Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-10
On the Old Mans Mind Since
the Party Has Gone
WITH JIMMY BLAINE OF MAINE
President Harrison Hard at Work on His Mes
sage to the New Congress.
The President Has a Number of Fat Places
to Fill, but Doesn't Seem to Be in
Hurry-A Deadlock Probable in
One Case-Raum at Work
Srecial to the Gazette

WASHINGTON. Nov. 9.-There is a good
deal of worry on the chief executives mind
just now, and he has some troublesome
questions to settle between this and the
meeting of congress. He has been at work
on his message for some time past. Tariff
recipocrity, the Behring sea, Italian and
CHILEAN difficulties will have to be dealt
with IN manner becoming one who
in all likelihood will ask denomination ut
the hands of his party next year The
bugabOo that now haunts the executives
mind is the popularity of his secretary of
state Blaine, who figures most prominently
in the public mind in all important ques-
tons to be discussed in the message.
The record the president has made
in diplomatic writing ana speech-making,
however. gives promise Of document that
will place the administration in the best
light possible. He is confronted with the
imperative necessity OF making
many important appointments which
are bound to tel! one way
or the other on the influence of the admins
tration. He very wisely from political
standpoint, declined making any appoint
ment before the election. Whether,
the result of Tuesday changed
the slate he is supposed. to
to nave made up is something that Harrison
alone knows. as he does not take even his
cabinet into his confidence, but follows out
an intelligent course of his own. In the
list of appointments that are now worry
ing the president are five cir
cult judges for which positions there
are over hundred applicants, each one
backed by large, clamoring constituency.
The filing of but one of these is predicted
with anything like probability, and that is
the Indiana district, to which common rumOr
assigns Acknowledgement Miller. Sec
rotary Noble also has been mentioned
for one but the friends of the latter assert
that nothing short of the silk gown OF a
supreme justice will fill the judicial aSpira-
tons of the distinguished secretary of the
interior. The vacancy on the court OF
claims bench is not yet filled and the
president seems to have some difficulty in
finding. q successor to the late Judge
Scofeld. 1t is announced that the presi-
den has already selected two interstate
commerce commissioners, but their
names are known only to the appoint
ing power. Civil Service Commissioner
Lyman's resignation has been in the
presidents hands for some time, so it IS
said, and Harrison is experiencing no end
of trouble in finding successor who will
act as a check on the uncomfortable
aggresSiveneSs of Commissioner Roosevelt
The resignation of the latter would bring
Joy TO the executive heart, but the straight
forward New Yorker has no idea of giving
up the work. 1t is highly probable that Sec
rotary Proctor'S successor has been selected
many others. Harrison refuses to take the
public into his confidence and tell VINO the
coming man is. Public opinion is divided
between Stephen D. Elsins and eX-Gov-
erner Cheney.
A good fat foreign mission has been going
begging since Senator Blair had TO give up
the idea of converting the Chinese to his
educational scheme. Several public spir-
tied partisans have intimated
to Harrison that they were
willing to sacrifice themselves for their
country's good at the imperial court of Pc
kin, but no word of encouragement has
been given. Japan presents an opening
fill.
Among other vacancies that present
themselves is that OF recorder of the gen
eral land Office. The position was filed |
by Rev. j. NJ. Townsend, |
a colored minister from Indianapolis. |
that one of their kind be appointed |
10 oe To~nsend's successor They are, as
usual, much divided as to their choice, but |
viii have to listen to their de- |
mands.
The governorship of Oklahoma is a nice |
little plum that many of the faithful are |
now seeking. The president is besieged |
daily by letters and by individuals to fill |
this vacancy, but has given no sign |
of doing so. An important post in the state |
department has been made vacant by the re-
sguation of Third Assistant Secretary |
Moore. 1t is rumored that the friends of |
the president and the friends of Blaine are
making quite contest over this ap- |
pointment, and there is a prospect of |
a deadlock between the chief executive and
his premier limited at. 1t is more than prob /
able, however, that Blaine's wishes will be
deferred to. 1t is expected that a successor
10 Commissioner Raum will be appointed |
before congress meets or just as soon as the
president can find man to his liking. So
far his hunt for his ideal has been fruitless
and Raum continues to draw his full salary
for half services.