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of President Harrison's cabinet. He
POSITIVE ON THIS POINT,


county, Ohio, and Hon. II. A. Hawkins,
OF Tennessee, the late defeated Repub-
llcan candidate for governor of that
state. Mr.. Hawkins spent an hour with
Gen. Harrison this evening. He says
his visit is partly political, but largely
social. He went into the Southern situ-
alton at considerable length in talking
with the president-elect. and is strenu-
ouSly in favor of an extra session of
congress and speedy investigation of
what he terms the outrage" perpetrated
upon Republican voters in Tennessee
and other states at the recent election.
He says that a fraudulent count of the
vote i'll six of the counties where black
population is largest caused his defeat.
The county officers, instead of selecting
the election judges and inspectors from
the two parties. appointed none but
Democrats, and they had their own way
about counting the vote. s'WaS there
no recOurSe?' he was asked. "None
that | know Of" he replied. Mr.. HaW-
kinS is a second cousin of Alvin Haw-
kips, the Republican who was elected
governor of Tennessee in 1880 and who
is now being urged by Tennessee Re-
publicans as the representative of the
South in the cabinet. His friends ask
the position Of postmaster general for
him. Mr.. Hawkins stated that he did
not press his Cousins name for cabinet
recognition. but
SUGGESTED THREE NAMES
to Gen, Harrison, either of whom would
be satisfactory to his section, to wit:
Alvin Hawkins. Judge Baxter, of Nash
vile, or Mr.. Murray, of Knoxville.
What the Republicans of the South par
ticularly want, says Mr.. Hawkins. and
want it early, is national election law
that will take the presidential and con-
gressional election machinery entirely
out of the hands of the state legisla-
lures. He will not state, for publica-
ton, what, if any, views Gen. Harrison
expressed on these subjects. Among
other visitors we're Judge E. B. Martin
dale and Col. w. r. Thompson, eX-sec-
retary of the navy. Col. Thompson
brought the general very handsome
Haute. 1t consists of four celluloid
tablets fastened with gold knot and ell
cased in rich morocco box. the cover
of which bears in gold letters simply the
name Gen. Benjamin Harrison" The
first tablet bears beautiful etching of
the old log cabin at North Bend, in
which Gen. Harrison was born. AT the
top of the second tablet is finely exc
cuted vignette of America, and beneath
are the engraved words
The Columbia Club of Terre Haute, Indiana
to Gen. Benjamin Harrison, President
elect-Greeting: We hail your election to
the presidential Office as the merited reward
of life illustrated by every virtue dis
tngulshed by the strictest fidelity to everytrust
patriotically devoted to the Union at the
time of its peril and so characterized by un-
selfishness as to assure the country that its
honor will be preserved, its prosperity ad-
Yanced and its happiness made secure under
your administration.
W. II. ARMsTRING, President.
A. G. THOMPSON, Corresponding Secretary
Jan. l, 1889.
The third tablet bears the picture Of
the White house. The venerable eX-
secretary delivered the gift with one
of his happiest speeches, and Gen. |
Harrison received it with evident great |
pleasure. Mr.. Thompson was present |
at the first inauguration of Andrew |
Jackson and has witnessed nearly every |
Inauguration since that time, but says |
he fears he cannot go down to see Gen.
Harrison inaugurated.
Private Secretary Halford accompa- |
MED his wife and daughter as far as
Louisville this evening on their visit to |
Florida, where Mrs. Halford goes for |
her health. Mr.. Halford will return to-
morrow. Anent the report that Mr.. |
Blaine is about to start for IndianapO-
lis, there is excellent authority for the
statement that no information as to
HIS EXPECTED ARRIVAL
had yet been received at the Harrison
residence. There is scarcely doubt |
that Mr.. Blaine, like many other dis
tinguished Republicans, has been in
vited to visit the president-eiect, per-
haps such invitation reached him
month ago and visit was in order. If |
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been sent, fixing a definite time for |
his visit it is being scrupu-
iously concealed from those who Or
dinarily would know something of such |
matters and who declare quite positive |
ly that no special invitation has been |
sent, but that Mr.. Blaine's arrival would |
occasion no surprise. Gen. Harrison. |
shortly after the departure OF Senator |
Hiscock, went out for his daily walk |
and visited his former law office, where |
he had a long talk with Mr.. Miller. |
There was a good deal of comment to- |
day in political circles about the action |
of the seventy-seven Republican county |
chairmen, who recommended and urged |
to cabinet position. The consensus |
Of opinion seems to be that this action
RETARDS RATHER THAN AIDS
Mr.. HuStOn'S prospects for cabinet |
place. Politicians think that as Gen. |
Harrison is himself well posted on In
diana men and measures, it was unWiSe |
in the county chairman to place him in |
an attitude of seeming to antagoniZe
them in case his views did not meet |
their views in the premises. Two or
three of the best slatemakers have put |
a big cross beside Indiana to-day, as in
dicating exceeding doubt as to whether
she will get any cabinet place. EX-
Gov. Porter comes out to-day pOintediy |
in conversation and repudlates the
alleged bureau that is said to have been
established in his behalf. He says his
friends are not pressing his name for
cabinet place, and intimates pretty |
strongly that he is not candidate and |
would be greatly astonished should a
place be rendered him. 1t is believed |
he would much rather take firSt-cIasS |
mission.
BREAKFAST WITH ELKINS.
New YORK, Jan. 81. G. Blaine ar
rived from Augusta early this morning |
looking confident and in good spirits,
and was met at the Grand Central depot
by Stephen 3. Elkins. Both were
driven to the residence of Mr.. Elkins,
where they had breakfast together.
Soon after they were joined by William
Walter Phelps. and the three went to
the Pennsylvania depot, where Messrs.
Phelps and Blame boarded parlor car
of the Washington express bound for
that city.
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