The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-25
THE NEWS TURN NOW

ILL AN6hIS tOiAS ANS1b
1t il the Democracy that has brought
Massachusetts, to the front again In ma.
tional affairs Boston Post.
With four votes for David Bennett
Hill! Better obscurity than prominence
OF that kind.
81 pledge the electoral vote Of the State
OF New York to the nominees of the
National Democr attic Convention" said
David b. Hill. There will be no sulking
men who have stood by the Senator from
New York with such loyalty aud deter
mination.- Boston Globe.
Taffy for the tiger, but he likes blood
better.
The Euening Reporter was the only
daily newspaper in RHODE ISLAND that
go.-Woonsocket Reporter.
From present appearances there will
be at least five this year. There's
gain.
The Charleston Nc,os and Courier and
the Louisville Courter-Journal are proba-
bly, local agents of the associated press.
To that more or less happy circumstance
may be owing the fact OF the presenta-
tion to the country by those papers OF
their editorial VIEWS" every time they
get of what their conductors regard as
fine writing" There Is something too
much of this. Taste is matter OF lati-
tude. The journals in question over
estimate the desire of the North for their
lucubrations s-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Associated Press does send out
| lot of slush, that's fact. No wonder
| you're disgusted. Come to an import
ant news event, like the conventions, and
| the younger associations beat it, not in
quantity but In quality, every time.
The Governor of New York Is In Chi
| cago. So also is the Lieutenant Governor
and the President of the Senate. leaving
the State without any one authorized to
sudden emergency arise.-Newport Her
AID.
The Car of Newport has been in
Chicago too. But we doubt if he has
been missed seriously.
It is Cleveland aud victory this year.
No other candidate can sweep the coun-
try as he ecan.-Pawtucket Tribune.
Cleveland and Republican victory.
Grover is worn out broom.
Henry Watterson wants the Democrats
to straddle the silver question In their
Democratic platforms. s.-Boston News
Henry didn't try any straddle on the
tariff. He jumped down plump and
solid on the free trade side.
Free silver Republicans did not vote for
Harrison; but the free silver Democrats
did vote for Hill.-Fall River News.
Cleveland has straddled on silver.
Harrison hasn't; Colorado didn't vote
for Harrison but neither did it for
Cleveland. Honors are easy but Harri-
son is the honester man.
In one respect the Democratic platform
adopted at Chicago is a masterpiece. For
passed in political Observation-Disclosures
Spy.
Are you quite fair? It is BADLY frank
as to free trade.
We are waiting to learn Editor Dana's
opinion of the nomination.-New
Observer.
"The devil rather than Harrison"
Don't you want to congratulate him on
the extreme grace with which he chews
down his crow?
With what characteristic contempt the
Western delegates smiled on the New
Workers., must be imagined. However,
their slate is broken, but they will remain
Democratic still Tribune.
Take care the worm will turn, much
more the tiger. You're not making
things particularly easy for the Hill
men.
In several of the leading tobacco grow
ing towns of Massachusetts and Connec-
ticut the planters have already contracted
to sell this years crop at from twenty
five to thirty. cents a pound. These are
are offered before the plants are set out
in the field presages much excitement in
the tobacco market later on. The last
years crop has been cleaned up as never
before.-Newport News.
Go on, free trade friend, and explain
this prosperity. You stopped at just
the point where things become interest
ing.
The action of the Democratic National
convention in placing Grover Cleveland
in nomination was one which gave pecu-
liar satisfaction to millions of his fellow
countrymen. Woonsocket Evening Call.
Yes, Republicans are peculiarly
pleased. They have heard the words Of
Cochran and Croker and Flower and
Sheehan, who concede New York to the
Republicans.
The country is waiting to hear ex-
Headsman Clarkson say that his prede-
cessor in the postoffice department, Mr..
Stevenson was a brutal axeman--PRovI-
DENCE Journal
Well, wasn't he?
Tammany did its best to defeat Mr..
Cleveland, but it will probably fall into
line now with three cheers and a tiger
PROVIDENCE Journal.
The cheers are not yet audible. but
the tiger is on deck though with the
Cleveland kettle tied to his tall
AS WAS SAYING.