Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1889 — PRESIDENT-ELECT. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT-ELECT.

Gen' Harrison BeeMrinf Calle froia Varione Great Men. Following closely upon the visit of Senator Teller to General-: Harrison coffies many other politieans of prominence. Senator Hiscock, of New York, Came from Washington on the third, and was in converence with Gen. Harrison far three hours. No deformation was given out, bqt it is pretty well understood that the Senator came in the interest of Mr. Platt as a member of the Cabinet. He drove at once to the house of the President-elect and what, transpired is known but to the gentle-* men themselves. Another visitor of prominence on the f third was 8. W. Hawkins, late candidate for Governor of Mr. Hawkins, like 'most others who come this way, really had no information to give out. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the temperance lecturer, arrived at noon, at the same date. She said her object in coming was to congratulate Gen. Harrison on his election and tell him what the women did for his party during the campaign. She said that women had no favors of any kind to ask. Rev. -D. L. Carnahan, of Washington Territory, was also a caller. The number of-office seekerscan hardly be said to be decreasing as the 4th of March approaches. Chester Bradford, Indianapolis, is a seeker after the Commissionership of Patents, Col. W. R. Halloway for public printer, etc. But a fact of still more interest is the efforts of friends of Hon. J. N. Huston to secure his appointment as a member of the Cabinet. Should such an honor fall to Indiana it has always been conceded that John C. New was the party who would be called upon. But Mr. Huston’s friends, or some of them, 4ave endeavored to lay before the President the strong points of that gentlemafi, it is also charged that some of ex-Governor Porter’s friends have established a diminitive literary bureau and are laboring for the recogniation of the ex-Gov-ernor. Taken altogether the political situation may be said to be active with a rising tendency. Gen. Harrison gave the Messis. Studebaker, of South Bend, Satttftffiy) lcarteblanche in the matter of supplying all the carriages and vehicles necessary for his use at the White House. Among these will be an elegant close-quarter landau, which will be the carriage used on formal occasions, and As the-Inaugu-ral. Another is an extension brougham for the special use pfMrs, Harrison and the grandchildren. These will be the first carriages evCr employed at the White House that were manufactured west of the Alleghenies. They will be manufactured entirely m Indiana at the South Bend factory and delivered at W ashington about March 1. General Harrison has also bought one of his horses —a large, handsome bay—and has commissioned a friend to purchase others.