The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-11-20
" ashington Letter.
From our regular Correspondents

| WASHINGTON. D, C. November, Is. 1896
| Had it been possible for the voter
to have seen one week before election
the remarkable demonstration of tn,
revival of the public confidence which
has comerfrom every section of tn.
country since the election of Maj. Nc
Kinley, there is no doubt that McKin
ley and Hobarts popular majority
would have been a million greater
than it is. Republicans had no doub,
that apprehension caused by the feal
of those who controlled money that
all our standards of value might be
upset had done more to paralyze busi-
ness than any other. one thing and
they so told the people from every
stump and through the columns of
every republican paper. They con-
vinced many, but if the starting up
of idle mills and manufactures and
the Inauguration of great enterprises
involving vast expenditures and the
employment of all the unemployed
who wish to be employed could have
taken place before the election a
million more would have been con-
vinced and would have voted for real
prosperity instead of for chimera.
However, it was only by waiting
until restoration Of republican con-
troll, executive and legislative, was
absolutely assured, that she great bus
mess interest of the country, the pros
perity of which involves the prosperity
of all our people, could show the world
the faith felt in the wisdom of the re-
publican party. The republican who
does not feel his heart swell with pride
merely to belong to an organization
which can inspire such faith must be
cold-b -blooded indeed. The news col
umns of the press since the election
of Mckinley and Hobart was announce
ed have, by just prin ting the cold facts
about the actual, not prospective, re-
vival in almost every part of the
country and in almost every line of
industry and business. paid the high
est tribute of praise to the republican
party ever paid to any political organ
izatien in any country in the history
of the world.
It is now for the republicans to
show>to the world that this tribute
was deserved. No one who is familiar
with the life and record of President
elect Mckinley and of those of the re-
publicans elected to the fifty-ffth
Congress and those holding seats in
the Senate can entertain a doubt on
that subject. With President McKin-
ley to suggest and Speaker Reed, the
republican majority in the House, and
the hoped for republican majority in
the Senate, to execute. the legislation
will be such as will expand and make
permanent the business boom which
started the hour that republican sue
cess was assured, and which will, it is
confidently believed continue to grow
and grow until the country enjoys a
long era of the greatest prosperity in
its history. And one of the good
things about it will be that the mis-
guided popocrats who tried so hard to
prevent republican success will be
equal sharers in the general prosperity.
1t ought to make them see things as
they really are, instead of as they are
represented by demagogues who try to
trade upon "hard times" and public
credulity.
That some appointments of import
ance will be rendered to gold demo-
Gratis for their assistance in the cam
| paign is probable, but / have talked
with no republicans who believe that
they will include cabinet position
the diplomatic service offers op-
portunities. A man has only to be a
patriotic American to represent his
|
country satisfactorily abroad, but a
member of the Cabinet must be in
sympathy with all the policies of the
head of the administration under which
he serves, or he disarranges machinery
which ought to run smoothly to get
the best results.
Senator Quay stopped in Washington
long enough while on his way to Flor
ida, where he will fish and rest until
congress meets, to express the opinion
that there was probability that the
House Emergency Tariff Bill, passed
at the least session and held up in the
senate by the refusal of some of the
republican Silver senators to suppor
it unless a free coinage amendment
was attached, might be taken up ant
passed at the coming session. Senatol
Quay did not enter into details-ht
seldom does-as to why he thoughl
the till might be passed. 1t is sup
posed that he thinks, as many other