Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-11-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MONITOR
Washington, Nov. IA, 1892.

Explanations cannot explain away
defeat. Let republicans take their
cue from level headed Benjamin Har-
rison, who, Notwithstanding publica-
tions to the contrary, your CORES
| pondent knows to an absolute certain
| ty has made no attempt at public ex.
PLANTATION of his unexpected defeat;
| it is enough for him to know, and it
should be enough for the rank and file
votes of his fellow citizens have been
cast against the principles defended
by the republican party, and that was
after careful elaboration on the part
of those voters and after the wide
awake republican press aided by the
National committee had presented
the questions at issue in manner
that should have made them plain as
day to every man of ordinary intelli
gence. The proper policy now is to
wait. Just as certain as the sun shines
time will vindicate the position of the
republican party on every question
that was a factor in the late campaign.
Just give the victorious democrats
plenty of rope and they will have tied
themselves hand and foot long before
1896.
The question to be considered now
is not the future of the republican
party-that will take care of itself,
but what the democratic party will
do with the government, now that it
has so unexpectedly, to itself as well
as to the republicans, for the first
time in thirty two years secured full
control of the presidency and both
branches of Congress. 1t rests with
that party to say whether the country
shall be thrown into an absolute panic
or whether it shall merely be tempo
rarily halted in it's prosperous ca
reer. If the advice of the hot-heads
in that party be taken and an extra
session of the democratic Congress be
called as soon as Mr.. Cleveland is in
augurated, for the purpose of sup
planting the present tariff laws with
others without protective features,
panic will almost certainly follow.
By waiting for the regular session of
Congress to take up the tariff they
will give those whose capital is in
vested in what are known as the tpro
tected industries" an opportunity to
prepare for the change by working
up the material now on hand and
withdrawing their capital, or by re-
ducing the wages of their employees
to a standard that will enable them TO
compete with foreign goods under a
low tariff, and a panic Will be avoided.
But in either event it will be hard
times and lower wages. Mark this
prediction.
The real estate spectators of Wash
ington are rejoicing over Mr.. Cleve-
lands election as they have good rea-
sons, in the shape of millions of dol
lars which he helped them to make,
for doing. They expect that he will
ssbuy'' another suburban residence in
the same way he did "Redtop", which
he afterwards sold for something like
1926, 900, after having lived there for
several years, and that it will, as it
did before, enable them to sell land
too poor to grow broom straw, at fan
CIV prices, for villa sites, to the snobs
who are always ready to follow any
fashion set by the President of the
United States. They have not forgot
ten, either, that the two men who ne
gotiated the deal by which Mr.. Cleve-
land came into possession of Cred
top" received two of the best paying
offices in the District OF Columbia as
a sort of reward for "selling" him the
land.
A little incident took place in one
of Washington's big drygood stores
last Saturday which speaks for itself
A Maryland farmer had come into the
city to buy winter clothing for his
family, and after going from one
counter to the other in the store pric-
ing goods, he asked for the proprie-
tor, with whom he had slight ac-
uuaintance, and after shaking hands
the following conversation took place:
Farmer: ssYour prices are just as
high as they were this time year
ago on wooden goods, and a little
higher on cotton goods"
Proprietor: eyes, prices on all lines
of goods have been practically at
standstill for year until the election
of Cleveland; since that we have been
notified by the manufacturers of a
small increase in the price of cotton