Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-12-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Regular Correspondence of the HERALD
1t is not expected that anything
of national Importance will be done
in Congress until after the holiday
adjournment. In the meantime the
Committees will be at work, and on
the re-assembling Monday, Jan. 5,
they will all be ready to report and
make short work of the appropria-
ton and other bills that demand at
tention, There is an evident dispo-
sition on the part of Democrats to
do very little in the way of fore
shadowing their policy until after
the Inauguration of President Cleve-
land.
The party has been 80 long out
of power and acting in the minority
that it does not readily come to the
front as the majority party. When
the new Congress shall assemble
next December, President Cleveland
will have developed his policy, and
his party will be ready to take defin-
lite position for the future.
The Republicans will not inter
pose any factious opposition to Mr..
Cleveland's appointments, and will
the country's good. 1t is not
thought here that there will be any
radical changes attempted either in
the policies of the government or
conduct of its affairs until after the
party has the reins of government
we'll In hand. Every effort will be
made to court the favor of the peo-
pie and prevent any violent changes
until there is a feeling of perfect
safety and quietude, and changes of
every character will be made so
gradually that they will not be no.
ticed until the awakening hour shall
come.
Every effort is to be made to con-
firm Democratic control in the
Northern States that went Demo
cratic in November, and to try and
add to that number two years from
now in the hope that by that time
the control of the Senate may pass
into Democratic hands. In the mean
time, Dakota with her half-million
people asking, and justly entitled to
be admitted as two States, Arizona
with her 100000 people, and Wash
ington, population sufficient to form
State, will be kept out in the cold
as Territories, so that their votes
may not be counted in 1883.
Texas will apply to be divided in
to three States, and strong effort
made to accomplish the division,
but if antagonized with the propo-
sition of the admission of the Ter
ritories as stated, nothing will be
done, for it is in the Democratic
mind to keep these Republican Ter
rtories in their present condition to
prevent their votes being cast for
the Republican nominees in 1888.
This is the outlook now; what
Republicans will do, and what they
will submit to, is in the future. 1t
is pleasant to know that there is to-
day a hopeful feeling pervading the
party, and 40 disposition to be cast
down or disnayed. In fact Dem O.
Gratis are surprised to find that the
grand old party is Just as united,
just as firm and infexible in its de-
mands for the right, as it has been
in all its history in the past. 1t has
not marched to the rear, has not
or laid down its arms,
but takes its temporary repulse as q
mere incident in its career, feeling
that the time and occasion will soon
arise when it will go forth to victo-
ry
Democratic members of Congress
are already having taste of some
Of the unpleasant things which go
with politicat success, in The food
Of applications for Office, Thou |