Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-11-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Nor. 5, 1894.

Washington, NoU. 5, 1894.
Whether it was conscience that
made Secretary Carlisle actor the or
der of Mr.. Cleveland, is immaterial.
He has acted, and Mr.. Morton's un-
dercoachman, who was unjustly ar
rested by an over jealous democratic
official and condemned to deporta-
ton by another, on the f1imsy preteXt
that he had been brought to the Unit
ed States in violation of the alien con-
tract labor law, is a free man. This
action was only taken after the use of
an amount of red tape, which under
the circumstances was little short OF
disgraceful to all who had anything
to do with the matter. Before Mr..
Carlisle acted the case was formally
referred to the Attorney General for
legal opinion, which was discussed
at cabinet meeting, and yet his de-
cision, that the man was a domestic
servant, would have been arrived at
by a school boy in one minute after
the question was put to him. The
fact of the matter is, that the admin
istration has been made ashamed of
the whole business by the general con-
demnation of such peanut methods of
trying to make capital against Mr..
Morton which this arrest has receiv
ed from reputable newspapers, re-
CARELESS of politics.
All of the republican messengers
and watchmen in the departments at
Washington and in the custom houses
throughout the country having been
supplanted by democrats Mr.. Cleve
land has issued an order, extending
the classified civil service to include
those positions, and the country is
duly notified that another great ad
vance in civil service reform has been
made, and incidentally, that several
hundred democrats who otherwise
would have expected to have stepped
down and out of the public service
soon after the Inauguration of the
next republican president-March 4,
1S97-now complacently look forward
to drawing a government salary for
the rest of their lives.
The good things promised with the
new tariff law are slow in making
their appearance, but some Of the bad
thin gs it has brought are very much
in evidence. For instance, according
to the official figures, the public debt
of the United States increased more
than thirteen miliionof dollars during
the month Of Octocer - to be exact,
S13, $50, 1854. The treasury surplus
which the country was assured would
soon be accumulated under the me-
cations Of it are in sight yet, unless
one wears peculiarly constructed
spectacles.
II notice." said an Indianapolis
man who is in Washington on private
business, "that Gen. Harrison has
been letting the public get little
glimpse Of part of his nentalmake-
up that only those f@rtu aate enough
te'be on terms of personal intimacy
with him have known he possessed.
refer to his ability as a humorist Of
the refined Oliver Wendell Holmes
sort, which bubbled up III several
parts Of his recent New York speech,
which, by the way, has never been
excelled in a single speech as con-
else statement of the difference be-
tween the republican and democratic
parties. His using the grasshopper.
because nobody knows in what direc
ton it will jum, next, and which does
not itself know, to illustrate the po-
sition of the democratic party on the
great questions Of the day, was one of
the apt hits of the campaign, and I
predict that the term 'grassbopper'
will stick to the democrats during the
next presidential campaign, and long
er, if that party survives another ma
tional election"
''Like master, like man" Mr.. Cleve-
lands GOODNESS towards the caudi-
dates of his party made itself felt very
perceptioly in the ranks Of the small
fry office holders, and il will be
strange, indeed, if some of the defeat
ed candidates do not take advantage
of the coming session of congress to
let Mr.. Cleveland and the country
know what they think of such party
treason.
% @-
WHAT L SAW OUT WEST.