Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1909 — NORTON IS AID OF MAC VEAGH [ARTICLE]

NORTON IS AID OF MAC VEAGH

Chicago Man Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. PROMINENT IN RISK CIRCLES Also a Writer of Considerable NoteSecretary MacVeagh Acted on Hie Personal Initiative in Making the Selection and Not from Political Influence—Chauncey Dewey, Pr nlnent In Republican Politics, Is Offered the Postmaetershlp In Chicago. Chicago, March 18.—Friends of both Charles D. Norton, general agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company, and Chauncey Dewey, Republican leader in the Second ward, admitted the truth of dispatches from Washington that Mr. Norton would be assistant secretary of the treasury and Mr. Dewey had been offered the Chicago postmastership. Mr. Norton waa in Washington a few days ago, where he saw President Taft and conferred with Franklin MacVeagh, secretary of the treasury. At his home in Lake Forest it was Bald he had returned from the capital, but had departed from Chicago again and would not return until late at night In selecting Mr. Norton, it Is said that Secretary MacVeagh acted on his personal initiative and not from political influence. Mr. MacVeagh has known the new appointee since he was graduated from Amherst college in 1893. Mr. Norton then took a position with the Northwestern Mutual company. He left the company for a short time to accept a position as writer for Scribner’s Magazine, but returned to the company.