The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-29
The NEWS TURN NOW
FOR PRESIDENT,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
FOR vIcE-PREsIDENT,


ADLAI c. STEVENSON.
Newport Herald.
Stevenson amounts to little, and that
little bad, but Democratic paper might
be e1tected to get his name right when
it md hits its candidates at the head Of
its EDITORIAL columns. Unless the News
Is mistaken, the obscure but amiable
axeman with the three pretty daugh-
ters and the front name Adlai has
middle name which it is Ewing.
There are perhaps no people in the
country whose interest in politics Is less
active now than those numerous Repub-
licans who do not like President Harri-
son at all, but who feel Obliged to support
the regular party ticket at any sacrifice.
PROVIDENCE Journal.
The Mugwump pins his allegiance to
men, the Republican to principles; it
makes an immense difference, but the
Journal can hardly be expected to un-
derstand.
The biggest man in a procession does
not necessarily march frst.-New York
Sun.
Is Stevenson stuffed tooa Alas and
alack-a-day!
In politics as In other things it is natu-
raj to desire to let well enough alone, but
we need to be sure in the first place that
1t Is well enough. Jour
nal.
Reading into this Delphic utterance
its likeliest Interpretation, it appears
that the soured and cynic sheet Is query
ing within itself, 'Shall do something
for Cleveland? Of course I'd like to, but
then, suppose he shouldn't winr'
The only thing about the Democratic
ticket that got mixed up in the war was
Growers substitute. News.
And he isn't running.
II newspaper men are wise they will
watt couple Of months before plunging
very deeply into campaign work. The
out the heat Of politics" super.sdded.-
Attleboro Sun.
Nonsense. The time to begin the
campaign is the day the nomination is
made. 1t must be campaign of educa-
tion on our side, and every day counts.
The Republicans will find it harder to
carry Illinois than New York. The
great State shall certainly go in the
doubtful coiumn.-Woons Reporter.
Say that New York is less doubtful
than Illinois. Put it that way. Why
not?
A note of alarm is sounded over the al
legged pollution Of Chicago's water sup
Ply. The big city cannot afford to have
this question even in doubt at a time
when 1T is asking the world to visit the
town.-Newport News.
alleged" Well. that's funny. All
the city's sewage flows into the lake.
All its water supply comes from the
lake. Clear drinking water there never
will be until the current of the Chicago
river flows the other way, and the Hen
nepin canal Is dry. When you go to
Chicago drink no water that hasn't been
boiled.
1t is not true that in this country the
are growing poorer, but it is true that
the rich are growing richer faster than
the poor are becoming less poor.-Attle-
boro News.
Even that isn't true if you lump the
comparatively poor. All the million
aires wealth is nothing to theirs. See
the peoples billions in the savings banks,
the millions of homes, the building asso-
Citations. What total it is
In the tariff plank is lodged the great
issue of the coming campaign and there
should be nothing evasve or weak about
it. Therefore the convention acted wisely
in dropping the objectional part and
adopting by most decisive majority the
vigorous. true and ringing substitute
offered by Mr.. Neal Of Ohio. On the great
issue of the hour the Democratic party is
thoroughly and agressively right.-Paw-
tucket Tribune.
The Tribune is free trade paper and
doesn't care who knows it. This is right.
1t is honest.