Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-07-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR

WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR ]
The president, like all other repub-
licans, is perfectly satisfied with the
record of the democrats III the first
session of the Fifty second Congress,
soon to end, and believes thatit alone,
to say nothing of the magnificent to
elect the republican national ticket.
The democrats although having two
thirds of the House, have accomplish
ed practically nothing. They came in
power shouting repeal of the McKin-
lev tariff law, shout which very soon
uuieted down to whisper, and when
they began what one of their own
number - Pierce of Tennessee = has
characterized as a ''pop gun attack
on the tariff they were openly taun-
ted by Jerry Simpson with being
afraid to vote for bill repeating the
Mckinley act.
They owe not a few of their seats in
the House to misrepresentation OF
the appropriations of the so-called
tsbillion dollar'7 Congress, and their
promises on the stump andln the col
umns of the party press to economic
in public appropriations. They have
kept those promises by appropriating
in the aggregate more than -S6O,OOO,-
600 in excess of the amount appropr1-
ated by the first session of the last
Congress Is it any wonder that re-
publicans are satisfied with democrat
ic record?
Washington G. A. r. men in addi-
ton to preparing to entertain their
comrades who will come to the Ma
tional encampment in September,
have begun to work for the election
of a member of a Washington postto
the honorable position of commander-
in-chief. The Washington candidate
is Colonel Charles P. Lincoln of Mich
igan, at present deputy commissioner
of pensions. Col. Lincoln was can
didate for the position at the last en-
campment, but withdrew for fear that
his candidacy might prevent Washing
ton getting the encamp1nent.
The third party Congressman are
not happy. They have been trying
for months to organize COMPRESSION
al campaign committee for'the dlstr1-
button of documents, etc, and they
now confess that they cannot do It,
Reason: lack of funds; those who
have money are not disposed to con-
tribute it for the dfissemina alton of Wis
ionary ideas.
Secretary of State Foster, says the
recent action of the Canadian Gov
eminent concerning Marine tolls is in
no sense a concession to us. He does
N OF say so-he is toogood diplomatic
to give himself away-but tits evident |
that he believes Congressional action
to be necessary to bring Canada to |
her senses. Senator Higgins has in
troduced a sweeping bill, cutting off
about every privilege that Canada
enjoys by the courtesy of tfiscountry,
that would be retaliation indeed, if it |
became a law.
Mr.. Thomas II. Garter, the new
chairman of the Republican National
was not widely known pre-
vious to the Minneapolis eomW enti0n,
but his mastery work there gave him
at once a national reputation as "a
shewd political manipulation, andca
ed ex- chairman Clark, against whose
candidate Carter was working, to say
that he was the sfrewdest politician
of his age in the country. He as at |
present land commissioner, but he !
will resign and give his whole atten-
ton to the campaign
When the vessels now under com
5 truction together with those author
lied to built are completed we shall
have a very respectable navy of mod
ern war ships. There Will be forty
three vessels in all, carrying 364 gums
and manned by II 1894 officers and
men.