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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1892
Page
4
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The Boston Journal mocks the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor but facts show Carronn ran a strong campaign and drew a record Democratic vote. He deserved election and so did the ticket, including Cleveland and Stevenson, though Massachusetts has not yet carried its full slate. Still, Car roll has advanced the cause and progress.
Chairman Carter explains to President Harrison that the defeat reflects a reaction against progressive Republican policies including tariff taxation doodle campaigns force bills and spoils-mongering. He calls the reaction the wisest interpretation and hopes the policies are wiped out forever.
Connecticut voters elected the Democratic State ticket in a rebuke to two years of Republican governance. Three of four Congressmen elected are Democrats, signaling progress toward broader political change. Remaining hurdles include the Legislature, still Republican, and the U.S. senatorship.
The Republican State committee rushes to recount nearly 400 000 ballots for Governor Russell in Massachusetts. The effort is costly and likely futile as the declared plurality is considered insurmountable. The piece denounces the move as a blunder filled campaign folly and warns against undermining the ballot system.
The piece notes a large majority opposes McKinleyism and predicts no action for four months. It argues that with a Democratic Senate President and House after March, reform will be possible, whereas normal legislation would wait until the new Congress convenes a year hence.
The speaker argues for an extraordinary session of Congress after Cleveland's inauguration to strip American industry of tariff fetters. He insists the next administration must summon Congress by March 4 to enact a tariff reform reflecting the people's will, emphasizing urgency and the intolerable system of legalized extortion.
The article asserts that election results confirm currency stability under a new government. It pledges dollars of equal intrinsic value, exchangeable for gold on demand, and equals between silver and gold dollars. It calls for repeal of the silver law and relief from a free silver policy.
The Boston Post endorses MATTHEWS for mayor, praising his ability, honesty, and leadership. It argues a Republican victory is impossible with MATTHEWS, warns against party factions, and urges Democratic unity to avoid independent or citizen movements.
To the editor the democracy means the common American people and will endure. The normal condition of American politics is Democratic supremacy, and only the Civil War era fears and resentments kept the Republicans in power, which has gone forever.
The Haverhill Gazette asserts it long fought corrupt police methods before the Boston Post and led the way in exposing misconduct, urging contemporaries to credit the Gazette for its early and vigorous truth telling.
The note questions General P. A. Collins as the cabinet pick, stating no better choice could be made. It frames Collins as the strong candidate for a high government role in a brief editorial voice.
A fragment from a period page features Whitelaw Reid’s quip Ophir Farm life and quick humor lines about society. Included are playful exchanges about taste for politics, lighter verses, and a verse titled JACQUE TUTRELLE reflecting social feuilleton tone.
Boston society notes the engagement of Miss Lillian Ames to Mr. Harry L. Chatman. Rev William C Winslow LL D joins the Chicago Exposition philology department and sits on the history and archeology council. Boston clergy delegates to the Christian Workers convention at Tremont Temple will preach tomorrow.
John Haley, a veteran soldier, is chosen librarian of the Dyer Library in Saco Maine. Fall River friends of Mrs Erving Winslow of Boston will entertain her for about two weeks. Postmaster Goodwin of Skowhegan Maine is in Portland seeking eye treatment. Colonel James H Carmichael of Governor Russell's staff wed Miss Kitty Dempsey in Lowell Thursday. Hartwell H Dunn resigns as secretary of the Fall River Y M C A to devote full time to music.
The passage notes the Prince of Wales taking up bicycling, Lord Coleridge declining an earldom to stay on the bench, and a salary parity between the US president and Rev Morgan Dix of Trinity Church New York. It mentions Rev Walter S Rudolph severing ties over endless punishment doctrine, Bishop Doane's English knickerbockers, and Xavier Mormier the French academician who lived fifty years in a rats filled Paris house, walls lined with books and a kindness to rodents.
Police Commissioner Osborne may resign as Boston Democrats grow disenchanted. Reports from Holyoke and Haverhill cite dissatisfaction with Osborne and the Police Commission. Governor Russell’s temperance stance cost him votes in Boston last Thursday.
From the Evening Record the piece notes that if Mr Haile had won election Commissioner Osborne would have wielded controlling influence with the administration on political subjects.
Massachusetts readers of The Booming Post flood in cabinet guesses for President Cleveland’s administration. Names like Collins Avery Russell Endicott and others appear. a tabulation shows Bayard Whitney Fairchild Dickinson Wilson and Collins leading in various posts with mixed support.
Editorial cheer from Hartford Times Lowell and Springfield Union praise Massachusetts Governor William Eustis Russell. They credit his re election with strong administration and mark him as a leading national Democrat likely for 1896 cabinet or presidency considerations.
Advices from the European Union of Astronomers indicate Professor Berberich of Berlin considers the newly found Holmes comet likely identical to Biela's. If confirmed, this links a historic comet to its meteor stream, promising major astronomical insight. The comet’s past sightings trace 1772 discovery, 1826 orbital period, 1845 nebula, 1852 split, and 1872 meteor stream observations.
The Springfield Republican praises Cleveland's unique chance to advance civil service reform and weaken the spoils system. It argues he must stay aligned with his party while fulfilling a sacred national trust and remaining true to the American people.
Congressman Elijah A. Morse cites Mrs. Gougar's vituperation and abuse as a major factor in his rising vote share. The remark connects political pressure with personal confrontation amid the period's public debates.
J R Sovereign states Powderly plans to resign as supreme head of the Knights of Labor and back A W Wright for the top post while major leaders doubt Powderly will retire. A national convention in St Louis next week may push by law overhaul and possible merger with the American Federation of Labor to form a single grand head. If merged, Powderly would lead the new order and Wright would head the K of L division in Philadelphia on Dec 12.
The American Statistical Association held its quarterly meeting in the Rogers building at Institute of Technology. Dr Amos G Warner superintendent of charities DC read on causes of poverty framing two tables with circumstances and misconduct. He cited sickness as the major factor and noted large families in pauperism. Boston reports show 42 percent under 14 from charity cases. He compared US death rates with Grinshaw Ireland figures and urged thorough study of environment and morbidity.
The Worcester West Chronicle notes the Boston Post has been the fairest among Democratic daily journals on political matters during the campaign.
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