Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-09-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washin gton, Sept. 10, 1894.

Washington, Sept. 10, 1894.
The five hundred members of the
department of the Potomac G. A. K.
who have gone to the annual encamp-
ment at Pittsburg from Washington
carried with them a document that
will be heard from by the Cleveland
administration, and what is heard will
not be pleasant, either. That document
is a resolution adopted by the Depart
ment of the Potomac, asking that
some action be taken by the encamp-
ment concerning the wholesale dis
m issal of union veterans by this adj
ministration, in violation of the gen.
eral law as well as of the civil service
law, both of which say in plain Ian
guage that other things being equal
Union We terans shall have the pref
erence in government employment
The resolution was adopted in the ex-
ecutive session and will not be made
public until it has been submitted to
the en- campment, but 1 happen to
know that it is both vigorous and
pointed.
This matter of the discharge of the
Union NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in the
ighborhood of two thousand of
them have been dismissed from the
government service since March 4,
1S93-will not be allowed to rest with
the G. A. r. Many of the men dis
missed are not members of that or
ganization, and for that reason an in
dependent organization has been
formed, composed entirely of Union
soldiers who have been dismissed from
the government service by the dem
ocrats, which will act as an auxiliary
to the G. A. r. in bringing their I'M
just treatment to the notice of the
public, and in attempting to get JUS
tice for themselves. This organization
has held several meetings, and is in
possession of the record of every
veteran dismissed, but it will not de-
eide what action it will take until it
is known what disposition the G. A. R.
encampment will make of the resolu-
ton sent from Washington, as the de-
sire is to allow the @. A. r. to take
the initiative.
The recent action of the sugar plant
ers of louisiana, in deciding to act
with the republican party, recalls
prediction made by ex-governor War
mouth, who was in Washington dur
ing the fight over the sugar schedule
in the Senate. He told 7ex-speaker |
Reed and Representative 9DalzeIT of |
Pennsylvania, that if they would |
agree to make half a dozen protect
ion speeches in louisiana would prom
Use that at least three republican
members would be elected to the
House from that State. Neither of
them made any promise. In fact, the
prominent republicans, while willing
to give all men a cordial welcome to |
the republican party, are rather dis
posed to leave these Louisiana sugar |
planters to work out their own Sp6lit- |
gotten the efforts which have been |
made time after time by the repub-
hcan party to make these very same |
sugar planters see that their prosper |
ity, as well as that of the country at |
large, was dependent upon the sue
cess of the republican party, nor the |
manner in which those efforts were !
received. The sugar planters took all |
the benefit they could get from the |
republicans and continued to work |
and vote for the demncratS
Representative Holman, of Indiana,
before leaving for his home to begin |
his canvass for reelection, confessed
that he was far from confident of
succeeding, and intimated that he did
not blame the voters for being dis
posed to deprive the democrats of the
power they have shown themselves
incapable of wisely using. While Mr..
Holman voted for all the democratic
legislation during the present Con-
gress he tried hard to persuade the
bosses not to permit much of it. He
saw the ruin that would follow, which
other members of his party either
would not or could not see. And now
he sees himself in danger of being in
volved in the party ruin.
Secretary Carlisle's tariff decisions
are going to make no end of litigation.
Nearly every day he makes one that
brings a notice from the parties in
terested of an intention to contest it
in the courts.