Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-10-14
WASRlNtJTON LETTER.
Washington, Oct. 7, 1895.

Washington, Oct. 7, 1895.
When the manager of a big business
establishment neglects his duties the
bad example is quickly followed by
those Of his subordinates who have an
opportunity to do SO. This govern
ment is the biggest business estab-
Iishment on this continent, and the
President is its general manager. AS
one gentleman put it in converse
ton today, ''this administration ought
to be known in history as one of va
cation and incapacity." No reason
able person objects to the President
and members of the cabinet taking
vacation, just as most other men do
occasionally, but when there is more
time devoted to vacations than to
Congress to act, and to prescribe ex-
actly the time the President and
members of his cabinet may take off
and continue to draw their pay.
One of the odd phases of the Mary
land campaign is that while the Cor
man democrats continue to assert
that Mr.. Cleveland wants the German
ticket to be elected, Mr.. Cleve-
land and all the members of his caol-
net maintain a dead silence on the
subject, and the most prominent OIL
Gals say that all the coaxing and beg
ging of Senator German and his
friends has been able to get upon the
stump in Maryland was Dominic
Murphy. a subordinate of the Com
missioner of Pensions. Your cor
respondent makes no pretense OF be-
ing in the confidence Of Mr. Cleveland
or of any member of his cabinet, but
he knows that in the past neither Mr..
Cleveland nor the members of his
cabinet have hesitated to speak out in
favor of the democratic ticket in any
state where it was thought such
speech would aid in bringing out the
party vote. If they really wish Cor
man to win, why do they not speak
out for his ticket? Why didn't the
members of the cabinet who refused
to make speeches for Germans ticket
temper that refusal with few words
in favor of the election of the ticket?
The answer to these questions may
not be that Mr.. Cleveland wishes the
Gormanites to be defeated, but it
certainly looks that way at this writ
ing.
Secretary Hoke Smith has gone to
Georgia again. 1t is said that EX-
Speaker Crisp's announcement, when
he was in Washington the other day,
of his intention to make some free
silver speeches in Georgia had some
thing to do with the Secretary's pres
ent trip.
1t is evident that the administration
does not feel any more cordial to-
wards Mr.. Castle, the new Hawaiian
minister to the United States, than it
did towards his predecessor whose
recall it so unjustly demanded. Mr..
Castle arrived in Washington few
days ago. He called at the State
Department to see Secretary Olney
about arranging a date for officially
presenting his credentials. When
Mr.. Castles card was taken into Sec.
Olney he sent word to him by a mes
senger that he was busy and could
not see him, but he would call upon
diplomatic day, which is set apart for
receiving all members of the diplo-
matte corps who care to call upon the
Secretary; but the calls upon that day
are as a rule more of a social than an
official nature Of course the Incl
dent was discussed by members of
the diplomatic corps, and especially
chuckled over by those representing
countries which are interested in pre-
venting the annexation of Hawaii to
the United States. Mr.. Castle is one
of the leading Hawaiian annexation
lists, which of itself is sufficient reason
for the Cleveland administration to
desire to make things as unpleasant
for him as possible without openly
insulting him. There is not another
foreign minister in Washington who
would have failed to see Mr.. Olney
had he called at the department under
similar circumstances.
1S no Ely PRESIDENTS