Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-20
THE CHICAGO SLATE.
National Committeeman Cable Thinks He
Can Guess It--A Friend Makes His Pro-
phecy Public

National Committeeman Cable Thinks He
Can Guess It--A Friend Makes His Pro-
phecv Public
Hon. Ben T. Cable has relieved the
tension regarding the Chicago federal
appointments. He told Washing
ton friend confidentially what the
result will be, and the friend couldn't
keep it to himself, and the telegraph
ticker has rehashed the prediction at
Chicago. 1t is generally understood
that Cable is a pretty shrewd
guesser, and what he says usually
goes" The following is what the
Chicago Post printed on Monday:
WASHINGTON, July LIT will
doubtless be interesting to the Chi
cago people to know that Ben Gable
while here last week told a friend
that he firmly believed the three
principal federal offices in the garden
city would be distributed as follows:
ostoilice-William j. Mize.
Customs Martin j. Rus
sell.
Internal Revenue Collector-R. +.
Spangler.
Gable did not make this prediction
for publication and some consequent
effects. He made it to close polit-
zeal friend who asked him for a frank
expression of opinion. Cable had
just come from Chicago and his opin-
ion, he said, was based on a careful
summing up of the whole situation
there and here to date Parenthet-
ically, this is the slate, so far as 1t
goes, published in The Evening Post
over a month ago, except that K. j.
Smiths name stood opposite the in
ternal revenue office. Shrewd poll
ticians on the inside here believe that
Cables prediction is correct. except
its reference to the revenue collector
ship. They don't see how, after
what he has said, the president can
consistently appoint Spangler in the
face of Durborow's distinct and en-
phatic protest. Were Spangler in
another district the protest would
not be so potent, but while the pres
ident may not ponder long over turn
ing down n congressman candidate,
he is very apt to think good while
before appointing some one against
whom a congressman who has car
ried republican district twice in
succession and, has asked the admin
istration for nothing of Importance
except the internal revenue office has
lodged a special protest. Were it
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doubt, in view of the strength of the
additional Endorsements which Gable
has lately filed in favor of Spangler,
that the president would appoint
Span%ler.
Before Cable went to Chicago about
a month ago, after his interview with
the preSident-in which, as he after
ward told friend he had not got his
own man (referring to Spangler), but
had knocked out the other fellows.
Twonig's Endorsements far surpassed
Spangler's in weight. But when
Gable returned with big bundle of
personal letters in Spangler's favor,
among them one from a Chicagoan
to whom the president feels under
great obligations and for whom he is
very DESTROYS Of doing a great deal
by way of liquidating those obliga-
tiOns, the scale turned the other wav.
That one improvement, were it not
for Durborow's protest, would be
sufficient for Spangler. If Spangler
is appointed in spite of the protest
it will be because of that indorse-
ment. People, however, who are
very close to the president believe
that unless Durborow withdraws his
protest-which they do not think he
will do-the president will, in what
he deems the interest of harmony.
appoint neither Spangler nor Two
hig. but some man acceptable to both
Gable and Durborow. That man. ac-
cording to the belief of these same
people near to the president, will be
Il. j. Smith.