Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-07-09

President Mckinley is gratified but
not at all surprised at the commenda-
ton he is receiving from all quarters
for his promptness in ordering troops
to China to join those of other civil
lied nations in protecting the persons
and property Of foreigners. Neither
this government nor any European
with China, but the Chinese govern
ment having failed to protect foreign
ers from the s'boXers" the civilized
governments are going to do it them
selves. Ii Hung Chang has cabled to
Secretary Hay, promising to restore
peace and to see that all foreigners
are protected, and the Chinese minis
ter to the y. S. has received a cable
gram saying that all the foreign
ministers at Pekin are safe and well,
but all that hasn't stopped any of the
preparations for sending reinforce
ments to China from the Philippines
just as quick as they can be gotten
there. The Chinese minister insists
that that there can be no war between
China and the civilized nations, and
that his government has not sanction
ed any of the fighting. All that he
says may be strictly true, but the fact
remains that there has been fighting
and that it is still going on, and that
one side is made up of soldiers and
marines belonging to the civilized
nations, and the other side of Chinese.
The question of the responsibility of
the Chinese government may be
determined later, but the first and
foremost duty of the civilized powers
is to put stop to the fighting by
whipping the Chinese fighters into
submission, and President Mckinley
intends that the U. S. shall do it's full
share of that duty.
Director Merriam, of the census
bureau, has given the press a state
ment, intended as an answer to thou
sands Of letters asking for figures
shown by the census in various local
tiles. By showing the routine through
which the returns from each enumer~
ator's district must go, the impossi
bility Of giving the information at this
time was made apparent. AS fast as
the official count is completed the
totals will be bulletined at the census
bureau, cities being taken first.
Notice has also been given that there
will be no more examinations for APP
pOintmenU to clerical positions in the
bureau. the eligible list already con-
tanning many more than will ever
receive ppointments.
The treasury department has issued
a circular creating Porto Rico Gus
toms collection district, with San Juan
as the port of entry, and Ponce
Arecibo, Aguadilla, HUI
Arrayo, and Fajardo az sub
ports, under law enacted at the late
session of congress.
Judge Denny, prominent Kentucky
who firmly believes that
the electoral votes of that state will
be cast for Mckinley and Roosevelt,
who came through Washington on his
way home from the convention, said
of that remarkable gathering: 81 have
been going to national conventions
as delegate for twenty years, but l
have never seen such a convention as
that at Philadelphia, and I never ex-
pect to see another such. Imean that
have never before seen both men
named OH the ticket by reclamation"
Mr.. Henry @. Adams, one of the re-
publican leaders of Indiana, assured
President Mckinley that Indiana was
one of the sure republican states this
year, and that the majority would be
quite as large, if not larger than it
vas in '96.
Mr.. A. d. Mcpherson, of the Chicago |
Financial ReUieaU, who has just return
ID from an extended business trip |
through the south, said while in Wash
ngton: "While I do not mix politics |
n business, still I could not help ask
ng questions, and 1 gathered from |
jalks I had with men of all shades of
opinion and politics that there is big |
in store for somebody this |
all. The south is waking mp. Pro-
lection and expansion find no warmer |
advocates than in the sunny land that
We have long been taught was hope
essly given over to democracy. In
ny humble opinion Mckinley and
Roosevelt will carry at least three
Southern states"
One of the most enthusiastic men |
Who has been in Washington since the