Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-06-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS OF THE MONITOR.
Washington, June IS, 1896.


| Senator Harris sub committee be-
gan the bond investigation ordered
by Senate resolution, today, with the
examination of Secretary Carlisle,
but it isn't conducted behind locked
doors as Mr.. Harris at first proposed.
There is no doubt about the sshard
luck' of the present administra ton.
The turning down of Carlisle and
| Hoke Smith and the certainty that
the Chicago convention will be for
silver emphasizes it, and it seems that
| the sshard luck'' is to extend to the
| Individual aspirations of other mem
bers of the administration. Some
time ago Postmaster General Wilson,
the gentleman whose name was given
to the tariff bill which was repudiated
by the German Brice combine in the
Senate and replaced by one only
slightly better, announced he would
try to get back to the House from the
second West Virginia district. This
didn't worry the republicans even a
little bit, but they supposed that it
settled the democratic nomination for
that district. That was what Mr.. Will
son thought, too. But it didn't. And
district are going to endorse a popu
list for Congress, on free silver plat
form, and let Mr.. Wilson go up Salt
River with the rest of the administra-
ton. According to information re-
ceived by the Congressional cam
paign committee, it doesn't matter
what the dems and pops do in that
district, as Representative Dayton's
denomination and election are practi-
cally sure.
There may be some doubt about
who was the original Mckinley man,
but there is none about who was the
first Mckinley delegate to the repub-
lican National Convention. Accord
ing to letter written by Secretary
Bowling of the National Republican |
League, that honor belongs to Hon.
VIM. p. Pierce, who was elected from
the third Georgia district, and who
made the motion, which was adopted
Feb. 10th, 1896, instructing the dele
gates from that district to support
Hon. Mckinley for President.
DIR. Delgado and his father, two
naturalized American citizens who
have recently been the victims Of
Spanish brutality in Cuba, where they
own a plantation, are in Washington
for the purpose of trying to get the |
administration to compel Spain to |
pay for their property, which was
wantonly destroyed by Spanish sol
diers, and to give them redress for
personal injury and insults. These
gentlemen would have done just as
well to remain away from Washington |
for the present, as it has been an
that Mr.. Cleveland would do
nothing about Cuba, as he fears that
Spain might resent anything like
positive action by declaring war
against the United States. Should
Spain do that it might interfere with
Mr.. Cleveland's summer fishing plans.
The Delgadoes have seen Secretary
Olney and placed proof Of their bad
treatment by the Spanish soldiers in
his hands, and they are hopeful that
will be done for them, al
though Mr.. Cleveland would not
even see them. And something will
be done for them, and for all other
American citizens-by the republican
which will assume
control March 18th, 1897.
Either the U. S. needs minister to
Mexico or it doesn't. If it does, some
body should be sent there who will
spend at least one half of his time at
MS post of duty, which is more than
Elk Senator Ransom, of N. g. has
lone. He was appointed to the posi-
Jon at the expiration of his term in
5he Senate, March 3, 1895. Since
jhen he has spent considerably more
han one half his time in the u. S. He
has been back three or four times,
and upon each occasion has made a
stay in Washington and at
MS home. He was presumably ION
eaven upon each of these trips; but
his worship of Mr.. Cleveland is not
sufficient reason for granting him so
much time for which the public pays
lim his salary, and there seems to be
10 other. He is now in Washington.
One swallow does not make spring, but one
wa1low of One Minute Cough Cure brings
elief- H. @. Pierce, Barton; D. w. Hid
eth, Barton Landing, r. e. French, Glover.
The Republican party has made its
to the country for 1896.
With irreproachable candidates stand