Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-02
THE FACTS.
Secretary Noble Asks to be
Retired from the Cabinet.
HARRISON CASTING ABOUT.
But in Order Not to be Handled by Politicians,
the Resignation is Denied.
President Harrison Has a Good summers
Job Making Up Cabinet and Judicial
Siates-How He Will Play
His Cards.


SpcVlaA ~ LIE bdZeIlt-
WASHINGTON, Aug. Notwithstanding
the denials that come from Cape May and
department officials in Washington that
Secretary Noble rendered his resignation
To the president, there is the very best au-
thorlty for saying the secretary has notified
the president that he desires TO retire from
the cabinet. The resignation was not made
in the usual formal way TO be acted upon at
once, but the president has been asked by
Gen. Noble to retire him and President
Harrison has promised to do so as soon as
he can look about him and find 4 proper
person to place at the head of the interior
department. There is no doubt Of the az
curacy Of this statement. 1t IS because the
aWesldent finds the Utmost difficulty IN
making
ARECAsT OF HIS CABINET,
made necessary by Secretary Mobiles with
drawal, that he desires the impression to go
abroad that there has been no resignation.
He does not wish TO be burdened 1T this
time with the task of listening to the APP
peals of politicians in hehalf of the various
candidates. The president has worry
enough on himself, and if ii became known
there was a vacancy in the cabinet the re
mainder of his vacation at Cape May he
would be worried, hence q denial is sent
out. 1t ca be stated with positiveness, on
the authority of q man who knows Just
what he is talking about, that as soon as the
president finds himself ready TO make i new
cabine slate, General Noble will bid good
bye to
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Secretary Proctor Will resign in a few
months and the president desires to I'LL both
vacancies at the same time. Secretary
Noble is not disposed to hurry matters, SO
far as he is personally concerned. He is
away on 4 long vacation, and he IS only
anxious that his Office be turned over to an
other before the serious department work
of the fall and winter must be resumed.
Secretary Noble, it is well known, would
be very much pleased TO get one of the
judgeShipS on the new court OF appeals
bench. and it has long been understood that
the president is willing TO crafty his desire
in this regard. With two cabinet portfolios
and
MN FAT JCDGESHIPS
at his disposal, President Harrison has a
good many trump cards, and he is undoubt-
eddy determined to play Il game of shrewd
politics with them. His Cancellation, or at
tempted Cancellation, of Tom Platt by the
appointment of Sloan FasSett as collector,
IS the first step in his policy of strengthen
ing his big hand for the great game to be
played in 1892, and by going slow and care
fully surveying the situation, he can use
his cabinet offices and nine judgeships to
great advantage and conciliate more enc
mics, and serve the ambitious statesman
whose eyes are set upon the White House
Harrison will plainly
SHOW HIS HAND
when the time comes for making these ap-
pointments, if he has not already lone so.
The name of James 5. Clarkson of Iowa,
president of the league of Republican clubs
and acting chairman of the national Repub-
lican committee, is in the mouth of every
one to-day as the possible successor of No
bic in the interior department. Clarkson'S
friends state very emphatically, however,
that he would not think of accepting an
other place under Harrison's administra-
ton. He became Il member of it on its or
ganization with the hope, if not u direct IN
derStanding, that he would soon be pro-
NOTED TO a cabinet place. Being disap-
pointed he resigned, and allied himself with
organizations who seem bent on doing any
thing else but securing the
RECONCILIATION OF BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Clarkson could not afford to break with
these men now, even if he felt somewhat
disposed to be tempted by the allurements
of i cabinet Office. He has joined with men
who mean to nominate Blaine or Alger or
Mckinney, or someone else whose name is
not Harrison, and having enlisted in this
work the new manager of the Republican
committee will stick to his last. The pres
ident will keep himself busy during the
next few weeks making up cabinet and
judicial states. and all look to see his presi-
dental stock go up a point when he an
snounces them.