Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-04-04

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Higgins chief of the appointment
division ofthe Treasury Department.
Mr.. a. Leo Knott Of Nd, has been
recommended to the President for
Second Assistant Postmaster Gener.
al.
Mr.. William r. Roberts, of New
York, who was to-day nominated for
the Gillian mission, is fifty five years
of age, and has resided in New York
city for the past forty years. In
1876 he retired from business, hav-
ing amassed a large fortune in mer-
camille business in New York city.
Mr.. ]. T. McGraw, nominated to
be collector of internal revenue Of
West Virginia, is prominent law
yer of Grafton, w. Va, and was rec
commended for the place by almost
the entire congressional delegation
from that state.
Mr.. A. j. Boyd, the nominee for
collector of internal revenue for the
Fifth district OF North Carolina, is a
law partner of Representative Reed,
OF North Carolina.
Charles w. Buck, the nominee for
minister to Peru, is resident OF
Midway, KY. He appears to be I'M
known to all the members of the
Kentucky congressional delegation
now in Washington.
Richard B. Hubbard, who IS NOM
mated to be minister to Japan, is a
lawyer who has frequently been a
member Of the Texas legislature,
and has also been lieutenant govern
or and governor of Texas. He was
a delegate to the National Democrat
ic Convention at Cincinnati, where
his notably eloquent speech placing
General Hancock in nomination for
the presidency brought HIM into
national notice.
Charles T. Russell, the nominee
for the Liverpool consulship, has a
home at Haddam, CT, but has spent
the greater part Of his time for a
number of years in London as a
merchant.
William M. Lang, OF Texas, who
is to be made consul at Hamburg, is
vouched for by the Texas senators
as a man Of ability, with special
qualifications for this appointment.
He has resided in Europe during the
last four years, with headquarters at
Hamburg, as immigration agent of
the Southwestern Railroad system.
81. P. Kernochan, the nominee for
naval officer of customs at New Or
leans, is sugar planter of Plaque
mines parish, formerly a merchant
in New Orleans, and a Confederate
officer during the war. He recelv-
ed dangerous wound while serving
as aide de-camp on the staff of Gen
eral (now senator) Gibson, who has
been his principal hacker for this
appointment.
The only nomination among the
postmasters sent to the Senate to-
day that attracted any special atten-
ton was that of Erastus F. Babcock,
at Elmira, N. Y. This city is the
home of Lieutenant-governor Hill, of
New York, who became governor
when Mr.. Cleveland resigned. Hill
man named Yomans
for the post-office. The fact that the
President refused to appoint the
Governors choice is regarded as an
indication that the influence OF the
Administration will be thrown
against Mr.. Hill in the fight that it
is expected he will make for the
next Democratic nomination for
governor OF the state.
ALBANY, N. Y, March 3D. The
reappOintment Of Mr.. Pearson as
postmaster of New York made a
great stir among the politicians here
to day. The Republicans for the
most part were pleased with the
news, but the Democrats to a great
extent felt angry and disappointed.
This was particularly so with many
New York members, and with sever
al of those from Brooklyn.
Mr.. Ives said that if no Democrat
OF sufficient ability could be found in
the State Of New York to take such
an Office, the Democratic party had
better step down and out.
Mr.. Cantor expressed the opinion
that the Democrats were in for offices.
and they ought to have them.
Mr.. McCann said that Mr.. Pear
son had himself disregarded the Civ
IL Service act, and had done all he
could, consistently, to keep the Re-
pnblicans in power.
Several Democratic senators, nota-
bly, Messrs. DAILY, Jacobs and Rolf,
we're ontspoken i'm condemning the
Presidents action.
Several other Democrats express
ed the opinion that the appointment
would give the state to the Republi-
cans next fall.
President Cleveland's action
struck tho Philadelphia Democrats
like All electric shock. On the
streets during the day and at the
various clab headquarters in the
evening it was the absorbing topic.
1t seemed to take them all BY sur
prise. Even the "high ground y
Democrats who want nothing from
the Administration and who have
been talking a good deal about civil
service reform seemed to lose their
equanimity. One very prominent
Democratic business man, while dis.
cussing the appointment with a
group of his friends at Broad and
Chestnut Streets, abused the Presi-
dent in vigorous language and de.
clared he would be willing to give
$1,000 if, by SO doing, time and the
established order of things could be
so reversed that the presidential
election of last November were to
occur over again.
Some threatened to write oman