The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-10-09
CABINET MAKING.

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just what was going to be done about the
cabinet the subject would be exhausted as
a source of daily dispatches; so they keep
on asserting and denying on alternate days
that this, that or the other member is TO re-
main, or be dismissed, or to resign. This
enables them to get months occupation
out of what would afford but all hours
teegraphing if they had the exact truth.
Only the other day it WAS asserted that of
course the cabinet would remain; the coun-
try demanded it, and Arthur would not
dare remove them or permit them to resign.
Then it was said that Hunt would certainly
have to go, whether he would or not, as
there was some private quarrel between
himself and the president, but the rest
would probably remain. II was next de-
clared that Window would 20 anyway,
even should the president want him to stay,
as he desired to get back to the senate.
After an assurance that Blaine would GER
tainly stay it was telegraphed that he was
determined to 90, regardless of the pres'
dents desires; then that he was intriguing
to stay, and now that it is utterly rcpug-
nant to him to remain, and that he will in
sist on retiring as soon as he can do SO
with proprety. Lincoln and MacVeagh
were at one time reported as among those
who could probably remain; then it was
discovered that MacVeagh positively re-
fused, and was solicitous for the immediate
acceptance Of his resignation, while Lin
coin is almost forgotten. James, supposed
to be an intimate of Conklings, was first
regarded as the one most likely to stay,
and after week Of assertion and contradic-
ton settled down with the correspondents
as most certain to go, and is now reported
as having, with Hunt, received an assur-
ance from the president that their places
were at their pleasure as long as they chose
to hold them.
The chief difficulty with the average cor
respondent is that being 50 eager to ascer-
tain what is occurring to-day and is going
to occur tomorrow, he pays little attention
to what occurred yesterday, In word he
reads very little history, and being there.
fore ignorant Of the past, he has little
knowledge of what is likely 10 occur in the
future, except when it is actually told
him, and in most cases he is depend,
ent upon the statements Of men whose
wishes generate their thoughts
1t is not likely that Mr.. Arthur has yet
fully determined upon a program, or that
he has informed any one outside Of his
most intimate friends regarding that por-
ton Of his program he has thought OF. AT
the same time it ought to have been ap-
parent to every intelligent person, from the
very moment Of GarGeld's death, that the
Blaine ministry could not remain in power,
In our system the president is not respon.
siblc either to congress or the people, once
he gets into power; but, as in Russia and
Turkey the ministers are individually re.
sponsiblc to the autocrat -somotimes
called car sultan or president. 1t is
therefore absolutely essential that the min
listers must be not merely submissive to
their master, but on terms Of cordial good
will toward him. This has been the rule
from the beginning, and the principle was
never so fully recognized as it is at present
1t reached its full development under the
autocracy of Grant, and has not since been
seriously questioned.
If anything was well known regarding
the personal relations of American politi-
clans it was the hostility between Arthur
and his friends and the whole Garfield
government In the face Of this il would
have been contrary to all the presidents,
contrary to good manners for the cabinet
ministers to take advantage of public senti.
ment and emotion to saddle themselves
upon an executive who, whatever he might
say out Of politeness, preferred TO have his
own friends about him. Mr.. MacVeagh is
reported as having expressed this idea very
neatly when he said that President Arthur
could not retain Garfed's ministers unless
he continued Garfcd's work to the letter,
and, if he intended to continue it, he was
entitled to get whatever credit there was in
itby doing it with ministers of his own
choice. It was, therefore obvious from the
beginning that, sooner or later, tho cabinet
must be entirely rcmodcled; that the sonti-
mental talk about continuing Mr.. Car