Morning journal and courier., 1892-02-11
GARNET CHANGES.
MT. Wanamaker Not Likely 10 Re- tfre-A Belief that Elaine May Leave-The Secretary,s Emphatic Denial of the Published Report.

I MT. Wanamaker Not Likely 10 Re tire-A Belief that Elaine Wa, 1 Leave-The Secretary's Rmphati,
 Denial Of the Published Report. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-The latest gos
 sip concerning cabinet changes is received | here with varying degrees of credit. The story that MT. Wanamaker is to go as min | ister to Paris and MT. Clarkson to take his
 place as postmaster general is not general,
 ly believed. In the first place, Mr. wana.
 maker has several hobbies which he wants
 to carry through before he leaves his pres. ent post, and the only inducement which
 would be likely to move him would be the hope of promoting his private business in- terests in Philadelphia, which would hand ly be likely to result from e residence of a year or two in Europe.
 There is another consideration of weight in this connection. Mir. Clarkson has no desire to enter the Harrison cabinet. He had taste of the cares of office without any compenssting freedom of action when he tried the first assistants place for a while, and he does not thirst to repeat the experiment, even on a better footing as to oot"o oio oAOIcOfcIt per sonally hostile to the presidents renomi- nation, being one of the little group with Quay and Dudley who are working up an Alger boom now that Blaine is out of the field. The president knows this, and, whatever his other faults, Mir. liar rison is not the man to go to the enemy, hat in hand, and beg one of his foes to take a seat at his official family table. Mir. Clarkson may live in expects- tion of one day sitting in the cabinet of a republican president, who will let him en- joy real, as we'll as apparent, authority, but that president is not the man now in white house.
 The report that Secretary Blaine is to 20 out IS received with more than general credence. Indeed, the state of his health has been such for the last few years that his family has strenuously urged him to give up public work. His friends outside, who have been resolved to run him for pres ident, have insisted on his staying in office as the best place from which to survey the political battle ground, and one in which he could keep adding to his fame. There is now no longer any incentive for remain ing where he is. The president has won the best of the early battles, and has his plans we'll laid for @ number of others, so that the hope long cherished by MT. Blaine of having a unanimous nomination laid st his feet, has been dissipsted. If he goes out soon, on plea of i'll health, he will have the credit for withdrawing from the con- test for the nomination for some other req son than because he found himself beaten.
 Still, there does not appear to be any proof of the secretary's purpose to get out at once. He will be likely to choose an occasion when he can produce some dra- matic effect by his action. It will be at the close of the Behring sea negotiations, or at the critical juncture in the reciprocity program, when misstep on the presidents part will call down on his head the repro bation of the country.