The Republican journal., 1881-02-10
President Garfeld's Cabinet and Policy.

Cabinet speculations are now in order,
and will continue to be until such time
as President-e elect Garfield may see fit
to announce his constitutional advisers.
Meanwhile Gen. Garfield keeps his own
counsel, as do his friends. Unless, as has
been suggested, the Cabinet slate is not
yet made up, the secret has been closely
kept, and the newspapers completely baf-
fled. The New York Herald, however.
gives unusual prominence to Il dispatch
from Cincinnati concerning the Cabinet
and policy of President Garfield, which
is at least plausible, and may have been
'inspred." We are told, in the first
place, that ''Gtn. Garfield will not be
bullied into appointing any one to Il Cab
met place. He will make his own Cabi-
net, and he will call about him as his
constitutional advisers men of ability and
character, men who will heartily and faith
fully cooperate with him in the policy
which he proposes for his administra-
ton" He will endeavor to make his Sc
lections SO as to promote harmony and
give satisfaction to the party, and where
Cancellation is possible with self respect
he will conciiate But he will not give
himself into the hands Of clique or fac
ton and cause general dissatisfaction for
the sake of pleasing some two or three
over-amhitous men. These are set forth
as the principles on which Cen Garfield
will form his Cabinet, and they are fully
in accord with public expectation. Any
other course would be a surprise and
disappointment.
As to the Cabinet, it is regarded as
settled that Senator Blaine will be Secre-
tary OF State. New York wants the
Treasury. but Il Western man will sue
coed Secretary Sherman, probably Will
liam b. Allison OF Iowa; and the Herald
correspondent says further that New
York will not be given a Cabinet position.
This, it is said, will be satisfactory to
Senator Conkling and it will solve the
problem how to avoid favoring one fac
ton at the expense of the other. For Sec
rotary of the Interior, Francis A. Walker
of Connecticut, the present Superintend
ent of the Census, and superintendent of
Indian Affairs under President Grant.
Robert Lincoln, the son Of President
Lincoln, is to have place probably the
Attorney Generalship. lie is an able
lawyer and a Jealous Republican. and his
appointment would be very gratifying to
Gen. Grant and to Senator Logan as well
as to many Republicans throughout the
country. There will probably he no
Southern man in the Cabinet, and ITO
ward the South General Garfield means
to carry out conciliatory but firm poll
cy, one which shall give no honorable
Southern man just cause OF complaint,
but which will insist on the recognition
Of equal political rights everywhere. The
whites must recognize the constitutional
fact that the blacks are citizens and that
the rights of no class of citizens can be
attacked without injury and danger to
ALL For the rest, Gen. Garfield will
favor a revision of the tariff in the inter-
est Of home industry, and the internal i'm
provements needed to perfect and en-
large the system Of cheap internal com
munication and to facilitate home COM
merce. On the free ship question, Sen
ator Blaine, in his reply to Senator Beck
the other day, is said to have outlined the
policy of the new administration. The
Cabinet is not complete, in this slate;
but the policy of the new administration
is certainly complete, and could hardly
be improved upon, promising as it does
solid prosperity for the country and for
all parts Of it.