The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-08

| ono OF tho highest ana most honorable
offices in the gift OF the people Of Prov
idcncc. If you had asked us 10 give you
the job of making mantel bed for our
j hall chamber we would hardly have
trusted you 10 do IL, unless you had fur
nished satisfactory references and we had
| known that you had mastered the trade
of cabinet making, or at least knew fairly
well how TO drive nail and turn gimlet
without splitting the wood But we take
your word for IL that you are equipped TO
fill the seat Of the Senator from Provi-
dence and put you there accordingly.
Few Of your feilow-citizens can claim TO
be 50 fortunate i'm the confidence of thor
townspeople. 1t is faith highly COM
plimentary to you.
We trust that the interests of the City of
Providence will be served by the practi.
cal results of your efforts to represent
them, being sure, OF course, that there
Will be no lack of well intentioned zeal in
their behalf We trust that the Senator
from Exeter will be considerate of your
maiden efforts in the halls of legislation;
that the Senator from Scituatc will he
kind TO you; that the Senator from West
Greenwich will in all ways in his power
lend you such friendly assistance as may
be possible without attracting attention
and so causing you embarrassment; we
have no doubt the presiding officer will
extend every courtesy to facilitate your
development in Craftsmanship recognizing
that though novice in politics you are
"A man OF parts entitled to respect for
what you have been as private citizen
and what you arc as the senior represen-
tatiye of the great corporation Of the
municipality of Providence in the coun-
ellis of the State.
On the whole we do not fear that
you are taking serious chances for
pleasant and honorable tour of duty. But
should you find the highway thorny
should burrs under the saddle tend to
make uncomfortably frisky the steed of
your vaulting ambition should you need
counsel and advice and a helpful word or
the cheering grasp Of true and cordial
sympathy we are confident we may be-
speak for you one rock i'm time of trouble,
one mainstay for any tribulation, one pre-
venter brace to take up the strain of any
untoward circumstance. Down stairs in
the House Of Representatives you will find
DIR. Garvin. He is one of your own. He
was IA Goo-Goo when Tom Bicknell was
in the knickerbockers of extraneous poll
tics. He knows everything that everybody
else knows and lot on his own account
He was one of the Vice Presidents of the
Goo-Goo meeting, the other night, as
deeply concerned in the welfare Of Provi-
dence as though he lived across the street
from you instead of in the purleus of
Cumberland. Go to him. Colonel Goddard
when in nred. Go tn DIR. Garyin, Colonel
Goddard. Conflde in him as i'm a father
confossor. Let him be your oracle of
Delphi, the fountain from which you
shall quaff hapdoodle in all its purity,
undeflled by horse sense. Approaching
the spirit of Garvin with due humility
and reverence, you may, in time, hope to be
like unto him more fully than can be ex-
pocted of you mt the outset of your
career Some day even you may al
most be counted with Bright and Con-
summate Flower McGuinness.
But don't try to be Bright and Con-
summate Flower, yourself, Colonel Some
things are impossible even To the most
vigorous aspiration. BE content if only |
future generations of citizens of Provi- |
dence set up pedestal on which shall |
stand two figures, Goddard and Garyin. |
hand clasping hand, check against cheek, |
twin saviours of city, though shall be |
over their heads the Flower.
still Bright and Consummatel
With these few remarks Colonel, we \
wish you luck and proceed to press.