The morning times., 1897-03-06
THE STRUGGLE FOR OFFICE
Many Applicants for Positions
Under New Administration. .
A REVIEW OF PROBABILITIES
Hay to Have the English, Horace
Porter the French, and Draper
the German Mission-Ca Candidates
Who Are Prominently Mentioned
for Other Important Places.

on Monday or Tuesday next President
Mckinley win begin to appoint his am
hass8dors and minister's He knows now
very generally who the appointees are to
he. Chauncey NJ. Depew will not be one Of
railroads, it would not, in President
McKinley's estimation, rebound to the
credit OF his administration should he
select Mr.. Depew for an ambassadorship.
1t is well known fact that Mr.. Depew
would accept the post at the Court of st.
James 4 ii We're rendered him.
Tne slate, as now partially marked
up, includes John Hay, ambassador to
England; Gen. Horace Porter, ambassador
to France; ex-Congressman Draper, of
Massachusetts, ambassador to Germany.
Albert q. Porter, of Indiana, who was
minister to Italy under Harrison, is spoken
OF as ambassador to that post, but it is
notimprobable that the place may be given
to Gen. Stew art L. Woodford, of New York,
Ex-Goy. William K. Merriam, of Mime
sofa, is thought to he the man who will
get the place as minister to Austria. Mer-
riam drafted the money plank in the st.
Louis platform.
EX-CongreS Bellamy Storer of Gin
cinnati win be made First Assistant
Secretary of State. 1t appears To be a
settled fact that Powell Clayton Of Ar
kansas will get the Mex lean mission. This,
it is understood, was promised Gen. Clay
ton by Mark Hanna at the st. Louis Con-
yention. AS heretofore stated in The
Times, Mckinley Osborne OF Boston, q
cousin of the President, VIII be made
consul general to London, to succeed
Patrick Collins. Dom Jack Gowdy OF
Indiana will go as consul general to
Paris. James Boyle, secretary to Presi.
dent Mckinley when he was governor OF
ceed James E. Neal of Ohio as consul
general TO Liverpool.
John Russell Young of Philadelphia.
who was minister TO China under Grant, is
not an improbable appointee by President
Mckinley. The Japanese court has not
as yet been decided on, nor have the min
istries to Russia, Portugal or Switzer-
land. California is demanding the Japan
eSe mission, and NJ. NJ Estee, who was
chairman Of the Chicago convention in
1888, is a candidate. His great rival
i'll the race for office is NJ. H. DeYoung,
who wants a ministerial position, but is
willing to take something Of lesser i'm
portance il he can get it.
Murat Halstead, of New York and Ohio,
who was greatly impressed with the Island
Of Cuba, is being mentioned in connection
with the consul generalstip at Havana.
John E. Milholland, of New ork, who is
one OF the Original Mckinley men, of
the Empire State, would like TO have
mission. Senator Platt will not allow
him to hold position in the State of New
York. II he would consent Mr.. Milholland
would ask for the collectorship of the port
Wilbur F. Wakeman, Of New York, who
for years has been secretary Of the Tariff
League, is an applicant for the office of
postmaster Of New York city There are
five strong candidates for the office of
Commissioner OF Pensions. They are Col
Russell, of Ohio; eX-Congressman Thomas.
OF Michigan, and eX- Congressman Baker of
Rochester, who served in Congress with
Mckinley; ex-Congrcssnan Picker, of South
Dakota, and Congressman Poole. OF SYRIA
cuse. The latter, perhaps, has the best
chance at the present time.
Since it has been definitely settled that
Cornelius n. Bliss goes into the Cabinet
New York is pushing to tie front with
claimants for high positions in the Interior
DEPARTING Mt.
Monroe Nichols. of Duluth a great friend
of Senator Davis, of Minnesota. is an ap-
plicant for the Hawaiian mission, as is also
Harold NJ. Sewall, of Maine, a son OF the
Democratic Vice Presidential candidate
Ta fyN1 1pl-P n q,
consideration of his work in the campaign
and for voting against his father.
It is well established fact that Major
Dick, of Ohio, close friend of the Presi-
dent, will WELD the AK in tie Postoffice
Department as Fourth A ssistant Postmaster
General in the decapitation Of the heads
of fourth class postmasters.
The South is furnishing many applicants
for ministerial and consular positions and
almost all of them want places in South
America. Major j F. Hanson, of Georgia,
who was frequently mentioned as posi-
bic Cabinet minister, will probably go to
Brazil
II. Clay Evans, OF Tennessee, will in all
probability be made First Assistant Post
master General. st. John Boyle, of Ken
tucky, has his eye upon the mission to
Switzerland. He has the recommends
tioD Of Henry WatterSon and other sound
money Democrats. EX-Congressman George
L. Adams, of Illinois, is possible minister
minister to Spain.
There are on an average twenty-five ap-
plicants for every position OF any fmpor-
tance, and for the lesser positions there are
a hundred or more applications.