The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-02
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s,vERNAN's RETIREMENT 4 MAT
TER OF 4 SHORT TINE.

He Is Only Waiting Upon the Contest
I'm Ohio-Greaf Interest in the Ohio
Fight-Foraker's Place in the Pic
turc-McComns 10 Succeed German
From, maryland.
Washington, Jan. 1.-seeretary Sherman
&c To retire from the cabinet. That is the
latest cabinet rumor, and there is a great
deal more basis for it thnn there has been
IN the several of its immediate predecess-
ors
The Secretary of State has determined
to bring an end to his official career, and
soon after that senatorial fight in Ohio
Is settled he win step down and out This
determination was reached some time ago,
hut out of Difference to the wishes of the
President and Senator Hanna he has de-
ferred taking the final step.
Secretary Shermans action is based en-
t,relv on his physical condition. He now
feels what his friends have felt for long
time. that his day for active service is
over. While apparently as vigorous as
when he entered the cabinet, the lapses of
memory have grown more frequent and
more pronounced, and he feels that the
strain of the state department is too great
for him to bear.
lie told President Mckinley and Sena-
tor Hanna this some time ago, but out of
difference TO their wishes, has said moth
ing to anybody else, save a few of his
closest friends And in response TO the
request of Senator Hanna, he decided to
hold ND his resignation until after Mr..
Hanna's fate is settled. The reason for
this is that if it had been announced that
sherman was to leave the cabinet, Ham
pa's enemies in Ohio would have raised
the cry that Hanha was responsible, and
an view of the closeness Of the contest
there such a cry might prove dangerous.
sherman is strong with the old element
In Ohio, and the suggestion that he was
being forced out by Hanna would have
hurt the latter. At least, so Hanna fig
ured, and that is why the resignation has
been delayed.
If judge Day wants the PORTFOLIO he
can have it. The belief is general that he
will accept. He declined the appointment
as Attorney General because he felt that
his presence in the state department IS
necessary at this time, but if Mckinley
has anybody who he thinks would
strengthen him as Secretary of State,
Judge Day will urge his appointment.
Great interest is manifested here in the
race in Ohio. The politicians all believe
that Hanna will win in the end no mat
Ter how formidable the opposition may
now seem. They base their belief on the
size of Hanna S barrel and the potency of
that article as 1T has many times mani
Tested Itself in Ohio politics.
Those closest to Senator Foraker deny
that he is taking any hand in the contest,
despite the dispatches sent out from Co
lumbus and Cleveland which put him TO
the fore as one of those fighting has col
league. The Foraker men here say that
all those dispatches are sent out by For
aller's enemies. To be sure Kurtz, who is
81 leading the fight against Hanna has always
q been Foraker's chief lieutenant, but his
fight is based on reasons purely personal;
and Gov. Bushnell who is figuring more
d or less in the contest, has always been
closer to Foraker than to anybody else in
The state. But Foraker is keeping hands
of. He considers that ali the trouble
q Bushnell is in is due to the governors lack
n of backbone. If he had turned Hanna
down when he had the appointment, For
q aker would have had some respect Tor
a him. Foraker is a fighter himself, and
has no use for a coward. So he has no
sympathy for Bushneii's troubles. If Han
81 ma is defeated he will not sorrow; If he
& wins, Foraker can say he had no part in
il. He is heaping up a great lot of trouble
for himself in the future, but he seems Will
q Tag to take chances. He has positively
refused to come out in Hanna's behalf.
1t looks at this distance as if the real
winners in this contest, whichever way it
goes, win be the democrats.
Gov. Lowndes of Maryland, has given Us
all a surprise in Withdrawing from the SEN
atOrial race over there at a time when it
looked to outsiders as If he were certain
of victory The man who will come to the
Senate as the successor Of German is
Judge McComas, who now holds one of
the supreme court judgeships for the Dis
trict of Columbia. He has really been a res
ident of the District for several years. Nc
Comas was once in congress. He is a good,
M clean man and a man of ability. He will be
big Improvement on the other senator
from Maryland, Wellington. Indeed the
downfall of Lowndes seems to be traceable
to Wellington, who has been espousing his
cause. Postmaster General Gary was very
hopeful Of getting in as a compromise can
didate but McComas showed so much
strength that Lowndes dec ,ded to get down
and out before he was beaten.
McComas will enjoy his chief distinction
from the fact that he is Germans sue
ccssor." To all democrats who are familiar
with conditions here, the departure of Cor
man from the Senate is distinct loss In
everything that has brought success to the
# party he has been the real leader His abb
sence from the Senate will be a loss to his
81 party and 10 his country Just now the
newspapers are doing a good deal of figur-
ing on his future, bur Senator German
seems to be less concerned in that than
anybody else. He is still a great power in
Maryland, and may yet redeem the state
from republicanism. That is his ambi-
ton