The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-08

on the inaugural address of President
Mckinley and'have been impressed with
the remarkable oordiality expressed by
the press regardless of the respective polit-
ical views The Democratic and even the
Mugwump press, while naturally unable
TO agree with the Presidents views on the
tariff, for instance, have treated his ex-
prcssions with marked toleration rccog-
nizing that what the President had TO
say was exactly what was to have been
expected and the occasion was not one TO
call for a partisan onslaught on that
account.
We note that the leading Democratic
| paper of the land, the sun, with much
larger reading Of its contemporaries than
has been possible to The News, is similarly
impressed. In its Sunday issue the sun
observed 1--WE are glad to see that there
is no disposition to captious criticism Of
President Mckinley in the newspapers of
the Union, whatever may be their partisan
prejudices Everybody hopes for him n
| successful administration, since that will
imply the restoration of prosperity after
four years of terrible disaster
That the Sun does not mention the
Providence Journal, as an exception 60 the
general freedom from "captious criti-
cism, indicates that the curt and ungrac-
ious review Of the message in the Journal
escaped its eye. But the observation of
the great New York newspaper confirms
our own impression from more limited
reading that the journal was the only
paper of consequence in the country TO
hegin its preconccived campaign OF
malevolonce against the administration
promptly upon the delivery Of the Presi-
dents first words TO the American people
In this the Journal surely stands alone
without an ally in its petty Bourbonism
Thus is new proof afforded that there is
not another so ill-temperod and persist
emily captious newspaper among all our
contemporaries to compare with the
amazing Journal. Clearly, there is to
be no relief from the policy Of fault
finding and malice so long pursued to-
ward everything Republican wherever it
exists in city, state or nation i'm which
policy the Journal has already become
papers. 1t is plainly going to do business
at the old stand obliyious to the ignoble
position to which 1t has been rclegated by
its fairer and better inspired conterr,or-
aries. Beginning at tho tine delegates
were elected to the national convention
that nominated Benjamin Harrison,
up to the close of his administration, not
a syllable can be found In the columns of
the Journal ever commencing one or the
other. From the retirement ef President
Harrison the Journal has closely followed
him up, never referring to him, except by
ridiculing him and SO firmly was the
habit fixed, 10 Is recalled that on com
menting on his New York speech made !
in the last campaign, which comments |
were evidently made without reading the |
speech, the Journal let loose its Billings |
gate only TO discover that the non partisan |
and independent press, To which it looked |
for support of its views, were of one mind
I'm regarding the Harrison speech as n
effort-whereupo it backed
water in a succeeding issue. What the
Journal suffered when its idol Cleveland.
refused to be guided by it's captious teach
ings is recent history and il is a fact that
during the last national campaign not n
word could bc found in its columns COM
Mckinley, while, when he became
the President elect it was at pains Ia
declare that his nomination was the worst
one possible until that of Bryan was an
The State OF Rhode Island IS in close
ouch with the present administration,
moro largely, perhaps, than 1t ever was
with any OF its predecessors. 1t expects
% share politically and financially in the
rood times now promised and party lines
ire not drawn i'm tho good wishes Rhode
Island extends to the President In the
and unexampled position the
Journal takes it has no following and
AN expect none II misrcprcsents Rhode
Island sentiment more outrageously than
'ver before in somewhat extended
,areer of Misrepresentation.
The four years from Novomb bor, 1Sa9. 20
November, 1876, accomplished revolution