The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-04
opposition to Mayor Potter's Re-
Nomination Growing Daily.
has ONLY BEEN A FIGUREHEAD
And Not Very Imposing One, a Demo-
cratic Councilman says-How Money
IL Coming into the City Treasury
Nearly 700 Bills Paid.

70 uo ooubt hhob kahIOa NN'~~ =
In the field for q denomination, the politi-
cal wiseacres at the city hall say. When
asked upon what ground they base their
statement they look wise and simply say.
"Just wait until the clucuses are held and
sic IL VIM. X. Potter isn't In the race"
II has of course been generally under
stood that Mr.. Potter would be caudi-
date IL be thought there was any chance
of his getting the nomination. More-
over. IL IL believed that OF late he has lost
no opportunity to improve his chances.
II IL now we'll under stood and
admitted by his own party that his
terminal facilities message was intended
to aid him In securing another term OF
ofico rather than to get any Information
on an important matter as he pretended.
But while Mr. Potter Is fixing his fences
other Democrats are at work als) and not
IN his interest either. Indeed, the senti-
ment against him In his own party Is
growing stronger day by day. and unless
be can overcome it his chances OF success
are very dubious.
Not Even Good Figure Head.
A mem ber of q Democratic ward COM
mittee, who was In the city hall this
morning, was very plain In his talk about
Mayor Potter's candidacy, "Mr. Potter"
he said, "will not be renominated. OF
that I feel certain. Mr.. McGuinness
stands . good chance Of carry
ing the city convention. but even
II he should fail Mr.. Potter will not be
successful. The mayor may think he is
not being treated right in not getting a
nomination for second term,
but the fact is he has not treated
the party as he should have done.
don't mean that he hasn't distributed
offices or anything Of that kind, but SIM
ply that he hasn't made the kind OF q
mayor We wanted. He's been figure
head. that's all. and not particularly
imposing one at that.
''What has be done beside 6raw his
salaryf Has he vetoed a single bill, has
he made any attempt to secure economy
IN municipal expenditures, has he done
anything in fact TO show that he was
there for anything else than for the
salaryf You can point to only one
matter which he thought of sufficient i'm
portance to warrant . special message.
That was the terminal facilities Ques-
fior, and gusss when William p
Vaughan got through with him on that
ho wished he had never written the
document.
ITO put it plainly, very large part OF
the Democracy has come to the conclu-
sion that Mr.. Potter as mayor II u
monumental failure aud proposes to drop
him and will do 1t too. Mr.. McGuinness
II my choice and I feel pretty confident
he will be nominated. but whether he il
or not Mr.. Potter will not be In II.
We've had quite enough OF him."
How The Money 10 Coming In.
Patrolman Jacobs OF the Central station
squad was on duty in the treasurer's Office
today but be did not have to work
very hard to keep the taxpayers
In line. Indeed, while the number who
settled with the city this morning is
larger than that OF yesterday or the day
before there was no crowd, and the busi-
ness was despatched with promptness
and without the Inconvenience OF un-
necessary waiting.
The record OF yesterdays work shows
that $50 bills were paid and the amount
received $25,ilz04. This makes the
total thus far COS bills paid and
e56.652.7l, The number of bills is one less
than year ago. but is larger by $30S3.6s.
This IL doing pretty well for season OF
financial stringency the officials In the
treasury department thirk.
Notes About the Hall.
Tn ere are now zoos names on the regis
try list--43 having been added yesterday.
The committee on the poor department
will meet at No. North Court street at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Il Is estimated that abbu 6,000, 900
bricks will be required for the building of
the sewer In Dyer and Eddy streets and
Allen's avenue. Over 100000 will be
used In Aliens avenue section alone
Work on the abutments for the high
way bridge ut Francis street is progress
ing rapidly.
Chief Child has not yet announced the
date of the annual police parade, but 1t
will probably be about the middle Of the
month.