El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-27
THE. WASHINGTON MILL
Grinds Slows; Bill Sterrett Sizes Up
The Situation.

THE. WASHINGTON MILL
Grinds Slows; Bill Sterrett Sizes Up
| The Situation.
! Private information received at the
HERALD Office le ads US to believe that
no appointments for Ell sPaso Off ces will
be made for ten days.
w. G. Sterrett writes of the situation
to the Dallas News under date January
%:
''That there is q disposition to over
throw Grant there can be no doubt.
The chances, in my OpiniOn, are decid-
edly against him. UP to within the
last three weeks he had everything all
his own way. In fact there have not
been half;dozen appointments made in
the state that be did not dictate.
"But just about the time that Hanna
got in the fight of his life before the
Ohio legislature there came q tele-
gram from him to the departmen to
here telling them that Grants recon-
meDdatiops should be held. up till he,
Hanna, could arrive in Washington.
From that moment the portals of the
departments, while not directly closed
to the member of the national commit
tee from Texas, were just a. ar.
"Then came another most remark
able thing. It was this: Grant had
b. en- in the habit OF visiting the white
house at all hours of the day and night.
The doors swung easily on their hinges
whenever he made his appearance. But
all at once all was changed
He had to send in his card as other peo-
pie and he had to wait for an answer.
And the worst of it was that the an
swer has not come to him for the last
week.
''The cry of rebel raised against Grant
came in haody at this time, because
Hanna was very much infiamed against
rebels. Mr.. Hanna's most intense
feelings were enlisted at once. To
crush those who rebelled against the
regular organization should be his
mission for q time, because he had felt
the evil effects of it. So with Gros-
venOr and Thompson, and others he
hies him to the white house and laid
down the law to the president, which
law was that if the great and grand
party expected to live it could only do
so by crushing revolts wherever found
in the ranks.
SIT is said the oration by Hanna on
attention to the case of Grant and said
that he was about the worst rebel OF
them and that the next thing after
supressing the rebellion in Ohio was
the suppre ssion of the rebellion in
Texas. And he pointed out that
Grant was the leader of the cohorts
which would not submit to that autho-
rity which controlled the destinies of
the party in that state.
"All of which the president heard
with much concern. He intimated,
being a politician, that he would give
the matter the gravest thought and
that the opposition to Grant could rely
on him to do the fair thing in the way
of suppressinR rebellion, but that really
he had to have further time to look
into the matter.
''And thus the matter stood last
night and up to this morning It is
said that the same delegation called on
hims twice since then to ascertain what
he intended to do, but at no time found
out anything. 1t is enough to say that
in the meantime the Green element
was so satisfied with the position that
they held that they gave out that the
president had agreed to appoint q slate
which they had made up. What this slate
ry for postmaster at Dallas, Brush for
postmaster at Austin, Dillon for the
collectorship at Ell Paso and Glass for
some Office in the southwest
''Tonight his conduct is beyond any
explanation of any one 1 have talked
to. But in my opinion Grants fight is
about lost. His failure to see the pres
ident for the past week, his cold re-
ception at the departments all con-
vince me that he is out in the cold.
But at the same time the action of the
chief office-giver towards the other
side makes me think perhaps that be is
not entirely in the soup. There have
been no appointments from Texas, as
promised, today. There are promises
for tomorrow, but tomorrow is to the
repu blican office-seekers, tomorrow and
tomorrow"