The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-03-11

S&HAheAu'b CAWlnok
Was sent into the Senate Saturday,
and Immediately confirmed by the cour-
tesy and good nature of the Democrats,
though Conkling and Cameron tried for
time to postpone action, in the vain
| hope of getting some chance of wreak-
ing their vengeance on the president for
daring in the least to disregard their die
tation. The list consists off,
James g. Blaine of Maine, Secretary Of State.
William Window OF Minnesota, Secretary of the
| Treasury.
Samuel J. Kirkwood of Iowa, Secretary of the
Interior.
Robert T. Lincoln of Illinois, Secretary of War.
William ii. Hunt of Louisiana, Secretary of the
Navy.
Wayne Macveagh of Pennsylvania, Attorney
General.
Thomas L. James of New York, Postmaster.
General.
BLAINE is, evidently enough, to be the
premier of the cabinet, for he furnishes
the chief brain force, knowledge Of men
and politics, energy and managing facul-
ty. The country has seen fewer ADLER
or more adroit men. He promises to
revolutionize our diplomacy, and to strike
sensational attitudes in our internati onal
relations His chief work will be to
punch up foreign governments as he did
Ben Hill. He will try to be second
Disraeli and keep us in row and stew
all the time. However facinatng this
policy may be to mere demagogues, it is |
one which sober, thinking, conservative
men, who have seen our national pros
perity attained by steadily minding our
own business, justly dread. Moreover
Blaine has always been on suspiclously
intimate terms with the great railway
kings and corporate plunderers, he is the
advocate Of subsidies and "extravagant
expenditures for internal Improvements"
and it is notable fact that the jobbers
and corruptionists pluck up new courage
at his elevation, and after their long
since Hayes and Samuel ].
Randall held the reins, are swarming
greedily back to the capital.
Two ofthe selections however are excel
lent ones-James and McVeigh. The for
ner at New York made.the most efficient c
in the country, has thorough c
v mastered the details of the work, and 5
an be depended on for clean and bus S
less like administration. McVeigh is Il
cry bright man. standing in about the
bird rank among lawyers Of national rep tt
alton, and though he married into that c,
lmily has been chiefly notable in Penn rs
,lvania poll tics for refusing to wear the :.
ameron collar. Window has cast some III
lid votes in congress on financial ques-
oDs, as most western men have; but
, is man OF comprehensive views, and
Is taken such position against the en-
oachmennts of monopolies, that we -
ay fairly trust him not to administer the -
TONS finances in their interest. "
So far as the country knows the rest y
e nobodies. Lincoln was selected on ~
influential grounds, because he was the " y.
n of his great father. He has never
ne anything yet to prove the posses ~
n OF brains or capacity; and indeed,
ere is less need of it in the war than W,
any other department. In the Naval ~
partment on the other hand admins, ~
tive capacity of the highest order is ~
eded to clean out the corruptions that ~,
We remained over from Robeson's day, W.
build up an entirely new navy to r.
e the place of the present miserable w., W.
fficient apology. Mr.. Hunt is fine. ~, w.,
tor, pretty good Judge and represent WY
We of the cleaner elements of South s
Republicanism, but whether he has ouS
: especial fitness for his work, or can ~
any better than poor. clever Key did, a.,
My matter of speculation. Kirk ha
ID as "war governor" of Iowa, 20 years tba
filled his place ably and popularity, of
has since dropped comparatively out tel,
public view. He is also an experiment. aha
IN the whole in personal character, =, q
,gnized ability or potency for good eJr
cabinet must be rated several degrees az
w that whichh Hayes called around T
years ago. Still they may do their src
k well. Give them fair chance. o1,o