Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-22
A BRAN NEW POSSIBILITY
Vermont Has a Candidate for
 the Cabinet.
HARRISON SAID TO FAVOR HIM.
It Is Ex-Governor Porter, the Rutland Marble Kin.-CaIiers on Harrison Yes- terday - That Assassination Sensation Exploded.

Exploded.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Dec 22. - Ex-Governor Proctor, of VsT"oa-, Is tEe latest cabinet possibility, anu very promising posslo ilty, too, considering how his star has waxed Tn a day. His name has scarcely been mentioned before even ill a casual way. but 1t seems very probable that, if B,aine is left out, ?roctor will he tic uiaa ctlosen to represent New England. He will proDanly go into either the navy CT the war department.
 Proctor was the chairuian of the Vermont delegation 10 Chru:.o lust summer, and the Vermont deleg ati,n "as the only one ln the whole body that voted soli4iy, first, last, and all the time, for Harrison. He Is probably the largest manufacsurer of and dealer in marble in the country, practically controH- ing the whole output of the Vermont marble quarries.
 The popular New Hampshire congressman and aspirant tor the seat of William k. Chan dler in the senate, Dr. J. II. Gallnger, seems to be responsible, after a fasnion, for the Proctor boom, though he protests that he didn't start it. and that it originated and grew, so far as it had grown, in the inner consciousness of Gen. Harrison himself. Dr. Gallinger stopped uT in Indianapolis on his way from Washington for the holiday vacation. Indianapolis is a uttlS out oI buS hoOco S@ travel between Washington and New Hampshire but Dr. Gallinger didn't mind little thing like that. lie called upon Gen. Harrison early in the afternoon, and he said afterward that he astonished at the way the general received him. He had ex- pected a friendly, but not such an extremely | cordial reception, he says. He was invited to stay to dinner, but modesty overcame 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. C. P. 1 Vedder, of the New York senate, were among the callers upon the president-elect yesterday.
 They were careful to explain to the reporters that while they were friends of Mir. Platt, 1 there was nothing political about their visit here. They had been to Minneapolis on law
 business, and when they had got back as far as Chicago on their way home, somehow they
 happened to come down to Indianapolis 1 The local sensation of the day was the yarn | telegraphed back from New York about an alleged attempt to assassinate Gen. Harrison The story, it is understood, originated in
 New York, and hint of it was telegraphed
 here, ut it was so manifestly absurd that no
 attention was paid to it. The tale was re-
 peated about the streets in all sorts of wild
 shapes, but the favorite version was sthat,
 som. time in the course of the last cam
 paign, the generals family had received ;n-
 formation that had caused them to induce
 the general, for ten days or two weeks, to
 drive out to a farm called Tanglewood,
 owned by James Moore, about six miles out
 side the city, to spend the night. An armed
 guard accompanied him on the trips, it was
 said and watched the house as he slept.
 President T. P. Haughey, of the Indianapolis
 National bank, it was said, drove him out 1 o,1 Tho fao hat for
 night and the time he spent at Middle Bass
 Island, Gen. Harrison has slept at his OWL house ever since he was nominated. He did have plan when hot weather began of go ing out to Tanglewood farm, whose owner i: n warm friend of his, to pass the nights fol the sake of coolness. He tried it night and concluding it was as hot there as 1t wa. in the city, he gave the plan up
 Any worry that the family may have fell at the danger incident to so suggestive publication did not affect the movements o Gen. Harrison in any way He took hi usual walk alone in the morning, and in tn, . afternoon drove down town with ex-Senatol Alvin Saunders, of Omaha, father-in-law O Russell Harrison, who, with Mrs Saunders had stopped in Indianapolis for a few day l on his way home from New York He ant the ex-senator drove to the station to lool after some baggage, and then stopped for while at the Now Denison hotel.
 !, WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.-The report come from a gentleman who has talked with Gen n Harrison recently, and who evidently be
 lieves what he says that Mir. Blaine will no
 be one of the cabinet of the next president
 and that Mir. Platt, of New York, will. Gen 0 Harrison has invited all the Republican sena
 tors to give him their counsel regardin 4 cabinet appointments, and several of then r will go to Indianapolis during the holiday d to confer with him.