Review of reviews and world's work . er tardily and tentativelybrought in by the Ways and Means Committee; butanji:hing like a vigorous or intelligent tariff policyhas been suppressed. Mr. McKinleys election in 1891as Governor of Ohio gave some evidence to sustainthe theory that his maligned bill of the previous yearhad not really effected the extinction of the Re-publican party. And now the other man who wasmost responsible for the details of the new tariff hasbeen vindicated in his own State. Senator Aldrich,of Rhode Island, will be returned for another six yearsas a result of the hotly cont
Review of reviews and world's work . er tardily and tentativelybrought in by the Ways and Means Committee; butanji:hing like a vigorous or intelligent tariff policyhas been suppressed. Mr. McKinleys election in 1891as Governor of Ohio gave some evidence to sustainthe theory that his maligned bill of the previous yearhad not really effected the extinction of the Re-publican party. And now the other man who wasmost responsible for the details of the new tariff hasbeen vindicated in his own State. Senator Aldrich,of Rhode Island, will be returned for another six yearsas a result of the hotly contested election of April 6,in which the Republicans elected a State ticket andwon a large majority in the legislature that will haveto choose a United States Senator. Rhode Island issingular among the States in holding its elections inthe spring; and in Presidential years its April cam-paign is watched with anxiety as having some pro-phetic bearing upon the larger contests of the au-tumn. This year the election was more exciting than. SENATOR ALDRICH, OF RHODE ISLAND.(From a photograph by Bell.) ; THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 393 ever before for three peculiar reasons. First. RhodeIsland has very lately abolished its old-time restric-tions tipon the ballot, and for the first time on a com-parable occasion full manhood suffrage was in Senator Aldrichs personality bore such a re-lation to the national tariif issue that his sTiccess ordefeat meant much to the two parties at large. Third,the United States Senate is so nearly a tie betweenparties that the complexion of the new Rhode Islandlegislatxire was regarded as practically determiningwhich party should control the ujjper national Housefor some time to come. The great lights of the twoparties were STimmoned to the little State, and Re-
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