Wilmington journal., 1876-07-28
&IR NE'S CABINET WORKING
ORDER.

q R ANTS CABINET IN WORRYING
ORDER.
The Boston Post says, and says truly
too:
It has been the custom, under the
present Administration, to run the
Cabinet as political machine during
each campaign, allowing it, in compen
sation, to be run for private emoluS
ment during the dull season. -Four
years ago tue Attorney General was
stirring up strife by his secret agents
in the South and fabricating false re-
ports of disturbances. The Postmas>
ter General had some of these agents
in the pay of his department, and also
stumping the North. The Secretary
of the Navy was spending the peoples
money by the million in hiring voters
wherever there was navy yard. The
Secretary of War was directing the
movements of troops for the coercion
of voters in the South, and drawing
his personal subsidies from post trad
ers. In the Treasury Department. the
system of whiskey frauds was con-
ceived for the purpose of providing
funds for the campaign. The several
Secretaries, with the exception of Mr..
Fish, were also sent out to stump their
States. This year the campaign with
the Cabinet takes on a yet more re
markable and offensive form. For the
first time a Cabinet officer is chosen to
conduct the canvass for the Admins
tration candidate; and under his di-
rection as manager the body of consti-
tutionaI advisers of the President is
thoroughly reorganized by the retire
ment of every man who has identified
himself in any way with tie better sort
of Republicanism and the substitution
of o hers who will work unscrupulous-
ly and heartily for the continuance of
the rule of Grantism through the eec-
ton of Hayes.
The Cabinet may now be said to be
in fair working order, since Judge
Taft seems inclined to remain quiet.
But the remarkable feature of the
changes which have resulted in this
arrangement is that from the begin
ming Grant has turned out the honest
men, and those whom he has retained
in the greatest favor have, with one or
two exceptions. been disgraced. In
ali there have been twenty-five Cabi-
net ministers during Grants term.
He began by dismisslne Secretary Cox
for practiclng too rigid virtue in the
matter of political assessments. In
his place the President appointed De-
lano and stuck to him; but how Della
no went out is quite fresh i'll memory.
Chandler is unlikely to steal, but he
brings other scandals equal to that of
Delano with him. RobesOn, who sue
ceeded Borie, is another favorite, and
he is Oh the verge of impeachment.
Williams of landaulet notoriety was
another. aud Grant nominated him for
Chief Justice. Belknap was 50 loved
that Grant was willing to almost make
himself accomplice after the fact by &C.
cepting his hasty resignation. Came
ron succeeds for the campaign. Bris~
tow and Jewell are turned out. Now,
then, after so many changes, the ADJ
ministration is ready for the campaign
with a reconstructed Cabinet. The
party proclaims the President to be
worthy of the gratitude of the Ameri~
can people for his services in time of
peace; Grant replies that he shall
make Hayes's success a personal mats
ter; Chandler is elected manager of
the campaign; reformers are driven
out of the Cabinet and the whiskey
ring let in again; and the question
may be asked with some pertinence.
especially in this section, whether it
could have been much worse if Blaine
had been nominated at Cincinnati.