The times., 1897-03-19
five NOMINATIONS MADE
Names Sent to the Senate by
the President.
THE FORTUNATE CANDIDATES
Clayton to Go to Mexico, Osborne
to London, and Gowdy to Paris.
Important Places for Brigham
and Heath Sketches of the Ca
reers Of the Nominees.

| PRESIDENT Mckinley yesterday sent to
the Senate five important nominations
They were:
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, To be en-
yoy extraordinary and minister plenipo
tentiary of the United States to Mexico.
| William Nj. Osborne, OF Massachusetts,,
consul general OF the United States at on
| don.
John X. Gowdy, of Indiana, consul gen
/ eral OF United States at aris.
John III. Brigham OF Ohio, Assistant Sec
| retary OF Agriculture.
4 Perry S Heath, of Indiana, First Assist
| ant Postmaster General.
These nominations have all been fore
shadowed in The Times.
| Hon. Powell Clayton, nomin ated as
| minister to Mexico, has a right TO three
] titles, General, Governor and senator
| His career in the Army gave him the
| title of Brigadier General; he was gov
| ernor of Arkansas in 1868, and served
| one term in the Seuate, from 1871 to
| 1877. Gen. Cla yton was born in Arkansas
| in 1888, and is therefore sXty-four years
| old.
He has been for years member of the
| Republican national committee from Ar
! kansas. 1t happens that Arkansas is one
| of the first States called in the national
conventions of the Republican party. Gen.
| CLAYTON has been several times chairman
OF the Arkansas delegation, and hence it
| has been his province to announce the
choice of the State. This has been for
tunate for Mr.. Clayton and other Ar
kansas politicians
| Last year Arkansas came out second on
! the list at the Republican convention with
loud voice for Mckinley. Clayton was
| a member of the ex ecutiye committee, and
| was in charge of the spellbinders during
| the recent campaign, but it is said that
| this appointment is much more a conyeE-
| ton obligation than an election obliga-
| tion. He is a brother of John NJ. Clay
| ton, who ran for Congress q few years
ago against Clifton K. Breckinridge and
was murdered during the campaign. Gen.
Clayton is a tail, slim, Southwesternionk
ing man, with large mustachc and chin
whskers.
Mr.. william Mckinley Osborne, noni-
mated for consul general to London. is an
own cousin OF the President, and was
named after the Presidents father. He
was a private soldier in the war. Mr.
Osborne is sixty years old.
During the campaign he was made secre-
tary of the national committee and had
charge of the headquarters in New York
He is IA short, broad man, with a heavy
gray muStache and close cropped chin
whiskers.
Mr. Osborne takes the place until now
held by Mr.. Pat Andrew Collins, perhaps,
r,f Jph l,yIa a
the finest Irishman in this country. 1t
was said that the selection of Ex-Governor
Long to he a member of Mr.. Mckinley's
Cabinet was partially due to Mr.. osborne's
influence.
j X. GOwily, nOminatedforconsu general
at Paris. was prominent among the Presi.
dents friends who conducted the remark
able campaign in Indiana for delegates 10
the national Republican convention al st.
Louis last year, which resulted in the seiec-
ton of u solid Mckinley delegation, in
cluding instructions at the State conven-
ton, thereby removing from the list Of
candidates the only name that was pos
sibility y-HarrisOn's.
Capt, Gowdy. as chairman of the Repub-
lican State central committee, conducted
the campaign against the allied forces OF
frce-slver Democrats, PopulistS. etc, etc.
which resulted in carrying the State for
Mckinley, and electing legislature that
chose C. w. Fairbanks for United States
Senator, being the only Republican Sen-
ator frcm that State-eXcept Harrison
since the death of Senator Oliver j. Morton.
The President has shown his apprcci-
alton OF the work done by his friends in
the Hoosier State by his early and hand
some recognition of the services of Chair
man Gowdy. Capt Gowdy is noted for
his large stock Of common sense, correct
business methods and strict integrity.
He is a typical representative OF the bet
ter class of Western business men. He
has made success of every business with
which he was ever connected, and the
hest men in Indiana are confident he will
fill his new position in manner alike
creditable to himself and the Government.
He was born in Rush county, Indiana,
in August. 1843, was married in January,
1867 in Rush county, and has one daugh-
ter, twenty years old, who recently gradu-
ated from De PAW College with high
honors.
He was farmer for many
years, but has been a resident of Rushville
since 1879. He was editor and proprietor
of the Rushville Graphic, daily and
weekly paper for six years: sold the paper
after being elected chairman of the State
committee.
John II. Brigham is forty-eight years old
and halls from Ohio. He is the head |
of the National Grange, a practical farmer, |
and it is almost an ideal man for the place |
he is called upon to fill. He is six feet |
four inches tail, and weighs 25O pounds, |
and is splendid man physically. He
takes the place of Mr.. Charles Dabney, jr.
Mr.. Perry Heath is forty years old, and
was born in Muncie, Ind BE began life |
as a printers boy when he was only ten |
years old and worked up in the news
paper profession. He was for ten years |
correspondent of the indianapolis Journal, |
afterward became general manager of the |
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, and then |
went into the Mckinley campaign.
tbs said that Mr. Heath came very near /
being President Harrison's private secre
tary. John C. New, the owner of the |
Journal, is said to have wanted his ap-
pointment. Whatever the facts Were, Mr..
then managing editor of the
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