The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-08-05
TO HAVE A JUDGESHIp.
GOSSIP IN WASHINGTON ABOUT
SECRETARY HERBERT.

noKe smith and the Atlanta journal
Justice Fields Improving Health May
Upset Plans for the Retirement of Car
Isle or Olney From the Cabinet.
The New York Recorder publishes the
following dispatch from its Washington
correspondent:
A report is in circulation that Secre-
tary. Herbert is to retire from the head
Of the navy department., with the I'M
Outstanding that he is to be appointed
TO judicial position by the president
The gossips say that he is to GO upon the
Sench in one of the southern or western
circuits They seem to think that amy
old bench" will do for General Herbert.
In the meantime Secretary Herbert
has announced that he will be a candi-
date for congress, but he does not con-
firm the report that he is to receive a
judgeship in consideration of his relin-
quishment of the naval portfolio.
Accompanying the report Of Secretary
Herberts retirement from the cabinet
is the announcement that Assistant Sec
rotary McAdoo will preside over the
navy department during the remainder
of the present administration.
From the same source comes the in.
formation that either Secretary Olney
or Secretary Carlisle may be appointed
to the supreme bench in the event of
Judge Fields DEATH But Justice Field
threatens to upset all calculations by
improving in health.
The course of Hoke Smith, in coming
out for Bryan and Sewall, while disap-
proving the Chicago platform, has not
created surprise among those who have
known what was going on in the cabi
net. Hoke's political future depends
upon his loyalty to the Democratic ticket
at this time, and had he allowed his
Atlanta Journal to come out against
Bryan he could never have expected to
maintain any political standing in
Georgia hereafter.
Hoke says his associates in the cabi-
net are not saying a word but he may
have some difficulty in explaining the
determination of his newspaper to sup
port the ticket Immediately after the
Chicago convention intimations were
thrown out from the business office of
The Journal that not only would the
paper refuse to stand by Bryan, but that
it would go the length Of supporting
the Republican nominee. 1t even went
to the extreme of the suggestion of
special edition of The Journal favorable
to sound money which was to be issued
in New York.
According to the report current here,
based on letters received from New
York, that The Journal has been for
| some time arranging for the issue of a
special New York edition devoted to
the advocacy of sound money, a canvass
has been made of New York business
men, subscriptions and advertising con-
tracts have been secured, and every
thing was supposed to be going along
swimmingly when the paper came out
for Bryan and Sewall.
Hoke has been getting dispatches and
letters from the New York people who
have taken an interest in his enterprise,
begging to be enlightened as to what
The Journal really means to do.
There are other indications that the
/ Chicago ticket will receive the support
of a good many prominent Democrats
who disapprove the platform. Party
ties are too strong to be so quickly sew
cred.
Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin, the col
league of Villas, multimillionaire and
as strong gold man as there is in con
gress, declares he cannot vote for Nc
Kinley and the issues Mckinley repre-
sents outside the maintenance Of the
gold standard, and he thinks the nomi-
nation of third ticket for sound money
Democrats only would be absurd. 1t
would not get enough votes to keep
from being funny.
Senator Mitchell says he does not rel
ish the idea Of voting for Bryan, but the
Chicago convention was regular, the
platform and ticket were regular, and
he can continue to be of use to his state
in the senate only by remaining a Dem
ocrat. If he were to vote for Mckinley,
he would not be considered a Democrat.
WATSON'S BOLD FAt r.