Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-11-14
WASHINGTON LETTER
PROSPERITY.
The Election is Over, Now
for Work.
BUSINESS BOOMING ALL THE OOUN-
TRY.
(From Our Regular Correspondent
(From Our Regular Correspondent
wA,HINeToN, Nov. 8. 1895.

(From Our Regular Correspondent
WA,HIN GroN, Nov. 8, 1895.
Had it been possible for the voters
to have seen one week before election
the remarkable demonstration Of the
revival of public confidence which has
come from every section of the coun-
try since the election of Major McKin-
ley, there is no doubt that Mckinley
and Hobart's popular majority would
have been a million greater than it is
MAY HAVE BEEN LARGER.
Republicans had no doubt that APP
prehension caused by the fear of those
who controlled money that all our
standards OF value might be upset had
done more to paralyze business than
any other one thing. and they so told
the people from every stump and
through the columns of every republic
can paper. They convinced many,
but IL the starting up of idle mills and
manufactures and the Inauguration of
great enterprises involving vast ex-
penditures and the employment to all
the unemployed who wish to be en-
plOyed could have taken place before
the election a million more would have
been convinced and would have voted
for real prosperity instead of for
chimera.
REPUBLICANS PROUD.
However, it was only by waiting uH-
til a restoration of republican control
executive and legislative, was abso-
lutely assured, that the great business
interests OF the country, the prosper
fly of which involves the prosperity of
all our people, could show to the world
the faith felt in the wisdom of the re-
publican party. The republican who
does not feel his heart swell with pride
merely to belong to an organization
which can inspire such faith must be
eold-blooded indeed.
HIGH TRIBUTE.
The news columns of the presR since
the election OF Mckinley and Hobart
was announced have, by just printing
the cold facts about the actual, not
prospective, revival in almost every
part of the country and in almost
every line of industry and business,
paid the highest tribute of praise TO
the republican party ever paid to any
political organization i'm any country
in the history of the world.
AN EXCELLENT TEAM
1t is POW for the republicans TO show
to the world that this tribute was de-
served. No one who is familiar with
the life and record of President-elect
Mckinley and of those OF the republi-
cans elected to the fifty-fifth Congress
and those holding seats i'm the Senate
can entertain a doubt on that subject.
With President Mckinley to suggest
aud Speaker Reed, the republican ma
iority in the House, and the hoped for
republican majority in the Senate, to
execute, the legisla ton will be such as
will expand and make permanent the
business boom which started the hour
that republican success was assured
and which will, it is confidently believ-
ed continued TO grow and grow until
the country enjoys q long era of
the greatest prosperity in its history
And one of the good things about it
will be that the misguided popocrats
who tried so hard to prevent republic
can success will be equal sharers in the
general prosperity. It ought to make
them see things as they really are in
st&sd of as they are represented by
deAARogues who try TO trade upon
''hard times" and public credulity.
GOLD DEMOCRATS TO BE LOOKED AFTER.
That some appointments of impor-
lance will be rendered TO gold demo-
Gratis for their assistance in the cam
paign is probable, but l have talked TO
no republicans who believe that they
will include a cabinet position. The
diplomatic service offers opportunities.
A man has only to be a patriotic Amer
lean to represent his country satisfac-
torily abroad, but a member of the
Cabinet must be in sympathy with all
the policies of the head of the admin
istration under which he serves, or he
disarranges machinery which ought to
run smoothly to get the best results
WILL IT PASS?
Senator Quay stopped in Washing
ton long enough while on his way to
Florida, where he viii fish and rest un.
til Congress meets, to express the opir
ion that there was a probability thai
the House Emergency Tariff Bill
passed at the last session and held NJ
in the Senate by the refusal of some o.
the republican silver senators to sup.
port it unless a free coinage amend
ment was attached, might be taken M
and passed at the coming session
Senator Quay did not enter into details
he seldom does-as to why he
thought the bill might be passed. II
Is supposed that he thinks, as many
others do, that the republican silver
Senators, seeing the absolute impossi-
bility of securing silver legislation
will vote for the bill which would, i
4 enacted into law. provide the gov
eminent with revenue enough to make
the receipts more than equal the ex
penditures.
HE WILL SAY.
While Mr.. Cleveland has never said
that he would sign this bill, the I'm
preston is general that he would no
veto it. So that if passed by the Sen
ate, it is reasonably certain to become
a law.
BLANRs THE DEMOCRATS.
Senator Butler, the Populist Chair
man, rather rubbed it on the demo
Gratis when he issued an address to the
country putting all the blame for de
feat on them, and asserting that tht