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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-12-24
BANK REPORTS.
MERCHANTS
NATIONAL BANK,
20 Westminster Stree

CAPITAL. ................ 81 900 900
The ample facilities and best services OF this
Bank are rendered TO individuals, Corporations
and Banks
Special srran gemerts made for interest on cur
rent accounts or on Certificates OF Deposit
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-12-24
FRANK J. CHENEY.

FNANh 81 NIfENE1s
Sworn 20 bcfo.e me and subscribed is my
presence, this 9th cav of December, A. ID.
iS9.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-12-24
BANK REPORTS.
BANK REPORTS.
REPORT.
OF the condition of the
National Bank Of Commerce,

at Providence. in the State Of Rhode Island, a
the close of business, Dec. ", 1896:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
TELLER AT CHICAGO.

In another part of this issue will be
FOUND letter from "a Progressive
Democrat urging the nomination of
Senator Henry M. Teller, of Colorado,
by the Democratic national convention
at Chicago. All he says in praise OF
Mr.. Teller as a champion of free sill
yer is we'll deserved by that gentleman.
he is true friend of the west and is
universally respected throughout the
west Put in nomination by the Chi
cage convention he would undoubtedly
draW many silver votes to the ticket
Many as are Mr.. Teller's qualifications
as the candidate of those who favor
Tree silver, as a candidate before the
Chlcago convention he would be lack
ing the very great essential of being
Democrat. There can be no Demo-
cratic nominee who is not a Demo
crat Then there are just as good sid
Yer men in Inc party as Mr. Teller To
pass them by and pick up a renegade
republican, and the Colorado man
would be this if he accepted nominal
tlon by any party but his own. would
ne to give serious offense to them and
all their friends.
Progressive Democrat, is sup
port of his position, cites the case of
the Democratic party picking up
Horace Greeley as its candidate in
1872. very unfortunate citation, for
1t is the terrible example that warns
Democrats not to repeat it. The ex-
perience of twenty-four years ago is
so fresh in their memory that they
blush and hide their faces when any
one speaks of it.
There is no demand whatever in the
Democratic party that Mr. Teller be
named at Chicago, There has been
considera bic talk about it in Colorado,
and more or less in. the Washington
papers: the Washington correspondents
have also had something to say about
it. This is about the extent of the
Teller agitation.
We agree perfectly with our CORES
pondent that the people neither want
straddling platform utterance nor
straddle- bug candidate. The plat
form should be unequivecally for an
immediate return to the free coinage
OF silver, and the candidate who
stands upon it must also be unequivoc-
ally for an immediate return to the
free coinage of silver. The platform is
much; the candidate is everything.
We have no fear that Mr.. Teller will
be named at Chicago. In fact. why on
earth should a Democratic convention
want to name a Republican as its
standard-bearer? When a party finds
that it cannot furnish worthy candi-
dates from its own ranks, it is time
that it ceased to exist.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
EDITOR M,cLATcHY's CASE.

