Show DECLINES PRE preferment SENATOR ALLISON has definitely and positively declined the position of secretary of the treasury in president harrisons herlson s cabinet so BO says a telegram those two gentit gentlemen ant the greater part of last sunday together and at the conclusion of the protracted interview the word went out to the country that aulson allison had been tendered and accepted the place and the cou country was right well pleased at tile the announcement no too even the demo crate joined to some extent in the glad refrain mhd were apparently pleased that the iowa man was to be dna m of the executives ad advisers floors under the new order of things there were several reasons one but not the chief chie chiffone fone one is that it is rarely that a cabinet member is chosen from so far west and it is high time the most promising part of the country was waa becoming aw also the most prominent another to is that the tee senator is a man of great ex 4 perle hae and rare fare ability and th the principal one is that his hands bands are entirely clean and his record as a statesman is clear there is a demand for uprightness and honesty in political circles just now perhaps because of the fact that long continued extremes produce their opposites and the man from iowa was looked upon aponas as a fitting representative of the higher order of things whose choice was a most moat felicitous stroke of policy upon the part of the new president all this goes for naught now allison will have none of it and the cabinet status falls baek back to three members instead of a majority selected it is a majority to be selected of course there is plenty of timber left out of which to construct a serviceable vi and competent bureau of advisers it would be a great calamity were it otherwise even in iowa or further west it is not to be supposed that the man who was chosen exhausted the list of eligible republicans and more than this in addition to ability and honesty a man could doubtless easily be found who has the element which allison lacks that of willingness to act all these are minor considerations erat ions the perplexing part of the situation is lato to find one who not only has the qualifications enumerated but would give such general satisfaction this is the hard part of it indeed and it is made all the harder by the fact that it was successful as it stood the next question is as to why the gentleman declined the promotion the of the treasury is the second place in the cabinet in point of grade and is equal to the first in point of importance port aDee and responsibility to refuse to take it and that too at a time when distinction and honors are to be gained by a satisfactory settlement of the vexed silver question isa is ft mystery to all but the initiated it is not because he prefers the animation and intellectual vigor of the senatorial forum to the quiel and continuous routine of the business desk though this to some would be sufficient ing the higher calling and per pe annum difference in salary in favor of the no it has hag no relation to that it is because the senator has powerful influent S I 1 bial and longheaded long headed friends in coni con sid erable number men who are also greatly in love with iowa ae and ld wa danl in to see the next president come from that state in Mr mcallison Allison they find the very man for their ambitions to rest upon he is conspicuous hav ing received a large vote for the nomination in the last convention he is able as is abundantly shown he is one of the few against whom nothing can be said except that he is a re republican publics n he is nei neither th er to too 0 old nor too young and he is quite willing to place him in the cabinet would be to take him out of the field of activity which he at present occupies and will occupy as long as he desires and virtually place him on the shelf he is daily heard from in the senate when his voice in all tue the debates is never silent nor does dees it ever have an uncertain sound whereas in the he would be politically deaf and dumb his friends know this and they announced weeks before allison went to indianapolis that the cabinet was not to be thought of not even if he could have the premiership there was no resisting such a pressure especially ally when the object aimed at was personally not distasteful and so the senator retains his toga preferring to remain in the hands of his friends and thus in the line of the presidential President Lal succession to the drudgery of the ministry with perhaps obscurity following it |