Arizona republican., 1902-02-14
BENJAMIN F. DANIELS
A Gentleman of Whom Much Has Teen
 Said Lately. In Town

A man whose name has perhaps ap- peared in every newspaper in the United States within the last six weeks and of whom Ari3oniars have talkei r;ore than any other man within the
 same time came to the city yesterday
 morning. He is Benjamin Franklin Daniels. appointee to the !nurshalship of Arizona. MT. Daniels nomination to that office has been twice confirmed and at length his commission was issued. only to be recalled after it had been sent to Phoenix and it is now on it's way to Washington. AIf. Daniels left the capital after he believed him self to be safely out of the woods and il was after he reached Kansas City that he learned that the case had been -copcned. He remained there or within rasy reach of that place until after his second confirmation. ani having had irforma tion that his comm iSsiou had been directed tp issue he visited reIa- tives at Ottawa. Lebo and Emgorid. ilas. He had spent about two weeks in kaEsas City about the police head Iual terS.' as he was old acquaint- ance of Chief of Police Spcers. He heard nothing of the last attack made upon him until after he had left Kan Sas and he has far received no Knowledge of it from any official source.
 -'- Mir. Daniels telegraphed the president at Washington yesterday morning for instructions. but at late hour last night he had had no reply. as the tcla- gram had not been forwarded to Gro ton. Mass. where the president is in attendance upon his sick son. Precise ly what the recall of the commission signifies has not been explained. IL Is argued that if it was meant that the incident was ended as To Mir. Daniels. he would have been given some in formation at least from the department If not from the president himself. There is q belief that the whole ques- tion is still under investigation It will be remembered that when the Wyoming episode was brought up in the senate the president gave directions that the commission should not be delivered l1r- til an inquiry into the new charges had been made. Those directions contained no intinlation of the course he would pursue in any event.
 With regard .o the Wyoming affair. Mr. Daniels said he had nothing 90 say; the president himself had been fully informed concerning his record and the whole matter was now in his hands. He said that he had long ago got used to facing charges. The same ones SNcre preferred against him wHen he Was the night marshal of Cripple Creek. before the Spanish war but they did not hurt him. As to the charge that he was gambler he said that when his nomination was under con sideration in the senate the first time he admitted to Senator Hoar that he had dealt faro for q livelihood when he had no other employment. but he said he was never a professional gambler and altogether had proba bly never even dealt faro three months in his life.
 Mir. Daniels is gentleman of pleas ing personality. He is not SO ''aneu- lar as he Is descrihed to be in Colonel RooseVelt's book. ''The Rough Riders He is tall. not less than six feet and "a ther heavily built. He is of dark complexion and has q most striking face. It is pale and marked by small ! T'oS- The nose is decided Roman. but the strength of the face is best shown l in the firm chin. The eyes are q clear | brown and look square into those of ]