Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Mar. 6, 1892.

verdict rendered at the polls last No
vember. and it can now afford tC
calmly await the result, hoping fol
the best, and prepared to admit that
it was wrong if the new Congress ano
administration can carry out the plat
form adopted by the last national
convention of the democratic party
without causing a serious shock TIC
the commercial and industrial inter
ests of the country. But it is already
apparent that the pledges of the dem
ocratic platform will not be carried
out, certainly not the one relating to
the tariff There will be no tariff
smashing; only slight shake up.
Mr. Cleveland's Inauguration was
quite a freezing affair. Icicles were
more plentiful than enthusiasm. Seats
on the street stands which were in
tended to be filled with people-at
from 81 to So a head-Were covered
by two or three inches of snow and
swept by cold northwest winds, which
gave the participants in the parade a
stiff and half frozen appearance. The
only real enthusiasm your correspon-
dent saw displayed during the day
was aroused in the southern contin-
gent, which it is needless to say was
numerous, by the appearance of Gen.
Fitz Lee, of Virginia, who commanded
one of the divisions. That enthusi-
asm was particularly boisterous when
Mr.. Cleveland nearly bent himself
double to return the naughty bow
which was given him by the proud
Lee as he rode past the Presidential
reviewing stand.
Gen. Harrison took Mr.. Cleveland
from the White House to the Capitol
and back again in his carriage, but he
declined accompanying Mr.. Cleveland
upon the reviewing stand, because,
for one reason, he had previous en-
gagement to attend farewell dinner
given to himself and the members of
his cabinet and their family by ex-
Postmaster General Wanamaker, at
the close of which he took a special
train for Indianapolis. 1t is perhaps
true also that Mr.. Harrison being hu-
man, like the rest of us, had not for
gotten that Mr.. Cleveland declined to
stand with him upon the reviewing
stand on March 4. 1889.
There is one sentence in the Presi
dents inaugural address that has car
ried con sternation into the ranks of
the office seekers, who are more num-
erous in Washington than ever before.
The Ian guage is emphatic, and they
have taken it as intended to be per-
sonal to them, as it doubtless was.
Following is the sentence referred to,
office seekers in your section as to
hose here to present their claim in
person: zone mode of the misappro
0riation funds is avoided when APP
to office, instead of being
he rewards Of partisan activity, are
awarded to those whose efficiency
promises fair return of work for the !
compensation paid to them. To Sc
cure. the fitness and competency OF
tppointees of office, and to remove
rom political action the demoraliz
ng madness for spoils, civil service |
eform has found place in our public |
policy and laws" One of the results
# this plain talk was the determina
ion of the Tammany bosses before |
hey left Washington, that no Tam |
many man should become an appli !
amt for federal Office, although they |
tand prepared to furnish men to fill |
Is many offices as Mr.. Cleveland may
,ffer them, but they must be offered |
Without being asked for, say the boss
IS
have it on good authority that the
ssue of bonds, which Mr.. Harrison |
TODD out SO manfully against, will be
IN accomplished fact just as soon as
he new administration can find a |
easonable excuse, and that will not /
'e difficult to manufacture, with the
id of those who for personal reasons
want the bonds issued.
Senator Stanford is naturally very
much pleased over having secured
rom Gen. Harrison, before he left for
Indianapolis, his acceptance of the
hair of constitutional law in Leland
Stanford University, of Cal, which
vas rendered him as soon as the re-
ult of the election was known. The
will deliver his first
ecture at the university some time in
october.
Some of the regular Appropriation
ills had close shaves and are some
THAT bungled, but all of them got
trough before time was called on the
fifty second Congress, and now there