Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-10-21
WASHlNtITON LETTER.
[sPE lIAL ooRREspo~ DzNOE OF THE MONITOR.
WASHINGTON, oct. II, 1895.

WdshfRgt oct. II, 1910. =
While no senator has made posi-
tive statement to that effect, enough
has been said by senators to make 1t
wellnigh certain that there will be no
general reorganization of the Senate
when Congress meets, owing TO
neither party having clear majority
in that body, and to neither republi-
cans or democrats desiring to allow
the popuIists to dictate the organiza-
ton by making a deal for their votes.
But it is not meant that there will be
no changes among the officials and
committee chairmen Of the Senate,
for there is likely to be a number, but
they will be only such as shall be
agreed upon by both republican and
democratic senators, and will be OF
the give and take order. In other
words. instead of all the Senate com
mittee chairmen and officials being
democrats, as at present, they will be
divided between democrats and re
publicans. with the chances in favor
of the populists being entirely LETT
out in the cold.
Few Americans, no matter WhaI
NAV be their opinions Of the Cuban
revolution, will agree with Attorney
General Harmon's assertion that eX-
pressions of sympathy by citizens OF
this country for the struggling Cubans
are s'discourteous in the highest de-
gree to friendly power and tend to
embarrass and obstruct the govern
ment in carrying out to its determl-
ton faithfully to execute the laws and
fulfiIl it's treaty obligations" Inc
Constitution of the United States
guarantees the freedom of speech,
and Mr.. Harmon is probably the hrst
member of a Presidents cabinet to
officially declare its exercise to be
discourteous to a foreign government
or embarrassing to our own. Mr.. Har-
mon may speak for this adminlstra-
ton. which has not at any time dur
ing it's existence reflected public sem
timent upon any question of impor-
lance, but he certainly does not
speak for the American people, who
will continue to exercise their con-
stitution given rights by publicly eX-
pressing their opinions and sympath-
les, Just as they have always done. Ii
it be discourteous for Americans to eX-
press sympathy for the Cuban reVo-
Iutionists it was also discourtesy for
the French to have expressed SYM
pathy for the American revolut1onlsts
of '76. The very corner stone OF this
nation is freedom, and if the time
ever comes when our people do not
sympathize with, aye, and express
their sympathy, too, for those IN
other countries who are struggling
for freedom, our own freedom will be
in great danger. What adds to the
incongruity, not to say absurdity, of
the Attorney Generals position is
the fact that Spain did not stop to
consider whether it was discourteous
to the United States or not when she
recognized the belligerency of the
late Confederate states very early in
the late civil war.
Mr.. PETER, the bewhiskered gentle
man who partly represents Kansas in
the Senate, brings his opinions to
Washington a little ahead Of Con-
gress, pro badly to escape the rush.
Several years ago he was cocksure
that the popul1sts would elect the
next president, but since then he has
been keeping tab on public sentiment
and now he gravely announces that
he hasn't any doubt that the republi-
cans will elect the next President as
well as majority Of the House, and
that the populists will not come into
power before 1900, and maybe not
until later. Now isn't that really ki.4l-
of the old gentleman? He postpones
the coming of the populists into pow
er solely to give theS republicans an
other four or eight years control OF
the country, but warns them that
their management of the government
is going to result in the breaking up
of the party. Seriously speaking, Mr..
PETER knows that the republicans are
bound to win next year, unless there
is very radical shifting of opinion
within the next twelve months; he
also knows that the populist move
ment is dead, speaking in national
sense. His prophecy of their getting
control of the government is merely
a bit of humor, for everybody except
the populists, Lwhom he probably
sizes up to besgullible enough to be-
ieve anything.
NOTES FROM THE COAST.