Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-11-27
WASHINGTON LET TER.

President Mckinley takes time from
the work of preparing his message to
congress, now We'll under way, to ex-
change congratulations on the strong
endorsement of expansion given by
the voters in every state in which the
policy of the administration has made
the issue, with republican senator's
and representatives who have called
on him since the elections. Among
his more recent callers was Senator
the campaign in his state: ''The issue
was the support of the administration
and expansion, and the result was an
emphatic endorsement of the admin
istration and it's policy in the Philip
pines" Representative Grosvenor,
of Ohio, another caller, said: sit IS
my honest opinion tibet even before
congress meets, the insurrect1on IN
the Philippines will be ended, and the
situation be such as to allow the pres
ident to turn the matter over to con-
gress for legislation. It looks to me
as though it would not be many days
before our army has captured Agu1n-
aldo and ended his rebellion. With
the downfall of Aguinaldo will end all
this talk of the so called imperialistic
movement. The elections have al
ready shown the weakness of the anti
expansion policy, and [ do not think
the democrats will dare to go to their
national convention, and declare
against expansion in the place of this
years elections. By that time anti
expansion will be so dead that even
the democrats will not try to revive
it." Senator McCumber, of North
Dakota, said: "Expansion in North
Dakota doesn't mean Imperialism and
a big standing army. 1t means devel-
opment of trade. We want, of course,
an army of sufficient strength for an
important nation" Representative
Barham, of Cal, said: The president
and his policy has the approval of the
majority of the people, and the result
of the elections make it certain, if it
were not so before, that Mckinley
and Bryan will run against each other
again. Mckinley will defeat him
easily.'
Mrs. Elizabeth I. Joy, wife of Rep
resentative Joy, Of Missouri, is active
ly engaged in working up sentiment
against allowing Roberts, the polyga
mist representative elect from Utah,
to retain his membership of the house.
She has prepared petition, copy of
which she has sent to the wife of
every member Of the house of the |
fifty sixth congress, requesting that it |
be signed and returned to her. This |
petition reads as follows: eve, the |
wives of the members elect of the in |
coming congress, hereby urge our re-
spective husbands in their official |
and the fifty sixth congress
as an organized body, to expel from
therein Brigham H. Rob
erts, of Utah. The spirit Of our civil
ization and of our laws, as we'll as the
dignity of American womanhood and
the purity of the American home, de-
mand that neither he, nor any such as
he, shall ever take part in the coun
ellis Of the law makers of our beloved
country"
DIR. Wise, of the second district of
Virginia, who was seated in the last
house after contest, will contest the
same seat, against the same opponent,
in the next house. Speaking of the
frauds practiced in his district, in Or
der to make an apparent democratic
where everybody knows the
is overwhelmingly repubE-
can, DR.. Wise said: ''This outrage on
the purity Of the ballot cannot be in
definitely continued. There are signs
Of revulsion Of feeling among dem
ocrats Of the better fclass, who are
tired of seeing this rascally work done
year after year. And when election
day in 1900 comes around, hundreds
of Virginia democrats will cast their
votes for VIM. Mckinley, for they are
anxious to see a continuation of the
present prosperity, which they fear
would be changed to adversely if their
party should get in power
Senator Foraker said of the result
in Ohio, which he played so important
q part in bringing about, and of the
general result: ut was victory for
the administration, and will greatly |