Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-04-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Is oEo1AL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR
WGshipqto March. 25 1895.

w WUSCCCgtOUs MUTcU, 70 1870.
Secretary Carlisle has just spent
several days in New York, ostensibly
upon business connected with the Gus
toms service, but there are reasons
good ones, too-for the belief that his
visit had a much more important OBJ
ject. Ever since before the adjourn
ment of Congress there has been talk
in Washington about an alleged secret
agreement between Mr. Cleveland,
some of the leaders of his party, and a
few of the money kings, having for
it's object the denomination of Mr..
Cleveland on a straight out gold plat
form. 1t was because of this talk that
the Bland Bryan silver manifesto was
issued few days before Congress ad-
journed. That manifesto was intend
ed to make the scheme to renominate
Mr.. Cleveland on gold platform i'm
possible, but it had a directly contra
ry effect.
Things are not at all satisfactory at
the headquarters Of the Sibley Silver
party. Letters are being received
from some of those who were without
their knowledge made members of
the executive committee Of the S. S.
party, and they are not what was ex-
pected. For instance, the following
from ex-Gov. Prince, of New Mexico,
who was made a member of the exc
cutive committee "While appreciat-
ing very highly this recognition of my
strong faith in the principle of by
metallism and the efforts l have made
in it's behalf, yet I am compelled to
decline the position, as | do not ap-
prove of separate political action at
this time. I believe that the duty of
the hour is to educate the people of
the east on the financial question
and as soon as the people are well in
formed party organizations will be
obliged to correct views and act ac-
cordingly. 1 have full faith that the
republican party, which has always
been the friend of the oppressed, the
champion of equal rights, the protec
tor of American labor and the expon-
ent of staIwart Americanism general
ly, will still be found true to its best
traditions and those who destroyed
human slavery will not permit finan-
cial slavery to exist and that those
who saved the nation itselfin 1861 will
not permit the destruction Of national
prosperity by financial selfshness and
oppression in 1896"
The administration is having a
regular monkey and parrot time with
the foreign complications already on
hand, and there are indications of a
bran new one with France, if the
stories that leak out about the meet
ings of the Cabinet can be relied
upon, and they probably can. Gres-
ham seems to be in bad odor with
nearly all his colleagues in the Cabi-
net, and to be in danger of losing the
ascendancy, he has heretofore been
able to maintain over Mr.. Cleveland
in all matters pertaining to the
foreign policy of the government.
The other members of the Cabinet
none of whom were consulted-have
not failed to make the most of
Gresham's indecent haste in making
that peremptory demand upon Spain
for an apology, and the result is seen
in the stand that Mr.. Cleveland has
taken. Although Spain has neither
made that apology nor even intimated
that it would do SO, Mr.. Cleveland
has decided that he will grant further
time before making another demand,
notwithstanding the efforts of Mr..
Gresham to get him to agree to make
a demand that would in plain English
mean immediate apology or the forci
BILE seizure Of Cuba by the United
st ates. He has gone even further
by issuing orders changing the previ-
ously arranged route of Admiral
Meade's fleet SO as to keep it's vessels
out of Cuban waters for the present,
lest the presence of the ships might
be construed by Spain into intimida-
ton.
The demand for the recall of Mr.
Thurston, the Hawaiian minister,
meets with general condemnation, as
the bit of personal spite that it was
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