Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-04-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SPECIAL. I.CoRREsPoNDENCE OF THE MONITOR.

Washington, d. c., Mar. 80, 81.
The president is not man easy to
take offense,n nor given to implying i'm
proper motives to men, who, for po-
litical reasons make a practice of mis-
representing everything that he or
any member of his administration
does, but he is an ordinary human
being, and as such resents the out
right manufacture of stories for the
express purpose of making, or rather
trying to make misunderstanding be-
tween himself and other republican
leaders. Therefore it is only natural
that he should be somewhat offended
at the publication of newspaper ar
ticle intimating that he and Maj. Me-
Kinley are rivals for the presidential
nomination next year, and purport
ing to state upon authority that Maj.
Mckinley was already actively work
ing against the denomination of Mr..
Harrison and for his own nomination,
and further, that Maj. Mckinley
claimed the nomination as a right,
because he was the author of the tar
iff act passed by the fifty-frst con-
gress.
The story was bundle of mis-
statements from the beginning to the
end, and the object of its democratic
author is easily discernible, as, in or
der to make it appear more plausible
and as emanating from republican
source, it is based upon the assumed
certainty Of the nomination and elec-
tion of Maj. Mckinley as governor
of Ohio this fall. That such will be
the case is the general belief and
hope of all republicans hereabouts,
but the object of the writer of the
story was to prevent the very thing
that he assumed to be certain to oc-
cur. He hoped to create dissension
among the Ohio republicans by MAX
ing it appear that Maj. McKinley's
election as governor would be covert
ly opposed by the president.
This democratic would-be mischief
maker we'll knew that Maj. Mckinley
was out of this city that his story
would get we'll circulated before there
would be an opportunity to deny it.
Now, as a matter of fact, [ happen
to know that the president is particu-
larly desirous Of seeing Maj. McKin-
ley nominated for governor of Ohio,
and that he proposes doing every
thing that he may with propriety do
to help elect the champion of protec-
ton after he is nominated, and [ also
know that Maj. Mckinley is fully
aware of these sentiments of Mr..
Harrison, and that he is equally as
friendly towards Mr.. Harrison. tits
evident, however, that the democrats
propose to keep up their old time
tactics of trying to make political
capital for their own party by at
tempting to create dissension among
the friends of prominent republicans
therefore the republicans should be
constantly on their guard and place
no credence in stories of alleged
quarrels or "strained relations be-
tween eminent republicans. The re-
publican party, has represented in
congress and in the administration,
is to-day clearer of factions than it
has been at any time for fifteen years
past.
Secretary Foster has exploded an
other democratic "Roorback' 1t
was stated that the treasury depart
ment was greatly embarrassed to
know where the money was to come
from to redeem the 100000 of
Az per cent bonds that will mature
next September. This statement
caused the new secretary to smile