Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-30
THANkSGIviNG TALKS.
Gen. Harrison Enjoys a Quiet
 Family Dinner.
THE POLITICIANS COME AND GO.

Surmises as to the Results of Butter
 worth and Hanna's visit-Disposing of
 Ohio's Big Four-senator Chandler in
 New York Chipper and Confident.
 INDIANAPOLIS, Nov 30-Thanksgiving was quiet day at tho Harrison homestead, and the only guest who came to help tho family get away with the big turkey Farmer Anderson, of Harrson's old regiment, had sent in, was R. I. EerenS, of St. Louis, the railroad magnate who figured so prominently at Chicago as one of the Blaine workers
 There was nothing notable about the Har- rison dinner. It was just a good, old fash toned Thanksgiving repast, in which turkey, cranberries and celery played their wonted parts. It was begun about and ended about 4. The members of the Harrison family around the board were the general, Mrs. Harrison, Russell Harrison, Mrs. Brown and Miss Strickle, of Dayton, O., rela- tives of the family, wCn have been part of the household since a little while after the nomination; MT. and Mrs Mckee and their little ones, and so the big turkey was done away with. Among the desserts were some of the choice apples which the farmers of Burton county sent to the general i'll a red white and blue barrel
 The visit of Congressman Ben Butterworth and Mart Hanna to Gen. Harrison evidently came to something Instead of being half an hour long, as they had intended it was pro- tracted to three hours, and it was 10 o'clock before Harrison got away to attend the party given by Judge Martindale at the Denison house. The general was in such good humor that he danced a qGadrille, and the Ohio visitors returned to their hotel all smiles. Congressman Butterworth reiterated his as
  passed between Gen. Harrison and Senator Sherman on the cabinet question, and from the little he said it was gleaned that Senator Sherman himself might be in quandary as to what to do in case a portfolio was offered.
 The growing fear of Foraker crops out in the talk of every Ohio man who comes here. As to what the feeling in Ohio is regarding the cabinet appointments MT. Butterworth said there was perfect confidence in Gen. Harrison. He would not appoint bad men to his cabinet, nor incompetent ones, and any man who would give a clean and able cabinet would give satisfaction. Suspicious persons think that even in this moderate an- swer there was a slap at Foraker, and are in- clined to believe the SAermanites did Foraker no good by their visit.
 The speakership had good talking over, too, and though the Ohioans spoke highly of McKinley's fitness they partially intimated, in talk to newspaper men at the hotel that Cannon and Reed might stay in the fight longer than Mckinley would. What a big following in Ohio would like is to see Sher- man retain his present place in the senate and have Mckinley take Ohio's share in the cabinet and then run Ben Butterworth for governor, which could be done with a good chance of his winning This is about the way Sherman's state stands, but it will be ho,. 1ol> c;I fashion. He will die noisy at any rate
 NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-Hon. Will' m E. Chandler. ex-secretary of the navy, stopped over in this city yesterday on his way to Washington. MT. Chandler talked a little to a reporter ''Of course shall see Senator Quay" he said; "but I shall only see him in his seat in the senate. Isn't he a great man? My! have the sincerest admiration for him. No; it will not be necessary to talk to him about the complexion of the house.
 ''We shall organize the house with five Re publican majority, you mark my words We are not going to let the Democrats steal any thing from us, of that you can also be posi- lively assured. We propose to admit North and South Dakota, Montana and Washing ton territories 3 and the senator looked over his glasses to see how that would suit Mr. Platt, who was standing few feet off and appeared to be quite cheerful over the state ment.
 ''The next cabinet?" resumed the ''Hero of '76.n "Well, l am pretty positive that no present senator will accept place in the cabinet. All the newspaper talk about the l cabinet, and especially the importance given | to the Big Four, is more talk than anything | else I am firmly convinced that Gen. Har- rison is a man who accepts everything he can, but that he will not give anything away .-L Ll l~s.- The delicate subject of civil service reform was mentioned, and that seemed to interest the senator nightly. "Civi service reform is all right in it's way" he remarked, ''but it | only applies to clerks, those fellows who | write with pens, but outside of them all the | offices are political, and this will be made ap parent. There will be no hurry in meddling with the clerks, but i'll time they will have tc 1 go too and Republicans will be put in. But as said, there is no hurry, for we are in fol another twenty-four years and what is the sense of rushing things"
 The speakership was brought up. "Oh Tom Reed will get it," said the senator 'she's from New England, you know, and | that is sufficient Of, course, there will be 6 little natural struggle between Mckinley | Butterworth and Cannon, but it will winG | up with Tom Reed in the chair But I'd liks to say before leaving the subject that foul
 brainier men than Reed, Mckinley, Cannon and Butterworth do not live in this country 1 that's my opinion of them. To be polite shall correct that to in the Republican
 party Who is the smartest Democrat il
 the countrys We'll, there are no smar
 Democrats outside of New York, and Tin | Campbell is the smartest of the New Yorl 1 Democrats.
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