The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-11-19

| the Slverites the latter just took their votes.
Gov Hastings is squarely in the field as
| successor to Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania.
| 1t is claimed that he will have the support of
Senator Quay, but, on the other hand, this is
claimed with equal confidence for State Sen.
| ator Penrose. Ex-Postmaster-General Wanna
maker is making lively canvass for the place,
and is believed to be gaining ground every day.
1t is believed in Iowa that Senator Allison
can have place in the Cabinet If he wants 1t.
Representative Nswlands, of Nevada, who
| was Temporary Chairman Of the National Sill.
| yer Convention, says that he believes in acqui-
escipg in the verdict of the people. The Re.
publican party has been given the contract Tor
the restoration of prosperity, and should be
allowed to carry out its policy.
It is proposed in Virginia to vote next May
upon the question of calling Constitutional
Convention to disfranchise the negroes by An
educational qualification, from which rebel
| soldiers and their SONS shall be exempt Inc
scheme will fall through. The Popocrats car
ried most of the negro Counties at the last
| election.
| Speaker Reeds friends state most positively
| that he will not enter the Cabinet He will
| aid the Administration as a Member of Con-
gress, but do it in his own way. His course
will be indicated by that he pursued in the
campaign. He did not place himself at the
| disposition OF the National SOmLuitecS, ouo
made his own engagements to speak, ana
worked as hard as anybody for the success of
| the ticket
1t is believed by very many that Maj. Nc
| Kinley has decided to offer the Secretary of
States portfolio to ex-Presdent Harrison, and
| wherever this is mentioned it meets with gen.
eral approval. Gen. Harrison has always taken
a deep interest in our foreign relations, and has
an exceptionally thorough knowledge of them
/ &c frnr m a
net he personally conducted the affairs OF the
State Department and kept firm grasp on
| Hawaiian and Chilian matters. 1t is not known
whether he would like the position or not. He
| has said since his retirement from the Presl-
dency that all he wanted was to be left alone
to build up his law practice, and make some
| money to live on in his old age. Possibly his
marriage may have some influence on he re-
turn to official life.
Gen. Sickles, Past Commander Law
| Ter. and Corporal Tanner are among those men,
toned for Commissioner OF Pensions.
The New York people are solid for Cornelius
| n Bliss for Secretary of the Treasury. I. c.
| Platt is strongly for him, though Bliss has
always been a leading spirit i'll the, Anti-Platt
faction, but Plat says that he was fair
| fighter" difficulty is met with in the pro-
ested in importing from being Secretary OF the
Treasury. He has large dry-goods business
besides heavy banking interests. He refused
TO give these up when President Arthur in
vited him to enter the Cabinet, but he may
think differently now.
The Louisiana Sound Money Democrats have
determined to keep up their organization, and
will maintain Headquarters at New Orleans.
| On the other hand the Bryan men are deter
mined to make voting for him a test of party
| loyalty, and will refuse to allow any man who
voted for Palmer to take part in any primary
or other meeting.
Here are some of the names mentioned for
| Cabinet places:
| For Secretary of War-Gen. Russell A. Alger.
Of Michigan; Robert Lincoln. OF Illinois !;
Frederick ID. Grant, of New York; w. G..
Hunter. of Kentucky. aud Gen. James A..
/ Walker, of Virginia.
Secretary of the Navy-C. A. Boutelle, of
Maine John Russell Young. of Pennsylvania.
and Gen. A. G. McCook. of New York.
Attorney General-John p. Wilson or Geo.
r. Peck, of Illinois; Judge Day, of Ohio; ex-
| Senator Henderson. of Nebraska, and Joseph
Choate, of New York.
Secretary OF the lnterier-EX-Gov. Merriam
| of Minnesota; Henry Clay Evans, of Tennes-
see; J. Sloat Fassett of New York, and G. c.
Perkins, of California.
Postmaster General- Charles Emory Smith,
of Pennsylvania; S. B. Roberts, of Kentucky !;
| Wan. NJ. Hahn, of Ohio; w. T. Durbin, of
| Indiana; Chas. G. Dawes, of Illinois John
| Grant, of Texas. and N. B. Scott. of West Vir-
ginia member of the Republican National
Campaign Committee.
Secretary of Agriculture-W. d. Hoard, of
Wisconsin: L. G. Phelps OF Montana; Samuel
| Allerton, of Nebraska and A. F. Burleigh, of
| Washington.
1t is considered certain that President Nc
Kinley will give the South two places in the
| Cabinet. The appointment of Gen. Walker, of
| Virginia, who was Confederate soldier. and at
| one time commanded the Stonewall Brigade,
| would be considered by many as graceful act.
| Gen. Walker has been reelected a member
of Congress from the Ninth Virginia District.
New Jerseys solid electoral vote is given to
the Republican party this year for the second
time in its history. Even in 1861 President
Lincoln only received four of the seven votes
then accredited 10 the State, aud after four
years of civil war the whole seven went peil-
NEIL again into the Democratic column for
| George b. Mcclellan. Gen. Grant was the first
Republican Presidential candidate who sue
ceeded in getting the total electoral vote of
| New jersey, and that was in his race for a
second tern. and because he was opposed by
the man so thoroughly dislked by the Jersey
Democracy-Horace Greeley. McKinley's
plurality in New Jersey this year is about 60,
000 helped out, of course, by the great popn-
| larity of his running -Hobart-with the
working people of the State, as well as the
| more aristocratic classes.
Senator Butler says that among the chief
causes of Bryans defeat was :" the brutal stu
pidity of the god-bug nominee for Vice Pres-
dent in declining to retire from the National
| ticket" The Senator serves notice Mr..
| Bryan that if he desires to head the Reform
forces of the Peoples party in the next fight
he must do SO under some other name than
that of Democrat. That name has become q
reproach and a stencil among the whole people,
and it will not be supported any more, now
| nor hereafter"
As as it elects Senator the Kansas
| Legislature proposes to redistrict the State,
making eight districts, of which seven will be
safely Populist
Senator Pettigrew made q speech at Sioux
Falls Nov. 10. which is regarded opening the
Free Silver campaign of 1900. He said he
would give President Mckinley every assist
ance IN demonstrating that the low tariff was
what allied the country, but would resist every
section of bill which put duty any article
controlled by trust.
M. III. DE Young, of the San Francisco
Chronicle, says that he will not accept the Sec
rotary ship of Agriculture, or any other position,
but will stay at home and attend to his bust
ness.
Senator Allison says that the Senate will
pass the Dingley BILL and thus obviate the
necessity of an extra session. He is we'll con-
tented where he is. and has no desire to enter
the Cabinet.
Texas Republicans want John Grant ap-
pointed Postmaster General.