Show ELAINES MISTAKE This Magnetic Mans Very Bad Haytien Blunder LOWER CALIFORNIA TO BE CEDED The Rumor Comes from the City of Mexico That the Untied States Will Acquire it The Parnell Commission Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch WASHINGTON May 2f The opera bouffe performance of Monday regard iug the appointment of the Hay tien commission was a good deal talked about yesterday but there was not much news to be learned about it The officials at the state department and the members of the different legations went down the river with the party given by Secretary Blaine to the new British minister Sir Julian Pauncefote Accordingly they could not be got at for information The general feeling especially among Republicans cans is that the President committed the colossal blunder of his administration in naming Mr Beverly Tucker as one of the commissioners It will be difficult to explain ex-plain to audiences which were thrilled by war memories during the last campaign and asked to vote against Cleveland for his supposed sympathy with the south why a man who was indicted in connection with the assassination of Lincoln was offered so responsible a post by a Republican administration admin-istration I is recalled that when Jacob Thompson died who was in exactly the same category in the matter as Mr Tucker the Republican journals worked themselves them-selves into a white heat of patriotic indignation nation because Secretry Lamar ordered the department of the interior draped in accordance with the rule for thus commemorating commem-orating the death of exsecretaries The first wonder in regard to the appointment appoint-ment of Mr Tucker who is personally a charming and able gentleman is that the President could have made so important an appointment without inquiring who the man was The second wonder is that he has not required Mr Blaines immediate resignation for recommending a man with such a war history Mr Blaiue knows 11 Tucker he knows him a Blaine man and a wellknown man about town He seems to have expected to score a political point in his appointment and he overreached over-reached himself as he has often done before be-fore The President will hardly take Mr Blaines recommendations with his eyes shut again His brilliant secretary of state has so thoroughly wound him up that there are those who believe he did it on purpose purose This is hardly credible however for it injures in-jures Mr Blaine as much as the President Some Republicans argue that the appointment appoint-ment having been made it was the part of courage for the President to stick t it Mr Tucker they say had small honorary honor-ary appointments from Grant and Garfield and if the President had braved it out the matter would not have attracted nearly so much attention as it has now after the ridiculous expedient of sending clerk to the newspaper row with scissors In his hands to cut the name off the list of appointments ap-pointments at least an hour after t iey had been left at the Examiner and other leading newspaper offices |