Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-03-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent
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Harrison Is Just now catching it on
every hand from the Office seekers be
cause ofhis slowness In making appoint
ments. Including the Cabinet, the to-
tai Of the administration to date are less
than sixty. This Is a state of affairs
that the hungry and greedy gang oI
wodld-be public officials hnd II hard Tn
understand. They expect a hundred
or more nominations every day. This
tardiness on the part of the new
authorities arises from no considera-
tiOn for the Democrats now holding the
positions, but results from inability,
owing to the unprecedented wrangIing
among the Republican politicians, to
decide whom to appoint.
MIR. Harrison has been talking rather
plainly to some of the gang. He told
some Indiana Republicans that the best
thing they could do was to 60 home;
that if he wanted them he always
knew where they we've to be found,
and that he thought he knew who were
entitled to the offices in that State as
well as any man in it. He is also said
to have told ex-senator Malone that he
would send for him when he wanted
his advice. All of those little things
add to the glorious harmony that exists
in the ranks of the Republican party.
BY the nomination of Mr.. G. A.
Bates, of Delaware, to be U. S. Com
missioner to the Samoan Conference
to be held at Berlin, Mr.. Harrison has
virtually endorsed Mr.. Cleveland's
position on the Samoan question. Mr..
Bates is Democrat, and was selected
in 1886 by Mr.. Cleveland to 90 to
Samoa and make an investigation of
the trouble which was then just begin
ming. AS a result of Mr.. Bates report
Consul Greenbaum was recalled. The
other commissioners nominated to act
with Mr.. Bates are ex-COngressman
w. w. Phelps and eX-Minister to Aus
tria and Germany, John A. Kasson.
There is a big fight going on to decide
who shall be the next Commissioner of
Pensions. Mr.. Harrison wants to give
the appointment to Corporal Tanner, of
New York, but the New York Con-
gressional delegation have candidate
of their own-Gen. Poole, of Syracuse
and object to the appointment of Tan
ner. Tanners friends have suggested
that he be appointed and credited to
some other State.
Some surprise was created here when
j. s. Clarkson, of Iowa, the man who
would be Secretary of the Interior or
nothing, accepted the position of First
Assistant Postmaster-GeneraI.
Senator Chace, of Rhode Island has
resigned, and all sorts of rumors are
flying around as to the cause. That
most generally believed is that Harri-
son snubbed him in making an appoint
ment of U. S. attorney for the Rhode
Island district. His friends say that he
has all along intended to resign at this
time, but that is hardly reasonable
story. 1t is not likely that he would
have gone to the trouble and expense
of an election to the Senate just for the
glory of serving less than one month,
he having been sworn in the 4th inst.
for the beginning of his first whole
term. Previous to that time he was
filling out the term of the late Senator
Anthony.
There is probability of some troub-
lie between the President and the Re-
publicans of the Senate over the South
ern election question. Mr.. Harrison
had requested as personal favor that
the matter be let alone at the present
extra session of the Senate and the re-
quest had seemingly been agreed to,
but the radical members of the Senate
have succeeded in getting the question
agitated again. 1t was discussed at
Republican caucus last week but was
not disposed of. 1t will come up again
at another caucus this week.
Russell Harrison is working the fed
eral patronage Of Montana in a way
that he hopes will make him United
States Senator from that State next
fall.
The Southern negroes who are here
in search of federal offices are very
much discouraged over their prospects
Of obtaining anything worth having.
The fact is, the star of the negro in the
political armament is waning very
rapidly, and it would not he surprising
if it should, in the near future, disap-
pear altogether.
w. w. Dudley. of "blocks of fire"
notOriety, denies the rumQr that he had
been snubbed by Mr.. Harrison. He
says he has never called at the White
House since Harrison has occupied it,
which makes it look as though he was
afraid he might be snubbed.
Senator ingalls, has been sued by a
local firm ofprinters for $131 for print
ing "The Hand Book of Protection"
during the last campaign. The work
was not done for ingalls, but he prom
sed to be responsible for the bill which
he afterwards refused to pay, hence
the suit.
Wayne MacVeagh, who was in Gar
fields Cabinet, was here day or two
ago. He says he recognized among the
,hrong of office-seekers hundreds of
aces that were here OH the same
GRAND in 1884. Once an office-seeker