The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-05
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done.
IL was the intention OF the Honey crowd
20 place Mr. Comstock on the delegation
and 10 run in one more ont Of this county,
so that when noses were counted there
would be found a Honey majority of the
whole. Mayor Carroll was on to the
trick as was Gen. Brennan, and better
trump was played by them. When Chair
man Owen was added TO the delegation il
was thought by those who were not on 10
the proposed deal that that was a triumph
for Honey but he was placed upon the
delegation in the interest of Congressman
Page.
Ii is rumored that IL is not dead-sure
thing that the Rhode Island delegation is
not going 60 vote for Hill That is to say
the delegation will no doubt give Cleye-
land a few votes. but after IL is seen that
Cleveland is not i'm il the Rhode Island
votes will go over TO Hill and remain there
as long as the gentleman from New York
cares TO hold them.
Mr. Carroll has been steadfast in his de-
claration that Honey is Hill man. Now
there is one good trait in the makeup of
the mayor of Pawtucket, and that is that
he says what he means and can be relied
upon 10 back up what he says The NEWS
has ascertained that when Mayor Carroll
said that he believed that Honey was "a
Hill man and said that he. Honey, had
promised this State ia support of the New
Yorker. that he based his statement upon
what was told him by Mr.. Nolan, OF New
port.
AS the story goes, Honey and Nolan
went on to New York and there then being
a very decided feeling among the prom
inen politicians OF the metropolis in favor
of Hill Nolan suggested tnat il would be
"A good thing if Honey went up and called
on Hill with the rest of the "nobs," and
tender him the support OF Rhode Island
IN the Chicago convention, which Honey
is said to have done.
Mayor Carroll would never have known
OF this and never would have said what he
did about Honey ami HILL SO it is stated
TO the NEWS, were IL not that Nolan gave
him the information. The assertion is
also made that this week aud at the Lon
don Club. Mayor Carroll, in defense OF
his own position and 70 yrove that he had
been quoting Honey upon coed authority,
put II TO Nolan in the presence of several
witnesses. and that Nolan Acknowledged
that he did SO advise Honey, aud that
that was how the report reached here
that Honey had pledged the State to
Hill
The interview had with Congressman
Lapham in Washington this week, perti-
nent to the Democratic State convention.
has aroused the ire OF the the adherents OF
Congressman Page.
Mr. Lapham is Cleveland man, and
thinks and says that unless Cleveland gets
the nomination Rhode Island will be lost
to the Democracy, and that Hill would
send the State on "a break-neck gallop over
20 the Republicans.
Mr.. Page is n Hill man, and this is why
Mr.. Lapham speaks so emphatically. As
between the two men there is decided
spirit OF rivalry.
Mr.. Lapham does not stand as well with
the party leaders as he did. They say
that he is too strong Cleveiand-Honey-
McNally man and that il an election were
now pending it would result in his being
defeated
The Journal CDem.) says:
A prominent Republican in one of the man
ufacturing towns OF this state says that the
Republican ticket Is sure 10 be elected there
this year because the mill has shut down and
the Democratic workingmen have moved else
where, Is this the way the Mckinley tariff is
to make Republican majortiesi
This paragraph refers TO Speaker Cap
ron, and. as usual with the Journals s
political effusions, is incorrect. What
Mr.. Capron did say was that in the mills
of his town the operatives were Republi-
can and that they elected the Republican
ticket, and be believed that even now.
with the mills shut down. there were
enough Republicans to carry the day.