Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-03-21

News friends swear that he is booked
for the Austrian mission.
Vienna, is the gayest, not to say
most reckless Capital in Europe, and
few years there would be season of
paradise. of certain sort. Thc consul
generalship at London is, however, not
to be lightly estimated. although the
social position is below that of an am
bassador. All the deIishts of the worlds
greatest city and the ease of official 20
sition beyond the reach If small office
seekers present themselves. And then
the emoIuments, which are 'mething
of mystery, amount to $50, 900 or $40
600 Il year. Really l am unable to see
how man who has always been as
generous to himself as Mr.. New, can
find it IN his big Indiana heart to re-
fuse he poSition--if he can get it.
1t appears this morning that presi
dent Harrison will appoint corporal
Tanner to be Commissioner of Pen
sons. If so it will be his first appoint
ment Of candidate that has not the
solid support Of his State delegation for
a purely National office. Last week
Tanners friends felt this to BE- his fatal
weakness and really more Of an injury
to his cause than the charge that he
was mentally and physically unable to
perform the duties of the position. Ma
jor Poole, his Syracuse opponent, had
developed enough Congressional back
ing in the New York delegation to at
least kill the chances Of any other man
from that State. Mr. Harrison desired
Mr.. Tanners appointment, but could
not openly break his own rule not TO
act as umpire in State qnarrrls
In this emergency the Oregon ami
Nebraska delegations came forward and
offered the Corporal a residence i'll
either State, and it is likely that as a
result the nomin ttion will be chlrgDd,
if made, to the Pacific slope, which
teaches that there are various etlectual
modes of eralicating feline.
The Kansas delegation had taste Of
President Harrisons adherence to his
rules on Saturday, lie told the mem.
bers that they must agree upoa man
or certain Office would 90 to some 9th,
er State. They retired and fell into
line but Representative Peters, whose
obs,nacy is proverbal. AS he IL the
member from the district in which the
applicant who had the support Of the
majority resides his refusal to agree
vas more annoying. At last as a cola
promise, Mr., Peters proposed the name
Of ano her equally cool Republican,
but bitter professional and personal
cnem' Of the other candidate. With
one bound Senator lngAll was in the
arena and tue scoring he gave Mr.. Pc
tiers would have IN tdc a morr sensible
man ashamed. 1t did repress Mr. Pc
tiers for the moment, but a cork pushed
under water bobs merrily when the
pressure is removed. Anyhow Kansas
has lost the appolntment and there IS
disatIecrion in her camp.
The man who said to himself three
days after the Inauguration that the Of
fec seekers were not more numerous
now than after former iuHuguratlons,
reokoned without his host The host
has arrived since and the end Is not
vet. The politicians who have no time
to waste and who regard the inaugural
ton ceremonies as Il circus to be relig
iousIy avoided by any man Of stern
purposes, delayed their coming. Bat
once here their activity IS boundleSS,
and their efforts spur the tagged out
spirits Of their opponents, who have
been here several weeks, to renewed
endeavors to corral the 'intluence
The eApectant sleep upon their arms,
ready at any time to be up and give
battle to any men who seek to support
them. Opposition but enboidens the
strong while it brushes the weak, i'll Of
lice hunting as in all else in this fight
nag world. The Indiana man OF whom
told YOU last week; who was confllrnt
OF appointment as Commlssl Jner OF
Indian affairs, has already been routed
with great Slaughter, aud is now even
content to be clerk, if he can secure
that. still predict for him IL messen.
gers place at 500 per month and my
confidence in my own good Judgment
grows apace My friend IS a weak mar
md will not fight.
Contrast him with a Kentucky Office
. seeker who was at one time in the Post
office Department us Il $1,000 clerk, anc
was discharged by the Democrats. Al
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