Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — PRIVATE SECRETARY. [ARTICLE]

PRIVATE SECRETARY.

E. W. Halford, managing editor of the Indianapolis Journal, has received the appointment of Private Secretary by President-elect Harrison. He will at once take charge of Mr. Harrison’s correspondence, but for a time will continue in his position on the Journal. His relations with the President-elect have been of an intimate nature, and the marked characteristics of the two men are much alike, socially, spiritually, and politically. He is one of the few men whom the President-elect has taken into his confidence, and he gave valuable aid in promoting the success of General Harrison. He it was who started the Harrison movement, and he exerted much influence in holding solidly together the Indiana delegation at Chicago. With the rare qualifications that he posges-ifts for the—duties,. 'Mr. -Halford -wlll.-.do.u.htless make the position of Pri ate Secretary one .ol great importance in the new adminiStration)*and it issafe to say that he will have qliite as much influence as any Cabinet minister. He is a n( j rvouß, ; bra|ny little fellow, full of rushing energy, with great capacity, for work, although ratherweak physically and is always ready with an idea. H»r came from England with his parents when a small child, and has livt’d in Indianapolis since, wiih the exception of a few years of his boyhood spent in Hamilton, O , and two years in Chicago as managing editor of the Inter Ocean. His education, with the exception of a common school cotirse. was obtained in the newspaper office. Beginning as a carrier boy, he-worked t is way through the mechanical department of the Indianapolis Journal, and was promoted to’ the writing force. In' a L w years be rose to the position of managing editor pf the .—re