Evening journal., 1888-12-22
ONE CENT.
A BRAN NEW POSSIBILITY
Vermont Has a Candidate for
the Cabinet.
HARRISON SAID TO FAVOR HIM.
IL Is Ex-Governor Porter, the Rutland
Marble King-CaIIers on Harrison Yes
terday r That Assassination Sensation
Exploded,

Exploded,
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. %. = Ex-Governor
Proctor, Of Vermont, Is the latest cabinet
possibility, and a very promising possib lityp
too, considering how his star has waxed in
day. His name has scarcely been mentioned
before, even Ia casual way, but it seems
very probable that, il Blaine IS left OUT
Proctor viii be the man chosen TO represents
New England. He will probably go into
either the navy or the war departments
Proctor was the chairman Of the Vermont
delegation to Chicago last summer, and the
Vermont delegation was the only one in the
whole body that voted solidly, FIRST, last, and
all tho time, for Harrison. He is probably
the lnrgest manufacturer Of and dealer III
marble in the country, practically controll
ing the whole output Of the Vermont marble
quarries. :
The popular New Hampshire congressman
and aspirnnt for the seat of William f. Chon-
der in the senate, DR.. J. II. Gallinger, seems
20 bo responsible, after fashion, for the
Proctor boom, though he protests thai he
didn't start il, and that it originated and
grew, so far as IL had grown IN the inner
consciousness OF Gen Harrison himself. Dr.
Gallinger stopped oil in Indianapolis on
his way from Washington tor the
holiday vacation indianapolis IS
little out of the ordinary route OF
travel between Washington and New
Hampshire, but DR.. Gallinger didn't mind g
little thing like that He called upon Gem
Harrison early In the afternoon, and he said
afterward that he was astonished at ths
way the general received him. He had ex-
pected a friendly, but not such an extremely
Cordial reception, he says. lie was invited
4 him
and he declined the invitation He professed
to know nothing about the cabinet when he
returned to the hotel -
George zerubabal Erwin and Col G. q.
! Vedder Of the New York senate, were among
the callers upon the prosident-elect yesterday
They were careful 70 explain 10 the reporters
that while they were friends Of Mr.. Platt.
there was nothing political about their visit
here They had been TO Minneapolis on law
business, and when they had got back as lar
as Chicago on their way home, somehow they
happened to come down 10 indianapolis.
Tho local sensation Of the day wqs the yarn
telegraphed back from New York about ana
alleged attempt TO assassinate Gen. Harrison
The story, il is understood, originated in
New York, and q hint of Il was telagraphsd
here, at it was SO maniiestly absurd that no
attention was paid to it. The tale was re-
poated about the streets in an sorts Of wild
shapes, but the favorite version was that,
som time IN the course Of the last cam
paign, the generals ltupily had received I'M
formation That had caused them TO induces
the general, ior ten days OF two weeks, 10
drive out 70 a farm called 1angiewood,
owned by James Moore, about six miles out
side the city, to spend the night. An armed
guard accompanied him on the trils, it was
said, and watched the house as he slept
President 4. r. Huughey, OF the indianapolis
National bank, II was said, drove him out
and back The facts are that, except for one
night and the time he spent at Middle Bass
Island, Gen. Harrison has slept at his own
house ever since be was nominated He did
have a plan when hot weather began Of GO
ing out 30 Tanglewood farm, whose owner is
a warm friend Of his, 20 pass the nights for
the sake OF GOODNESS. He tried it one night.
and concluding it was as hot there as it was
in the city. he gave tho plan up.
Any worry thnt the family may have felt
at the danger incident to 80 suggestive a
publication did not affect the movements Of
Gen. Harrison in amy way. He took his
usual walk alone in the morning., and in the
afternoon drove down town with ex-senator
Alvin Saunders, of Omaha, father-in-law of
Russell Harrison, who, with Mrs Saunders,
had stopped in indianapolis for q few days
on his way home from New York. He and
the ex-senator drove 10 the station to look
after some baggage, and then stopped for a
while at the New Danison hotel
WAsHlNGToN Dec. 22-l'he report comes
from IA gentleman who has talked with Glen.
Harrison recently, and who evidently be-.
leves what he says, that Mr.. Blaine viii not
be one Of the cabinet Of the next president,
and that Mr. Platt, Of New York, will Gen.
Harrison has invited all the Republican senA-
tors TO give him their counsel regarding
cabinet appointments, and several OF them
will 60 TO indianapolis during the holidays