The record-union., 1891-09-12
POLITICAL WORLD.
RUMORED CHANGES IN PRESIDENT
HARRIsON'S CABINET.
Hon. j. Sloan Fassett Determined tc
Make a Clean Campaign In
New York.
special to the REcoRp-uN1oN.

OPCOitl W tuo INEtOhD-ONION.
WASHINGTON, Sept 1.-THE Evening
Star says: 1t is settled fact that Attor-
ney- General Miller will be appointed to
Judgeship and assigned to the circuit
which includes Indiana. This appoint
! ment will enable the President to crafty
Secretary Mobiles desire to exchange his
present Cabinet position for that of At
torney General. Secretary Noble's
friends believe that he will receive this
appointment. This probably accounts
for the report persistently telegraphed
from Washington that Secretary Noble
would resign. The Star says General
Clarkson wants to be Secretary of the
Interior, and will probably get it, and
General Lew Wallace of Indiana, ex-
Minister to Turkey, may be appointed
Secretary of War, vice Proctor.
WHO WILL LEAD THE DEMOCRATS?
ELMIRA IN. Y.), Sept. u.-Hon. J.
Sloat FaSsett, the Republican nominee
for Governor, made a speech at the
Opera-house last evening, setting the
Keystone of the campaign. Among other
things he said: II have only one pur-
pose, and that is that this shall be abso-
lutely and purely a campaign of educa-
ton and organization. No personal de-
traction, no personal abuse, no holding
up the light of false issues and no tolera-
ton of falsehoods and misrepresenta-
tions. The campaign is campaign for
the illustration of measures, not the dis
cussion Of men,"
FAssETTs CHANCES OF ELECTION GOOD
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-There IS a
feeling among the politicians who are
familiar with the New York situation
that the nomination of Fassett by the Re-
publicans will cause the Democrats con-
siderable uneaSiness and no little en-
barrassment. Fassett is regarded as a
man of high character and a shrewd
politician, backed by general popular
ity strong enough perhaps to offset the
feeling of antagonism which is cherished
by many against Platt.
The Democratic plan has contemplated
the nomination of Flower, but there is
some suspicion that Mr. Hill. may step in
and take the nomination himself, in
which event the Democrats would be in q
worse shape than they are now. With
Flower as candidate there might be n
show of harmony, but with Hill there
would probably not be any attempt on
the part of his opponents to hide their
antagoniSm.
Hill has never in any way signified his
acceptance of the Senatorship. The
records of the United States Senate since
VIC SSCetpAASulAlOltS VI OAA0 I1ll
to show another case of a Senator who
withheld his credentials so long as Gov
ernor Hill has done. So far as the official
roster of the Senate shows, there is only
one Senator from the State of New York
(Hiscock), and the Secretary of the Senate
has lying in his safe, unclaimed over
$1,000 salary and mileage appropriated for
a Senator from New York.
Should Governor Hill determine to
make race for Governor there will be a
humorous Pooh-Bah complication. SEN
ator-elect David Bennett Hill will have
to notify Governor David Bennett Hill
officially that he declines to accept the
office of United States Senator, to which
Governor Hill has officially notified him
that he was elected. 1t viii then become
the duty of Governor Hill the Legisla-
tire not being in session, and a legal va
cancy being brought to his official lInowI-
edge, to appoint United States Senator
for the State of New York to serve from
March 4th last, and incidentally to draw
all back pay until the Legislature in the
following January can fill the vacancy in
proper form. 1t is perhaps straining the
possibilities of the ridiculous situation to
suggest that it would be legal for Gov
ernor Hill TO appoint himself to fill the
Vacancy which he himself had created
Notwithstanding all these apparent alb
surdities, it is gravely contended by
Democratic politicians high in the coun-
ellis of the party that Hill and not Flower
will be the nominee put in the field to
contend with FaSSett,