The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-06
THE "TRIBUNE.'

Mr. Greeley telegraphs as follows to the
Tribune In reference to the new Cabinei:-
The new Cabinet means business emphati-
caly, Each man was chosen by General Grant
expressly to aid him in carrying out The pro-
gramme of economy and integrity embodied in
Mr.. A. +. Stewart was selected as that man
whose very name wouldAgive another assur-
ance that our debt would be paid to the utmost,
and as fast as our creditors can DESIRE MIR.
stewart has only 10 apply to the collection and
disbursement of the revenue the same prin-
cipes and methods which have secured him
such eminent success as merchant, TO restore
the Government to solvency and financial
prosperity. He is not politician. aud he will
manage the Treasury purely as business con.
revenue at the smallest COST whether to the
people or the Government. He cannot fail.
The Hon. Il. B. Washburne has fought so
vigorously ana successfully In Congress against
corruption and prodigality that ne could not
be spared from reforming Cabinet. His
any appoinlment that keeps him in Washing
Ton. On these grounds he first resolved not 10
accept, but IL Is hoped that his repugnance will
be overcome, even though he should not be
able TO serve through General Grants term.
Probably 70 single member of the Cabinet
had any reason to suppose his name on the
slate TIL 1t went into the Senate to-day
THE 'rIMEs."
This journal comes out in an approval almost
two columns long. II says:-
The Cabinet Is emlnently and evidently one
of the Presidents own selection. He has ap-
pointed the men who compose 1t because they
| suited hfnl-not bees use they suited somebody
else. They are not tai en- from the class of pro.
minent politicians Of any school or OF any
party They are all Republicans of pronounced
affairs but 1t Is not as politicians that they
have made their mark or evinced the
10 high Office. YeS political experieace
is by no means wanting in the Cabinet
a good deal OF public life, and have
| vindicaied their claim to public confidence by
met It's responsibilities and performed its do.
| ties The Cabinet as a whole will not com mend
itself TO the favor OF politicians. because it has
not been taken from their ranks; nor are the
men who compose it sufficiently well known
| TO the public at large 10 command In advance
| the full confidence OF the community. But in
| the very freshness OF its character In the fact
that It's members are business men rather than
| politicians, and are likely to make the practi.
cal intert SITS of the country their first care we
| see ground for believing that the Cabinet will
by lis practical working, vindicate the wisdom
| OF lts selection.
THE WORLD"
This journal makes the following o5serva.
| ti0Ds!--
In our comments yesterday on the inaugural
| Address, we had occasion to remark that IL CON
| taiped nothing which was not borrowed from
| the Republican papers. We cheerfully admit
the Cabinet. Nobody will doubt Lnat General
Grants whimsical pretense of composing his
quite sincere lie has not only de-
Waited from the beaten path, but .deviaied
into absolute oddly; having made such a
Cabinet as no politician would have advised,
such "a Cabinet as no newspaper could have
oplectured. "A Cabinet which fills his political
oppon entB with wonder, and his political
friends with suppr essed dlsmay. There mas
never before been Cabinet formed at the be
| ginning of an adm Illustration which did not
I contain at least Que or two men OF first-ratC
| standing and recognized eminence In the poll.
| tics OF III e country.
The appointment of Mr.. Washburne o
Galepa, 10 a position which, under all admin
statesmen of the oeTiod : by jefferson, by
Madison, by John Quincy Adams, by CLAY, by
| Webster, by Calhoun, and never until now, bl
| man whose emiuence was not universally
recognized by at least his own political party
| the appointment of such q man as Wash
Snrne 10 tread in The footsteps of the ION
| line of accom- plished statesmen who hav
mad charge OF our foreign relations