Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-10-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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Woshinotou. Oct. 4. 1881.

No~fia gtoq., Oct. 4. iSS4-
The more the administration crowd
thinks of the nomination of Senator
Hill for Governor OF New York the
less they like it. Publicly 1t is difficult
to get them to talk about it, further
than TO utter the usual platitudes
about their being in favor of the no
minee, and peculiar circumstances
surrounding the ease which are not
understood outside of the State; but
privately they do not hesitate to say
that the whole business was a put up
job, for the purpose of making Hill,
who was only short time ago in
danger of being publicly read ou5 Of
the democratic party by his fellow
democratic Senators because of his
opposition to the tariff bill, the leader
of the democratic party. His nomi-
nation has already proved decidedly
embarrassing to the managers of the
democratic Congressional campaign.
They have been sending out literature
in defense of the tariff bill, and es
DSC1dllJ UIlO 1llCOluS YAK ClctuSo Cl IL,
and here is Hill, who voted against the
tariff bill, nominated for Governor of
the great State of New York, on
platform that specifically condemns
the income tax. They don't know
what to do. If they shout for Hill they
offend Mr.. Cleveland, who will con-
troll the Federal patronage until
March 1897, and if they don't they Of
fend Hill, who may be the democratic
nominee for the Presidency two years
hence. The republicans, while con-
ceding the truth of Dan. Lamont's
comment, that "Hill is a vote getter,"
are pleased with the nomination. be-
cause they are confident that it will
result in the election of Mr. Morton
and in making the electoral vote of
of New York certain for the repub-
ican nominee in 1896. They fully agree
with the administration men in be-
heving that Hips nomination was q
put up job, and that it's author was
David B. Hill, but they think the ad-
ministration ought to be glad of it, as
Hill will be defeated and thus elimin
ated as factor in national politics.
The administration men would be glad
enough of the opportunity to assist in
the eliminating process were it not
for their knowledge that if New York
elects a republican Governor this year
it will almost certainly go republican
inIthe PRESIDENTIAL election p!rpGT. Oh
About the smallest piece of political
work ever done by any administration
was the resumption in small way of
the coinage of silver dollars, in order
that the coins might be used by
stump speakers and personal workers
among the more ignorant voters of
the south and west to convince them
that the Cleveland administration was
so friendly to silver that it was still
coming silver dollars. OF course this
little trick will > not fool u Intelligent
newspapers readers,f fNhoe know that
MIR. uGleyeland is the gRgostDbitter OPP
ponent of silver who ever sat in the
Presidents chair, but from informa-
ton received here the Sc few 1894 sill
yer dollars are fooling some voters.
However,, they are mostly in sections
where the populists, not republicans,
are injured. Still, it is a piece Of dirty
work.
Secretary Carlisle evidently did not
greatly enjoy his visit to Mr.. Cleve
land. Perhaps the bad news he carried
of the democratic Congressional out
look was not well received. AT any
rate, the Secretary, who is ordinarily
a man of even temper and pleasant
disposition, has been in a terribly bad
humor ever since his return. 1t is said
that Mr.. Cleveland vetoed several
propositions submitted to him by Mr.
Carlisle concerning Treasury business
and that one of them was the propos
ed formulation of rules for the paw
ment of a rebate upon imported alco-
hol used in the arts. Whether this be
true Or not your correspondent does
not undertake to say, but it is borne
out by the sc mi official announcement
that the Treasury DepaI TIM ent will not
undertake to put into effect the clause
of the tariff law authorizing such re-
bate without further Congre ssiona]
legislation.
WRAT SAW OUT WEST.