The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-04
SLATEMAKERS AT WORK.
Bayard and OIney Are Still
Considered Among the
Possibilities.
WAS REFUSED BY WHITNEY.
The Ex-Secretary Of the Navy Could
Re-Enter the Cabinet If He So
Desired.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 3.-The
name of ex-Secretary Bristow of New York
is now included in the speculation touch
ing the vacancy in the State Department..
There is nothing definite offered in sup
port of the suggestion, and there seems to
to be shade of doubt in some quarters as
to lust where Bristow stands politically at
this day.
Bristow has not been prominent in poll
tics for nearly twenty years. In 1884 he
was classed among those who, while not
subscribing entirely to the Democratic
policy, preferred, on personal grounds, Mr..
Cleveland to Mr.. Blaine, and was said to
have voted the Democratic National ticket
that year. What his position was in 1888
and in 1892, Mr.. Blaine being eliminated
from the equation, is not stated. At any
rate, Mr.. Bristow's discomfort with his
old party affiliations antedates that of the
late Judge Gresham, and for that reason,
coupled with his ability. experience and
location, his name is now brought forward
in connection with the State Department
succession.
There is still good deal of .Bayard talk.
Canvassed from every point of view the
Delaware statesman is thought to fill the
bill completely. The understanding be-
tween him and the President is confiden-
tial. They have worked together in all
things, and the reason now given as to
why Mr.. Cleveland, upon taking office the
second time, did not again avail himself of
Mr.. Bayard's services in the State Depart
ment is that he could not afford to make
that difference between members of his first
cabinet. Circumstances were such that he
could not call others back, and so he was
forced to make an entirely new slate. The
belief is, however, that his first thoughts
were of Mr.. Bayard when fortune for the
second time called him to the White
House.
Mr.. Bayard, it is said, enjoyed his one
term in the State Department. He likes
his present post very much, but nobody
seems to doubt that he would readily ex-
change it for the other. Washington suits
him, and it is close to Delaware Mr.. Bay
ard, within easy reach, could render his
old friends much assistance in getting the
upper hand again.
If the President decides to select one OF
his present Cabinet officers, Attorney
General Olney is figured out as the most
likely man. Postmaster-General William
L. Wilson is also mentioned again to-day.
If the former is appointed, John c. Carter
of New York is recognized as the possible
successor to Olney.
There appears to be little doubt in the
minds of the slatemakers that William C.
Whitney could have the place if he would
only say that he desired it. 1t is known
that the ex-Secretary of the Navy was Of
fered by Cleveland, at the beginning OF
this administration, any foreign mission
in his gift, and that he refused absolutely
to even consider the matter. Whitney
could also have had a Cabinet place if he
had so desired, but he told Cleveland i'm
mediately after the election of 1892 that he
did not wish to either re-enter the Cabinet
or accept foreign EN- bassadorship.