The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-11
CORPORAL TANNER
Bares His Bosom to the Gaze OF
an Unfeeling World.
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JAMES
Have Chiefly to do with Secretary NOble-He
Insinuates that the Colonel Voted
for Cleveland and Hendricks.

for Cleveland and Hendricks.
Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dspatch.1
New YORK, July 10.-Corporal James
Tanner, ex pension commissioner, has un-
bosomed himself to reporter and the lat
ter publishes a long interview with the
gentleman who was deposed by the present
secretary of the interior. Mr.. Tanner, in
the first place, wishes his friends to know
that Notwithstanding he is not drawing
any more money from Uncle Samuel, he is,
like the proverbial Mr.. Riley of hotel fame,
doing quite well in the pension agency
which he has established. Mr.. Tanner
wishes TIC impress on the pubic mind that
nothing will be done in his Office which
will not stand review by the supreme court
of the United States. He believes
that his party, the Republican, to
which he still belongs, is in better shape
than the Democrats are willing
to admit. sMr. Tanner eulogtzed the
President, Secretaries Blaine, Proctor
Rusk and Tracy, Attorney General Miller
and the postmaster general. When asked
why Secretary Noble was not included in
his praises the Reconnaissance of pensions
replied ''The secretary of the interior is
somewhat peculiar man. Perhaps tits I'M
! becoming for me seriously to discuss him
but inasmuch as you have asked the ques-
| tion | will have to reply Colonel John
Wilcox Noble up to the time OF his ap-
| pointment was stranger to public rela-
tons Possibly his residence in the Demo
| cratic state of Missouri had operated TO
shield him from that wide publicity that
national leaders of the Republican party
have. enjoyed. Now Colonel John VIII
lCck Noble is presumably an old-time
Repu blican, staunch, aggressive and in
convertible, yet have been informed that
this conspicuous representative of Repub
licanism deposited his ballot in favor of
Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hen
. bricks They tell me- moreover, that on
that fateful election day which saw the
restoration of the Republican party to ma
, tional control he did not find time to vote
i for Benjamin Harrison and Levi Z. Morton.
If the colonel has been misrepresented L
would be pleased to hear it; If he is not mis-
represented he would hardly seem TO be
an ideal adviser of the Republican party. y
s'Why, l thought that Secretasy Noble
] was an original Harrison man." exclaimed
the reporter.
ssWas he! it is something more than
two years ago since dropped into the city
: of Chicago after a stumping tour In the
|, state of Oregon, 1t was a timeo great COM
: motion. The Republicans of the United
: States, in convention assembled, were try
r ing to lind out what they were there for.
q Mr. Blaine, as you will perhaps remember
IS had declined to run for President. Mr.
y Depew's ,short-lived boom had boon laid &c
y rest in the sorrowful bosom of Colone
le Eliot E. Shepherd; General Ayers friends
10 had about concluded that he could not gel
the prize; John Sherman's renewed aspi
rations had fallen beneath the death stoke
of Thomas G. Plat; Judge Gresham's nu
:. merous admirers has abandoned all nope
" Major Mckinley had refused TO play the
II part of q Garfield to Ohlo's distinguished
- Senator All eyes were on Harrison
do When the seventytwo votes OF New Y or
IN swung over to him there did not seem 10 o.
lie doubt of his nomination. Would 1t sur
If prise you to learn that while his fortune
were hanging in the balance Colonel Johl
u Wilcox Noble deemed it incumbent on hin
he to make a hurried visit from St. Louis t
he Chicago and to urage, as against the cand
n dacy of Harrison, the nomination OF JUG
=, Walter o. Gresham? Was it the part OF
~ good friend. might say a friend of the fan
IN ily, to take up the cudgelS in opposition I
in Harrison: IL ever there was a bitter leu
no. in western politics it was the feud betwee
mt the Harrison and the Gresham wings OF tn
Republican party in the state OF Indian;
IN Perhaps the President did not know thes
stories when he summoned Colonel NOD
lot TO the cabinet perhaps he does not kno
me them now but if Benjamin Harrison IS u
shreyvd man his friends esteem him TO b
10, he will probably remember these clrcu1
ud stances as he gazes in retrospect over u
events which led to his elevation TO u
ak presidential chair"
ext Inc corporal decLneu W say %neOuOA
nee Harrison were nominated again he wou
ept vote for him, on the ground that u ne an
Zen Wered the papers would complain That la
ber ner has opened his mouth again and lol
rs was the sound thereof.