The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-06
SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1869.
The Cabinet.

the promises given py hun' O'A 'A' ''iJ
,ast moment the names of the Cabinet were as
profound q mystery as they were three
moptbs ago. It is true that nearly every
name in the list as finally announced
has been mentioned in connection with
Cabinet appointment, but 1t is quite as true
that q score of others were equally prominent
in the same connection, and not until the off,
cial promulgation Of the appointments was
there the slightest approach to certainty in
the case of any one of them, with the single
exception of General Schofeld, who simply
holds over in the War Office for short period
and for specific purpose.
The first thing which strikes the reader 10
looking over the list is the fact that the pro-
fessional politicians have been practically
Ignored and defed. Said the Chevalier Mcclure
in his recent interview with the President,
''The Republican party will not be satisfied
with the appointment of some OF the gentle
men who have been mentioned; such men, for
instance, as George H. Stuart and Adolph Z.
Boris." At the time this oracular saying was
made, in common with nearly every indepsn-
dent Republican journal of the State, and with
the great mass of the party, We protested
against it, feeling that President Grant would
pay no more attention to the brazen assurance
of Mcclure than IL deserved. The appoint
ment by him of one of the very men whom
Mcclure saw fit to prescribe, shows that the
people have not made mistake in the man
whom they have elevated to the highest posi-
tion within their gift. Secretary Borie is as
nearly a, possible the direct opposite, the
positive antithesis, of a demsgogue. He has
never before held public Office, has never
been engaged in any OF the small plots and
petty intrigues which are the staple wares in
the business followed by the class of men of
whom Mcclure may be taken as an example.
During the whole of his long career he has
been engaged in mercantile pursuits of an
extended character, in the successful
prosecution of which the only
qualities that are desirable are d.
rectly the reverse of those which are so
prominent in the composition of men of the
Mcclure type. For this reason the profess
sional politicians may expect no fsvors at the
hands of the new Secretary of the Navy, aud
in an equal degree the professional plundersrs
of the public treasury and the whole horde
of incompetent parasites who subsist
upon the body polite may anticipate
no mercy. 1t is not to be presumed tina,
Secretary Borie will, at this late day, trans
form his character and the business habits OF
lifetime for their especial benefit. Hence,
while his appointment to the head OF the
Navy Department will be received by the
professionals as the signal Of their doom as
far as his influence and patronage are con-
cerned, it will be hailed with satisfaction by
the great mass of the people, on whom fall
the heavy burdens of taxation and from
whose substance are extracted the spoils OF
Office in which the professionals are accus-
toned to revel.
What is true concerning Secretary BIrie is
equally true concerning Secretary Stewart,
whose business pursuits have of late years
been conducted on the most gigantic scale.
Mr.. Washburne, who goes into the State De-
partmept, is man of a different type, a life
long politician, bat a pronounced and
indefatigable enemy OF the great army
of public plunderers - in short, a
statesman of enlarged views and ripe
experience, who will be thoroughly in sym
pathy with Borie and Stewart in all
the efforts which they may make towards
securing an honest and competent admins
tration of the affairs of the Government.
From Secretary Cox, of the Interior Depart
ment, and Postmaster General Creswell, the
country is fairly entitled to expect as much as
from the other appointments. They have
both enjoyed considerable experience in
public life, but to neither of them can be ap-
piled, with any regard to truth, the reproach
OF having made politics a trade, The new
Attorney General is less known than his
colleagues, but all accounts which come to us
represent him as being jurist Of deep and
varied learning, of large experience,
and OF unimpeaehable integrity. The War
Department will remain for time under the
control of General SchoReld, according to pre-
vious announcement by the President, who
hopes, through his agency, to effect certain
desirable reforms which would be retarded, /
not defeated, by change at present. Secre
tsry Sobofield has administered the affairs O
his Office in a manner which has given entir
satisfaction to the country, and his indefnit
continuance in the War Office will meet wit
approval on all sides.
Suoh is the Cabinet which General Gran
has called around him, body Of men poi
sessing, In an eminent degree, the qualities
head and heart which are indispensable
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