Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
mo CHAIRMAN YET.
Sam Fessenden Refuses to Manage
the Presidents Campaign.
SENATOR SAWYER NOW SLATED,
Though General Michener May Have tt
Undertake the Job.
HARRISON TO BE HIS OWN CHAIRMAN

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPAfcHi
NEW YORK, July 10.-Hon. Sam Fessen-
den, of Connecticut, has been invited to be-
come Chairman Of Hsrrison's National
Campaign Committee. Mr.. Fessenden sent
a reply to-day, declining to accept the
honor General Michener's name had been
mentioned for q week, but no word comes
from him as to his intentions Talk about
Hon. Tom Carter's taking the place
has been revived. He is q Federal
oficeholder, and the President has claim
upon him. The Presidents hold on Cen
eral Michener is not so direct, though Cen
eral Michener would, it is said, do anything
in reason to oblige his old partner, Colonel
w. W. Dudley, who for two years now has
been permitted to bask in the warmest
corners of the pension bureau.
The situation is becoming almost ludi-
crous This is the comment of Republicans
quite as much as of Democrats. Republi-
cans say that the President has only to offer
the place to Republican not directly con-
nected with his administration to meet with
a courteous and yet positive declination.
He is practically at odds with all the old
wsrhorses who won his battle for him four
years ago. He must now rely upon a Re-
publican who, as beneficiary Of his admins
tration, could scarcely refuseto give value
received.
Sawyer May Have to Take It.
The majority of the Executive Committee
just appointed by Mr. Campbell favor the
appointment of "Uncle" Philetus Sawyer,
of Oshkosh. the, lumber king. He il rs
years old, robust and hearty, a keen politi-
clan Of the old Vermont school, and thor
oughly familiar with the crafty ways of the
Republicans of the woo1ly Northwest.
Senator Sswyer's experience has been
prodigious. Originally Green Mountain
boy, be made the first progress toward his
present eminence in Wisconsin in 1847 He
was q member of the Wisconsin Legislature
in 1857 and 1861, Mayor of Oshkosh in 1868
aud 1864; was delegate to the National
Republican convention at Baltimore in
1854, where Abraham Lincoln was nomi-
mated the second time; at Cincinnati In
1876, where Hayes was nominated, and at
Chicago in $780, where Garfield was nomi-
mated. -.
The further record of 'eUncle Philetus,"
as he Is familiarly known in Washington, is
that he was Representative in the Thirty
ninth, Fortieth, Forty-frst, Forty-second
and Forty-third Congresses. He was
elected to the United States Senate to sue
ceed Angus Cameron, took his seat March
4, 1881, was reelected in 1887, and his
present term expires March 8 next. He is
a busy man, to be sure, being Chairman of
the Senate Committee on Postoffices and
Postroads, and is member of the Commit
tee on Commerce, Pensions and Rev olu-
tionary Claims, and also Of the select COM
mittee to investigate the condition of the
Potomac river in front Of Washington.
Uncle Philerus a Popular Man.
It is not known whether Senator Sawyer
cares to undertake the task Of running Har-
sons campaign. His friends in New York
to-day said he was not one to brook nnwar-
ranted interference and meddling, especially
on the part of the little coterje which sur
rounds the President Senator Sawyer
would work in harmony with General
Clarksop, Mr, Manley, Mr.. Fessenden, Mr.,
Payne and Mr.. Sutherland, and it is be-
lieved that Mr.. Hobart, Mr.. Kerens and
MI. Bradley will not kick over the traces
should Uncle Philetus assume command.
"Everyting rests with the President,
though" said one of the Executive Com
mittee. ''snd it may be that he prefers
L
matter of fact, though, that not even the
President is aware who is to run his cam
paign. heard directly from. him to-day,
and he is as much in the dark as any of
us"
The selection OF General Michener, it was
added, might provoke iealousies in In
diana. Consul General John G. New had
declined positively and peremptorily to ac-
cept the Craftsmanship. His friends be-
lieve that he gave value received for his
place while at Minneapolis, when he
worked day and night to keep the Federal
oficeholding delegates and the delegates
from Southern Democratic States in line
for Harrison. Without the sturdy services
of New the defeat of the President was by
no means impossible, even with the solid
Pecuiiarfties Of Indiana Politics.
]. N. Huston and General Michener did
great work along with Mr. New, It is said,
though, that the selection of General Mich
ener would not be altogether congenial to
the majority OF the Executive Committee
just appointed. Indiana politics is like no
jealousies. However, the President will
hardly consider the predictions of Mr..
committee. He says he intends
to run his own campaign. This is solemn,
serious truth. II intend to give a great
part Of my time to the work of the commit
tee," the President said to Mr.. Clarkson,
the last time they met
In fact, the President intimated that
he would be the real chairman. These re-
marks, and the setting aside Of General
Clarkson in 30 unceremonious fashion, have
inclined eminent Republicans to the opin-
ion that the President is not sufficiently
grateful for the work done for him BY QUAY,
Clarkson, Dudley, Fassett and others tour
years ago