The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-09
THE CABINET

Now that Prdsident Garfield has appointed
his cabinet and they have been confirmed, i
is not amiss to take look at his adviser
n d see who they are. MIR. Blaine, secretary
of state, is well known to the country, MS 'h'
senator from Maine, md MS q TWICE defea,es
aspirant for the presidential nomination. A
native of Pennsylvania be has lived nearly
MI his life In Msino and first rs represon
tatiye ana lsto7 as United States senator
from that state, he msdo for himself muct
reputation throughout the country
and has no little 10 do in shaping the legis'
lion and directing the policies that have OBJ
tanned during the past eighteen or twenty
yeBra. There 10 no gentleman in the Repub-
lican party more thoroughly Statesman, OF
more thoroughly II politician. We presume
Il Is perfectly proper to bSy that he is thu
ables, one of MI General Gsrlleld's advisers
HIS Secretary of the Treasury, Mr.. Window,
OF Minnesota, is ono Of tho brighlast intelects
ia his party. He was born in Ohio in 1897
and hss lived in Minnesota since 1855. A
western man by birth and roaring, his M
ture and character formed themselves from
the vigorous, progressive, energetic western
types and his services rs r United States
Senator have therefore been Of II quality Ia
attract attention to himself Identified with
tho vast, his financial views are more after
the western idea than the idea Of tho ctst
With his party Ia its goundness on tho gold
md plv9r question, he nevertheless believes
in apleudlu supply Of paper money too.
Mr.. Wayne McVGigh, Of Pennsylvania, is
attorney general. There is no doubt but
that be- takes to the Office with him an ability
that is first class, and profound
knowledge of tho law. No gentleman
stands higher IL Pennsylvania in his profess
sion than he does. Ho has been known
to tho country as the Eln.in-law Of Simon
Cameron, tho brothot-in-aw of Senator
Don Cameron and as one Of "tho Waiting
statesmen" whose successfully manipulated
matters in louisiana IA to capture tina! state
for Mr.. Hayes. The Post Master General is
Mr. James, of New York. This gentleman
has never had any special prominence as s
politician, but being of some local importance
he was made po,tmas.er of Now York City
and no so ably and etlicioatly administered
the affairs of that Office aud
by his suggestions secured 90 many
beneiits for tho postal departments
that he was, selected, evidently for his fitness
for the position, The secretary of war Mr.,
Robert Y. Lincoln, Is u son of the late
President Lincoln and Is gentleman o t
much promise, 10 thirty seven years old and
the osly surviving child of President Lincoln
He graduated at Harvard college in 1864
and since 1872 he has practioed law in chi
cage, doinga he,vy practice. IL is happily
married, hia vito being daughter of cI-
Senator Harlan Of Iowa, and has three
children. Hon. w. IL. Hurt of Louisiana,
the secra'ar v Of the navy ia native
.of Louisiana, his family being one of the
leading lsmlie5 of New Oylssus. He has
boon district judge and two others Of his
brothers, ono Of them tho famous Randall
Hunt, were distinguished n. the Louisiana bar
Another brother WAS IN eminent physical
Ia Louisiana and lost his llfa ia duel
Ju ige Hunt is distinguished as n lawyer ant
Is perhaps tho most gifted orator at the New
Orleans bar. Io is of proud, sensitiv,
disposition, very stylish, always appearing ii
court in white kid gloves. His family wore
old limo wings aud hence il is we presum,
that no driftcd into ropublicsnism. Tn;
secretary Of the Interior Hon. Samuel j
Kirkwood, Is western man, having beer
born in Maryland in 1918, ard hsvin.
resided in Iowa since 1866. Io served twic
as the governor of the sta,c, and in 1866 Wa
sent 10 the United States senate, be
ing reelected in 1876 so that, like Mi
Blaine, no resigned scat in the senate t
take position in tho cabinet. Thes
arc Presldon, GNllelds advisers and counsel
ors. They are all young mon, HI
Kirkwood perhaps being the Oldest MON
Dor, an he isno! mmy years the senior {
of the president, Tho cabinet is not mad
mp Of men, excepting Mr. Blloe, who h9v
mAdo any Distinguished regulations for thea
selves, yet each ono has shown himself to /
possessed of ability, snd.strongth OF chsra,
ter, 80 it is reasonable that they will ba sal
counsoGors for the president, and render III
country efficient service.
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