St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-04
General Smashing of States
and Breaking Up Of Bo-
gus Cabinets.
Blaine Expresses His Inten-
ton Of Making a Pilgrim
age to Hoosierdom.
McKinley's Candidacy for the
Speakership Is Merely a
Big Bluff.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 9.-f external
Indications are any guide in such mat
tiers, then this has been veritable red
letter day with Gen. Harrison for cabi-
net-making and smashing spurious cab
inets. The weather favored the work
in hand. as it was clear, bright day,
enabling skillful workman to adjust
and ioin with nicely. Of course, the
chief interest of the day centered in the
visit of Senator Hiscock, who arrived
from Washington at IL 80 and drove at
once to the New DennisOn, where he
registered, made hasty toilet and
drove direct to the residence of the
president-elect, arriving about O'Clock,
Just in time for the monday meal. which
proves that he was an expected guest.
Luncheon over. the general and his
guest repaired to the library, where
they remained closeted until 3:15, when
the senator took his leave. Occasion
ally the general was interrupted in his
consultation with the distinguished
New Yorker by the entrance of the
servant bearing the cards of callers,
few of whom got to see the general for
moment only. while the others, who
called to shake hands, or out of mere
cially engaged and requested to call
again. Two or three callers who failed
to see hlm
WENT AWAY DISGRUNTLED,
unable to appreciate the value of his
time under the circumstances. He has
made it an invariable practice since the
day of his nomination to see every
caller. if he was at home; but there are
occasions. like to-day, when he found it
necessary to refuse himself to a few.
No third party was present during the
long conference with Senator Hiscock;
therefore no one is able to state posi-
lively what passed between them, un-
less one or the other chooses to divulge.
The writer saw the president-elect, and
had quite lengthy conversation with
him, but he adroitly refraned from CIV
ing the slightest hint as to the New
York senator's mission. He talked
freely of the visit, but said nothing
not already known, inquiring mad
vertently whether the correspondents
had succeeded in interviewing the SEN
atOr. Their efforts in this direction
were Jealous enough, but almost bar
ren of results, as the senator, whose
carriage never left the door during his
long conference, drove rapidly TO the
hotel, grabbed his satche, inquired
how much his bill was, and when he
found it cost nothing to leave his auto
graph at an Indiana hosiery he thanked
the clerk and walked briSkly to his car
riage, refusing to stop moment or say
a word when solicited. He
SEEMED A LITTLE ILLUSTRATED
and in rather bad humor. Arriving at
the depot, he must pass through cor
don of reporters who lay in wait. They
succeeded in halting him at the iron
gateway. where the crowd detained
him, and to their numerous inquiries,
he simply said:
Gentlemen. my visit was an uneventful
one, both politically and personally
These are the words that three of the
correspondents who were present at
tribute to him, and they agree that the
distinguished gentleman still labored
under an apparent diSgruntled state of
mind. either real or assumed. He board
ed the o'clock train for Cleveland. and
it is said he will visit his home III New
York state before returning to Wash
ingtOn. Not much Importance is at
tached to the single expression he made.
as it is thought if his mission had
proved a fruitlesS one, he would not
have made the remark. His apparent
i'll humor, however. which is not
chronic with him, when con-
sidered in connection with the genial
complacent frame of mind in which the
writer discovered Gen. Harrison only an
hour or so later, is more significant than
the words attributed to the big senator.
After a long days conference with sew
eral distinguished public men, it
would seem but natural that Gen. Har
risOn should show signs of fatigue and
an absence of his usual urbanity. On
the contrary, he was without sign OF
worry or dissatisfaction. A good many
OF Gen. HarrisOn's close friends believe
the cabinet is about finished, and if
these incidents are of any interest or
value they would seem to strengthen
this view of the situation. But the day
brought another senatorial pilgrim in
the person of Preston B. Plumb, of
Kansas, who arrived this morning from
the West and made futile endeavor to
visit the president-elect and get out of
the city without his presence being dis
covered by the correspondents, an i'm
possible feat. He was accompanied out
to the house by Hon. w. Ii. Calkins,
who left him with Gen. Harrison. His
conference was less than an hour and
he left at 2 o'clock for Washington. In
an interview, Senator Plumb said he
merely stopped over to have general
talk with the presldent-elect.
HE HAD NO SPECIAL MISSION,
and was not specially invited to call.
He was not pressing any name for a
cabinet position; Kansas had no candi-
date. All that the people of Kansas
wanted was the privilege to vote for and
sustain the Republican party, nothing
more. He was in favor of an extra ses-
sion of congress, and believed that
party and public necessity would in
duce President Harrison to call congress
together. He was in favor of vigor-
Gus and early investigation by congress
of the alleged suppression of the col
Ored vote IN the South. He thought Mr..
Blaine would sit at the head of the new
cabinet. AS to the situation in New
York state, he was not well enough
posted to express an intelligent opinion.
He was highly gratified with his visit to
the president-elect, and predicted an
administration that would satisfy the
country in every respect. Another Wis
itor of prominence was Hon. Moses W.
Field, Of Detroit, one of the regents of
Michigan university. and during the
campaign Of 1878 chairman of the ma
tional Greenback executive committee.
In the late campaign he, with large
majority of Michigan GreenbackerS,
ardently supported the Republican
ticket OH the tariff issue. His talk with
Gen. Harrison was necessarily brief.
Ii he came here with a special object.
he kept it to himself. He talked freely,
howevt s. and said. among other things,
that be .lad no doubt whatever but that
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