Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-22
THE CABINET MELON.
Almost Time to Cut it, and New York
Seems Yet More Than Liable to
GET ONLY A BIT OF THE RlND.
Indiana Republicans Determined That
Partner Miller's Slice
SHALL BE TOO SOUR TO BE EATEN.
The Luscious Piece Offered to Mr.. Thomas Is Knocked
Out Of His Hand.

New York's last chance to get bite oi
the Cabinet watermelon is at hand. Judge
Daniels is now limited at as possibility in
that direction. 1t has several contingencies,
though, anyone Of which could take the bite
out of the mouth OF the Empire State.
Congressman Thomas is the latest slated
member of the coming Cabinet to be knocked
out by the correspondents. His opportunity
is now out of sight California wouldn't
unite on Swift, and Harrison couldn't COM
promise on Estee.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArCH.I
INDIANAPOLIS, February H.-If the
New York Republicans really want any
thing from the next administration now is
the time for them to jump in. If they
hustle themselves they may get something
beside the rind of the Cabinet watermelon,
after all. The Cabinet is not broken yet,
but it is beginning to show signs of the tre-
mendous strain that is being brought to bear
upon it. Right here in indianapolis the
most evident feature is the decidedly shaky
aspect of the Miller part of the combination.
The bitter opposition that the news of the
selection of Mr.. Miller for Attorney Gen.
eral aroused among the Republicans of Indi-
ana cannot be understood in the East, where
they take their politics less severely. All
the workers of the party are against Miller,
and they are all saying so in their loudest
tones and their most emphatic penmanship.
Hoosier backwoods statesmen, who write
only one letter year, are making their
annual epistle for 1889 protest to Gen
eral Harrison against the appointment to
the Cabinet from his State of man who, it
is alleged, has never done any political
work except to stump the State for Horace
Greeley.
NO FLIES ON COLONEL NEW.
The bulk of the open work in this line
comes from the Huston faction of the party,
but this is not because the John C. New
faction is any the less opposed to Mr.. Mil
Ter. Colonel New is q sly dog, and he and
his friends think it is policy to let the other
fellows saw the wood and haul in the water
in this fight, while the New men stand
ready to reap the benefits of success or
escape the odium of defeat.
Whether all the Hoosier bowling is hav-
ing any effect on the plans of the President
elect or not, it has worked the howlers up to
wonderful state of confidence and enthusi-
asm. Tonight they are sure that Partner
Miller has been knocked out of the Cabinet,
and that Judge Charles Daniels, of New
York, is to take his place. This appoint
ment, they say, is to be made without re-
gard to whether Warner Miller accepts the
Department of Agriculture or not.
It is alleged that the tender to Judge
Daniels has already been made. There is
reason to doubt whether any such step has
vet been taken or not, though it is among
the possibilities, especially if Warner Mil
Ter will not have the hayseed department.
WHAT RUINED THE PACIFIC COAST.
1t is fully as likely in case Warner
Miller accepts that the Department of
Justice will go to the Pacific coast. It
would have gone there anyway if the Pacific
coast Republicans could have agreed on
Swift. The party workers there generally
declare in favor of Estee, and this has en-
barrassed the President-elect, who didn't
think Estee was the man wanted.
Dispatches from Washington today in
dicate that a break is imminent at another
point in the Cabinet, and it is believed here
that they are correct. Thomas has from the
first been a doubtful man, and it is very
likely that he will be or has been dropped,
and that the Navy will 60 to the Pacific
coast or to New York.
At the Harrison house to-day everybody
has been busy packing up, preparatory to
the trip to Washington. There have been
but few callers, and most of them have been
turned away. Not only General and Mrs.
have denied themselves to callers,
but Private Secretary Elijah has resisted
the seductive wooing of the pasteboards, no
matter with what name inscribed, and the
burden of maintaining the dignity of the
has fallen on the shoulders of
Tibbits and Miss Sanger,
THE PRETTY TYPEWRITER
Of the administration. The only callers of
any note were Congressman Brown, of Penn
sylvania, and two Chicago Irishmen, j. F.
Beggs and Judge David Lyon. The latter
came to talk with General Harrison about
the place of Sub-Treasurer at Chicago.
They want an Irishman, Dennis Ward, of
that city, appointed to that place. Mr..
Ward is the candidate of the Irish-American
Club, and to-day's visitors represented that
club. They professed on behalf of Irish
Americans generally great satisfaction with
he Cabinet. and especially with Blaine and
Thomas. The latter, they explain, beside
being from Illinois, is the child of parents
born in Ireland.