Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-18

tinctive value all their own.
some n.n-Philander C.. Knox, Tor
e~stnnle-have become presirentili
cabinet members through their pnsses
sion OF certain peculiar qualino,t1lo',as
others have been given pofttohos ~
f,Ill payment OF political dents or parry
,c,.,-;ce Thomas j.. James. postmaF
ter-Roneral under Carotid, Is. perhapr'
tbe only man who ever won cablnel
chair with a handshake. How he dla
tbis ali unconsciously has never been
p,inted before so Ear as l can ascer-
tain. ..,. 80 r.o,-
In the second administration OF zen
eral Grant il was DENIED exponent
FOR business reasons. 70 huino
rostnla9tcr for New York CITY. ffe7l-
Amt Grant requested Senator ltoscoe
Gambling 10 suggest somebody VINO
,,,rid make lust the kind OF postmar p
tor thnf the metropolis needed. W
Course said the president. ne must
bo a Republican. but he must BE- soou
business man az well. ,.s.
This was putting some~ nav ~. III
,,,lt responsihilty upon Senator NullN-
Inc In IA had been tho beginning
~ Grants administration, the senator
Mechanically would have had in hinu
~. most master some Republican pol-
,ician al prominence. But 10 was ihe
r,id- vear OF Grants second term, ana
M that time Il was certain that 0ena
tor Conklng's friends would ASK t.at
he be nominated for president az lile
next Republican national COW 1I..' ~.
81 A. became necessary for the senator
to and "a good RepubliCan--one VINO
would stand I'm line with the party lh
New York state In faVcring Conhlns
nonination--and at the same time ne
man OF first class Administrative
ability
senator Conkling joumeyed 10 New
York several times 20 talk with the
politicians about the postmastership.
None Of them, however, was able 70
helm him lie could find plenty Of good
Republicans who would have been GLAD
to take the Office but not one Or them
had any business standing, on lht
other hand. there were several capa-
blo business men whose names were
suggested but not one OF them know
much about politics.
on the last OF these trips Senator
ConSling lunched with Tom Murphy
then collector OF the port % New York.
Utterly unlike as Conkling and Mut-
uhv we're. vet tho Warmest friendship
had been established between them
Al the luncheon Conkliug and Nun
phy discussed and dismissed from cone
liberation several names brought up
aa possible material for The postmnatei-
shin Then luncheon over the two
men strolled down Wall street towarlt
thc custom house. ConlNing NakinB
with his customary LONG stride ana eef-
tainlv conscious OF the fact that many
retrons stopped 90 look al him ana say
10 one another. THAT ia Roscoe Conk-
ling
m was The purpose of the two 10 enter
the custom house but just before lley
reached the broad steps Leading up 40
the doors collector Murphy stopped
and gently twitchinE the senafora
cost sleeve. caused him 20 stop also
Then directing Conking gnzc 90 q
man who W1ls standing on the top step
and shaking hands with some one Nun
ply exclaimed as one inspired
senator there's your mani"
n SEQ no man except Tom James
replied conkllng
"Wcil hc "a the man ] mean" re-
torted Murphy. Hes a good enough
politician. he las wonderful kMack
of making friends of everl body with
that handHhake % his and he's one nf
the best deputies the custom house
ever had"
Conknng pondered moment "fi
occurs tO me. Mr. Murphy that there
mas he some clements in yaui Hugres
ton worth considering will give
the matter careful consideration. but"
hc added, net n be- confidential a. YOU
and me f0r mo present
Together the two men mounted The