Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-19
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent


! WASHINGTON, December l ), $780,
General Grosvenors speech in favor
of the finance bill was one of the
events Of the debate which has occu-
pied the entire week in the house.
Following are its closing sentences:
1.-The Republican party does not need
oral argument in the halls ofcongress
nor dissertations in the press of the
country upon these vital questions.
There are voices which proclaim the
triumph of Republicanism that do
not depend upon human organs for
their effectiveness. From the pine
clad hills OF Maine to the utmost
southern extent of New England the
whirl Of the spindle, the ring of the
hammer and the shout of the happy,
! Weil-pald operatives is constant
and most vociferous proclamation of
Republican triumph. From New York
to San Francisco. all along the mighty
avenues OF travel and traffic, the
voice Of commentator and txuIta-
ton because OF Republican legislation
and Republican intelligence and Re-
publican craftsmanship goes up in
the breeZes Of the morning and is
sung as YES Ders at the hour of even
ing twilight. The mighty volumes of
flame and smoke pouring from the
chlmneys Of enormous industrial es-
! Establishments wave beacon light to
! heaven announcing the triumph of
! protective tariff and sound money.
| Mingled with the click of the pick In
the co al mines of Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Indiana and West Virginia, is the
voice of our workingmen, we'll paid,
/ where starvation wages were in force,
well fed, where starvation stalked IN
gaunt horror, We'll clothed, we'll edu-
Gated, satisfied, conUented, happy
! Their voices sing praises for Republi
can intelligence and Republican pa
triotism. On every railroad from the
Pacific shore to the Atlantic coast
tens of thousands of laden cars
mlngle the voice of machinery with
the endorsemento fRepublican action.
The happy husbandman upon mil
lions of acres of fertile soil, as he
turns from his labor, bringing his
sheaves with him, realizes in the adj
vancing market wider demand for his
product, the entering OF jubilee, and
ment in favor of sound money and
protection. The scratch Of the pen
upon the record in the Northwest
!, and the Southwest as it cancels the
millions Of mortgages placed there in
the hour OF Democratic distress and
starvation, now Cancelled by the pay
ment of money that has come to the
owners of these splendid farms
through the intelligence and patriot
ism of Republican administration
} joins, in the glad cry of endorsement
all along the line"
Hon. Henry G. Payne, of Wiscon-
sin, vice chairman Of the Republican
national committee, now in session
in Washington to name the time and
place Tor holding the next national
convention, was asked who he
thought would be nominated on the
ticket with President Mckinley, and
he said in reply: eff | were prophe-
sying on the ticket, [ would say it
would be Mckinley and Root. AL
though [ am Western man, [ can
see no reasons, which admit of no
argument, for the vice presidential
nomination going to an Eastern man.
1t seems to be conceded generally
that New York ought to produce
him. Mr.. Root would give strength,
firmness and prestige to the ticket
which another man would not do,
and which are needed. He has made
splendid record for himself as the
head of the war department, and is
in every way fitted for the place
) which Mr.. Hobart graced."
, The executive committee of the
National Republican league met in
Washington this week with forty-four
of its fifsysix members present. 1t
named the third Tuesday of next
July as the date and St. Paul, Mimi,
as the place for holding the league
convention. The committee, in &C
cordance with resolution unani-
mously adopted, called upon Presl-
dent Mckinley and expressed it's
hearty endorsement of his wise and
patriotic administration; the com
mittee also adopted a resolution
condemning the disfranchise amend
, ment proposed to the constitution OF
North Carolina, as violation of the