The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-03-22
warrington Letter.
{rrom our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON. d.. c.. March 10, 1899.

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his mind what to expect. lie did wish to
be consul-general to London, but the Pres
ident s.iest actually laffed" and Mr.. Blaine
told the delegation bluntly that the posi-
ton was not in the market. From that it
would appear that John c. New has Sc
cured the place. though Mr.. News friends
/ swear that he is booked for the Austrian
| mission.
Vienna is the gayest, not to say most
reckless capital in Europe, and a few years
there would be 4 season of paradise, OF a
certain sort. The consal-generalship at
| London is, however, not to be lightly esti-
mated, although the social position is be-
low that of an ambassador. All the de-
lights of the worlds greatest city and the
ease of official position beyond the reach Of
small office seekers present themselves.
Aud then the cmoluments, which are some
thing Of mystery, amount to $50, 000 or
$40, 600 a year. Really ! am unable to see
how a man who has always been as gener-
GUS to himself as Mr. New, can find it in
his big Indiana heart to refuse the position
if he can get it.
1t appears this morning that President
Harrison will appoint Corporal Tanner
to be COMMISSIONS of Pensions. If so it
will be his first appointment of a
candidate that has not the solid support of
his state delegation for a purely national
office. Last week Tanners friends felt
this to be his fatal weakness and really
more of an injury to his cause than the
charge that he was mentally and physi-
cally unable to perform the duties OF the
position. Major Poole, his Syracuse oppo-
nent, had developed enough Congressional
backing in the New York delegation to at
least kill the chances of any other man
from thatstate. Mr.. Harrison desired Mr..
| Tanners appointment, but could not OPEN
ly break his own rule not to act as umpire
in state quarrels. In this emergency the
Oregon and Nebraska delegations came
forward and offered the Corporal a resi-
dence in either state, and it is likely that
as a result the nomination will be charged,
if made, to the Pacific slope. Which
teaches that there are various effectual
modes Of eradicating a feline.
The Kansas delegation had a taste of
| President Harrison's adherence to his
rules on Saturday. He told the members
that they must agree upon a man or a GER
tain office would go to some other state.
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resentative Peters, whose obstinacy is pro-
verbal. As he is the member from the
district in which the applicant who had
the support of the majority resides, his re-
fusal to agree was more annoying. Atlast
as = compromise, Mr.. Peters proposed the
name Of another equally good Republican,
but a bitter professional and personal
enemy of the other candidate. With one
bound Senator Ingalls, was in the arena,
and the scoring he gave Mr.. Peters would
have made a more sensible man ashamed.
1t did depress Mr.. Peters for a moment,
but a cork pushed under water hobs up
mcrriIy when the pressure is removed.
Anyhow Kansas has lost the appointment,
and there is disaffection in her camp.
The man who said to himself three days
after the Inauguration that the Office seek
ers were not more numerous o thar af-
ter former inaugurations, rcckoncd without
his host. The host has arrived since and
the end is not yet. The politicians who
have no time to waste and who regard in
augnration ceremonies as a circus 10 be
religiously avoided by any man Of stern
purposes, delayed their coming. But once
here their activity is boundless, and theil
efforts spur the tagged out spirits of tlieil
opponents, who nave been here several
weeks, to renewed endeavors TO corral tht
"in1uence."
The expectant sleep upon their arms
ready at any time to be up and give battle
to any men who seek to oppose them
Opposition but emboldens the strong while
it brushes the weak, in Office hunting as il
all else in this fighting world. The Indiana
man of whom | told you last week, whC
was confident of appointment as Commits
sioner Of Indian affairs, has already beer
routed with great slaughter, and is nov
even content to be clerk, if he can secure
that. / still! predict for him a messenger
place at $50 per month, and my confidence
in my own good Judgment grows apace.
My friend is a weak man and will no
fight.
Contrast him with a Kentucky office.
seeker who was at one time in the Post
Office Department as a $1,000 clerk, and
was discharged by the Democrats. AL.
though he was dismissed OF account of hi
justly famous ignorance, which was ap
propriately combined with probably The
smallest amount of actual good sense tina
ever fell to the lot of man, he is now pos
ing as a martyr, and wants to be Fifth
Auditor. He might as well ask to be fifth
angel in the hosts Of Heaven.
WESTON.