Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, Mag IS, 1896

wishes of the rank and file of his
friends and admirers, he would take
the second place on the ticket to be
nominated at st. Louis, if he cannot
get the first place, and Gov. McKin-
ley seems to come very near to hav-
ing mortgage on that. In fact there
can be no doubt that the combination
of those two names on the ticket
would give satisfaction to more re-
publicans than any other that could
be made, and aside from those who
have personal reasons for wishing
one or the other of them to head the
ticket, lis probable that Reed and
Mckinley would be equally as salts
factory as Mckinley and Reed. What
ever may be the relations existing
between some of their individual
friends, Speaker Reed and Gov. Nc
Kinley, although for the second time
rivals for high party honor, are on
the most cordial terms with each 9TH
or; and they have proven already by
the great work they did in the fiftieth
Congress, after having been rivals
for the Speakership of the House,
that they work we'll in double harness
and make strong team. That Meth
er of these men should banker after
the Vice Presidency is not strange,
but they are both thorough republi-
cans, and as such would not refuse to
accept duty imposed on them by the
National Convention. 1t is safe to
predict that if the Convention selects
these two men neither will decline.
1t might look q little queer to see
Senator Hill make speech at the
Chicago Convention nominating Mr..
Cleveland for third time but pre-
cisely that prediction was made in my
hearing by gentleman who has been
singularly fortunate in foretelling
political events. Mr.. Hill must be
anxious to see Mr.. Cleveland get a
worse drubbing that the voters of
New York gave to David B. when he
ran for Gov. against Gov. Morton, if
he is really thinking about nominal
ing Mr.. Cleveland.
Mr.. Cleveland has rewarded Com
missioner Lochren for carrying out
his pension policy by giving him life
job as U. S. Judge for the District of
Minnesota. Domipick I. Murphy, of
Pa, now First Deputy, has been NOM
mated to succeed Lochren as Com
and n. P. T. Dana, now
chief of division in the Office, to
Murphy. There will be no
change in the Cleveland Pension poll
after the 4th of next March.
1t had been evident for some time
that Col. Dupont would not be seated
as Senator from Delaware. The COM
bined democratic and populist vote
makes a majority of 1 in the Senate,
and that was the margin upon which
Col. Dupont was kept out of the seat
to which he was entitled. If the pop
ulists had voted against Col. Dupont
on conviction, there would be 'no
kick coming to the republicans, but
they didn't.
About six men in the Senate will
prevent the adoption of Senator Nor
CAMS joint resolution instructing the
President to recognize Cuban belli-
gerency, although all the other Sena-
tors, nine tenths of the House and an
overwhelming majority of the people
of this country favor It's adoption. 1t
is the same old story. This handful of
Senators have indicated their inten-
ton to talk all summer if necessary
to prevent vote on Senator Nor
gan's resolution, and the other Sena-
tors know that the Senate rules are
such that it is only question of phys
lcal endurance that will stand in the
way of the threat being carried out
there is not much prob
ability that the resolution will be
seriously pushed. Some day the Sen
ate will probably have rules which
will enable the majority of its mem
bers, and not determined and OBJ
5tinate minority, to say what shall be
done and to do it. Until then wise
men will not expect too much from
the Senate.
The Senate wants to know little
more about what is being done in be-
half of the Americans who we're tried
by a Court Martial in Cuba and SEN
fenced to death, than the meagre
story the State Department has made
public, that the Spanish Government
had set aside the sentences and di-
rected that the men be tried again in
a civil court, and as the surest way to
get what it wanted adopted without
division, a resolution calling on the
for the information.
No definite steps have been taken