Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-06-25
WASHINGTON LET TER.
Eo1AL COR REsPoNDENoE OF THE MONITOR

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President Mckinley has devoted /;
| considerable portion of his Office hours
for the last two or three days to re
ceiving delegates to the Philadelphia
convention, who stopped over ir
Washington to pay their respects te
the President, and incidentally to talk
a little politics and give him the latest
concerning the sentiment of their re
spective localities. Mr.. Mckinley
never appears to better advantage
than when in contact with the rank
and file of the party. Other presidents
have had knack of appearing to
consult humble members of their
party, but Mr.. Mckinley really does
consult them, and ask their advice
upon matters of party policy, and
more than one important political
move has been made by him as re-
suit of advice asked for and received
from members of the party who are
scarcely known outside of the imme-
diate locality of their homes. It is
because he realizes thata man doesn't
have to be prominent to have good
Judgment that President Mckinley is
so we'll liked by the rank and file of
the party.
The situation in China grows worse
instead of better, and it may become
necessary for this government to send
soldiers from the Philippines to prop
erly protect American interests in
China. The break in telegraphic
communication with Pekin has result
ed in the circulation Of many sensa-
tional stories, which may Or may not
be based upon truth. The admins
tration has not the slightest desire to
meddle with China, but it intends to
protect our large and increasing COM
mercial interests in that country at
all hazards.
An official statement, prepared at
the treasury department shows that
during the first three months of the
new financial law, there have been 362
applications for authority to organize
national banks, with total capital
ization of $16, 1876, 900, $50 of which
were for banks Of $50, 900 or less cap
ital. During that period, 159 national
banks, with a combined capital of
SO, ,645, 900 have been actually organ
lied and opened for business with an
increase of $51, 1897, $40, in national
bank circulation. If proof were need
ed of the wisdom of the national
banking clause of the new financial
law, it would be furnished by these
figures, showing the quickness of the
people to recognize the benefits open
to them by a provision for national
banks with less than $4,000 capital.
Senior Nicholas Rivero, editor of a
leading Havana paper, who is now in
pays this high compli-
ment to Gen. Leonard Wood, Military
Governor of Cuba: "Gen. Wood is an
honest and wise official and is doing
all he can to give the Cubans a good
administration
Mr.. James j. Walton, of Ida no,
stopped long enough in Washington
to give his ideas of the political out
ook in his state. He said: :"Idaho W i'll
go republican this year. We lost the
state four years ago by nearly 10000,
out the elections of the last two years
that majority down consider
ably, and we think that this year we
will again get control Of the state.
and prosperity are respon
,ible. We have not had such pros
porous times in ten years past, as we
ire experiencing to- day. We are
'apidly developing our industries.
Dur people are paying off their debts.
We are too we'll off to think Of making
a change. We are satisfied with the |
present state of affairs. Mckinley and |!
are much better than Bry-
m and demoralization.u
Although the farmers in this section
re prosperous, the democratic con-
,ressional campaign committee have /
Undertaken to convince them that
hey are not. The committee actually
,uts out claim that the farmers have
ost two billions of dollars under the
administration by the de-
line of farm products. The farmer
Who remembers that he was heavily
n debt when the Cleveland admins
ration closed, and who is now out of
ebt and has balance to his credit in
'ank, will be convinced by this sort
f literature that the correct reading
f the adage should be "Figures can
e," especially when manipulated by
hose who care nothing for facts. The
epublicans might find it good politics
D aid in getting this sort of demo-
ratio literature into the hands of