Show WILSONS SUCCESSOR He Will be James A Gary of I Baltimore Aid Md UNLESS THERE IS A HITCH BEWABD FOR MANY YEARS OF I ACTIVE POLITICAL WORK I I Gary Owns Valuable Cotton Duck I Mills is Interested in Several I Mils i Iterested Big Corporations and i Wow I President of a Gas Company adVice ad-Vice President of the Citizens National BankA Corporation Man Through and Through Canton 0 Feb 19Two Important pieces of political news were developed here today One is that James A Gary of Baltimore has been offered and has accepted a position in Major Mc I Kinlcys cabinet The other is that J J MeCook of New York who is being favorably considered by Major McKinley McKin-ley in connection with a cabinet position posi-tion has not been offered a portfolio nor has Mr McCook been definitely determined de-termined upon for a cabinet position and if he does become a member of the cabinet it is absolutely uncertain that he will be the attorney general or that Mr Gary will be made postmaster general gen-eral This is upon high authority When the final cast of the cabinet is made it may seem well to the presi I dentelect to transfer exGovernor Long whom he had fixed upon for the navy department to the department of I justice leaving the navy portfolio for a New York man or for Mr Gary incase in-case it is decided to give New York the postofilce department Mr Gary has been an active Republican Re-publican worker in Maryland for more than 15 years and for a long period was the member of the Republican national na-tional committee from this state Major Ma-jor McKinley has known him for 15 years and has long deemed him one of the foremost business men of the south Major McKinley is improving rapidly in health but adheres strictly to his resolution to see no visitors save those who come by appointment The only caller he has received this week was Mr Gary Who Mr Gary Is Baltimore Md Feb 19 James Albert Al-bert Gary selected postmaster general in McKinleys cabinet is a widely known man of Baltimore and has been II prominent in Republican politics since LS70 when he was nominated for con gress m tne iiztn aiaryiana district In 1879 the Republicans nominated him for governor In those days the state was hopelessly Democratic and Mr Gary failed of election although he made an active canvass He has been a Maryland delegate to every national convention of his party since 1872 and from 1SSO to 1896 represented his state upon the Republican national committee teeMr Mr Gary was born in Uncasville Conn in 1S33 of English descent In business he has been highly successful success-ful He owns valuable cotton duck mills and is also largely interested in financial and other business corpora tons in Baltimore and vicinity For several he of the severl years was president Merchants and Manufacturers association I I asso-ciation and is now president of the Consolidated Gas company and vice i I I i rt president of the Citizens National i bank He also holds directorships in several other organizations Gary Will Not Talk Pittsburg Pa Feb 19 James A Gary of Baltimore has been tendered the ot Baltmore position posi-tion of postmaster general in President elect McKinleys cabinet He said so himself at the Union station tonight where he stopped off for dinner on his way to Baltimore from his visit to Major McKinley in Canton on the Invitation of the latter After admitting that he had been tendered a cabinet place a reporter asked him Then I may say that you will accept No he answered you would be sure of that In just about two days When asked whether the cabinet of Presidentelect McKinley would be made up as reported Mr Gary answered that he could not talk on that or any other political subject In a few days said he everybody will know everything Just now I dare not talk I was Inferred however that all the cabinet positions had not yet found certain cer-tain holders Ii McCook I Modest New York Feb 19 Colonel J H McCook said today that all the news he has of his alleged selection for the attorneygeneralship Is contained in the press dispatches from Canton He asserted that he had received no intimation mation direct or indirect that Major McKinley intends making him a member mem-ber of his cabinet Colonel McCooi said that he had never authorized any II of his friends to use his name as that of a candidate for a portfolio |