Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-08-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SPECIAL ooasssPo voENoE OF THE MosEroa.l
Washington, august 3, 1896.

The Mckinley and Hobart army has
begun its march towards victory, and
already news is beginning to come IN
showing that the efforts of the silver
mine owners, whose paid employe
Bryan is said to be, to corrupt the I'm
thinking masses with fallacious argu-
ments and promises of something for
nothing will end in defeat of the par
ty of anarchy and reputation. Every
day information is received from
communities in which it had been
supposed that the silver sentiment
had full sway, showing that the senti-
ment in favor of honest money and
prote ction to American industry,
which is solely championed by the re-
publican party is on the increase.
This, too, in the face of the fact that
the republicans have just begun the
sharp shooting of the great battle
which is to be waged in the interests
of our right to have an honest cur
rency and the right to earn it by
honest toll.
In the campaign literature that is
being sent out by the republican Con-
gressional Committee every argu-
ment that is being advanced by the
advocates of free and independent
coinage of silver by this government is
being fully met and refuted, but a
protective tariff, which most repub-
icans believe to be the thing in which
the country stands most in need of
and from which it will derive the most
benefit, is also being advocated as
though there were no such issue as
silver in the campaign. Had there
been no democratic tinkering WITH
the tariff law which the republicans
left on the statute books, the silver
question never would have risen to
the dignity of a National issue, not
withstanding the extensive and ex-
pensive agitation which has been car
ried on for several years at the ex-
pense of the men who own the big
silver mines the only men who would
be largely benefited by the free coin
age of silver, now standing at ratio
Of 81 to 1, at ratio of 16 to 1.
The National Republican Protective
an organization of prom
inent colored men, the main object
of which is to educate the colored
voters upon the questions at issue in
the campaign, has opened headquart-
ers in Washington. While the associ-
alton will endeavor to get in touch
with colored clubs in all sections, it
has decided to pay especial attention
to the states of w. Virginia, Mary
land, Virginia, n. Carolina, Alabama,
and Kentucky, in all of
which Mckinley and Hobart are be-
lIeved to have more than a fighting
to win, and in all Of which the
silver men are trying to work on the
colored voters.
Representative Tawney, of Mimi,
now in Washington on business said:
81 believe that we will be able to car
ry Minnesota for Mckinley, but it will
require hard work, as all the elements
opposed to republicanism are going
to effect q thorough fusion. Nelson
carried the Estate in '94 by a large
plurality but by small majority over
the combined vote of the democrats,
populists and prohibitionists. There
are signs of a reaction against the
free silver movement and I believe
there will be many changes among
voters who have been temporarily
misled by the fat money delusion.
The advocates of silver have hurt
their cause greatly by raising the sec
tional plea of Southern and Western
Alliance against the East. They have
also done themselves harm by pub
fishing detached sentences of speech
made by Mr.. Blaine, containing art
fully picked out expressions speak
ing of both silver and gold as the
of the constitution, and sup
pressing what he said in the same
speech about the dishonesty of stamp
ing dollar as such when it contained
less than one hundred cents, and al
lowing the bullion owner to appropri-
ate wrongfully the difference between
the coin and bullion value" Mr..
Blaine's entire speech is being distri-
buted by the republicans.
Among the, signs indicating the
fright of the Bryanites may be mem
toned the stopping of the distribu
ton of Bryan's Chicago speech in or
der that it might be revised and the
of modifying words into
the democratic platform that were
not adopted by the Chicago conven
ton. They are finding out that the
people of this country are not ready
to indorse the throwing off of anY of |