved
from too much patriotism. The Journal
deals it out, if at all, in homeopathic
doses.
The average lynching party, while rep
rehensible, of course, because of the pos
sibility that 1t will err, and because,
moreover, every man is entitled to q fair
trial, is i'm the great majority OF cases
just.-Providenc Journal.
The average logician will have hard
work to get it through his head how the
same thing can be ''just" and "repre-
hensible."
It's shame the way the car horses are
overloaded on some of their trims this