Bisbee daily review., 1912-11-28

Of penny-trumpcts. are iiillins their
columns daily with luscious compils-
tions of the offices TO be filed and the
good things to be had when de Jubt
10" has actually arrived the coming
Fourth Of March, whilst the expeclant
million stand about with lively. fan
eies and outstretched dippers to be
filed with postonices, pension agen-
cies IAN the like Of them. an SIGH "
As for the higher appointments
there are individual forecasts. Every
statesman gets of the newspapers his
whack at the plum-tree. Mr.. Soand
So is to be Attorney General and
the Honorable This-and-That is to go
as Minister Plenipotentiary to Tim
tuctoo or Patagonia The president
elect has declared that he has made
no promise or signIiied that HIS mind
Is OF a page out of bland book; that
he looks from the window of his Der.
muda retreat into abe vide. wide
world of tropic verdure and mystic
sea, murmuHng with little Paul Dem
hey. what are the wild waves say.
ing? ....s
One thing. however. we are told is
certain; Mr. Bryan will be offered.
and will accept the secretaryship OF
state. Although but a speculation,
there is good warrant for this. 1t
has been the fashion time-out-of-mind
for the First Best to put the Next
Best at the head OF his cabinet Vide
Lincoln and Seward: Harrison and
blaine; Cleveland and Baysrd; and
away back OF them Pierce aud Mar
cy; Buchanan and Cass.
Mr.. Wilson could not ignore Mr..
bryan if he would and would not If
he could. In a way. he owed his
nomination 70 Mr.. Bryan, who made
the deadlock that brought it ultimate.
iy to pass. Thrice Mr. Bryan has
been the democratic nominee for
president. receiving a greater popular
vote than SIR. Wilson. It was into
The southwest corner of the Bryan
camp that Mr. Wilson took his way
and found a welcome early in his
canvass for the nomination. So, &c
leave Mr. Brysns name out Of the
pot is not 20 be thought Of
But will the Administration be big
| enough 10 hold the two Of them? They
are men of rather positive opinions
and pronounced peculiarities. Even as
Mr. Harrison did not get on very well
with Mr.. Blaine might not Mr. Wilson
find il hard to get on with Mr..
Bryan?
For secretary of state Mr.. Bryan
has two handicaps: First, series Of
personal grudges-notably those with
Mr.. Champ Clark and Mr.. Oscar
Underwood, leaders in congress upon
whom Mr.. Wilson must largely rely.
and an indisputable following Of hero
worshipcrs a la Roosevelt Mr.. Bryan
ias views Right ahead is 1916 with
a crossBar placed ty Mr. Bryan him
self upon a second term for Mr.. vii.
son. What is Mr.. Wilson to do?
a free fight is predicted by the
common enemy; even friends have
their doubts about a wholly happy
union. .,
yet there is place for Mr.. Bryan.
The British Embassy has ever been
a post of foremost dignity. Mr.. White
Law Rsd has raised somewhat the
standard Of Official living in London.
Unless Mr.. Wilson chose Mr.. Thomas
=. Ryan. or Mr. August Belmont, Dor
chester House w9ald have 70 go
1 r.
emp6y. Bat Mr lDfyan. too. IS a rich
man He is said to have IN income Of
at least one hundred thousand dol
lars a year-the salary for pin money
and mighty few English Dukes
spend more than twenty thousand
pounds sterling year.