Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — W. E. HAINES. The Same Campbell. [ARTICLE]

W. E. HAINES.

The Same Campbell.

Ex-Senator Farwell, of Illinois, upon returning from Europe found out to his great astonishment that the man whom he recommended for collector of customs at Chicago three years ago but rejected by Harrison, had been selected chairman of the national committee at the president’s request. Farwell is under the impression that it was Harrison’s unpopularity that caused a Democratic legislature to be elected in Illinois. For this reason he is very bitter toward the president. He does not conceal his contempt for Harrison as will be seen by the following sarcastic letter addressed to the Washington Post: Some three years ago, more or less, while I was in the senate of the United States, I recommended a gentleman by the name of William J. Campbell for the office of collector of customs at Chicago. All the Republican members of congress recommended this gentlemen at the same time tut this office. The president said "that he was a professional lobbyist and unfit for this position, and that he would not appoint him.” Will you be kind enough to inform me whether the Campbell appointed chairman of the national committee (at the urgent request of the president) is the same Campbell whom he refused to appoint to a federal position because he was a “professional lobbyist and unfit for it ?”