Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-09
A BOOM FOR ELkINS.
Judge Berkshire, Of West Virginia,
Calls Upon General Harrison.


Calls Upon General Harrison.
HE PRESENTS LITTER FROM GEN. GorF-wIrH-
DRAWING FROM THE CABINET RACE AND RECON-
MKSDINo ELKINs-Ex-REP. HoRR's vIEws-Ex-
PRESIDENT HAYES To BE PRESSED BY ONO.
new cabinet boom was developed very I'M
expectedly at Indianapolis yesterday. Though
but two gentlemen visited Gen. Harrison.
Judge r. L. Berkshire, of West Virginia. and
ex-Representative Roosevelt G.. Horr. of Michi-
gan, both, if their subsequent talk with the cor
respondents may be credited were earnest in
their conversation with the President-elect.
Judge Berkshire carried q letter from Gen.
Nathan Goff, Withdrawing from the list of
called cabinet candidates and stating that he
should contest with Senator Kenna the seat in
the United States Senate. and if beaten in the
race he would still be governor of West Vir-
ginia. Incidentally Mr.. Golf, according to the
New York Tribune man. ''said good word for
Stephen b. Elkins, commencing him for
place in the cabinet as a representa-
tive West Virginia republican. so
at least, Judge Berkshire announced.
before be took the letter up to Gen. Harrison
this evening. The judge is an old-.ime men,
Der of the republican party in West Virginia,
and was on the bench there for many years.
he claims the credit of being an original
Harrison man. was one of the delegates
at-large from West Virginia to the convention,
and voted and worked for Gen. Harrison all
the way through. Besides the message from
Gen. Gof, the judge said he had brought with
him valise full of letters from prominent
West Virginia republicans endorsing Mr.. Ell
klns as a cabinet candidate. John G. New took
him up to Gen. Harrison's house to deliver
them.
ELKINs' VALUE TO THE STATE.
The Times man saws:
Judge Berkshire does not include Messrs.
Scott, Hart, Dana. and Cowden in his list of
letter-writers. Indeed he roundly denounced
those gentlemen for their visit to Gen. Harri-
son, saying that they came ION their own hook
without having consulted with the other repub-
lcans of the state and not representing them"
How about this claim that Mr.. Elkins is not
resident of West Virginia. Judge Berkshire
was asked
He is a resident He has not lived long in
the state, to be sure but he is one of the ablest
republicans in the country. and he and his
father-in-law. ex-senator Davis. have done more
than any one in the state to develop its re-
sources and increase its wealth. Next TO Mr..
Gof he is the choice of the republicans of the
state for the cabinet. Mr.. Golf can have any
thing he wants, but he being out of the way the
republicans of the state would like to see Mr..
Elkins in the cabinet. Our state has just been
redeemed from democratic rule. Nothing will
so tend to make her solidly republican as to
put Mr.. Elkins in the cabinet. She is a small
state now. in point of population, but men like
Mr.. Elkins and ex-senator Davis are building
railroads and planting industries which will
soon make her populous and rich"
Senator Davis himself is almost as good a re-
publican now as Mr.. Elkins, isn't hep"
Well, he is practically acting with the re-
publicans. don't know but what you may
call him good republican. All his interests
are republican l know this-he didn't turn
his hand over to help Cleveland during the
campaign"
WHAT MR.. HoRR THINKS.
Mr.. Horn called to again urge Gen. Harrison
to give cabinet portfolio to Gen. Alger,
and appears to think that his favorite will
be selected. He had just come from New
York, and to the Tribune correspondent said
that no compromise was in sight in regard
to the Platt-Miller difficulty. He added: Il saw
Mr.. Miller just before / came out here. and
he told me that he would take nothing but a
cabinet portfolio. He added that he was not
going to indianapolis TO see Gen. Harrison"
MIR. Horr thinks that Jno. Wanamaker will be
the next Postmaster-GeneraL He puts Jno. S.
Swift. of California, in the cabinet as Secretary
of the Navy, and thinks that Gen Harri-
son will choose between Mr.. Miller and
Mr. Plat for New York's portfolio. This
then. is the way Mr.. Horr figures out the heads
OF the fve departments: Mr.. Blaine. Secretary
of State; Gen. Alger, Secretary of War: John
5. Swift, Secretary of the Navy: John
Wanamaker, Postmaster-General: Mr. Plat or
Mr.. Miller. no department assigned: Chas
Foster, OF Ohio, chance for one of the re-
manning departments.
BOOM FOR Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES
According to the Washington correspondent
of the New York Herald. there seems to be a
concerted movement on the part of several re-
publican leaders in Ohio to secure place in
How f,r N.
erford b. Hayes. 1t is said but with how much
truth cannot be learned, that Senator John
Sherman Is party to the scheme. This would
leave Gov. Foraker out in the cold and at
the same time permit Mr.. Sherman TO remain
in the Senate, which he prefers to a cabinet
portfolio. The two factions in Ohio. which are
led respectively by Messrs. Sherman and For
aker, are both friendly to MIR. HAYES who has
quietly pursued the even tenor of his wav and
studiously avoided committing himself TO
either. Senator Sherman is also influenced in
the matter by sentimental considerations
which grew out of the gratitude felt by him for
MIR. Hayes, who, by making him his Secretary
OF the Treasury, gave him the opportunity TO
achieve national reputation great finan-
cier.
Mr.. Hayes. it is said. could have a foreign
mission, but he prefers to remain at home. His
friends say he would like to be Secretary of
War. The duties of the position are not oner-
Gus and are more to Mr.. HAYES liking than
those connected with any OF the other cabinet
portfolios. The most cordial relations exist
between NJ. Hayes and the President-elect
and the Ohio people say if a man from their
state Is selected it is more likely to be Mr.
Hayes than either Sherman or Foraker.
NOTES.
Chicago special to the New York Nal and
Express represents Senator Blair. who was in
terviewed in that city, as having the impress
sion that the cabinet is made up. Senator Blair
thinks Blaine should be at the head of the cab
met, and that the man from Maine is entitled
to the position. He believes that il the fight
against Blaine should succeed and Harrison
should ignore him. both Harrison and the en-
tire republican party of the country would af-
terward feel that Mr.. Blaine had been cruelty
treated.
Chicago specials state that orders have been
received by house in that city for several
carriages and sets of harness for General Har-
risons use.
q. W. Matthews Chicago tailor was at
Indianapolis yesterday to take the measure of
General Harrison for his Inauguration suit He
also will make several tailor made costumes
Tor Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Mckee.
A telegram was sent from Lincoln Neb., last
night to President-elect Harrison, signed by
the twenty-seven members of the Nebraska
state senate, urging the appointment of John
NJ. Thurston as Secretary Of the Interior.
The Harrison and Morton club of Norfolk.
Va, the largest body of white republicans in
the south, unanimously endorsed Gen Ma
hone last night for a cabinet position he repre-
senting an Anglo-Saxon vote of 60, 900 for the
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