The case of Editor McClatchy of the
Sacramento Bee, is in fair way to be-
come celebrated. He has been SEN
fenced to pay fine of $500 or serve
two hundred days in jail for contempt
os court
The facts in the case seem to be as
follows. The Bee published what pur-
ported to be the evidence given in a
divorce case. Judge A. p. Catlin, be-
fore whom the trial was had, from the
bench denounced the report as mac
curafe. The Bee answered this asper-
sion upon it by asserting that the re-
port was correct. 1t went further and
charged the judge with wilfully mis-
stating the facts to the injury of the
paper and its editor Thereupon Judge
Catlin ordered the arrest of Editor c.
*. McClatcly for contempt When
brought before the judge, Editor Nc
CATCHY offered to prove in defense and
by way of justification that the report
of the trial as it appeared in his paper
was correct, and that the court
stenographers record was not. The
judge refused to hear any defense and
imposed a fine as above stated.
Judge Catlin's course seems wholly
indefensible in not allowing Editor
McClatchy to make any defense or ex-
PLANTATION. Nothing could be clearer
than that the offense was not COM
mittsd in the courts presence. There
is also a very grave question whether
the court did not overstep its jurisdic-
ton in the matter California has a
statute upon the subject of contempt,
passed in 1891. 1t is known as the
Barry act. James H. Barry, of the San
Francisco Star. was sent to jail for
five days for contempt of court. The
courts action was generally con-
demned, and in response to a popular
demand the legislature passed law
upon the subject of contempt. This
act restricts courts, in Furnishing for
contempt, to such acts as are com
mitted in the presence of the court
and interfere with the course of JUS
tice. Judge Catlin holds that the legis-
lature cannot impose such a restric-
stlon- II IL cannot, tnen the VIII OF
judge may be the supreme law of the
land. His position is untenable.
The press of California is making
it hot" for Judge Catlin, and should.
The San Francisco Examiner puts the
case exactly right when it says: "If
Superior Judge Catlin. of Sacramento,
really meant to say in his decision in
the McCfatchy contempt case that
courts have an inherent right. regard
less of statutes intended to define their
exercise, to punish contempt committed
out of their presence, it is time for the
press of California to take a hand"
1t is time that the people of California
also took a hand. The irsolence of Of
flee is becoming unbearab BILE.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
REPUBLICAN MONEY PLANK.

What kind Of money plank will be
adopted at st. Louis? On account Of
the near approach of the Republican
national convention everybody is ask
ing this question. Senator Thurston,
of Nebraska, who is a close friend and
strong supporter of Mckinley, says
he believes that the Indiana declara-
ton would form a model He says it
is brief, explicit, and skilfully avoids
reference by it's terms to any of the
mooted questions. Moreover, it is an
unmistakable sound money utterance;
that at the same time it avoids all
mention of the gold standard, refer
ence to which, by name, he says, would
drive the vote away from the ticket
in some states This Indiana plank,
which the Nebraska senator holds in
such high esteem. is as follows:
Eve are firm and emphatic in our
demand for honest money. We be-
lieve that our money should not be in
ferior to the money of the most en-
lightened nations of the earth. We are
unaltarably opposed to every scheme
that threatens to debase or depreciate
our currency We favor the use of sill
yer as currency, but to the extent only
and under such regulations that its
parity with gold can be maintained,
and in consequence, are opposed to the
free. unlimited and Independent coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to II
There is no mention in it of the gold
standard. it is true; it is true that it
favors the use Of silver as currency.
but it is also true, and this is most
important of all, that it is expressly
opposed to the free, unlimited and in
dependent coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to l. Talk about favoring the use
Of silver as currency is mere talk and
nothing more; its chief use is to allay
alarm, nothing else. Silver is already
a part of the currency system and for
a party 70 say it is in favor of its use
is much like declaring in favor of
maintaining republican institutions,
There will be but one great and over.
topping issue in the impending cam
paign, and that is the money question.
Put in the form in which it is dis
cussed by the people>it is this: Are
you in favor of or opposed to the free
coinage of silver by the United States?
There. is the issue, and the people are
demanding that the national conven-
tons of the two great political parties
declare their position on it without
equfvocation or any ifs, ands or butts
about it.
The Massachusetts Republican finan-
cial plank does this in favor OF the gold
standard; the Indiana Republican
financial plank does practically the
same thing, but not in such clear and
unequivocal terms. NO matter in what
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

delighted to as he had knoT-n Mr.
Cleveland in Buffalo years ago. With
the treasurer of the club he offered to
bet box of cigars that the president
would recognize him, he having been
pitcher to the Buffalo team The play
ers proceeded to the White house An
attendant ushered them into Mr..
Cleveland's presence, where they lined
up, led by MeGunnigle, and approached
the president. Mr. President, allow
me to present Mr. McGunnigle, the
manager of the Louisville baseball
club, said the attendant. The presi-
dent surveyed Mac with a kindly eye,
grasped his hand, and exclaimed:
why, Mac, how are you? We haven't
met in years. So you are managing
the Louisville baseball club now Well,
I hope for your sake that the team
wins" Thank you, Mr. Cleveland
responded McGunnigle. Il hope, Mr.
Cleveland, that Louisville wins the
pennaRt, and that you will accept a
third term. I know you would be
elected The president, with de-
predatory nod of the head, replied:
mo third term for me. Really, I
couldn't stand it." Then the president
and McGunnigle chatted about the
days in Buffalo The incident was
pleasing one.
So far as known, this is the only oc-
casicn upon which Mr.. Cleveland has
said anything about a third term.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
A LoauAcrous PARROT.
Polly Is in Good Many Ways Like
Real People.

