Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18th, 1896.

washington. Sept. 7th, 1896.
Ii the bare election of Mckinley and
Hobart was the only aim ofsthei man
ayers Of the Republican party, they
could shut up shop and go home, as
their election is just as we'll assured
today as any political event possibly
CAN be before it has actually taken
place. But much more than small
majority of the electoral college is
sought for, SO instead of relaxing
their efforts, the republican managers
are increasing them and will con-
tlnue to do so until election day. If
Mckinley and Hobart are elected by
only small majority, the issues of
this campaign will continue to be
agitated and business remain in an
unsettled condition for four years
more and the battle will have to be
fought all over again in 1900. What
is wanted, and what every republican
and every true friend of good gov
eminent should help to bring about,
is such an overwhelming majority,
both in the popular vote ard in the
electoral college, for Mckinley and
Hobart, honest money, public pros
perity, and constitutional govern
ment, that no other party will ever
dare to make a National Campaign
on platform favoring debased cur
rency, reputation of debts, public
and private; attacking constitutional
government and favoring anarchy by
implication if not in direct words. Let
the seal of public condemnation be SO
indelibly placed upon the Shiny SER
pent OF distrust, Matched by the
cranks of populism and nursed into
dangerous activity by the democratic
National convention, that all the
world may understand, once for all,
that money may be safely invested in
the q. S., with the certainty that all
obligations will be honorably met.
When that is done, the foundation
will have been laid for an era of pros
perity that will exceed anything our
country has yet experienced. Enroll
yourself in this army Of honor and re-
cruit as many of your friends as pos
sible in order to help bring this about.
Mr.. j. w. Jordan, business man of
Ottumwa, Iowa, who is now in Wash
ington, says: "Iowa may be depend
ed upon as safe for Mckinley. There
is some free silver sentiment in nv
locality, but sound money ideas pre-
dominate very largely. | come in
contact with a great many people,
and hear Of scarcely any republicans
who are going, dovers to- the Chicago
ticket. The feeling among the sound
with is that if they regard the result
in Iowa as at all close, they will vote
for Mckinley instead of the ticket
named at Indianapolis.
Chairman Babcock, of the Republi-
can Congressional committee, thinks
that Palmer and Buckner will get a
large vote in Illinois, Indiana and
Kentucky, and that If there had been
any doubts about those states casting
their electoral vote for Mckinley they
would have been swept away by the
action of the Indianapolis convention,
and Secretary Mercer, of the same
Committee, thinks that many old SOL
diers in Kansas and Nebraska will
vote for Gen. Palmer on personal
grounds alone. The popocrats are
much alarmed over rumor that Sec
Carlisle is thinking of taking the
stump in Kentucky for Palmer and
Buckner.
According to what appears to be
trustworthy administration authority,
it will be as much as an officials life
is worth-his official life-for him to
take the stump for Bryan. Mr.. Cleve
land has determined to consider it
the rankest sort of offensive partisan
Ship for any member of his admins
tration to take an active part in the
campaign, in Bryan's behalf, and word
to that effect has been passed around
in all the departments. Tt is also
stated on the same authority that
three prominent officials who have
been talking for Bryan will be asked
to resign.
The reason why Representative
Richardson, of Tenn, has been de-
tached from the Washington popo-
cratic headquarters and sent to Chi
cago, is not that Chairman Jones
wanted him there, as was given out
at those headquarters, but because
Chairman Butler of the Populist Ma
here, and the democrats were afraid
of offending Butler. Some ten days