The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-31
REAL DEMOCRATIC FOLLY
Steered the Party on to Ger
tain Disaster Yesterday.
COL. s. RUMP HONeY's BAD BULL
On Clerkships Win Cost Him Dearly.
The Senate to Adjourn Today Until
Friday-It WIN BE a Suspense TO the
Democrats.


crafty Lieutenant DIR. Garvin OF the
Blackstone Valley, steered the Democra-
tic hosts in the broad way to inevitable
disaster yesterday. IL would appear that
there was large doubt in their minds as
To the legitimacy of their existence not
withstaDding the fact they had constitu-
ted themselves migbtier tribunal than
the Supreme Court, and resorted To Rump
sessions, a long distance recess from Au-
gust To January and intermediate caucus
ses TO invent excuses for preserving their
organization. They took the precaution
to regulate the malign influence OF the
minority leaders by making no exception
in the line OF demarcation between dis
tinction and obscurity, dreading TO herd
them on the right in close proximity to
the redolent bullpen and the disease-pro-
ducing wind draught hard by. IL their
course in holding those Rump sessions
after June was the height OF
glarng absurdity, their recess
to January % was an additional
evidence of blissful ignorance, and then
to cap the climax, they confess that they
sounded their death-knell and apply the
resurrection remedy through the agency
OF a resolution which converts them into
a seventh months infant of uncertain
parentage. Then they labor under the
hallucination that the Senate will flock
down stairs to join them in counting the
votes for state officers, but they don't
materialize and in retaliation they don't
receive the Governors message until after
they learn that the Senate has dropped to
the ruse. Then Boss Honey's committee
takes possession OF the document of state.
They will hang on to it indefinitely as
also the Senate resolution of adjournment
from Newport which Is fated, however, to
be slaughtered. Then they talked it over
in caucus, and decided to continue in
their reckless career ad libitum. Boss
Honey's classic favorite j. Stacey Brown
Of Newport was defeated for the clerkship
OF the judiciary committee and he vented
his spite on Representative Greene of
Woonsocket who didn't abide the scheme
to depose Murphy, the old clerk, by con-
spring to the nomination of Sheahan
for door keeper. The scheme worked and
the Woonsocket French Canadian will
remain in the hamlet. Col. Honey cannot
bank on any assistance from the Woon-
socket Democracy i'm his candidacy for
United States Senator, and II he has de-
cided to lock up the postmasterships un-
til after the April election, he is likely to
the uttermost parts of the commonwealth.
The Senate's Course.
The Senate proceeded in the even tenor
OF their way and confined their recogni-
tion OF the House to a notification that
they were ready to proceed to business
and tabled the invitation to grand COM
mittee. The appropriation bill was re-
ferred to the finance committee, and today
an adjournment will be taken to Friday
for the reason that the House has shown no
disposition to attend to business and it is
useless to assemble in small numbers.
Down stairs the minority interjected
sundry motions to break up the
monotony of the Democratic policy, and
wanted them to put that deadly Supreme
Court decision in the records. There was
no hope that the scheme would work
but the object was attained in Civ
ing publicity to the evidence OF the revol-
utionary proceedings by the majority.
Representatives Wilson and Allen are as
tute parliamentarians and they don't miss
an opportunity to cross swords with Gar
vim and Honey at the first opening. By
the way, Boss Honey wes singularly re-
ticent during the session yesterday re-
signing the management OF the party be-
low to the ever-ready Garvin. The policy
agreed upon today is to transact no busi-
ness excepting perhaps the introduction
and reference of labor bills etc, and the
forwarding OF another invitation to meet
in the grand committee to the Senate.
Just what course they will pursue when
they ascertain that that body has ad-
journed to Friday in problematical. They
may go and do likewise for the weather
conditions affect the Democratic as well
as the Republican yeoman, and it wouldn't
pay TO be caught mapping with light
House when the party division is SO closely
drawn. The Republicans are playing
waiting game and history has demon
strated the wisdom of their policy. Give
the rampant Democracy rope enough, and
they will hang themselves unless they pre-
fer death by political electrocution at the
polls in April