Real People.
A Washington dentist has a parrot
which is at once the pride and pest of his
household. 1t is very loquaeious, and its
owner takes pleasure in exhibiting its
qualifications to his friends and patrons.
The bird addresses it's master by the
title OF papa" when in the home apart
ments upstairs, but invariably calls him
doctor" when in the office. Recently a
after it was extracted exclaimed, THANK
heaven, that's OUT The next day, while
lady was passing from the operating
room through the parlors, after undergo
ing some suffering, the parrot calculated,
much to the amusement of the waiting
patients, and evidently out of sympathy
with the lady, Thank heaven, that
thing is out"
A prospective patient, an old lady, had
decided to have some extracting DONE 1t
was a fat job, to use the dentists eX-
preston, and the fee would have been
substantial. The lady called at an APP
pointed hour, and was ascending the
stairs. The parrot caught sight of her,
and with diabolical fervor gave vent to
an unearthly shrek, in imitation of a
suffering patient. The lady turned and
seen in the neighborhood since.
This ''son of Satan," as it's owner calls
him, at times, has a graf penchant for
climbing the waterspout outside the
DullQlHS. 1t mas DSen puInSneO repeated
ly for this habit. Week before last it
repeated its performance, climbing to the
roof, and refusing all solicitations to de-
scend When night came, however Polly
descended and re-entered its cage and re-
ceived sound drubbing for its miscon-
duct. The punishment. quite severe.
seemed to have its effect, and the bird
for several days did not even go to the
window. Last week, however, the dentist
and his family having gone out, the
parrot made its exit through the window,
and commenced to climb UP the spout.
A family occupying an upper floor saw
the bird pass their window, and were
much amused at it's so,iloquizing, thus:
Polly won't climb the waterspout
Polly won't climb the wateTspout! Oh,
no. Not much! Like ashington
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
AD poETAs MINoREs.

Ye poets, who will ever sing
OF love and all her stale conceits,
Desist, this humber bard entreats,
And strike some newer, livelier string.
The greatest singers in the land
Have sung that tune, and sung ii we'll;
They've told us all there was to tell
Why should you try your prentice hand?
Why labor on in such field,
Whose crop was reaped long years ago?
Attend to me, and / will show
Soil that shall give a goodlier yield.
Foredoomed to failure, you abuse
A heartless world and yet there lies
A mine of wealth before your eyes,
Could you but tame your fiery muse.
Come, sink your pride, and raise anew
A brighter song, a gayer strain;
Tell us of drugs to ease our pain,
Deck them with praises. false or true.
Hymn to US pills and soap, and SCENT
Go, tWang the harp and thrum the Tyre,
And temper your poetic fire
To pennng an advertisement.
Tempt not the ancient, hackr eyed lays
OF gallant knight and loving maid;
Learn as the maxim of your trade
"That poetry is best-which pays"
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
THE FORCE OF HABIT.


