Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

The President has appointed the folowing postmasters of the Presidential clast: F. M. Householder, of Nobiesville, Ind., vice James K. Fisher, resigned; J. S. Catberwood, at Hoopeston, 111., vice Dale Wallace, resigned; Alexander McKennon, at Crookston, Minn., vice Delos Jacobin, resigned; E. J. Debray, at Clyde, Kan., vice A. Comforth, resigned; George H. Tracy, at Wilbur, Neb., vice Horses Cole, commission expired.

Washington special to Chicago Times: “The friends of Secretary Manning state that while there is no truth whatever in the report that he intends to resign the Treasury portfolio to accept the Collectorship of Customs at New York City, there is a possibility of his retiring from tho Cabinet at some_ period in the future, when ho shall have fully accomplished his mission of strengthening the Democrats party by his reorganization of Treasury affairs.”

George *W. Williams, the colored Minister to Hayti, declares' that the State Department at Washington has attempted to force him to resign, and that Vice President Hendricks desires to put another person in his place. Minister Williams says that as a representative of the negro race he intends to make a hard tight for letention.

Friends of the administration say that the reason why the New York World attacks the State Department is that its proprietor made ono request of the President. That was that Charles Gibson, of St. Louis, should be appointed Minister to Berlin, that the President had decided to make the appointment, but that Mr. Bayard interfered and secured the place for liis favorite.