Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — INSPIRED BY JENKS’ ENEMIES. [ARTICLE]

INSPIRED BY JENKS’ ENEMIES.

Source of the Statement That He Was to Re Cleveland's Attorney General. The statement that George A. Jenks, of Pennsylvania, was to be Mr. Cleveland’s Attorney General emanated from friends of William F. Harrity, to whom the thought of Mr. Jenks’ appointment was as gall and wormwood. The announcement was made for the purpose of destroying whatever possibility there might be of Mr. Jenks’ entering the Cabinet. Mr. Harrity himself is said to have sent word to Mr. Cleveland within the past few days indicating that Mr. Jenks’ appointment would be distasteful to h'm. Harrity, it is explained, would have gone into the cabinet himself had it not been for the fact that he is making $15,000 a year in his present position as Secretary of State of Pennsylvania. He does not want to give up this income for a Cabinet salary of only SB,OOO a year.