Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-07

SiOuht VI iOC6iltY is paJShA AZ
surdity. Fitness and capacity must
and will be the first requisites in the
mind of the President-elect in max
ing his selection, but geographical
lines under this rule are not neces-
sarily to be wholly ignored. At any
rate they will unquestionably be
considered by Gen. Harrison, and
he wall rot make the mistake of his
predecessor by giving any one state
or one city two representatives. nor
any one section of the country four.
Within q few days past the move
NEST in favor of the appointment of
Coy. Rusk for secretary Of ~ar has
been revived, and his friends have
been advised that his appointment
was under consideration by the
Presidentelect. Since Mr.. Wana-
maker has been so prominently men-
toned for postmast.r-general, Mr..
Henry Z. Payne whose friends were
strongly urging him for that posi-
ton and whose peculiar fitness for
it was unquestionabie, has declared
himself out of the list of cabinet
erpectants. That position was the
only zone, he says, to which he as
pired and the only one he would
accept, and he now declares, 81 have
known for some time that there was
every reason to expect that Mr..
Wanamaher had been selected for
that Office and have, therefore,
ceased to consider myself candi-
date in any sense. Now | under.
stand there is a probability that Gov.
Rusk may be asked to accept seat
in the Cabinet, aud all Wisconsin,
Republicans will unite in his sup.
port. | have asked my friends to
do so, and | have written Gen. liar-
rison, personally, assuring him that
Gov. Rusk's appointment would be
very gratifying to all Republicans
in thi. state" Mr.. Payne need not
have confined the qualification to
the Republicans of this state. The
appointment of Gov. Rusk would
be warmly endorsed everywhere,
not because he is a Wisconsin man,
but because he has such character
istics and qualifications az strongly
commend him for such o position,
and all who have taken cognizancs
Of the ability with which he has
discharged every public trust re-
posed in him will feel sure that he
will do himself great honor and his
country good service as secretary OF
war.-State JournaL
DoDGEyGLLE holds the pre-emi
hence Of being the highest village
in Wisconsin and perhaps in the
whole northwest, with possible ex
ception Of some of the towns along
the Missouri in northern Dakota
From the summit just west Of the
village, the curling smoke Of the
passing trains on the &. ~ n w
railroad can be seen for distance
Of forty miles. On the east abou
eighteen miles distant, rises the far
famed summit Of the Blue Mounds
rising nearly 1900 feet above tn,
waters Of the great unsaIted sea a
Milwaukee. From this lofty mounC
dip deep glens and rock walleC
canyons, through which trickle ant
foam and rush and leap the laughing
waters of numerous streams, eve
increasing in volume until the,
gently fall into the murmurin.
waters of Pecatonica's winding
river; or rush down miniature rap
| ids and leap miniature waterfalls OF
! their swift winding way 70 thI
broad sunken canyon 1900 feet below
the summit Of the romantic noun
from which they start. Here tn
| valley Of the Wisconsin presents
Landscape nearly as level AZ floor
through which the majestic rive
rolls It's mighty floods often mil
and half in width and ten L
twenty feet deep. Over this Who'll
northern scene, amid OluU$ an
hills, gleus and rayines, sturd
and industrious race of Norsemeu
Irish aud Americans are building
homes Of comfort that betokeI
prosperity and satisfaction To tn
south and west lie the celebrate,
lead regions of the state; in thi
section untold wealth has beer
Welded from the bosom Of the cart
aud untold treasures yet lie coueeale,
ito gladden. aud enrich the genera
tons yet to come. Here, too, natur
has emplied her horn of plenty an
enriched valley and hill with ric
aluyial soil, from which the bus
husbaudmau gamers the richest o
blessings for the sweat of his brow
Beautiful groves and smiling pra
ries play checkers over the Iandscap