Show POLITICAL mm tiie ascendancy LIES ABOUT sent out by newspapermen the situation in ean sas degro trouble ESQUIRES washington D the president entertained chairman J S clarkson Clar kion at dinner one day this week and I raight away the identical hew inper beinart alecks who ware BO certain that glarison was made chairman f the executive committee of the ee publican national committee for the ole purpose of isiac thai committee again t mr Harri aoa began to send out tones about how mr harrigna Harr igoa pro post d through mr clarkson to turn the national committee into a harridon Harri aon machine one story was no whit more ridiculous than the other and thoy were both too silly for serious consideration mr harrison and mr clarkson have been warm personal pe friends for a long time and those who know what th ey ara talking about say that mr glarison woold have been a member of the cabinet at the beginning of the administration had act th ohly portfolio for which he cared been disposed of before his wishes wore known to the president and it is probable that mr clarkson could become a member of the cabinet now i not lor his desire to take a more active part in the presidential campaign than such a position would allow him republicans who know J 8 clarkson Clark aon and there are few of prominence who do not know that there ia ao danger of the national committee being used to further particular the in teresta of any one maa while he is at the head of it and mr harmon is the last man in the world to suspect of wishing to take advantage of any machine made sentiment he would be more than human if he did not nish n ish a nomination but there is one wish that he puts ahead of all others and that ie that the republican party ahall elect the next president and that the convention elect the most available man whether it be himself or another acting J S clarkson has issued a call for a meeting of the republican national committe Commit tB in washington november 20 this meeting will elect a chairman of the committee to succeed senator quay who resigned some time ago and will decide upon the time and pice for holding the na tignal contention ConTe ution there is the kation of mr clarkson as chairman and it is believed to be certain that the national convention will be held at an earlier data than usual possibly as early as may but it is still uncertain what city will obtain the honor of entertaining it although since chicago got tha worlds fair there is a popular impression that abe can gobble up she really wants and there is no doubt that she wanta th contention but she will have to work for it as the other cities that want it are already doing some lively castling hast ling hon N 0 mcfarland of kansas who was oi the general land officio under the garfield Garfi old administration tra tion ia in washington he has aar waya been credited with being a close observer jer of things political and ha says of the present outlook in his state the farmers alliances Allian cem kandah will not be heard of in the next national election their claims of being able to cars ry th state for a third party ticket in 92 are regarded by everyone who has any real knowledge of the condition of affairs throughout the staf as absurd recorder townsend hd of the general land office i a colored minister whose home ia in indiana me na been anav on his vacation and the have taken advantage of hia absence to say that le was at of the al colored anti harrison revolt alleged to exist in indiana aad that he would shortly resign in order to wag war upon air harridon Harri ion in his own state mr townsend haa returned to bis duties and he afi very naturally indignant at having been so grossly misrepresented he said on the to bein I 1 want it understood that I 1 am a harridon Harri aon man and that 1 hav not at any time been engaged in antagonizing the administration ahila on my vacation II 11 had beveral conference a with the colored men of indiana and I 1 found Bome little disaffection due largely to local affairs but am confident that 95 per cent of the colored voters are loyal hex i publicans public ans the republican state association in washington are taking a aery active part in the campaigns campa igna in their several states this yar the ohio hae 0 o far been the under the of ita efficient president sixth auditor coulter but the new york association which has just elected general cyrus bualoy assistant secretary of the interior Lut now aspired to the leadership and it new president has appointed the golowin fo lowin executive cam A J dati deon deputy commissioner of pe naiona A X parker deputy attorney general and majar G 8 A brown B B bondeli and C B which will see that mr faa iau gets all the assistance poa aible from new york voters temporarily residing rei iding in washington |