Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-08
THREE NEW APPOINTEEs.
The Public Printer and Two Civil Service
commissioners

The President made three long-looked for
appointments last night. Frank W. Palmer. of
Illinois, to be public printer, and Theodore
Roosevelt, New York, and Hugh S. Thompson,
OF South Carolina, to be ciyil-service commits
sioners
THE SUCCESSOR TO MR.. BENEDICT
is a Hoosier by birth, having been born in
Manchester, Ind, October IL, 1927. He learned
the printing trade and then went to New York
city. where he stuck type for some time
jamestown. NY. was his next place of abode,
and there, for ten years. he edited and pub
llshed the jamestown Journal For two wears
he was a member of the state assembly. and in
1858 he moved out to Iowa and there assumed
editorial charge of the Dubuque Times of
which he was also part owner Two years later
| he was elected state printer and this Office he
held until 1868. In the meantime he had
secured control of the SAFE Register.
now the property of First Assistant
Postmaster General Clarkson, and when
he relinquished his position state printer it
was to become representative in Congress for
the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses
he was an active member of the appropriations
committee. At the conclusion of his second
term in the House he purchased an interest in
the Chicago Inter- Ocean, then new paper, and
became one of its principal editors. Here he
was associated with Mr.. E. w. Halford. now the
Presidents private secretary. Mr.. Palmer was
President Hayes choice for postmaster at Chi
cago, and he was continued in that capa-
city by Presidents Garfield and Arthur
Since then Mr.. Palmer has been doing edito-
rial work. He had not made application for
appointment to any place. and was selected by
the President because he regarded him thor
oughly qualified for the place. He fulfills all
the requirements of the law, being a practical
printer and versed in the art of bookbindirg.
The appointment is regarded with very gen.
eral satisfaction, and Mr.. Palmer many friends
and admirers expect him to make a model ad-
ministration of Government printing Office
affairs. because of his special fitness for the
position.
MR.. THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
of New York, is one of the active politicians of
the state from which he comes, and yet is a
civil service reformer He was a delegate to
the Chicago convention of 1884 and was after
ward republican candidate for the mayoralty Of
New York, running against Abram S. Hewitt
and Henry George. Lately he has spent most
of his time in Montana. where he owns extern
sive cattle interests His ability as literary
man has long been established. and he is one of
the most popular writers in the country on life
in the far west.
EX-Gov. HUGH S. THOMPSON
is well-known in this city. he having been As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury during the
Cleveland administration. He was a New
Years gift, having been born January /, 1886.
in Charleston. s. c. He was professor of
French and bclles-lettres Mt Arsenal academy at
Columbia when the war of the rebellion broke
out. and he at once took command of a COM
pany of cadets, with whom he served during
the war. When that came to an end he took
charge of the Columbia male academy. and re-
manned there until 1876, when he was elected
state superintendent of education. He was re-
elected in 1878 and 1880. In 1882 he was elected
governor of South Carolina, and in 1854 was re-
elected. From this place he was called by
President Cleveland to BE Assistant Secretary
OF the Treasury. Shortly before the close OF
the last administration Mr.. Thompson was
nominated for the place to which he was yes
terday appointed, but the Senate rejected him.
as it did nearly all of Mr.. Cleveland's late NOM
inees,