The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-02-04
HIEINS GETS A BOOM.
The Probable Successor to Sec
retary Window.
QUALIFIED IN EVERY WAY.
His Great Influence with the PresI
dent..The Question is Would he
Accept the Position..other
Strong Men Mentioned.
s1,tlal Dipqleh 10 lie 1ateIltOenetr.

sD,tial Di,paiea to The IatelsiOenetr.
WAsuISGToN, D. O., Feb. 3.-out o.
the quiet talk which has been indulged
in regarding the assignment Of Hon. s.
b. Elkins, Of West Virginia, to the va
cant Cabinet portfolio has grown q
strong movement in his behalf The
more Elkins Is discussed in this connec-
ton the more available does he appear.
In the first place, while distinctively
western man and in sympathy with pro.
Vressive western ideas, he would never.
theless be acceptable to New York bust
ness men on account Of his long and hon.
orable connection with them. A New
Yorker is bound to be bitterly opposed
BY the silver men and vice versa. Ell.
kins ia probably the one man OF sufi.
cieut ability and prominence who could
successfully till the bill in this particu,
lar, Secretsry Tracy will not be trans
ierred to the Treasury, as was at first
thought likely. Then again the late
Secretary had no closer business or po.
litical friend than Elkins, and the same
IA true OF the President. Elkirs would
without doubt continue on the lines oil
the financial policy which Window so
successfully followed, aud which wss so
acceptable TO the Administration. The
financial world would not be at all uH.
eaEy while awaiting an exposition OF the
new Secretary's policy. Business would
not suffer in the least. In short, both
for personal and public reasons the sug-
gestion is one peculiarly acceptable to
the President.
WILL He ACCEPT?
There is, however, one decided ele-
ment of uncertainty relative to such ap-
pointment, and that is Elkins's own at.
titude in the premises. The man who
is Secretary. OF the Treasury has no
time for anything else. Whatever else
the position is, it Certsinly is not sine
cure in any sense OF the word. Can
Elkins afford to give his whole time and
attention to government Officer Will
be do it? These are the questions that
puzzle the political GosSips now.
In the meantime Mr.. Elkins is taking
no part, active or passive, in the agita.
ton. He came over from New York to
attend Mr.. Windom's funeral and re.
turns tonight. He has absolutely moth
ing 10 say.
NO TRANSFER.
There was sufficient interchange Of
opinion at the Cabinet meeting to-day to
lead to the conclusion that there will be
no change in it's present organization
no transfer OF a Cabinet officer to fill the
vaCsnCy. Representative Mckinley, OF
Ohio, continues to be regarded as the
coming man for the Treasury Depart.
ment outside OF Mr.. Elkins. The ques.
ton in the public mind is, will he
accept. It is safe 10 say that II there 10
formal tender OF the portfolio, he will.
The President would not hawk Cabinet
office on the political market or lend It
10 give individual capital. Some OF
Major MCKinley's colleagues in the
House advice him not TO accept, arguing
that he would acknowledge by an
acceptance that he did not believe he
could carry Ohio this fall II he were the
nominee for the Goyernorship and that
such an Interpretation OF his action
would cast q serious damper upon the
Republican organization in the State.
M'KINLEY NUN.
Numerous efforts were made to- day to
ascertain McKinley's feeling on the
question. He said to all inquiries, ut
will be time enough to decline or accept
the place after it Is rendered" II the
place does not go to Mckinley or Elkins
it looks now as though Ex-Governor
Charles Foster, Of Ohio, may get 1t.
The mention Of this mans name was
well received in every quarter to-day.
He is popular at the White House and
that he would make clean, able and
popular officer all say.
Congressman Joe Cannon, Of Illinois.
is also considered. He is being urged
for the place hy members Of the House
Committee on Appropriations, OF which
he is chairman. His qualifications for
the position lie in his experience as q
member Of the Appropriations Commit
tee. He has never occupied an execu-
tive cfiiCe. Hon, John O. New and Hon:
James N. Huston, Of Indiana, continue
to be favorably mentioned, despite the
statement that the President is disln.
clined to take two Cabinet officers from
the same State. The gossipers also mem
tion Mr.. Clarkson, Of Iowa, now on his
way to Europe, and General Gotf, oi
West Virginia.
LINcoLN's CHANCES.
Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, OF Illinois, at
present Minister to England, is tonight
mentioned as a probable successor to