Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-18
FORAKER Is SCARED.
Even the Mere Mention of ives Ever
ett'S Name for Cabinet HonOrS
MAKES OHIO'S GOVERNOR MAD.
Southern Republicans Have Still Another
Possibility to Push.
A PLEA FOR PROTECTION DEMOCRATS.
One Caller on Harrison Who Actually Doesn't Want
Something.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIspATcH.l

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM To THE DIsPATcH.l
INDIANAPOLIS, January 1.-THE Ohio
muddle came up before the President-elect
to-day, in a fashion that illustrates the
funny franticness of Foraker's methods in
that State. On Monday, with the Ohio
electors, S. T. Everett, of Cleveland, called
upon General Harrison, and some news
papers next day made solemn political
event out of this incidental call, and even
intimated that Mr.. Everett himself was
being pushed for the Cabinet by the Sher-
man people. The basis for this story was
that Mark Hanna, of Cleveland, ShermaD's s
best friend, next to Foster, is at the head of
bank in which Everett is also interested.
The only people who seem to have paid
any attention to the story were the Foraker
politicians, and they were scared to death.
They decided that prompt action was neces-
sary, and they sent here to-day George
Short and o. P McElrath, of Cleveland,
armed with formidable protests against Ev-
erett's elevation. They told General Harri-
son that Mr.. Everett wouldn't suit Ohio at
all, and that he ran away behind his ticket
this year. General Harrison heard them
through impassively, and showed them out
of the door with his usual assurance that
what they had said should be considered,
just as though there really had been some
idea of appointing Everett.
MORE SoUTHERNERs COMING.
R. D. Locke, of Macon, Ga, arrived in
Indianapolis tonight in advance of Colonel
A. E. Buck, the Cabinet possibility of
Savannah, and DIR. c. w. Arnold, of Albany,
Ga, who will be here tomorrow. Mr.. Locke
says that, while Colonel Buck has been ex-
tensively mentioned and warmly indorsed
for Cabinet place, his visit here now has
nothing to do with that. He and his COM
panions came, Mr.. Locke says, simply to
pay friendly visit to General Harrison,
and to talk over the Southern question with
him. All three are Republicans. Mr..
Locke served through the war in the Con-
federate army, but has been a Re-
publican ever since the party was organ
lied in Georgia. He says that all
the people of the South ask is that the Fed
eral Offices under the next Administration
shall be chosen from among the better class
of the communities. Where there are no
Republicans of this class available, Mr..
Locke wants the offices to be given to pro-
lection Democrats. In 1890, when the Con-
gressional elections come, he thinks the
Republicans should indorse protection Dem
ocrats wherever such are nominated. A
protection Democrat is pretty sure to turn
into Republican before long, he thinks.
THE LEAST OF TWO EVILS.
Mr.. Locke doesn't take any stoak in inde-
pendent Democrats, and says he wouldn't
vote for one for anything, but he wants it
understood, he says, that while protection
Democrat may be indorsed for Congress, the
patronage is to remain in the control of the
Republicans, right along, wherever any such
can be found fit to fill the Offices.
Captain E. w. Ward, of South Carolina,
was another Southern visitor to the Presi-
dent-elect to-day. He is an anti-Mahone
man, and represents the element in old
North State Republicanism that secured the
resembling, by the legislative caucus last
week. of the resolution indorsing Malone
for the Cabinet.
William Henry Harrison Webster, who
owes his long name to the fact that he was
born IN the great Tippecanoe year, when
the grandfather of the present General Har-
ing namesake for babies by the dozen,
called upon the President-elect to-day and
had a most agreeable visit. Mr.. Webster has
been for 80 years conductor on the New
York Central Railroad, and as he didn't
want any Office and didn't care continental
who went into the Cabinet, General Har-
rison seemed to take good deal of pleasure
in his conversation.
j. W. Dwight, of Dreyden, N. Y, who
was delegate to the last Chicago conven-
sion, and who is said to be a Platt man,
called upon General Harrison to-day. He
is the owner of ranch in Dakota and was
on his way home from visit there when he
stopped over here. ....-