San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-26
THE REPUBLICAN STATE CHAIR
MAN GETS THE GOLD SH0UL-
DER FROM HANNA
His Hated ButSucceSSful Rival. DR.
John Grant, Is Now In Full
Possession Of The Fort,
Holding 1t Triumphant
But Implacable,

The Washington correspondent OF
the Galveston News under date OF
March 23d, sends his paper the follow
ing news of great interest to Texans
in this portion of the state especially
Mr.. f. II. r. Green has folded his
political tent and moved. He did ii
this evening. 1t was said yesterday
that he had closed his headquarters,
| discharged his private secretary and
was going home, but inquiry at the
| hOstelry at which he puts up discloS-
| ed the fact that his headquarters were
open and that he was still in town.
But today he shook the dust of the
Capital city from his feet and hied
him hence. He went to Chicago,
where he has some business, and from
there he will go to his Texas home.
He is not sure that he will return, but
expects to do so. 1t all depends on
the way matters shape themselves in
the future. AS has been said in these
dispatches, it would have been ridicu-
lOus to keep up the headquarters as
long as the administration had declar-
ed it intended to permit the Democrats
to hold on to their places till their
terms of office had expired. AS these
terms will continue to expire till the
last day in the term of the present
administration, it can be readily seen
how difficult and how full-handed a
man would have to be to maintain
headquarters all that time.
At the same time that Green vacated
his headquarters Grant moved into
more capacious and luxurious ones.
When he came ON here it was on the
eve of the Inauguration, and he had
room that really ought to be called
clothes closet. Now he has a most
capaciOuS apartment. He has set
tied down in it as if he intended to re-
main a considerable time, though the
reasons why Green should have shut
up his offices are the reasons why
Grant will have to close up his room
before many weeks.
Grant has the same confidence that
he has had all the time. He says he
will not state all that gives him this
confidence, because he does not want
to appear as a boaster He prefers
to boast after he has put his armOr off
ldlltI llldH "utu Dt Is Ills
armOr on. He has no more doubt, so
| judge from his manner, that he will
| control the patronage of Texas under
| the present administration than that
he is living The Green faction has
complained of him all along on the
ground that he is so uncOmprOmising
that he will not even talk about get
ting together.
The evening papers here have a
story to the effect that the admins
tration has decided that in such south
ern states, or in districts where there
are no Republican congressman, the
members of the national committee
are to be looked to for advice in ap.
pointments. This fell like a wet blan,
ket on the Green crowds and in fact on
the members of the different state eX
ecutive or advisory committees who
are at lOggerheads with their national
chairman. The story as published Ii
generally accepted true. Hanna Ii
at the head of the national committee
and it is considered a fOregOne con
clusion that he will stand to the mem
bers of that committee, as he may
need them four years hence; whereas
the members of the state COMMITTEES
may go out in two years hence.
The fourth assistant postmaster gen
eral was appointed yesterday. Their
was a hard fight for the place, ant
man by the name of Bristow landed
1t is ignificant that Grant and the 9th
er members of the national commit
tee from the south were very earnes
in their work to secure his appoint
, ment. The fourth assistant postmas
ter general has always been know
as the headsman, because he choppe,
off the heads of the fourth class post
masters. This office heretofore ha
. almost absolute disposition of tn
fourth class postoffices, and the infer
ence is that the effort of the south
ern Republican national committee
men to get Bristow in the place mean
that they are to have through him tn
appointment of these officers. / III
derstand there are $500 of them
J Texas.
A sensational incident occurred
the Texas row yesterday. Myron
Herrick, of Cleveland, o., and on
of the most prominent supporters {
l., Mckinley during the campaign for h
= nomination and for his election, an
who is said to have gone to Texas
look after McKinley's interest whe
: the state convention was held to sele'
8 delegates to st. Louis, wrote to II
. president through the state depar
ment the following letter:
o '''Hhp anDOintment of MessrS Terre