The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-03-19
PLACES IN NEBRASKA
HOW WILL POLITICAL PLUMS BE
DIVIDED?
Positions Not to BE Given Out Hurriedly
The Peculiar Condition of Affairs
In MISUNDERSTANDING Thurston's
Attitude - Congrcssmen to
BE Consulted With.
Nebraska Not Forgotten.

The special Washington correspond
cnt of the Lincoln Journal telegraphs
that Senator Thurston already has Il
worried look. He proposes to do the
best he can, but is quite willing to
postpone the critical decision until the
last moment. Postponement is to be
the order of the day in the matter of
appointments to Office. This Is the
word which comes from the white
house. President Mckinley desires
time to consider applications. Such
offices as expire by limitation of tenure
will be promptly filed. Others will be
carefully considered. 1t will be found,
in the case of large number of the
most prominent offices of national and
the president has already made his
selections. Most of the prominent
foreign appointments have already
been wiped off the slate. A large
number of those offices in the depart
mentS at Washington not covered by
the civil service rules have been prom
ised in advance of the inauguration.
With respect to others President Me
Kinley proposes to be guided by the
advice of the republican senator's and
representatives from the various states.
Senator Thurston will be the controll-
ing force in Nebraska if Representa-
tives STROBE and Mercer make no OBJ
lection, as they possibly will not.
Should they decide that as the rep
resentatives in the popular branch
of the government chosen by the
republican party in their districts
to voice republican sentiment at
Washington, they are entitled to
a hearing and consideration in matters
of republican appoint tments. an issue
might be raised which would embar
rass the president in his determination
of matters relating to appointments in
our state.
In other states the delegations have
been called together to determine upon
questions of patronage and the views
of representatives have been given con-
slderatiOn by the senator's. The par
ticular condition of affairs in Nebraska
by which an anti-administration state
ticket was selected last November and
a majority of the delegation in the
house. with one of the senators in
opposition, renders the situation a
peculiarly interesting one. In case the
two republican representatives should
demand a share of the state patronage
it would compel President Mckinley to
make a decision which would be ex-
trelnely disagreeable to himself.
There are indications that tJudge Strobe
and Representative Mercer arc not in
clined to concede the entire patronage
of the state. outside of the post Offices
in their districts. to Senator Thurston.
1t is quite possible that they will ask
of the senator that their views upon
certain matters shall be given conSfd-
Grafton and that in the absence of SUCH
consideration the matter will pc laid
before the president 1t is believed
that Senator Thurston does not pro
pose to ignore his two republican col
leagues in the Nebraska delegation
and that he will yield something of the
patronage which he is supposed to
absolutely control in Difference to their
wishes and to their belief that the in
terests of the party and the size of the
Nebraska delegation in the house Of
the next congress will be conserved by
such concession