Show I SNEAKING WORK I Jlr Swift is Said to Have Knifed Mr Estee For a Cabinet Position Special to THE HEUALD Examlner Dispatch WASHINGTON April IAn interesting story is going the political rounds in this city which sheds a flood of light upon the methods employed by Mr Estees friends to prevent Mr Swift from securing a place in General Harrisons cabinet There is no question as to the correctness of this story which is given to me by a gentleman high in official authority who has the documentary docu-mentary evidence in his possession At the annual dinner of the San Francisco Fran-cisco bar association some time in Febru csco last Mr Swift replied to the toast The President of the United States He said among other things that any patriotic American irrespective of party might I well anticipate the inevitable verdict of history and say and feel that ho was proud of every one of our twentytwo Presidents I I from George Washington to Grover Cleveland Cleve-land inclusive One of Mr Estces friends who is said to have been Governor Waterman of California Cali-fornia telegraphed a garbled version of Mr Swifts remarks to Indianapolis the following follow-ing day claiming that Mr Swift had said that Cleveland Cleve-land was the ablest President the country had ever had and that he otherwise extravagantly eulogized him The obvious intention was to create a prejudice pre-judice in President Harrisons mind against Mr Swift and that was the construction put upon it by the recipient of the dispatch About the same time another dispatch was sent both to this city and to Indianapolis by a gentleman very close to Mr Estee protesting aainst the selection of Mr Swift on the ground that he was in ill health and by reason of that fact incapacitated incapaci-tated for a cabinet position The animus of this like the foregoing was so manifest that it excited only contempt con-tempt for its author on the part of the persons per-sons addressed and the two dispatches undoubtedly un-doubtedly went far to destroy whatever slender hope of preferment Mr Estee may ever have had Well may the granger i rrse tod rlere his |