Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.



lican Congressional Campaign is get
ting good news these days. Like Sen
tor Hanna, he was previously afraid
that over confidence would keep so
m any republicans at home that con-
troll of the next House might be lost,
but from reports he is now receiving
the republicans in all sections are be-
coming thoroughly alive to the neces-
sity of getting out the full vote and
keeping control of the House, so that
whenlt the Senate becomes republican
as it will after the fourth of next
March, both branches of Congress
will be in condition to put through
the necessary legislation to carry out
the domestic policy of the admins
tration, which will continue the pros
p erity that the country is now enjoy
ing, as we'll as show the world that
the country is behind President Nc
Kinley in carrying out the new foreign
policy made necessary by the results
of the war, just as it was behind him
in the conduct of the most successful
war in all history. The country knows
just what the republican party offers
it, both at home and abroad, while
nobody knows what the democratic
party would give it, further than that
democratic success would mean re-
newal of the uncertainties which were
so disastrous to our commercial and
in dustrial interests during the last
Cleveland regime. There has never
been any doubt during this campaign
as to the feeling of the majority of
the voters; only fear that a feeling
of over security might result in too |
many republicans not taking sufficient |
interest to make sure of success in the |
Congressional campaign. Thanks to
hard and Intelligent work on the part |
of party leaders that fear is being daily |
lessened, and bids fair to disappear |
before election day.
The Treasury department has grant
ed request made by General Franco
Sanchez, commander of the Cuban in
surgent army at Mayor, Cuba, that |
one hundred thousand pounds of |
tobacco, captured by that army be adj
mitted to the United States free of |
duty, in order that it may be sold for
the benefit of the men under Gen.
Sanchez, who are in need Of almost |
everything.
The commission engaged in inves-
the conduct of the war, which
- No
where the word Of hearing witnesses
ia the camp will this week be inaugu-
rated was preceded by the ringing
assertion of Gen. Dodge, chairman of
the commission, that the commission
would see that every witness was
protected who had anything to tell
that might arouse enmity on the part
Of his superior officers. These words
IF Gen. Dodge are all the answer
that is needed to the senseless charge
hat witnesses have been afraid to
ell the commission what they knew.
Th ere has been no such fear on the
part Of any witness, but there has
)een wide differences in the stories
old to the commission and those
published as having been told by the
same witnesses to yellow journals. A
notable case of this sort was that of
Dr.. Seaman, who arrived in New
York from, Porto Rico, last week, and
whose alledged sensational statements
% yellow reporters caused him to be
to Washington, by tele-
graph, to testify before the commits
ion.
American furniture is getting con-
IS South Africa. In a report to the !
Department of State Consul Geneal
|. G. Stowe, at Cape Town, says the
7alue of American furniture import
ID into South Africa, in 1897, was
,254, $40 .9O' being second only to Great
Britain and ahead of Germany, and
hat Americans can easily control the
market, if our manufacturers will ship
heir furniture "knockdowns" and SO
made that it can easily be put togeth-
r. numbering each corresponding
,iece. Concluding Mr.. Stowe said:
There is no fault with the prices
harged by American manufacturers,
ven with the duty added; but it is the
xcessive freights on account of bulk,
nd the difficulty of putting together, :
hipped knockdown, of which the
callers complain"
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