The morning times., 1897-03-03
WILL IT Be Mr.. WOODFORD?
Mr.. Mckinley Takes the Cabinet
Matter Under Amusement.
THE easy BOSS" NOT PLEASED
Aarmer, of Pennsylvania, May Get
the Navy and Long Shifted to the
Interior-PleDty of Cabinet Gossip,
But Nothing VIII he Definitely
Settled Until Tonight.

When Senator elect Thomas c. PIatt, OF
the Mckinley apartments, at the Ebbitt
House, yesterday aftern oon, ali out i
o'clock, the President elect said he would
take under advisement the appointment OF
Gen. Stuart L. Woodford, to the position
OF Secretary OF the Interior. This was o.
cold douche to the Tioga Senator, and
he again, as his friends said, was in-
clined to see hope hanging from the very
10" est boughs OF the forest Mr.. PIatt
was not in the best of spirits when he
returned to the Arlington Hotel, at New
York S chances for cabinet position
The Inference is that taking the matter
under advisement means that neither Gen.
Woodford nor any other New York man is
to be taken into the official family Many
surprises in the final stating OF the Cabinet
may be expected
The belief that Pennsylvania will play
winning card and carry off the eighth
prize OF the grand drawing was prominent
In the minds OF many who appeared 70 be
In position To know the workings or the
inner circles
Mr.. Mckinley, as is well known, has long
since been personally disposed toward IA
voring with a Cabinet place his great and
good personal friend, Congressman A C.
Harmer, OF Philadelphia. Mr Harmer has
long been prominent member OF the Naval
Affairs Committee, and possibly the best
posted Republican in the country on the
business of that department
With Woodford out of the contestit seems
more than probable that Pennsylvania
is to be selected. Charles Emory Smith,
editor of the Philadelphia Press, and Gov
ID. II Hastings are in some quarters looked
upon as possibilities. In the case OF Mr..
Smith. however, it can be set down now
that he viii have the opposition of Sena-
tor Quay, in order TO teach a lesson to
the able editor for his antaSonism to the
big combine in 1885, when MI Quay
was in the fight to the death against Dave
Martin, Charles Emory Smith and other
would-be refOrmers, who sought to nip
In the bud the future ambitions Of the
junior Senator from the Keystone State
The appointment of Harmer will be ac-
ceptable TO Quay, though if he were Con-
suited he would have Hastings for Secre-
tary of the Interior.
In the event OF the selection Of Mr.
Harmer by Mr., Mckinley, which viii be
for the Navy Mr.. Long, of Massachusetts,
will be shipped to the Interior Department
The talk of eX-Gov- Merriam, of Mime
sofa, for place was quickly silenced
yesterday, when kilograms came pouring
in from every portion of the State pro-
testing against the appointment. One anti
Merriam man at st. Cloud said in his dis
patch that the appointment of Merriam
would mean that the Democrats would
carry the State at the next election The
Davis faction refuses to be appeased, and
from this point of view 1t was thought best
to drop the consideration of Mr Merriam
altogether, though Mr.. Mckinley has been
favorably disposed toward him.
1t seems a S certain fact that unless
Gen. woodford IS taken from New York
that State is out OF the race entirely.
though the name Of J Sioate Fassett, of
New York, who ran for governor in 1891.
but was defeated by Roswell P. Flow ar
was talked about in New York circles as
compromise candidate
While Senator Platt has taken Mr.. Fas-
sett back into bis fold upon probation since
their quarrel in 1892, he is not quite will
ing that the Chemung statesman shall be
placed ON the bridge of the Cabinet ship
The matter viii, in all probability be set
tied by this afternoon, though there are
many factions TO harmonic before peace
can be restored.
1t will be impossible to shift any of those
named for places, except Mr.. Long, as the
others, Sherman, Gage, Alger, McKenna,
Gary, and Wilson, have been selected
because OF their peculiar fitness for the
places assigned them.
Mr. Nick emma, of California, on account
of his being Catholic, / 8 not thought
TO be good timber for the Interior, beca use
of the school question, so far as it relates
to the education of the Indians. Therefore,
his post must be the Attorney Generalship.