The evening times., 1897-04-17
THE FIGHT OVER sT0RER
His Nomination as Assistant Sec.
retary of State Assured.
SENATE WILL NOT CONFIRM
A Frank Understanding Reached Be-
tween The President and Senator
Foraker-But One Way Out of an
Awkward Dilemma, and Mr.. NJ
Kinley VIII Take 1t.

President Mckinley, long before the day
Set for his Inauguration, acknowledged an
obligation to Mr.. Bellamy storer, of Ohio,
aud promised that he should be First AS
sistant Secretary of State. When he made
this promise Mr.. Mckinley was not aware
OF the bitter personal feud between Mr..
Storer and Senator Foraker, and he has
been unable to placate the senior Senator
from Ohio and secure his consent 10 the
appointment. Mr. Storer will have moth
ing else than the promised place, and the
President finds in this situation the gravest
dilemma that has confronted him since
his assumption OF power.
Quite une xpectedly, however, the solu-
tion of the trouble has been discovered,
and Mr. Storer will, in all pIoba blity, tie
nominated for the place toward which his
ambitious eye is directed. Bat he Will
never be confirmed; and right there is the
solution of the Presidents trouble ap-
parent. MIR. Storer is to be unlUaded On
the Senate; that Will pay the political
debt due from the Administration Co Mr..
Storer MI. Foraker viii tie permitted 10
knife the nominee without the hand Of the
Administration being raised to protect
him. and that will enable Senator Fora
ker to repay the g:udge he owes Mr..
Storer.
Many strange stories have been told
about Mr. Storer and his persistency in
demanding this office. The influences AT
work in his behalf have been enormous,
and the pressure so strong that Mr. Nc
Kinley does not seem to be able 10 avoid
the nomination. Cardinal Gibbons has per
sonally urged the selection, and Arch
bishop Ireland has been at the White
House early and late seeking to persuade
the President TO do that which has for
weeks caused him to hesitate.
Mr. Storer became factor in politics
when he was taken up by the George Cox
faction of the Republican party in Cincln
matt four wears ago aud sent to Congress-
The men who made him politically accuse
him of ignoring their existence after he
had been here a short time, and he is
said to have personally snubbed the very
men upon whose smiles depended his po-
litical future.
When Mr.. Mckinley suffered business
reverses by reason Of the failure of the man
whose paper he had unfortunately V Endorsed
to a very great extent, Mr.. Storer went
TO the front and, contributing largely him
self To tie fund raised to remove that in
TO raise the total amount. When the cam
paign came on, Mr. Storer, whose wife
is a very wealthy woman, again con-
tributed literally toward the campaign.
1t is said 10y those who were with Mr..
Mckinley during the days following his
election that almost as soon as the re
suit was known Mr.. StoreT and his wife
went TO Canton TO pay a social visit 10 'he
president-elect, and that on one after
noon, Mr. Storer three different times
reminded the President-clect of his con-
tribution TO the campaign fund-but
the other matter relating solely to his
personal business troubles and upon the
strength of this based his request for
political recognition Mr.. Mckinley was
kindly disposed, and not knowing the
pitfalls in front Of him, made the promise
that is now bothering him.
Mark Hanna took offense at the conduct
Of Mr.. Storer and has refused to have
anything to do with his demands for APP
pointment. Mr.. Hanna, who has spent his
money 81 literally in behalf of Mr.. Nc
which TO pry open the pies On the counter,
and was veXed to know that such argu-
ments had been used.
After he came TO Washington the PreSi-
dent learned what was ih store for him.
He ascertained that Mr.. Storer was not
even on speaking terms with Senator
Foraker and Representatives Shattuc and
Bromwell, of the Cincinnati district. al
though previously all three had been per
sonal friends or acquaintances He also
learned that not single member OF the
Republican delegation in Congress would
lndorse Mr. StOrer. and that Mr.. Hanna
was holding himself aloof. Then the Presi-
dent sent for Mr.. Foraker and talked the
subject over with him at length. Several
other conferences on the subject resultd,
during which the President frankly told
Senator Foraker in what straits be found
himself, and asked him if he could not
be placated and permit Mr.. Storer to
have the place.
The senior Senator from Ohio as frankly
told the President that he would not op-
pose Mr.. Storer's nomination for some
mission abroad, but added that he could
not permit his nomination, with his con-
sent, for a place where he would be COM
PEELED to transact public business with
him. He did not speak to the man, and
would not, Mr.. Foraker told the President,
either forget or forgive the things that Mr..
storer had done.
1t was only this week that the President
again sent fort The Senator, and told himthat
he saw no way out of the trouble, save to
nominate Storer, and let Mr.. Foraker do
what he pleased. The President was very
frank in his talk, and assured Senator
Foraker that such action as he might take
after the nomination was made would not
result In any personal eStrangement be-
tween the President and the senior Sena-
tor from Ohio. Mr.. Foraker, who was
equally outspoken, said that he would not
take the nomination of Storer as personal
affront, and told the President to send in
his name il he wanted TO. With this mu-
tual understanding the two men parted
Thus it happens that Mr.. Storer is to be
unloaded upon the Senate, where he win
run afoul Of the knife OF the Senator from
Ohio, whose reputation as a fighter is
not misunderstood. StoTer knows be will
be knitted. and yet he insists that the Pres
ident shall send him TO the slaughter. In a