Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-10-26
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
THE CAMPAIGN ENDS.

With the close of this week the
great and remarkable campaign OF
1896 will practically end. Probably
never in the history Of this country
has a more exciting, uncertain and
peculiar political battle been waged.
The votes that will be cast on Elec-
tion Day will exceed in number any
thing the country has witnessed, and
probably the number will be greater
than was ever polled in voting con-
test in the worlds history. The i'm
portance of the election will be
greater than that of any period, ex-
cept it may be in 1860 when war was
the expected issue and the result.
On the one side at this time great
party is seeking power under the
promise that the existing status of
things shall be continued, except that
the tariffs of the country shall be so
adjusted that the revenues of the
treasury shall exceed the expenses.
In this adjustment the protection
theory will prevail, thereby in the
belief and expectancy of Republicans,
so improving business in manufactur-
ing and commercial lines as 20 bring
about condition of things such as
was enjoyed during Harrison's ad-
ministration 1t is confidently eX-
pected that an increase in the tarlH
on custom schedules will set the
wheels and spindles of the country IN
motion, light the fires in the silent
furnace. set the millions of idle men
at work, restore the confidence OF
people and bring a return OF work,
business, prosperity and contentment.
The cause of the disaster that has re-
Gently fallen upon the country is SO
well understood and a remedy is so
easy to be obtained that no violent
change has to be made, no panic, no
revolution must be had to bring about
the desired state of things. That
party has nominated man for the
presidency whose integrity, ability,
character, experience and history are
such that the masses have implicit
confidence in him. He has record
of long and conspicuous service;
more than any other man he had to
do with the great revenue problems
which had to do with affairs preced-
ing and during the golden era of
the later republican administrations.
1t was his head and guiding hand
which so fairly adjusted the in
tracacies and the bearings of the Nc
Kinley tariff thatit rested upon no class
as a burden, while it set at work, pro-
tected, blessed the laborer, the manu-
facturer, and every class of persons
dependent on the success of these, at
the same time turning the tide of
prosperity back across the land until
every farmer, every miner, every
stock raiser, every professional and
business man felt and enjoyed the
benign influences of the prosperous
era.
That party, pledged to the work of
restoring similar tariff with its re-
ciprocity adjustment, knows how that
can be accomplished from ability and
experience. The same influences
which elect Mckinley will choose a
Congress which will be in accord
with him and with the people in the
crest effort of reform. The ills of
short treasury and of broken conf
dence which have embarrassed and
defeated President Cleveland in his
last administration, however honest
he may have been in his purposes,
are to be overcome by new regime
This grand country, suffering from