The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-24
THE PRESIDENCY.
The Meaning. Of the Recent Cabinet
Changes.
PENNSYLVANIA AND THE CANVASS
Why Was Don Cameron Made
Secretary OF War?
GRANT And His PHILADELPHIA CABINET.
How Blaine Has Been Organizing
Pennsylvania
GRANT TAKES THE FIELD IN PERSON
Don Cameron the Sheridan of the New
Campaign
How Blaine Has Been Organizing
Pennsylvania.
GRANT TAKES THE FIELD IN PERSON.
Don Cameron the Sheridan Of the New
Campaign.
PENNSYLVANIA AND THE CAMER0NS.


forget the Centennial The in the afternoon
and about Sixth and Chestnut streets where body
who is anybody everybody In five minutes
there was nutter Although resident Of Harrisburg
Don Cameron well known in Philadelphia his
father. II only the other day, that as
your correspondent strolng along Chestnut street
about noon he observed, few PAGES ahead Of him, a
group at which everybody seemed to turn and stare
Tho day was sunny. and everybody was out it was
difficult to move along. Tie group was composed OF
President Grant, Don Cameron and George W. Chids
and people who studied events with critical
eye shook their heads and said ''This
something You its meaning to-day.
Now everybody reminds you Of the walk and how Mr..
Childs marched the group to point where they could
get fine view OF the Ledger Buildings and the flags
and then marched them back again through the crowd
Administration EDITORS Who would have crino
line or pushed wheelbarrow to have been allowed
to have walked up Chestnut street with
the President, were sore over this os,cnta
tious preference General Grants part for
an editor who nothing about ''ihe cause" and
whose support OF the President social and pot-
cal. Whether Don Cameron and the President and Mr..
Childs discussed the War Department portfolio in that
MONDAY parade do not know, but Il IS an open
That the President took his trip discuss
political affairs with bis personal friends and that out
81 this discussion came some OF these changes.
GRANTS GARNET cRoSIEs
don't think you people IN New York have under
stood the important part Philadelphia has played in the
administration OF President Grant You remember the
military Cabinet OF Washington, which Hamilton
swayed, and which was the power behind tho throne
You remember the kitchen Cabinet of Jackson,
which the hero presided with corncob pipe when
he wanted to swear at some Grant has
had similar Cabinet in PhiladelphIa-which might be
called the Cabinet OF Crones. The President always
liked Philadelphia When he here during tho
war he was charmed. | remember hearing him say
land this must have been ia 1860 that he thought OF
making his home in this city. Philadelphia gavo him
his nrst substantial recognition in the shape OF a
house in the best part OF the town. Ho offered one
Cabinet portfolio George II. Stuart, merchant and
when that was declined he nominated Mr. Bore. a
couple OF years ago he strovc induce Mr. Drexel
enter the Treasury. Ho sending Joseph
Patterson 10 the English Court rs he did Mr. Boxer 10
Russia He named Judge Strong 10 the Supreme Bench
Every OF these appointments from the Cabl-
net OF Cronics They party appoint
ments. There is not one of these gentiemcn-Stuart,
Borie, Drcxcl, Boxer, Patterson srong-who would
not resent the suggestion that they in
active sympathy with Pennsylvania rcpubll-
sanism. When those who sympathIzed with
the party made Mr.. stokeley Mayor these
gentlemen opposed him the Union League. They
preserve their relations with the President on a per-
sonal footing Mr. Chds. who edits and publishes the
leading newspaper OF the city and who is a
prominent member OF the Cabinet OF Cronics
would never allow his Journal TO say a word
for against the party which the President
everything The politicians have growled because
the President ignored the rushers" and the -boys."
When the President to the city, OF going
down to the Row and having a good time with Bill
Leeds Harry Bingham or johnny Hin,
tbn rinr,
he was sure to slip away TO the home OF Ch,lds
Drcxe or Boric, where none of the boys on
visiting terms These journeys tranqulized mind
burdencd with of State, for the this
Cabinet OF crones are agreeable They rich
They live spendor. They give fine timers Trey move
in . refined exclusive circle They arc amiablc kindly
soothing. don't think Adolph Bore, who may be
said to preside over this Cabinet and about whom you
all laughed when he made Secretary of the Navy,
said angry word in his life. Tho reason Boric
did not succeed in the naval Office because he was
rich and lazy. I. not a question OF
fitness for he Is very able man, the
possessor Of a vast fortune which he
earned. He was ut the time OF lie when a busy man
Graves rest, genial man society and cultured man
time for reading. Mr. Boric both able. genial and
cultivated, and II his Office could have been
social one he would have been an adj.
mrsble Secretary of the Navy. But with tho
restless genius OF Porter side, and horde OF
hungry politicians the other, what could wealthy,
mddle-aged gentleman but throw aside the portfolio
AMI his pictures. his books and his friend
ships in charming Philadelphia Since then he has
been the confidential adviser and friend OF Gran-the
shasf OF the Cabinet of Crones.
The ACHIEVEMENTS GARNET cRoNEs.
Thus far the relations between the President and tho
party Pennsylvania have been governed by this Cab
met OF cronies Alexander X. Mcclure, the Achilles Of
the reform movement, made the discovery when, one
morning, he called the Second Washington
70 advise with him to tho wisdom OF
calling Governor Curtin into tho Cabinet
Tho eyes OF the Second Washington looked
out upon Achilles through the lowering wrea,bs OF
tobacco smoke with peculiar lusirc as he ntimacd
that when be needed advice Cabinet appointments
he woulc prepay letter to the Colonel the subject
From that day 10 this there has never
been any sympathy between the President
and the party In tho State. Curtin was sent 10
Russia which be regarded as an exile, and resented by
mutiny. Cameron gwen tho Turkish mission on
the nomination OF his son-nlaw. Wayne McyoIgE but
that gifled aud brilliant gentleman soon wearied
Of the Bosphorus, and home his
business Mcclure let tie republican fold
without asking for letter OF dismissal,
and opened a church OF his own. Forncy was given
the coIicclorship Of TIE port which would have been
humiliation to q man able and devoted, but that
liz acceptance was an act OF efdcnia The party
welfare believe McMichaci had some vague rccogni-
sion In tho way Of Office for Of his sons, but
nothing like what he deserved. All the appointments
shas meant anything all the Offices that carried honor
with them, given to the candidates most accept
able to the Cabinet Of Cronies ftlcrc Is any Pepys
u rhlladepbia inside this Cabinet his diary VIII
~ reveal has no body Of men have had 90 much