The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-11-05

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II not only bona nde Goo Goo ticker
ever put up IN the city OF Providence,
that Of the First Ward council delega-
tion, has made record TOR itself ana
it's ward that is not 10 be sniffed at.
Lacking nothing OF pulcbritude, COM
bining so to speak. en- harmonious pro-
| portion OF toothsome slreaks OF fat, not
too fat, and sireaRs OF lean, OF too lea n.
fsitbful,evs faithful, in its attendance ur-
on all services, devoted TO the public inte.-
ests undoubtedly, which devotion Ia just
ly abetted by, and not TO be disparaged
because Of, a sense Of not unpardons tie
clingingness TO their coveted seats; ever
alert, watchfui and on deck generally, no
matter how many Journeys around the
dial the hands of the clock may make oi
an evenings session slowly, with pains
taxing exsctitade common to clocks, the
First Ward Council delegation has Sc
cured ard maintained fer its district the
same prestige as leaders OF the Council,
stars OF the first magnitude around which
less luminous planets revolve, that has
been the possession OF First Ward del
egation from time immemorisl-fromt the
good old-fashioned time immemoraI
when men were elected initially be-
cause OF their political stripes as well as
on account of their pulchritude and less
important qualifications. To be sure,
Mr.. VINCENT gave Alderman NICHOLS a
close rub on the occasion OF tuesdays
advertisement, but the latter proved to be
secure in the hearts Of a sufficient sur
plus Of people TO reseat him, az II were.
ana as for the quartet In the lower branch
Mr.. STUReEs. Mr.. CooAE, Mr.. HOWARD
and Mr.. BULLOCK, fine bouquet Of
political Marechal Neils, they didn't doa
thing to tho wire nerve1 gentlemen who
had the astounding effrontery to run
against them the while they failed to
conceal the important fact that they were
Repu bliosns. The citizenship OF the
First Ward IL indeed TO be congratulated
In that II can not alone muster In its
community Eve high Favored Republi-
cans. but in addition thereto yet another
quintet OF handsome, well-behaved, gen.
tlemen and ordinance makers OF no
mean talents.
Happy First wsrdl Happy town to
30 sess such First Ward!
We shall meet them and we shall not
miss them. But, alar, there are Others,
as in this cruel world there always are
Others. Here, for Instance, Is departed
from US Councilman KELLEHER of the
soulful Second, bis gnawins ambition to
pass his leisure hours 10 travelling in the
trolley from Randall Square to Fox.
point on through ticke; and back again
on another through ticket still grievous-
ly unsstisned. Gone, too, is GRAY, the
only ABRAHAM ip the entire city govern
ment. We believe, man who ran on a
bountiful nomination entitled Dem.,
Good Gov, Prohib,, his goose being
cooked py fellow citizen who Was only
a Dem. Coed Gov without any Prohib.
shout him at al. Gone, moreover, is
the Hon. MYRoN HALycoN FULLER, ever
the kind the doctor orders, ana with
his passing withers the bloom uron the
psacn and q sigh is waited from Indus
to the Pole, TO say nothing of all the
way back again. Moreover, as we pause by
the comfortably hiiad chair assigned to
the Eighth Ward, where
"rhere is a silence where hath been no
sound,
There is IA silence whore no sound may
be--u
we drop one little tear for the absence
OF the only silent Goo Goo ever exhibited
In this or any other country, and list to
the racket that ensues even in the interval
'twixt he departure OF our esteemed fel
low citizen, Alderman RICHARDS, and
the arrival of our esteemed fellow citi.
zen, Alderman-elect LOWE, who is OF
nature calculated to shake the dust out
OF the Aldsrmsnic leather, muflied, "a 1t
we're, beneath the untSitching coat
tails Of his genial predecessor.
But, after all, shall not the world GO
'roundY We guess yes. IL. got to GO so
long as the First Ward delegation has its
health TO ply the lever.
THE career OF the late FRED l. MARCY
was not an entirely unusual one, Indeed,
it was type OF which there have been