The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-03
He Wants a Better Place than the Public
Partnership, but There Is Danger that Even
that May Be Considered Too Good.
Cleveland and the Ten Per. .Centers Dis.
posed to Punish the Sulky Editor.
Colonel Matson's Chances Also Waning-Call
on Governor Matthews to Appoint Com
mission to Visit Chickamaga Battlefield.
ACHILLES SHANKLIN.

The suiking Editor Warned to Lower His
Mark q Peg He May Get Nothing.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. April 2.-Intimation has
come to the President that editor Shanklin
does not want the public printershlp. Mr..
Shanklin wants q place with more salary
and less work. He would not be satisfied
with 81. SEQ year, even though there WAS
much patronage and power attached to the
office in various ways.
In the most friendly way the suggestion
is made TO Mr.. Shanklin and his friends,
through the Journal, that If he Is really
qualified for the public printershlp-and he
knows better than any body else-he would
do well TO accept tho place. There is q
growing current of ofopposltion to Mr. Shank
lin in Washington. and if he is too fastidi-
GUS he may get nothing. In the first place
there are the ten per- centers." whom Mr..
Shsnklin denounced during the campaign
for opposing the nomination of Mr.. Cleve-
land. They are all "agin" HIM. If there
ia any one among the eleven Representa-
tives from Indiana who fav0rs openly the
recognition of Mr.. Shanklin it is the men,
Der from the First district. While there Is
not open hostility to him upon the part of
the other ten members. the Journal cor
RESPONDENT has heard of no efforts from
any of them in his behalf, while ne has
heard of several of them speaking frlvol-
ously of MIR. Shanklin's claims and chances.
As intimated some days ago. the Presi-
dent is somewhat inclined to punish Mr..
Shanklin for his impnlsiveness towards
Gray and his freedom of speech In general,
and he has iDtlmated that be would let the
Evansville editor repent awhile before he
gave bin place. Mr.. Cleveland forgets
the 'lmpulsive" utteraDces of Mr.. Shanklln
from the balcony of the Grand Hotel in In
dianapolis during the campaign last year
for the presidential nomination. He for
gets that Mr.. Shanklin was even more
swift In antagonizlng the opposition TO
Grover Cleveland and denOunclng the
Gray forces than he has recently been. At
the present time bird in hand Is worth
several Thousand In the bush. A Democrat
may be rolling In luxury to-day, and be q
pauper tomorrow. He may be able to get
q good thing now. and not be capable of
commanding any thing In the near future.
The best friend In otiiolal life the Evans
Vile editor has here is Secretary Gresham.
WATSON LIKELY TO "GET LEFT"
Isy.Soks as though Congressman G. c.
Matson, of Greencastie. was to be counted
out In this deal of offices. With Gray and
Morss provided with good places and
Shanklin booked for position of almost
equal rank. it Is not to be supposed that
Colonel Matson will be offered any thing
which he could afford TO accept. The COM
missionership of internal revenue is to 60
back to Miller. of West Virginia. and the
Utah g0vernorship has been promised to q
resident of that Territory. The second
comptrolIership has been placed. Where Is
Nnt hafa af a Tn
have been provided for last week. Every
position which public opinion among the
Hoosiers here has assigned to him has
been gobbied up by some other fellow.
Ex.COngressman Robert Lowry. of Fort
Wayne. is about the most distressed man in
the offioe-seeking colony here from the
Hoosier State. He is said to have not
smiled during the past fortnight He looks
like man who had Just lost all his friends
and had been sentenced to hard labor on
the desert of Sahara. The JudGe ls wholly
unable to decide in his mind whether he is
really supported in his ambition by any
one or Is to have.a favor of any dimension.
He is almost uncOmmunicative, and con-
tinues to declare that he is seeking no
Office. little frankness now and then
would be like blue mass and podophyIlin
TO bilious temperament like Judge
Lowry'e.
Gen. Daniel Macauley does not intend to
remain longer than this month in the new
Office to which he has been asslRned-that
of chief clerk of the Bureau of Immigra-
tion. General Macauley will soon enter
into private business. He has now a num-
Der Of propositions under consideration.
but none of them come exactly mp to his
wishes. 1t has been intimated by some
green-eyed Democrats from Indiana. who
are vainly seeking positions, that General
Maosuley Is trying TO continue in office un-
der q Democratic administration. On the
contrary. he is not. He was asked to fill
the place to which he has been assigned
to the Secretary of the Treasury. General
Macauley was the first Republican to ten
der his resignation after the Inauguration
OF President Cleveland.
Capt. William NJ. Meredith. formerly of
friends. but now of Chicago. will be re-
lieved from the position of Chief of the Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing about
July !, next. He will be succeeded by
Claud johnson. of Lexington. KY, who is
now in a position at the bureau, and being
coached for the place. Captain Meredith
has been one of the most efficient and pop
ular chiefs the bureau has ever had. and
he will leave official life with not only q
good record. but with many friends he has
made as n federal officer.
Ii has been definitely determined that an
army officer. either upon the active or re-
tired list. cannot be assigned" or de
tailed" or appointed as such to fill the
office of Commissioners of Pensions without
q special oct of Congress. The federal
statutes specifically state that when an
army officer accepts an office from the gov
erDment-meanina directly an Office requir-
ing confirmation by the Senate-he ceases
to become ar officer of the army. The
same is true of an officer of the navy. This
settlers the proposed transfer of the PEN
sion Office TO the War Department without
special action by Congress in more than
one respect.
A. johnson, of Tiffin. o.. is at the st.
James. He has his eye upon an office. 1t
is understood tn at the next position which
will 60 to Ohio Will be given TO Hon. j. f.
Neal. of Hamilton. and that it will be the
lo$a