The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-03-12

and Speaker Reed are not on the best OF
terms, but have made no success thus
far. The gentlemen are on the best of
relations, and their friends do not quite
understand what -desira Utility there is OF
making out that they are not.
Candidates for positions under the new
administration are as thick as flies
around a molasses barrel in the aver
age New England country store. l tad
that the New England aspirants are
not backward, but good many of them
| who are seeking minor positions will be
| disappointed, as the recent sweeping
orders of ex-President Cleveland have
! practically placed all the patronage OF
| this character under the rules of the
! civil service, and no removals will be
made, except for cause. 1t was expected
that Mr. Mckinley would revoke these
orders, but he came out strongly in his
inaugural address in favor of civil serV-
ice reform, and there is, therefore, lit
tie hope that many changes in the small
offices will be made.
For the larger, more lucrative and
generally desired places, which are not
now under the rules of the civil service,
New England has many aspirants.
Colonel Albert Clarke of Wellesley,
Mass, member of the Massachusetts
state legislature, secretary of the Home
Market club of Boston, personal friend
of Major Mckinley, as well as an expert
on tariff matters, is candidate for as
Sistant secretary of the treasury under
Lyman j. Gage Of Illinois, the new sec
rotary. Colonel Clarke is well known
in Boston and Wellesley, and has long
had the confidence of Mr. McKinley, who
is thoroughly conversant with Mr..
Clarke's knowledge of tariff and finan-
cial matters. 1t is frequently predicted
in Washington that Colonel Clarke will
he selected for assistant secretary to
succeed Hon. Charles S. Hamlin of
BrOOkline, another New England man.
While Secretary Gage appoints the
assistant secretaries, he would doubt
less be very glad to appoint any one at
the suggestion of his chief, and it is
pretty safe to assert that Colonel Clarke
will get the desired place, as [ am told
by a friend Of the president that he shall
consider it a pleasure to personally see
that Colonel Clarke's useful knowledge
will be of service to the treasury depart
ment by inviting Secretary Gage to Sc
lect Colonel Clarke as one of his assist
ants. This will be especially pleasing to
Boston business men and New England
Republican, all of whom are fully aware
of Colonel Clarke's ability in the line Of
york to which he will probably be called.
Walter Emerson of Maine is under
stood to be candidate for assistant Sec
rotary of war under General Russell A.
Alger of Michigan. Mr.. Emerson is an
eX-member of the Maine legislature and
very popular in Portland, where he has
long lived and practiced as a lawyer.
The Maine delegation will soon hold 4
meeting to talk over MI Emerson $
candidacy. Every member of the dele
cation is favorable to Mr.. Emerson'S
candidacy, and when such a seXtette as
Eugene Hale, William P. Frye, Thomas
E Breed, Nelson DingleyJr., Seth L.Milli-
ken and c. A. BOutelle go out in body
for anything in a political way, there is
every reason to predict that something
must be forthcoming, or they will have |
a good reason for telling why they did |
not get that for which they went.
Another Maine man who is sure to re- 4
ceive recognition at the hands of the .
Mckinley administration is Hon. WV. |
Thomas, Jr., also of Portland who will |
beyond doubt be the next minister to
Sweden and Norway post which he oc
cupied under the Harrison administra-
ton. There is also some talk of appoint |
ing Harold SeWall of Bath, the Repub-
lican son Of the recent Democratic can
date for vice president minister to Hon /
olulu, Hawaiian islands, with the view |
of perfccting details for the annexation |
of these islands to the United States, a |
policy to which the Republican party in |
its St. Louis platform is irrreVocably |
committed.
Rhode Island will ask at the hands of
Mr.. Mckinley the berth of public printer |
which place is generally regarded as a
sinecure at the rate of $4,000 a year. for |
Colonel l.. b. Pease of Woonsocket. Col |
onel Pease is and has been practical |
printer and his backing for the place is
said to be strong. There are other gen
tlemen who would like this place, and |
who are also securing formidable en-
| notice one other New |
England man among the coterie. He is /
r. G. oster, now of Chicago, but Mas
sachusetts boy born and bred. He is a
native of Brewster, Mass, where he was
born in 1858. At the age of Is he was set
ting type at Yarmouth. The contest for
the endorsement OF the New England |
delegations in congress for Colonel .
Pease and MIR. Foster is growing rather
warm, and each gentleman is said to be
putting up a hard fight for the place of
public printer, but as there are other
gentlemen in other sections of the coun-
try who would like this place, it is hard
to tell just yet who will be successful.
Colonel Pease's and Mr. Fosters claims.
however, viii be strongly presented at
the proper time.
General William Mckinley Osborne,
President Mckinley's cousin, and for
mer member of the Boston board of po-
lice, will be appointed consul general at
London, to succeed Hon. Patrick Collins,
also of Boston. Mr.. Osborne naturally
stands very close to the new administra-
ton, and during the preliminary contest
for the nomination which ultimately
brought the presidency itself to Mr.. Nc
Kinley, was very active in behalf of his
cousins chances. Since the campaign
was inaugurated, General Osborne has
been very busy, and although he could
probably have anything in the way of an
office within the gift of the president. he
says that he will be glad to
go wherever Mr. Mckinley desires to