Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1913 — Nicholson Will Not Take Lisbon Post-Wires Wilson. [ARTICLE]

Nicholson Will Not Take Lisbon Post-Wires Wilson.

' - J Washington, June 23.—Diplomatic appointments went abegglng today, when Meredith Nicholson, a novelist of Indiana, declined the post of minister to Portugal, and. within a short space, the white house received the declination of James D. Phelan, former mayor of San Francisco, to accept the position of ambassador to AustriaHungary. The two declinations were a problem for the administration which Is experiencing some hitches in filling foreign posts. Mr. Neholson, whose nomination was said to have been sent to the senate without Mis konwledge, said his domestic plana already made, forecluded a sojourn abroad. . Mr. Phelan based his declination on his decision to run in the primaries next year for United States senator. In the case of Mr. Nicholson’s withdrawal, President Wilson is understood to have insisted that the author accept the proffered post. What action was taken by the white house in the case of Mr. Phelan was not announced.