The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-25
BRIDGES BONANZA.
Blaine Greets him Warmly and
it Appears he Will Knock
the PerSimmOn.

Washington, d. q, June 18.--The anna.
teur statesman, Kinsey, acted as chsperone
fo- Capt. L. L. Bridge, to-day. They
called at the white house and paid their
respects to the president, Kinsey into
duced Bridges to the chief m igistrate and
explained that his client was an applicant
for the consul generalship to Mexico.
Bridges and the president talked for few
minutes and Bridges tried to get the presi-
dent to express an opinion regarding his
chances. This the president refused to do
He said that he never expressed an opin-
ion regarding appointments until he had
attached his signature to the commission,
but Harrison received the Mlssourians
kindly and they left his presence feeling
pretty well.
From the White House they went to the
State Department and easily obtained &C.
cess to Mr.. Blaine. The Secretary of State
was much more cordial than the President.
He greeted Bridges warmly and said that
he remembered the earnest plea made in
his behalf a few weeks ago by Senator Nc
Ginnis. Bridges and the Secretary had a
long talk. Bridges explained what he
wanted freely and fully. Blaine called his
attention to the fact that Mr.. Moore, our
b. en- In Office two years and that an i'm
mediate appointment to that post was not
probable. he said that he was much i'm
pressed with Mr. Bridges aud his claims
upon the administration that he felt very
much like Offering him something that
could be immediate. He asked Bridges
how he would like Valparaiso. Bridges
said that he was seeking Mexico because ne
thought the climate there would be bene-
fetal, and that was the post his friends had
recommended him for. Blaine said the
climate of Valparaiso was almost similar
TO that of the City of Mexico, aud that the
salary was 81 900 more than that at Next
CO, and that the fees were considerably
more.
BLAINE MAKES A PROMISE.
SNOW" said Blaine, 81 think, of course,
the president consenting, that / could
make immediate appointment to Valpsr-
also, and am very much inclined 10 send
you there"
Bridges consented and said that he
would leave the matter entirely in Mr..
Blaine's hands. Blaine was in a hurry to
attend the cabinet meeting and cut the
conversation short by making Mr.. Bridges
formal promise of the post at Valparaiso
Immediately or that at Mexico in the i'm
mediate future. In consequence Bridges
is in high glee tonight. He feels that he
has won his case. III Bridges should win
place, of course ii would be q great per-
soual victory for him, as his application
was only filed about two weeks ago, while
the applications of several other Missouri
ans for consular and diplomatic positions
have been on file since the fourth of
March.
Kinsey did not 10 much In the way of
urging Bridges, because his hands are ii ed.
There are number of Missouri applicants
for the post of consul-general to Mexico.
III. l.. Wilson, of Webster GROVES, Mo-, a
member of the firm of Wilson, Nichols & |
Co., Of st. Louis is an applicant, so is |
Arthur +. Reed, of St. Louis, and, as pre-
viously explained in this correspondence, |
Sam Hoover of Bolivar. wants the appoint |
ment and wants il mighty bad. Hoover is |
a Sunday school teacher. and nearly every /
Sunday school teacher in Illinois, Iowa and |
Kansas has urged the president to
appoint him. Hoover is Endorsed by Joe |
Upton, the deputy president for the Sixth
Missouri district. The chances of either
Of the Missodriaus, with the possible ex-
ception of Bridges, getting the place are
very slim, and if Bridges should happen
TO get the Valparaiso place, which Blaine
TO all inteRts and purposes promised him,
the chances for the consul generalship to
Mexico Will still be slim. All the Mis-
'ourians in Washington tonight feel that
Bridges has a dead sure thing of it and he
IS being congratulated freely.