Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-10-30
A GREELEY CABINET.
rFrom the Chicago Evening Post

1t is on some accounts to be re-
GREETED that Mr.. Greeley will not be
elected presidentof the United States.
Mr.. Greeley is an editor. Mr.. Gratz
Brown is an editor. Doubtless the
cabinet would be largely composed OF
editors. Mr.. Greeley is indebted for
the organization of the party which
supports him to three distinguished,
or rather famous editors, without
whose help the movement which re-
suited in his nomination could have
reached no formidable proportions.
These three editors, in the order OF
their standing and ability, are TheO-
dore Tilton, of the Golden Age,
Murat Halsted, of the Cincinnati
Commercial, and Horace White, of
the Chicago Tribune. Mr.. Greeley
could in no event overlook the claims
of these gentlemen, and these gentle
men would probably not allow him to
overlook them if lie would. Of course
neither of them would accept any less
digniied position than that of men,
Der of the cabinet, and as, by so dis
posing of them, the shrieks of locality
would be nicely accommodated, men,
bers of the cabinet they would doubt
less all three be, Mr.. Tilton, who is
understood to entertain similar views
to Mr.. Greeley on certain financial
qestions, and is equally crochety and
haiT-brained on most other subjects,
would doubtless be appointed secre-
tary of the treasury Mr.. Murat
Halsted, who has, to begin with, a
very warlike nature, and who allows
no man to knock a chipoffhis shoulder
with impunity, and who served with
credit at the rear of the German army
all through the great Franco Prussian
contest, would of course be booked
for the secretary of war, and DIR.
White, who is distinguished for his
devotion to letters, and is familiar
with all foreign tongues, including
Norwegian, Russian and the original
Irish, would be duly ensconced in
the hOnOred bureau of state. There
would still remain two editors to be
provided for, to wit: Carl SchurZ
ard Gov. Bross. The former would
doubtless be sent to France, and the
latter to England.
To the accomplishment Of this
felicitous arrangement the democracy
might interpose objections. But these
ought to be easily satisfied. There
would still remain two cabinet officers
for the northern democracy, and two
for the rebel democracy, besides the
position which the elder Blair occu-
pied in the private Office or back
chamber of Andy johnson, of conf
Dental adviser to the President. This
would doubtless be accorded by COM
mon consent to Jefferson Davis The
others would probably be filled by
Seymour and Blair from the North,
ands by Hunter and Breckenridge
from the South.
What would become of q country
chiefly managed by editors, we are n
little anxious to know. What sort of
a happy family they would make in
cabinet council we are almost dying
to see. We fear there might not be
absolute harmony upon every ques-
tiOn and upon all occasions. Were
the subject of the tariff to come before
the body for discussion, for instance
DR.. White might hazard the sugges-
ton that q system of protective
duties was simply a system of legal
lied robbery; and H. G. might reply
in his gentle and genial way that the
doctor was a liar and villain and
the doctor would be altogether likely
to come back at his assailant with the
rejoinder that he was an inspired
harlequin and an educated idiot
Whereupon a resort to blows would
only be prevented by the Intervention
of Warrior Halsted and the final
indignant withdrawal of H. G.. from
the consultation, with the parting
Injunction to the whole counsel of his
editorial brethren to "go West, and
be id"
But we will not enlarge upon the
happy consequences of so felicitOus a
result. The prospects of its being
carried out are not flattering. The
people have first to be consulted; and
as the people have somehow imbib5 d
an old fashioned notion that editors
are impractical zealots, with more
brains than sense, and more preach
ing than principle, they will doubtless
postpone for the present the realiZa-
ton oftheir ambition, and the country
will in some ineomprehensible way
be compelled to make shift without
them.