The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-01
WINDOWS SUCCESSOR
It Will Prove a Problem for the
President.
HE WILL BE A WESTERN MAN
Among the Names Mentioned are Those OF
Sherman, Allison, Mckinley, Aldrich
and Platt-Silver as Factor.

| Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch !
NEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-The Worlds special
from Washington says: The filling of Mr.
WINDOWS place is likely to prove one of
the most difficult problems with which the
President has had to deal. The real en-
barrassment is the more easily understood
TOO, by reference to the situation at the
time Mr.. Window was chosen. He was
not, as is well known, Mr.. Harrison's first
choice for the place. The President called
Mr.. Window to him and considered himself
fortunate in being able to secure the SER
vices of man of national reputation. who
commanded in conspicuous degree the
confidence of the business men of the great
commercial centers. Window justified the
expectations of his friends in the discharge
OF the duties of his Office. He was patient
and conservative and carried himself
through the recent financial flurries with a
courage and equipoise that gave great sat
isfaction to the President and other mem
| bers of the cabinet 1t is safe assumption
that the new man will be one in thorough
| sympathy with the Window policy, at least
so far as free coinage is concerned. For
that reason, too, he is likely to be a west
ern man, II one can be secured The west
Will Claim the place, and would probably
acqulesce more readily in even a measure
Oily antlfree silver programme from one of
her own sons, as in the case of Mr. Win
dom, than IN similar policy from an east
ern man. But choice seems to be almost
as restricted now as it was two years ago,
when it lay between Mr.. Allison, who re-
fused the Office and Mr. Window, the only
available man on the outside
There is always some thought about Mr.
Sherman whenever great financial prob
lens are to be solved. He is the great
financial authority in public life. The
Senate is no longer pleasant field for him
But he could not leave the Senate without
making way for a Democratic successor.
The governor of Ohio is a Democrat and
would of course appoint a Democrat to the
place
Another Ohio man mentioned for the
place is William Mckinley, jr., who is in
full sympathy with the President on the
silver problem, besides being a man
of national reputation. Moreover, he
is preparing to retire to private
lie and could not accept Office
without embarrassing the party in Con
gress He might embarrass himself, how
ever, and for that reason his acceptance
would oe doubtful. He expects to be nom
mated for governor of Ohio next fall, and
that, 1t IS believed, would be more to his
liking than cabinet Office. 1t would GER
tainly De more in line with his ultimate as
pirations, the presidency, than any office
the administration could bestow on him.
The President thinks very highly of Mr..
Mckinley, and may offer him the place.
Mr.. Aldrich, of the eastern men, comes
in for a good deal of praise He is a BIZ
metallist out the opinion is advanced that
he lives too near the east to make his ap-
pointment acceptable to the west He
would be proclaimed out there a ''gold-
bug" and that would still further weaken
the administration IN a territory which it is
trying justnow to cultivate.
Thomas G.. Platt's named is again men |
toned. But the old time objection at once
follows, that MIR. Platt is not only at the [
head of a faction in the pivotal state, but !
he is too close to Wall street to warrant |
him any strength in the west. If Illinois |
had good man to present, his chances |
would be excellent, but there is no suitable |
timber there. Mr.. Cannon, who is going
out of Congress, is not big enough for the
place, while Mr.. Farwell, who stands high !
in business circles, is completely estranged
from the President. There is a feeling
here, indeed, that but for the row between |
the President and Mr.. Farwell over patron
age, the latter would lead everybody in
the present emergency.