Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-06-19
SENATOR HIeorss, oHoIor.
The POst-offics Plum about TO be
Given Out, and Dam Stewart VIII
Get a.

The Post-offics PIum about TO be
Gwen Oni, and Dan Stewart Will
Get Il.
II was reported Tuesday upon authority
that seems very substantial, that Senator
higgins has at last stiffened his backbone
sufficiently to make up his mind about
the Wilmington post.office, and will an
nounoe his positive choice for postmaster
in az day or two. And that choice,
1t is confidently asserted, will be Daniel
L. Stewart of the Tenth ward.
MIR. Stewart, 10 the story goes, had an
interview with senator Higgins in Wash
ington on Sunday, ct which the senator
agreed to end the post-oiIice agony by
giving him the appointment. 30 he OK
poets that his name will be sent to the
Senate by the President, and will be dis
appointed il it is not. He and his friends
have no doubt that he is the coming mau.
But there are many doubters, who,
while they will admit that Stewart may
have the senator's promise, are skeptioal
about the promise being faithfully car
ried out to the letter. One man was in
duced to voluntarily drop his aspirations
for the poat-cffice after having il almost
in his grasp, they argne, and why not
another. Besides it is urged, Senator
Higgins is under obligations, out OF graft
tude to the coterie of Wilmington bust
ness men who gave him such cordial and
substantial support in his Dover canvass,
to give George w. Stone, who is ons OF
their number, good position under the
Federal government. And what better
has ne within his gift than the post Office
at Wilmington
On the other hand ii il held forth that
Stewart has ever been close 10 Senator
Higgins, and it Is claimed that be and
Horace Rudolph always had more infu-
enee with Mr.. Higgins than any other
two men in Delaware. In the palmy
days of the old Republican fights Stewart
was ever one of the most efficient OF
Higgins lieutenants. He always turned up
smiling with Higgins delegates from the
Tenth ward and held up his end Of the
strinP in every contest. And on election
days he YVES the one man who never
failed to have the Republicans OF the
TENTH ward qualified for suffrage aud saw
that every Republican vote was cast fol
the Republican ticket. This work, too,
was done in heavy Democratic ward
without any trouble with the Democratic
workers, vino respected him as man
and feared his prowess as politica
worker.
Upon his close relations to Senator
Higgins and his first-class political ant
personal record the friends o. Stewar
are banking their hopes. They will b.
disappointed if he is not FAMED as tn,
next postmaster of Wilmington.
Daniel r. Stewart, who by tho grace o
Senator Higgins may receive this import
ant and lucrative position, is native o
Wilmington and about As years of age
Shortly after the breaking out of the re
bellion he enlisted in the Fourth Dels
ware Regiment, despite his youth, ant
served through the war with o good re
cord. On his return to Wilmington h
learned the trade of carpenter and fol
lowed il for several years. He was az
pointed about 1876 by Postmaster william
M. Pyle, mail clerk in the Wilm ngtol
post-ofiice and remained there until tn
, appointment Of Postmaster Swiggett i
1882, when he resigned, While in Tia
!, position he acquired reputation as on
|. OF the most efficient and oompeter
attaches OF the post.off staff. Aftei
wards he went into business as q coI
, tracing builder, in which he has becom
quite prominent. His shop is ct M
1016 Pleasant street and he resides at M
1921 Lancaster avenue.