Show EVER EI CE the election last November certain newspapers have insisted that Mr MCRAT HALSTEAD editor of the Cincinnati I Commercial Gazcitt would have the French mission Some time before the inauguration the probabil tion Tuts HERALD suggested itT of these organs being mistaken inas much as Mr HALSTEAD had ably and earnestly supported nomination of TOlD SiiERMix and was by no means enthusiastic enthusias-tic when HAIIKISOX captured the prize Mr WUITELAV REID having been made minister to France HALSTEADS newspaper friends are charging the President with knifing the gentleman Editor REID had a right to ask for anything in reason which the President had to give for the New York Tribune did all the mean work in the campaign that anyone could have expected On the other hand the Cincinnati Commercial Com-mercial was loyal to party and no more |