There is nothing stronger than the
force of habit unless it be the force of
circumstances. A case Illustrating the
force of habit recently occurred at
Sioux City, Iowa The bailiff of the
court is one of the oldest court Of
ficers in all the state. After opening
the court he takes the very sensible
course of going to sleep in his swivel
chair for the balance of the day.
When the time for .adjourning the
court arrives. the attorney nearest him
touches the old man upon the shoulder,
when he instantly springs to his feet
and proclaims the adjournment of
court in these words:
Hear We! Hear ye. Hear We! The
district court of Woodbury. county in
the state of Iowa is now adjourned"
For six days a week for twenty years
has he been doing this same thing I'M
til it became second nature to him;
at last it got Bailiff George Thompson
INTO trouble, but not of a serious ma
ture. The other Sunday he went to
church and to church he carried his
court habit of sleeping Gle may have
first contracted the habit of sleeping
IN court from too assiduous attendance
upon church in his early youth.)
The sermon was over, the choir had
sung and the good minister had con-
Guided the benediction when a friend
gently logged the sleeper in the ribs
with the whispered -admonition to
wake up. He did. Hear ye! Hear
We. Hear YER responded the old
bailiff in thunderous tones as he
jumped to his feet in the midst of the
startled congregation. THE district
court" He got no further, for
thoroughly waking UP he realized
where he was and subsidized.
Two morals may be drawn from this
story: Don't go to church; or if you
go to church. don't go to sleep.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

The Cleveland Plaindealer does not
think much of Ex-Governor Campbell's
declaration on the silver question. At
ter quoting it at length it says: There
is one but one word that fifty charac-
terizes this absurd programme-'rot."
Mr.. Campbell knows it to be the sheer
est rot. He must have laughed in his
sleeve when he penned it. Does he
take the Democrats who will meet at
Chicago to be fools? No, no; they
have thought too deeply on the ques-
ton, have suffered too much to
be taken in by Mr.. Face-Both- Ways
Campbell or any other two-faced poll
tician. The people may be fooled by
such programme once, but not all
the time" That is a pretty severe
judgment to pronounce upon Mr..
Campbell's scheme, but it is just.
When the Plaindealer says that his
desire is to prevent the Chicago con-
vention taking a decided stand on the
money question it puts the case as it
must appear to all who read his rather
remarkable plank. The Plaindealer
further says that the declaration for
free silver which the ex-governor ad-
vises the convention to make would be
meaningless. 1t would be that and
nothing more. AS The Herald said
when it reviewed Mr.. Campbens
plans: ITO us it looks as though he
dreaded to meet the financial question
fairly and squarely,, and, was seeking
to dodge it without seeming to dodge
it" If the Campbells are coming they
must walk different plank to this
one.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

The distinguished portrait painter. was
born in Hungary in 1867.
Her mother was the Baronee Won
Zollendorf
Frau Parlaghi studied her art in Mu-
mich and Paris. She has earned her
reputation by painting the portraits Of
a great many Of the reigning sover-
eigns of Europe, and many of the
prominent people in military and civil
life.
She came prominently before the
world by the action of Emperor VIII
lam of Germany, who ordered her pic
ture of General Won Moltke hung in
a place of honor in the gallery, after
the jury had excluded it.
Frau Parlaghi is now visiting the
United States.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.


money was hasely betrayed in Kentucky
The fact was industriously circulated
throughout the state that Carlisle drank
nothing but water at that New York
Observation-Disclosures City Times.
The defeat of the motion to pass the
deficiency appropriation bill over the
presidents veto indicates that in spite
of its lamentable deficiencies OF states
manship, the fifty-fourth congress was
not entirely lost to all sense of the public
this gracious act is ascribabie to any de-
sire to sustain the executive in his efforts
to prevent the pillage of an empty ex-
chequer, but was undoubtedly actuated
by the fear that congress had already
reached the limit of public patience in it's
record of fragrant inconsistency and
senseless hostility to the president.-C hi-
cago Times-Herald.
Justice Brown of the supreme court of
the United States has had the hardihpod
to declare, in dissenting from his assoc
ciates in that august tribunal, that he
deems it far more important to main
tain the faith of the nation. even with
an Indian, than to preserve the game in
a territory. This is the rankest kind of
her. W. 1t not only tends to lower the
Importance of preserving game-which, as
everybody knows, is one of the most i'm
portant things on earth-but II represents
the Indian as a man with claims and
titles TO consideration, and especially to
the keeping of faith.-Detroit Free Press
1t is now believed that time will de-
velop that Mr.. Mckinley has the largest
and most complies collection of financial
views of any man who ever made pre-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
TALES OF THE DAY.
Every Man to His Trade.

