Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-03-09
THE NEW CABINET.

I'D hhiS hI h"fE oScH 6ApeCteu,
the new Cabinet fails to please all
the politicians Of the country, and
indeed it is impossible to conceive
Of one that Garfield might have
named which would have met with
the approval Of the entire body Of
politicians, for somebody's pet had
to be left out. Yet the people gem
orally will be satisfied, as they can
easily recognize list of public men
well fitted for the duties they are
about to assume, and We predict the
administration will be a success in
every respect. While most of the
leading journals agree as to the
strength Of the new Cabinet, they
differ as to the Influences causing
the selection. The St. Louis Globe
Democrat thinks that sit is not, pere
haps, the Cabinet which General
Garfield would have selected of
his own motion, had he TO friends to
please and no warning elements to
conciliate. Indeed, if we are not
greatly mistaken, Mr.. Blaine is
the only simon pure Garfield Sc
lection in the seven; the others are
the results Of choice between rivals
presented by the party, leaders, ,,
The New York Tribune, however,
takes an entirely different view of
the situation. 1t says:
The Cabinet, like the inaugural, is
all that any earnest and practical
Republican could ask. It represents
fairly and with strong and clean men
every section Of the party. It recog~
nizes every strong element, Grant
and anti, Grant. The Blaine men
are complimented by having their
great chieftain at the head of the
Cabinet along with Il number of
others who have been personally
friendly. There are two Grant men,
and the independent and reform Re,
publicans have conspicuous repre-
sentative in Wayne MacVeagh. The
seats are fairly distributed geo.
graphically. The claims of New
England, the great Central State S
and the West have been adjusted
with consummate skill, and the South
has q native Southerner- It is a
Cabinet that is as solid as a cube.
It is Garfield Cabinet, clear and
straight. The foresight and sagaci-
ty with which General Garfield did
his work at Mentor, and the tenacity
with which he has adhered to it in the
whirlpool of conflicting currents at
the Capitol, may be judged from a
single fact which we learn on unquess
tionable authority. With a single
exception the list of Cabinet officers
yesterday nominated and confirmed
is precisely the list which the Presi-
dent~elect wrote out at Mentor The
one change is in New York, where
the name of Thomas L. James was
substituted for that of L. 2. Morton.
The President has sought advice in
many influential quarters, but the
Cabinet is his own handiwork. He
has harmonized conflicting interests,
and yet has chosen his own council
lors. He has backbone and some-
thing elsa united party behind
him.
Let us look at the work in detail.
No Republican has SO firm hold
upon the confidence and affections
of the mass of his party as Mr..
Blaine. His transfer to the State
Department has been confidently
predicted on all sides for months,
for the simple reason that he was
recognized by friend and foe as the
strongest man-the man of oil
others-to head the Cabinet. His
distinguished services to the party,
and his conspicuous ability, have
made this choice a political necessity
as we'll as personal privilege. We
have the right to expect from him a