Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-11-09
WASR]N4TON LETTER.
spEoIAa % re- .sepvosx1s aF IKE 1oNiEoR.l
Washington, Oct. goth, 1896.

sure as that of Napoleon's Old Guard
in the DAYS when it knew no defeat.
1t has gone on from day to day since
the campaign opened; there has been
but one cry, son to Victory!" Each
week the extent of that victory has
had to be enlarged Bby the conserva-
tive men who have managed this
great campaign, because they decid-
ed in the beginning to claim no state
until absolutely certain that the vote
Of that state would back up the claim
made The first announcement of
the certainty of the election Of Nc
Kinley and Hobart, the consequent
triumph of honest money and of the
right to earn it by honest toll, and the
maintenance of our National honor,
only claimed 27O electoral votes, just
46 more than the number necessary
ceived by the republican managers
justified raising the claim of 325 GER
tain electoral votes, with probabili-
ty of Al additional votes. In other
votes that are certain for Bryan.
This last claim is made by vice chair
man Apsley, of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee, the man who
while occupying the same position
two years ago called the turn on the
republican landslide in the Congress
sional election in a manner that sur
prised the country and showed that
his figures were backed by actual in
formation. The same gentleman now
says that information received since
Chairman Babcock recently made his
claim for 1914 republican members Of
the next House justifes his claiming
224.
1t is the general impression in
Washington that Mckinley and Ho-
bart will receive the largest majority
OF the popular vote ever cast for
Presidential ticket, and not a few
jorities in states considered doubtful
a month ago.
Secretary Mercer, of the republican
Congressional Committee will this
week go home and will remain in
Nebraska until after election day. Rr.
Mercer is not going because he re-
CARDS his presence in the district as
necessary to his re election to Con-
gress-he is already certain of that
but merely because his work in Wash
ington is completed and ne wishes to
add his vote to the majority that
Nebraska is going to give Mckinley
and Hobart.
Maj. Saunders, of Louisville, KY,
now visiting Washington is of the.
opinion that the insults given to Sec
rotary Carlisle will do Bryan great
injury. He said on the subject:
"Most undoubtedly the effect of the
rutfianly treatment Of Secretary Carl
isle will be TO weaken Bryan. There
is not community in Kentucky n
which the people will not resent the
indignity offered Mr.. Carlisle. It is
an outrage Of an objectionable sort,
and | have no doubt that the insult
WAS OSl1O0EatSiy pIauHou
A special report from the State
Department, on the currency system
Of the worlds greatest nations and
their relations to prices of all sorts of
commodities, including human labor,
is important, timely and highly in
structive. 1t shows beyond the
shadow OF a doubt that huctuating
standards cause the greatest loss to
toilers; also that in every country
which has gold standard, the ten
dency Of wages has been steadily up
ward and the cost of living has been
just as steadily lessened, while ex-
actly the reverse is true of the coun-
tries that are upon silver basis In
Mexico about the only people who
receive what would be considered
even fairly good wages in this country
are those who are specially skilled in
the mechanical branches, and most of
them are natives of the United States.
These are cold, hard facts which can
not be refuted by the silver rainbow
chasers. The United States is not ex-
empt and cannot by legisla ton be
exempted from the memorable rules
Of business and commerce. If placed
upon a silver basis it could not ex-
pect that it's experience would differ
from other countries which have tried
and are trying that basis.
It is not an easy matter for man
who has often been licked by another
knows that he he has got to fight that
man again and get another licking.
That is just the condition Of the popo
cratic managers. They had been