News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-22
FROM WASHINGTON
Correspondence of the News and Citizen.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., !
April 10. 1886.

ana Lne pOIlIlIlanS are nara at WOf
. figuring out the cause of the grea
Republican gains. OF course anti
administration Democrats attribut
the result to the fact that Fresiden
Cleveland has not removed every Re
publican official and filled his place
with Democrat. Administration
Democrats say it arises from the same
cause, but that the President has done
all that he could, consistent with his
promises before his election. Thai
those who have temporarily voted with
the Republicans while intending tC
show their dissent towards the admin.
istration, in not making wholesale re.
movals are but furnishing themselves,
as the local offices and patronage far
exceed the public Offices and patron
age in number and value. They fur
Their assert what is true, that outside
of the $4,000 places coming directly
under the civil service law, changes
have really been made more rapidly
than ever before, under any admins
tration, while about as many have
been made in the civil service law.
The Republicans, however, assert
that the changes are but the natural
result of the experiment of Democrat
ic administration. That there is a
growing feeling throughout the coun-
try in favor of Republican principles
and policies, and that instead of Mr..
Cleveland's policy having had ten
dency to destroy Democratic suprem-
acy, it has really impaired the Repub-
lican strength in causing many who
were heretofore hard, earnest workers,
to keep quiet and not do the service
they have in times past. They fur
Their assert that further elections will
further strengthen their views, and
that the elections of this fall will show
that the country desires the restora-
ton of the Republican party to power,
and it will be demonstrated in the
election of Republican House of
Representatives
The country had been led to believe
that the Republican party had grown
corrupt, that the rights of the masses
had not been properly guarded, that
extravaganza was the rule, that the
treasury had been robbed Of millions
and that change would unearth much
wrong doing. The change was made
and the shrewdest Democrats were
put in place to ferret out all wrong
doing, point out where and when the
treasury had been robbed and to un-
earth all the extravaganza and corrup-
ton that had prevailed. The keenest
scented detectives and the shrewdest
manipulators have been compelled to
admit that under Republican control
every department of the government
had been managed honestly, economi-
cally and with an eye single to the
best interests of all the people, and
this has caused a reaction.
The principles of the Republican
party commend themselves to the bet
ter elections of the people, and it
being admitted from Democratic
sources that the business of the coun-
try has been conducted fairly, they,
as one man, are in favor of a return
to power of that party which has done
so well.
Not only so, but the people have
noticed that the Republican party, out
of power, has been Just as honest, up
right and just as when in power.
From purely patriotic motives it has
given to the country law for the
Presidential succession, non-partisan
in its provisions presented an edu-
cational bill demanded by the exigen-
cies of the country, in which the south
would he benefited more than the
north; insisted on the admission of
territories, having the requisite popu-
lation into the sisterhoods of States,
whether Democratic or Republican in
and in all its demands
asks only that the rule of right shall
obtain.
Hundreds of other reasons could
be given which challenge the respect
of the whole people, prominent among
which are its demands for a free bal
lot and fair count; the protection of
home industries and the strengthening
of the national defences on sea as we'll
as on land, and these things are tax
ing deep root in the minds and con-
sciences of all, and causing an up
heaval of public sentiment in favor of
the return to power of the party of
honesty, so proven by the acts and adj
of its opponents.
The quality of the feminine ele-