New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-22
CH4T ABOTT PROMINENT MEN.

Thor. - something abou, Senator-elect Joseph B.
Foraker o, Ohio. that almost irresstib.y REMINDS
one % his nickname. Fire alarm. Mr. FORAKER
Is a hustler and campagner OF rare ability FOR
a long time ~ has tried to get into the United
states senate and his ambition has been grail
nei He viii not axe until March. 1887. but
that seems a short tine when one considers that
Mr. Foraker has waite! tor years. The ONO states
man Mas a. the Fif;h Avenue Hotel yesterday. bu;
h. MAD I,ile t. Say abou; politics 1t IL understood
that he las charge - the kinney campaign. and
from his ont Will look after the interests OF the
- Governor. II SIR. Foraker does take up Nckin-
The nomination from star, to finish. Mr.. Foraker
sali yesterday that he d!t not expect 10 see Nc
Ku.ey win the nrst ballot. but that he telt sure
he would get 1t in the long run.
Some people have wondered at the success OF ex-
Governor Foraker in politics. and his srea, ability
as an organizer. Perhaps llttle story that was
to-. In the cafa O, the Imperla. Hotel by mem
Der OF the Ohll State Legislature explains Il. 1t
was some year, ago. when both sherman and For
aker were candidates for the Senate Then the party
epllt In two wings as result OF this contest.
Foraker Was managing his own campaign and Sher
man had shrcwi lieutenants. When II to
caucus two members 10 Foraker. one said
that II h. voted Tor Foraker although he
pledged 10 him. the Sherman wing would retaliate
IN a political way that would not be pleasant for
him. lie begged hard that Foraker let him or.
The other the story-teler He said: Il
vas i'clStd 10 FORAKER. hdi just IN Dusl-
and carrying lot Of notes The Sherman
end got hold OF these notes and said that II did
not vote for Sherman they would foreclose the notes
notes hin. ,elf. but told him that / ready 10
stand rum to keep my promise. ana asked him II
Ing FOR him. did not and he lost by such Il
majority that could count votes which had
been pledged to him and gone elsewhere that would
have pul.cl him through IL Is little acts OF gem
cro~ty IKE this In politics. and Instances OF self
sacrifice. that make man strong among his
friends"
senior Thomas Estrada Palma. now Delegate OF
tho Cuban Revolutionary party in the United
States. will be the accredited Minister OF the new
Republic Washington. II President Cleveland
Acknowledges the belllgerency OF Cuba. Senior
Palma is a little man. but nervous and energetic
He talks In exceedingly formal manner has a
habit OF rapidly opening and shutting his eyes and
lingering a pair OF eyeglasses as ne talks He has
a school for boys Pleasant Valley but he has
practically abandoned that TO take charge OF the
OF the Cuban Junia there. but he runs back New
York every fey days. Mr.. Palma has high hopes
for his struggling countrymen and thinks that the
day IL not FAR distant when he will be received at
the State Department In Washington as the repre-
sentative OF a new nation
Melville L. Ingalls,. president OF the big Four
and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad systems, is
in line for the Presidential nomination on the
Democratic ticket. Mr. Ingalls, Is now one OF the
best known figures in railway circles. He was in
the city recently. attending the meeting Of the rail-
road presidents. While Mr.. Ingalls, here last
summer 1t said that he asplred TO Senator
Brice's seat In the Senate and that the employees
OF the two great railroad systems OF which ne was
president were being organized 10 secure his cleo
ton. he denied this fatty Ohio politicians who
We're In the city recently whispered that a concerted
move on foot In Ohio to secure the nomination
Chicago for Mr.. Ingalls,. II Is said that the dele
CATION from Cincinnati that visited Washington
trying 10 get the Democratic Convention have taken
up the OF their felow-townsman and will
present his name. backed by the solid Ohio delega-
tlon, and do some hard campaign work on the out
side 10 secure his nomination.
The fact that General John W. Noble OF Missouri.
has fingered In the city has politicians ak
ing. General Noble Secretary OF the Interior
under President Harrison and has held several In
tervlews with the exPresident at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel in the last few days When asked yesterday
about the talk concerning himself and the exPresi-
dent he said: Il am not here 10 boom Harrison
any else. My business is purely private and
OF legal nature. ] have no idea aboI General
Harrisons plans or whether he is Is not 4 cam
didate. ! do know that he has many friends In
Missouri. and also outside OF my own State and l
think that he will loom up formidable factor In
the race but am not grooming him"
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