The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-06
WHO ARE TmEY2


best one, is Hon. Elihu B. Washburne,
Secretary of State, long a member of
Congress, from the Galena District, Hi
nois. Mr.. Washburne has been consider.
ed General Grants next friend since
the opening of the war, and his appoint
ment to some important post under the
Grant administration was assumed to be
a matter of course. Mr.. Washburne is a
man of ability and experience, and rigidly
honest as public officer. He has been
the watchdog of the treasury in Con-
gress for many years, and has fought the
rings with persistency and success. His
appointment to some position is a good
one, though it may be doubtful that the
State Department is just the place for
him.
A. I. Stewart, Secretary of the Treasu.
ry, as everybody knows, is q successful
drygoods merchant of New York, and a
man of immense wealth. lie was an
original Grant man, and before that a
Democrat-that is War Democrat. He
was very Jealous for Grant in the last
campaign, and spent large sums of money
to prosecute it. He is reputed to be a
man of high integrity, and it must
be said has fnanciered his own business
remarkably well, being worth some forty
millions. Whether he can fnancier as
we'll for the public remains to be seen.
Everybody knows of General Schofeld,
Secretary of War, who held the position
after Stanton gave up the war office. He
halls from Ohio, we believe; is a regular
army man; made reputation in the war;
and is no doubt we'll qualified for the posi-
tion. His political status is not very we'll
defined. We have heard things about his
administration at Richmond, which indi-
Gated more sympathy with the aristocratic
rebels over there than for the plebian
Unionists. Aside from that, we don't
believe much in putting regular
army men into civil positions, SIM
ply because the foundation of all
their theories is that the purpose
of the Government is to support the
army, not that the army is to be subordi-
mated to the idea of defending the Gov
ment. But it was reported some days ago
that Grant said his appointment Of Scho-
field was only q compliment, as he would
decline ii. We shall soon know if this
be so.
of. D. Cox, of Ohio, Secretary of the
Interior, we can only say that he came to
light as a General during the war and
was reputed good officer. On the
strength of his military laurels he was
made Governor of Ohio at the close Of
the war During his term, as we remem-
Der, he took decided stand against
negro suffrage in Ohio so that unless he
has modified his views, Grant has scarcely
got in him supporter of one feature at
least Of the Presidential programme.
J. A. J. Cresswell, of Maryland, Post
Master General, is prominent Maryland
politician and gentleman of ability,
thoroughly radical in his politics, who
served short time in the Senate about
the close of the war, having been elected
while Maryland was under radical con-
troll. If there had been any regard at all
for political equity in making these ap-
pointments, Republican West Virginia or
Missouri should have had this place in the
Cabinet instead of Democratic Maryland.
Z. Il. Hoar, Attorney General, is a
Massachusetts lawyer liability, though of
only local reputation, son of the late
Judge Samuel Hoar, of Lexington, who
some thirty years ago volunteered to go
to Charleston, South Carolina, to defend
a free black man who had been put in
Jail there and was refused permission to
do so and compelled by force to return.
AS for Adolph z. Borie, Secretary Of
the Navy, no doubt General Grant knows
who he is, and probably many others do.
We don't. Our impression is he is an old
naval officer; denizen of some part Of
Pennsylvania-oft the VcnanGo oil regions
it may be, judging from the name. Our
recollection is this was the name of one
of the men who Col. McKlure, of Cham
bersburg, told Grant wouldn't do for
Pennsylvania.