Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1889 — LITTLE BEN IS ANGRY. [ARTICLE]

LITTLE BEN IS ANGRY.

BLAMING THE GERMANS FOR THE RECENT LANDSLIDE. He Intimates to Senator Sawyer that Teutonic Office-Seekers Must Step to the Rear—Harrison's Official Family Wants More of the Loaves and Fishes. . [Milwaukee special.] German Republicans here have found food for discussion in a Washington dispatch published in the Herold from its correspondent there. This dispatch says: “There was no very cordial feeling in the White House to-day when the official family of the President gathered around the Cabinet table. Just what was the matter could not be definitely ascertained, but the President was out of sorts and he took no pains to conceal his feelings. He was short in his answers and Secretary Noble, as well as Miller, showed plainly that they were greatly disgruntled over the manner in which they had been received by their chief. In fact, the former was so annoyed that he was almost as brusque as the President himself when conversing with others immediately after the session. But it remained for Senator Sawyer of Wisconsin to receive the full brunt of the President’s displeasure. The Senator called Once more to urge the appoint of ex-Congress-man Guenther to the consulate which he seeks. Naturally Senator Sawyer will not divulge the nature of the conversation, but enough is ascertained from another source to warrant the statement that the Chief Magistrate scarcely treated the senior Senator from the State of Wisconsin with common courtesy. He is reported to have said sharply that he was tired of this sort of appeal and that he die not care to hear anything more of the subject. Senator Sawyer was indignant, and it is even asserted that he will not not again trouble the Piesident with his company. The fact seems to be that the Chief Magistrate lays to the door of the German-Americans the causes which led to the defeat the Republican party in Ohio.”

Like a hornet, the business end of the dispatch is that which comes last. The lierold is the leading German Republican paper in the State. That it takes the trouble to print the dispatch in English has created a feeling that there is more to the matter than appears on the surface, [Washington special. | Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, has confided to a few friends the secret that he visited the President a few days ago and found him in an irritable state of mind on account of the drubbing the Republican party got last Tuesday. The good-natured Senator had no suspicion that the President was feeling ugly, and after the usual coui-tesies informed him that he had called to see if. the President would not act favorably upon the application of ex-Congressman Guenther for appointment as Consul General at Havana. Mr. Harrison said: “It does not seem to me that this is a good time to press Mr. Guenther’s case after what the Germans have done in Ohio and lowa.” Finally the President intimated that he preferred to talk the matter over at another time, and the manner in which he conveyed the suggestion indicated that he wouldn’t care if the Senator never called up Guenther’s case again. The Senator left the White House smoking-, hot clean through. Harrison and several members of his Cabinet are having a large-sized row over the distribution of the patronage. The promises of the Cabinet officers have been freely given to Senators and representatives, and with the approach of Congress the latter are pressing for a fulfillment of the pledges. The President has been treating his Cabinet Ministers very much as though they were jclerks. He refused to accept their suggestions or has from time to time postponed action until he has involved them all more or less in vexatious difficulties with Congressmen and Senators. Wit*"n the last two or three days Mr. Harrison has been told by more than one Cabinet member that he must either let them have their way about some things or accept the responsibility.