Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SPECIAL xsE.poxosNos OF THE MoSIro r.
Washington, July 20, 1896.


/ Washington, July 20, 1896.
Chairman Babcock, of the republi-
can Congressional campaign commit
tee, who has just returned from a
conference with Maj. Mckinley, and
Chairman Hanna, of the National
Committee, is again on duty at the
committee headquarters. He ex-a
presses little interest in the populist
convention to be held this week at
st. Louis. Like most republicans, he
is of the opinion that nothing the
populists can do will prevent the ell
ection of Mckinley and Hobart and
sound money Congress. 1t is gener
ally believed in Washington that the
populists convention will indorse
Bryan, the populist candidate, and
the populist platform adopted at Chi
cago, and that the talk to the contra
ry is merely bluff made for the pur-
pose of making a better deal.
insignificant as was the part played
by Mr.. Bryan in the two Congresses
in which he served, he will find that
| it was sufficient to stamp him as be-
ing untitled for the Presidency of the
United States. Progressive Ameri
cans have to man been in favor of
the building and maintenance of a
Navy sufficiently strong to command
the respect of foreign nations, and
the events of the last few years have
fully justified the correctness and
patriotism of that position. There
have been several times when the
strength of our Navy has been fac
tor-the principal factor many believe
in preventing war. Mr.. Bryan
proved his unprogressiveness when
he was in the House, and when our
Navy was more than twenty five
vessels weaker than it is today, by
opposing the strengthening of our
Navy, on the ground that it was then
strong enough. It is such things as
these, and not platitudinous speeches
delivered in sonorous tones and with
dramatic gestures, which demonstrate
the calibre of a man. Mr.. Bryan
could not be elected President on his
record no matter what sort of a plat
form he stood upon. He simply isn't
up to the Presidential standard.
The prominence that Senator Quay,
as member of the Executive Com
mittee, is to take in the management
of Mckinley and Hobart's campaign
is very gratifying to the admirers of
the brainy Senator from the Key
excellent judgment Chairman Hanna
has used in selecting the men who are
to help him fight anarchy, disorder,
and reputation and to elect 100
cent dollar president.
According to news received by I
prominent republicans, Speaker Reed I
is not only going to take an active T
part in the National campaign, but he
is also going to whoop things up for
the State and Congressional elections
in Maine, which will occur in Sep
TENDER, in order to show the country
the falsity of the claim put forward
by Mr.. Sewa1l, the democratic candi-
date for Vice President, that the sill
yer sentiment is on the increase in
Maine and in New England. He be-
lieves that the best way to show this
is to pile up an enormous republican
majority in September IN his state,
and he intends spending all his i'm
mense power as campaigner to-
wards the accomplishment of that
end. It would be wellnigh impossibly
for big Tom Reed to add to his repub
licans of the National Capital, but if
anything would do it it would be just
what he has started upon; and in 9TH
er places where he is not SO well /
known, his action will make him new
and staunch friends, because it will
show, what all of his personal friends,
including Gov. Mckinley already
knew, that he is not sore headed be-
cause he didn't get the Presidential
nomination.