Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-01

though the trouble was not enough
already, proceeded to enact a low
protective and free trade tariff. The
result of the experiment is we'll
known; and how the party, and the
silverites, and the populists, and the
ragtags of all sorts were borne down
in the last November election we all
know.
We would not bid adieu to Grover
Cleveland without some good words.
His fanlts have been more from thick
head than a bad heart; it is doubtless
true that he has done what seemed to
him to be right. He has been fairly
patriotic on the great national issues;
he has been stubbornly honest in
many things, and has been courage
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the fallacies of his own party while
he has pointed out faults elsewhere.
He has been sound on the money
question, and has suffered untold
abuse from the great majority of his
party because he has been better
and wiser than they. He will have
an honored place in history, because
it must be said that he has tried to
administer the affairs of the govern
ment honestly.
William Mckinley is one of the
best known statesmen in this coun
try. His active career began as far
back as rebellion times. A man of
the people, he is, perhaps, one of the
best known citizens. He entered
politics in early life. He came to the
front rapidly in his own State, Ohio,
where great many prominent states
men, and not a few presidents have
quite early in life and had long con-
gressional career. While there he
showed marked ability and great
knowledge in money and tariff lines.
When the Republicans set out to
frame new tariff, under the Harri-
son rule, he was chairman of the
Committee on which this work devol-
we'd. Though ably assisted, it is con-
ceded that he was the strong man of
the committee. The tariff was called
the Mckinley tariff. Protection has
never had more ardent supporter
than he, and probably no abler de-
fender. Democrats and free traders
were wont to say that his arguments
were almost unanswerable. His dis
trict in Ohio was strongly democratic,
and after awhile he lost his place in
congress-; but the republicans of
his state made him governor, and he
never failed to exert a great infiu-
ence in national politics. Five years
ago there was a strong desire on the
part of many to make him the Nation
al Republican candidates; and long
before Cleveland's term expired the
country was looking to him as the one
man, above others to lead the country
out of its misfortunes. His nomina-
ton was nearly spontaneous as it
could be. Without new and bewild
ering issue, on the part of the demo-
Gratis, his election was as sure as any
thing; with silver, and populism and
democracy, and the almost solid
South, it was assured.
He comes to the front at time
when a strong and a good man is
needed. That his impulses are good
no one doubts; that his wisdom and
experiences are all that can be found
in one man, no one will deny. He
will have the aid of a House which
shares his opinions on tariff and most
other matters. The Senate will be
uncertain, freaky and dangerous.
Whether it can be made to work in
harmony with the President and his
party remain to be seen. The silver
and the populist elements are strong,
and, united with the democracy,
make up the half of the senatorial
body. Unfortunate indeed will be the
condition if the silver fallacy, or pop
ulistic theories shall be strong enough
to block all legislation, except that
which savors of silver and is poison
ed with the populist vagaries.
President Mckinley himself, and
his party are not hostile to silver,
but they will not let affairs drift
where silver monometalism shall
bring its curse on the country. They
will help hold every dollar of silver
now coined up to its face value in
gold, but they are not foolish enough
to expect to double the value of the
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silver miners and the silver mine
stockholders of this great country
President Mckinley will have the
good wishes of a great majority of the
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