Every Man to His Trade.
Financier-You literary men haven't the
first idea about business. Here you have
about 10000 manuscripts piled UP in this
paid for
Editor Great Magazine-Years ago.
Just thing of it! Hasn't it ever oc-
Cured to you sir, that you are losing the
interest on all the money you paid out
for those useless bund.eS?'
Huh! You financiers haven't the first
idea about literature. Every one of those
manuscripts is from a different author,
and the whole 10000 of them will go on
buying our magazine at 80 cents a copy
until the articles are printed. New York
Weekly
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
tensions Of sta.esnanshsp.- York

Journal.
The leading operate managers in this
country have met the financial fate of all
their predecessors. Paying pr5rna donnas
and tenors 500 a night each is fortune
and glory for them and certain bank
ruptcy for managers.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The subject of Mrs Maybrick's impris-
British obstinaey and American nerseyer-
ance. All the arguments On it were ex-
hausted long ago, and the British gov
eminent has definitely decided not to re-
lease the prisoner Nevertheless, her
American sympathizers are working as
siduously in her behalf, and if they win
at last, notwithstanding the apparently
insuperable obstacles in their way, their
triumph will be a. notable one.-Philadei-
phia Ledger.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

The Alaska Democratic convention
was held en- June 1. Alaska is a long
way north. but the Democrats there
do not propose TO be left out in the
cold
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

a straddle on the money question by
the Republican national convention
would be deploraible. The issue be-
tween the two parties would be more
or less ciouded thereby.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

The negro delegates to she ST. Louis
convection who have been informed
that all the rooms in the leading ho-
tells are engaged. have a right to be
x,-rntn
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

Cullom has withdrawn from the
presidential race, believing that Nc
Kinley will win. And his pictures look
as though he had been Withdrawn
through knot hole.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

st. Louis hotel men having refused
accommodations to colored delegates.
it would be a good idea not to select
St. Louis again for a convention.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

The way in which the actors are tes-
tifying to the value of Belascos in
structions to Mrs Carter in the art
Of acting. suggests that their testi
mony is only make-believe.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

Governor Bradley. of Kentucky, has
q whole lot of letters from Mckinley
and proposes to make use of them
These letters may more than counter
balance MeKinley's silence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

BY his distinguished treatment of
the new American consul-general.
General Weyler evidently wished to
cast an anchor 20 Lee-ward
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

Mckinley has several records on the
financial question. He is perfectly will
ing to stand by the one that may be
selected for him at st, Louis.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

Washington does not divide interest
with St. Louis. The latter city takes it
all, and will hold it until the conven-
ton adjourns.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

The gold men AIT Chicago may sulk
and refuse TO take any active part in
the campaign, but there is small like
lhood that they will bolt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

She-They say he married Miss Wrin-
kles for her money. Has she got much
He--She must have lots of it. Have you
never seen her?-Harlem Life.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

The manner in which Senator Nor
gan keeps bringing up his Cuban reso-
buttons shows that he has resolution
as well as resolutions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

A rather amusing incident occurred
at the White house the other day The
Louisville baseball team was in Wash
ington. The treasurer OF the team
suggested that they call upon the
president. The manager of the team,
Billy McGunnigle. said he would be
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

The hotels having refused accommo-
dations to the colored delegates to the
Republican national convention, here
is a fine chance for Allison to put
those cots where they will do the most
good.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11
HUMoR OF THE HOUR.

"why did he employ such pointed re-
marks?"
We'll, l suppose he found it hard TO get
his meaning through their heads. DE
troit Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

When anyone says that free silver
is not the issue this year. such person
does not know what an issue is when
he sees it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

In a few days more and Mckinley will
have some financial views. They will
be just what the st. Louis convention
makes them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-11

They are making rye faces at Car
Isle down in Kentucky.