The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-03-15
The1Cabinet.


the moderate element triumphs il
obtaining a place, while there is n,
assurance to the extremists tha
they are represented at all. 1t ma,
be said here that patch work Cabi
nets have generally been a failure. A
Cabinet made up by compromis,
is generally failure and even wors,
than to take up a hostile element
just now, however, in a formativ,
period Of politics, it is not necessary
TO write failure of such a Cabinet
1t will be enough if, despite pas
differences, the Cabinet be Earmon
ious upon the new departures anC
new policies. There is every rea
son to believe that, if Mr.. Haye:
has matured and determined to fol
low, in spite of Blaine and consist
ency, liberal policy, his Cabinet
will be harmonious. Sherman, who
would be regarded as least likely
to favor such a policy, happens
most likely to be in accord with
Mr.. Hayes.
OF VIM. NJ. Evarts little need be
said. He is liberal, const;tutionally
calm and conservative. His char.
acter is unblemished. He is a man
of conspicuous ability and vast
learning, and that Imagination
which all great minds possess. He
was Mr.. Johnson's attorney in the
impeachment case, and his Atty Gen
eral toward the end of his Admins
tration. His effort on the Impeach-
ment trial was one of the greatest
triumphs of his genius. He made
great reputation as counsel for the
United States in the Geneva Arbi-
tration. He has been successful in
all his great lawsuits. 1t is one
thing, however, to be great law
yer and great statesman. Some
times those whose business is pre-
cedents, whose occupation is look
ing backward, do not look forward
with clear sight. Perhaps Mr..
Evarts has genius to relieve him
from that frequent doom Of lawyer
statesmen.
Mr.. Sherman was elected to Con-
gress in 1854 and served three sue
cessive terms. In 1860 he was
again elected but was chosen Sena-
tor in 1861, and has been in the
Senate ever since, and has continu-
ously held the craftsmanship of the
Committee on Finace. He has al
ways been extremely partisan and
intensely Republican, with that Pu
ritan cast of thought and sentiment
which excuses any amount of de-
ceit and fraud for Gods sake, and
conveniently finds Gods will in
whatever it wants done. Mr.. Sher-
man has never been personally en-
gagged in any but political wicked
ness-if there is a distinction. 1t
is to his credit that his private
character is unassailed and, during
all the reign of corruption, we can
not recall a whisper connecting him
any way with the corrupt practice
of those around him.
Carl Schurz is, we believe, the
first foreigner appointed to Cabi-
net position. He was born near
Cologne, Prussia, and was engaged
in the revolution of 1913, and es
capped to Switzerland, whence he re-
turned and effected, with great skill,
the release of his confrerc, Kinkel.
After writing in Paris and teaching
in London, he came to the United
States and soon attracted attention
by his Republican speeches, which
were ornate, passionate appeals.
They were popular oratory, in a
style which he has long since aban-
doned for the calm logical. AS an
opponent of the administration eX-
tremists and a deserter from the
party in 1872, and reformer, he is
more distasteful to the extremists
than any other man IN the new adj
ministration, and his appointment
has been secuted, ridiculed and Bit
terly opposed.
Richard w. Thompson, Secretary
of the Navy, was born at Culpepper
Court house, Virginia, in 1909, and
received good education. In 1881
he settled in Louisville. In 1884
he began the practice of law in In
diana and was elected almost imme
diately to the Indiana Legislature.
He went up to the Senate, became
Elector for Harrison and was elect
ed to Congress in l84l, and was
again Presidential Elector, and then
was elected to Congress. In 1S49
he declined reelection. He was
rendered positions by Taylor and
Fillmore but declined, and has not
been in public life since 1S49.
George NJ. McCrary, Secretary of
of War, was elected to Congress in
1868, and has been in Congress
since. He is a man of ability,
good lawyer, without any great deal
of record.
David McKendree Key was born
in Greene county in 1925. He is
self made man, having acquired his
own education while he lYbored on
the farm until he entered college
and graduated. He came to the
bar in 1858 at Chattanooga, where
he has resided since. He was a
Presidential Elector on the Buchans
an ticket in 1856, and the Brecken-
ridge ticket in 1860 He entered
the war in 1861, and served through
the war as Lieutenant Colonel Of
the Forty third Tennessee Regiment.
He served ably as a member of the
Tennessee Constitutional Conven-
tion of 1870, and in the same year
was elected Chancellor of the Chat
tanooga district, which he held un
til he was appointed to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of An
drew johnson. AS a lawyer he was
distinguished for clear insight and
remarkable grasp of the facts of the
cases, and upon the bench for his
unerring instinct in grasping the
case before him, and presenting