New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-31
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Gossip BUSY WITH THE CABINET SLATE
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.yn wax souTH-A NEW AspIRANT foh
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WILSON OF DELAWARE
ruY sELxoRAPH TO The TRIBusEl
,u..nol;s IAN. 3o.-It is understood thsS
a., n,.,ns,s latter accepting the oaer OF tne o''@
n.r.ytment win probably be gwen QUE " 'ne
pr.aasnt-elect in few days. uener''l A'"A1 s
!. .a,a 10 be merely waiting ZOE @Ho - -, '.Oui
.yhsy conspicuous Republicans 10 wno"
.,vtfol;os have been offered 10 maSo puDH0 quo
49, aor,exnondence. He had determined not TO
~. ,,hI,c an mixing of his choice OF Oaolnet
srsosrs until tie formal announcement snou'u NO
- .ha United States Senate; but so open
a4'N -. - a, last fodr OF the CABINET ap-
n"s .'~ s.oo,oc that the withholding Ct
p0in'1 .S-ssv.at;on seems useless. Senator ALI
ioi.' -. a..ented the Treasury Department
son naS Ia 80 NAV Mr. Wanamaker the portfolio
-. - n. Navy or the Postmaster-General
80 =. ,yb;ch he has been assigned but the
Zip AZ. spceessful candidates have not been in
sesv u since the election, and correspond
in'' sas h,sn necesss y. both in offering and ac-
sspting portfolios
1h. no1itical experts have been figuring for the
last two days On the men who Will get the three
- s,;u left vacant The best opinion has
ssrrowed General Harrison's choice for these
-, ,o New-Ycrk, California and the South. The
Ss.-yor. problem is still puzzling one, and
.ssre has been no light thrown on the stua-
.;or since Yesterday. In California there are
.r,vt,xo candidates Swift and Estee The most
nromising men in the South. with General Golf
ont seem TO be Henderson. Of Missouri; and
Baxter. Of Tennessee.
The news that Blaine, Alison Wanamaker and
AIrer were ON the Cabinet slate to stay has been
received here with almost universal satisfaction.
II is felt that no happier solution of the Cabinet
problem could have been reached. The relief.
TOO. 10 this community of anxious spectators
has bean enormous. Already the prospective
leaders in the Cabinet have been named The
Big Four
sTAere is big four in New-York politics and
in Ohio politics. and don't sec why we should
mot have a National one" said one of General
Harrison's closest friends this evening The Cen
eral has heard the Joke, and / know he apPre-
eistes it."
Notwithstanding the fact that the Secretary
shin of War is believed by almost every one TO
have gone to Gene raj Alger new candidate for
that portfolio was put in the field to-day Sena
tor-elect Anthony Higgins of Delaware backs
the new aspirant, General james II. Wilson.sot
Wilmington The new Senator arrived tins
morning and was soon Joined by Colonel Buford
Wilson. of Springfield. Ill. the Generals brother
The two went out to the house of the
straight from the station. They missed General
Harrison. however, and had TO make another
tim in the afternoon. After short talk they
came back to the New Denison Hotel then,
inst before starting home, Mr.. Higgins discovered
that he had left his umbrella at the 6eneraIs
house. and he called carriage and drove out
pnce more to recover IT, The Senator did not
talk very freely about the result of his mission
ANY object in coming here" he said to The
Tribune's correspondent, was to ask Ienerai
Harrison to appoint General Wilson, Of Delaware
the next Secretary of War. General Wilson ranked
high as soldier and would make an able Caolne'
officer His appointment would be recognition
of the growth of Repubhcanism In the oorder
Statrs in the last four years, and would De hlghV
satisfactory, think, to the party IN them also
had some talk with the President-elect ABOUT his
policy IN the border States and the means OF on
eouracnr the remarl<a BILE movement toward Repub-
licanism now in progress there. want TO see
such an Administration in Delaware, Maryland and
the rest Of these States as will strengthen the hold
we have gained by the protection campaign OF
last year We need more aggressive
active and intelligent workers N the party, who
win infuse fresh blood into it and give 1t "a
more progressive leadership. strong, hrm,
American policy will rout Bourbonism in these
States at the next Presidential election ] can
scarcely speak for the South, but my idea is
that the Republicans there should show more
fight. Too many of them are like Nicodemus
and come around in the night TO talk about their
Republicanism The Bourbons count them out
disfrancbise them, commit almost any sort Of po-
litical outrages, and our Southern brethren don't
say word would like to see more courage
infused into the Republican organization in the
South
You cannot say how successful your efforts
for General Wilson seemed TO be- can you, Sens-
tori"
NO, cannot tell you what passed between
the President-elect and myself / had pleasant
call. however,
The only Republican Senator Delaware has ever
had started back this evening for Wilmington.
He is confident that Delaware win be carried by
the Republicans in 500. The Republicans have
the election machinery in enc of the three counties
Of the State, and can obtain fair treatment as a
standof in the other two.
Ecan this afternoon led 10 a touch
ing incident. The caller was LOUIS Altheimer
of Pine Bluff, who has been prominent
party worker in his State. He was on his way
East on business. and stopped of TO say good
word for Powell Clayton. who is the Arkansas Cab
met candidate Mr.. Altheimer is an intimate friend
of John Clayton. who defeated Congressman Breck-
fnridge last November and was afterward counted
out Mr. Clayton had been at work taking tesd-
mony for 8 contest throughout the district and
was murdered in cold blood last night The news
OF the assassination reached here this morning and
ME. Altheimer read Of 81 In the neu,srannra Lie