The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-03-13

Grants Cabinet.
AS the cabinet of President Grant has al
ready fallen to pieces it would seem hardly
worth while to make any extended reference
to each name on the list; yet as indicating.
by the class of men he was disposed to call
into his most intimate counsels the political
tendencies OF the new President, the pecr-
liarities of the men he selected are not with
out interest
Waslburne is 30 well known ia this state.
that little need be said OF him. An out and
out radical. thoroughly ip,bued with the
great moral ideas" of his party, his selec-
ton, apart from the rest, would indicate a pur-
pose on the part of Grant to run the admins
tration in complete subservicncy to The wishes
Of the ultra radicals But aside. from his
radicalism, Wasnburnc had another qualifca-
ton which we imagine was higher recon-
n mendat;On in the eyes OF the President, As
chairman of the committee on appropriations
in the house. Washburnc fought 70 sturdily
against certain gigantic railroad aud either
plundering Jobs. that he MAS called the
watchdog at the treasury" Grant has
mounted economy and retrcnchmcnt rs II hob
by, and thus Washburne, ASIDE from all other
considerations, naturally We. favor in his
eyes.
That Grant cared nothing about radicalism,
was evidenced by his appointment of Stewart
as Secretary OF the Treasury. Stewart was
never a radical. A north Iristman BY birth,
always merchant and trader, never 1, politi-
cian-known only in politics "A IN indifferent
democrat. HI. nearest approach to radicaiism
was his continuing to support Grants election
after his nomination by The Chicago conven-
ton. 'y his appointment GRAFT not only
showed his indifference to rsdicaligm, l,ut to
the next great moral idea of Msssschasetts, n
high tariff, Stewart being al avowed free
trader t1t1 NBiLG,l
Schofeld, the Secretary Of War alse, was
never radical. He was removed from the
command at st, Louis during the war because
he was set down as an odieus copperhead"
Though born IN Pennsylvania. Schofield was
raised in Kendall county, Ill.,, where we knew
his father some Yeas ago rs q noted local
democratic politician
Adolph +. Borie, Secretary Of the Treasury,
was fully described by Gen. Mcclure as a man
unknown to the republican party Of Pennsyl-,
vania. lie is retired merchant of great
wealth, 90 years of age and never held any
political position except that Of being presi
dent last year of the Philadelphia Union
League, in aid OF tho operations Of which he
apcnt a good deal Of money. ~
Jacob d. Cox, Secretary OF Che NAVY, was
first heard a as u General during the war in
Western Virginia under Rssecrans aud Nc
Clean. In 1861 he became the republican
candidate for Governor eli Ohio against Gen.
Geo. Morgan, whom he beat 30,0ao votes. He
was an Ohern graduate, therefore always an
anti-a'ayery man, but he pierced the great
heart Of the radical party, by writing a letter,
during his canvass for Governor OF Ohio, in
Opposition to negro suffrage, which about
ruined his reputation ior loyalty"
H. Lockwood iIoar. OF Mass ATTORNEY
Gener"i i unknowp to fame except tnat he
cA..e near Fgpg nominated as thc radical can
didate Tor Governor OF Massachusetts q wear
ago; and except, also, that he is the son of
that Judge Hoar, who, some ton or fifteen
years ago, went to Charleston, *. c., to defend
some negroes on trial there and was expelled
frsm the city. 10 may possibly he full
blooded Massachusetts radical,
John A. j. Crcsswell. Of Me-, Postrns ster
General, was, at the breaking out Of the war.
member OF TIC Maryland Legislature, and
took strcng grounds against secession speed
ly becoming a radical Of the extreme type. In
1865 be was elected to the U. 9. Senate to I'll 4
vacancy, and. AZ q senator, astsd with the
radical wing Of his party He vas delegate
to the "Philsdelphia lsyslsts' convention, in
1886, "a also 70 the border state convention, in
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