The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-07
Job as Ambassador of the
United States to the Ger
man Empire Regarded as
Very Choice One.
|LEISHMANN is NOW
HELD AS FAVORITE
Activity of the Applicants for
the Post Is Now Almost a
Joke at the National
Capital.
(American News Service)

Washington, May 6.-About the
most fashionable thing in Washington
these days is to be mentioned" for
the ambassadorship to Germany.
There is not prominent man in the
city-temporarily out of job--whose
name has not been proposed as the
possible successor to DR.. David Jayne
Hill.
The list of the iobless. including all
congressional lame ducks. has now
been exhausted, and the fad has
spread beyond Washington. Mean.
while. the President is just "sitting
tight and smiling. He offers no init.
nation as to the identity of the new
envoy. There is strong suspicion
that Mr.. Taft has long ago fixed upon
the man for this important post, but
if he has, he has shown the office hun.
CRY Washingtonians that he knows
how to keep secret. That Leishman
will be transferred from Rome to Ber
lin was the tip out today
However, the roster for those whom
the President is supposed to be con
sidering is growing Never before dur
ing the present administration have sc
many would-be diplomats been put for
ward Tor Single office. The ias,
count showed that about ten names
had been offered for the honor of go
ing to Germany.
Beveridge Mentioned.
The scramble for this ambassador
ship has not quite degenerated into
joke-not yet-but it is in a fair
way of doing So People in the city
have begun to call up the White
House and ask such questions as:
Il have Just heard that Former Sen
ator Beveridge of Indiana will be ap.
pointed Ambassador. Won't you
please ask the President if it is true?'
Or;
What is there in the report that
Lars Anderson, of Boston, is to be
ambassador"
Or;
Please tell the President not to dc
anything about the Berlin matter until
he has seen me-"
This is daily, almost hourly Incl.
dent at the executive offices and Sec
retary Hilies is being made miserable
There are a whole lot of things
which have made the vacancy I'm the
German embassy Of unusual interest
In the first place. it is looked upon as
being the most desirable diplomatic
post on the Continent. Then, too, IL
has been in the limelight more con.
sistantly than any other embassy in
Europe.
This was due to the fashion in
which the ambassador, Charlemagne
Tower performed his duties. He soon
spender abroad. His receptions were
marvels of luxury. His dinners were
famous, his parties splendid.
He Rivaied Kaiser.
1t is said of him that, if he went to
one of Emperor Williams entertain
ments and found fifteen lackies in
livery assigned to take the coats and
hats, he would, at his next entertain
ment, have twenty-five liveried ser
wants assigned to the same service.
1t was Mr. Towers idea that the Of
ficial representative of the United
Stataes should not be outdone or out
shown in anything that money could
buy, even by the Emperor of Germany
For instance, one summer it develop
ed that the Emperor would at differ
ent times occupy six different castles
on the Rhine. Mr.. Tower at once sent
out his agents and leased seven cas-
ties for his summer use. it is said.
All this pleased the German ruler
and it pleased the German people
They rather liked the show, and they
were not backward in relieving Mr.
Tower of ali his spare cash. But this
record has made the German embass,
the hardest to fill acceptably. DIR
Hill was a man of only moderate
means, and was therefore unable tc
follow the pace set by his predeces
sor in office. This resulted in embar
rasments that DIR. Hill thought shOulC
not be placed upon him.
But instead of frightening away ap
plicants for this opst, the glamor o1
the Tower regime and the expensive
ness of the establishment which the
ambassador to Berlin is expected te
maintain, seems to have attracted
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