Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-03-22
POLITICAL NOTES.

Hon. John S. Wise seems to have thu
entree of the White House, and in this re
gard to occupy high ground of vantage ovel
the other Virginia Republicans. One day
last week. at the head Of about fifteen Wiz
ginia Republicans of his wing, including
Gen. V. d. Groner of Norfolk, and Judge
| Wood of Scott county, he appeared at the
White House but was informed that he an(
his friends were too late, the President be
ing about to go into a Cabinet meeting. HI
rushed into the Private Secretary'S room
! and in a moment reappeared with Mr.. Hal
ford, who instructed the door-keeper to ad
nit the party to see the President for three
minutes. Mr.. Wise appeared greatly graf
flied at his success, and his friends seemed
very proud of him When, turning to re-
porter of the Baltimore Sun, he Informed
him that every member of the delegation
was an anti Malone man. After MI. Wise
and his party left, the Cabinet went into
session. On the day before, Gen. Malone
accompanied by eX-Postmaster General
Frank Hatton, called to pay his respects.
The General waited for some time outside
walking up and down the hall, until MI.
Hatton appeared saying he would be seen.
Gen. Malone then went in but staid only a
moment OF two in paying his respects, and
at once came out.
On Saturday, the two most noted guests
at the dinner Of the Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick, in New York City, were ex-
President Grover Cleveland and Hon.
John S. Wise. Each made char
acteristic speech-Cleveland keeping be-
fore the audience the grandeur Of the
American Union, and Wise, dashing and
eloquent, keeping before them the brilliant
traits of Ireland and Irishmen. On Mon
day Mr.. Cleveland, with ex-Secretaries Bay
ard, Villas and Dickinson of his late admin
istration, left for ten-days excursion to
Cuba.
The Alexandria Gazette's Washington
correspondent says that Gen. J. e. Roller
of Rockingham, is being pressed for the
position of one of the Attorney General S
assistants.
West Virginia which had the Commits
sionership of Internal Revenue under
Cleveland, gets it again under Harrison, if
it is true as reported on apparently good
authority, that the President has selected
J. w. Mason for that position.
The appointment of Whitelaw Reid,
managing editor of the New Y ork Tribune,
Mr.. Blaine's organ for many years, to the
post of Minister to France, shows that the
Secretary of States preponderance in the
Administration is Just what it was expect
ed to be.
The West Virginia Court of Appeals
having decided against the claims of Sena-
tor Carr, as well as those of Mr.. Golf, to
the Governorship, Governor Wilson, who
holds over under the decision, has decided
to call the legislature together in June next
to settle the gubernatorial middle.
John S. Clarkson of Iowa, who has been
appointed Assistant Postmaster General,
is the same member Of the National Repub-
lican Committee that stands charged by
the Prohibition organ, the New York
Voice, with having arranged the theft of
it's mailing list for campaign purposes.
Such an appointment ought to tighten the
gloom which surrounds ''blocks-of-fve !"
Dudleys chances for an appointment.
Postmaster General Wanamaker who is,
as yet, little fresh in his office, says what
puzzles him about the Republican party in
Virginia is that instead Of two wings it
seems to have half dozen.