The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1881-03-11
The New Cabinet.


quarters of every Boss" in the United
States, and as. the apparent result OF all
these perturbations General Garneld yes
terday sent to the Senate the weakest set OF
names ever made up into the list OF Caol-
net. Lord PalmersuOn's 5 famous description
of a ministry to which he was opposed as a
''fortuitnus concOurSe of atoms would be a
flattering description of the new Caolnet.-
1t is composed, evidently enough, OF pollU-
cal atoms, but their -'con2ourSe would De
more respectable if it had been really fortul-
tous instead of being the result of series OF
compromises and concessions tbrOagh Which,
one after another, the leading men OF the
Republican party have been struck out or
the Government, and the new Administra-
tion has been left thing of shreds and
patches.
Two men alone of positive strength and
weight should be excepted from the verdict
Mr. Blaine is the first of Republican polit-
cians and Mr.. James has been by far the
best Postmaster that this city has ever had.
Mr.. Blaine has viii, energy and ability
enough to make his mark on a vigorous for
eign policy and under Mr.. James the pos
tai service of tho whole country will doubt
less be brought to something like the same
efficiency and the same economy which he
has introduced into the postal service of its
chief city, if he is to control the department.
His nomination is the one nomination upon
which the whole country might fairly be con-
graduated if the general complexion of the
Cabinet gave less color to the apprehension
over it in general while others bcdeyil il in
detail. Why Mr.. Window should be Secre-
, taTy of the Treasury rather than Of the In
terror why Mr.. kiTlwood should be Secre-
taTy of the Interior rather than of the Navy
why, indeed, either OF them should appear
in the Interior rather than or the Exterior of
the Cabinet itSef-theSe are questions to
which nobody has offered and nobody is
F likely to offer any answer which VIII show
that the public interest and the actual deS-
patch of public business have had anything
really to do with their selection.
Politically the Cabinet is as weak, with the
exception of Mr.. Blaine, as it Is adminiStra-
tiVelY with the exception of Mr.. James, and
Mr.. Blaine's political strength is likely TO
prove an element OF political weakness. Mr.
Blaine'S qualities of readiness and courage
fit him very well to be the leader OF body
/ like the House of Representatives, but If he
; had any confidence in the Presidents con-
} troll OF his own Cabinet it is not likely that
: he would have exchanged his seat IN the
/ Senate for the portfolio OF the State Depart
ment. TIE Importance of the patronage OF
/ that department to Mr. Blaines position as
a political leader certainly cannot have
/ tempted him to such a step. He has doubt
. less gone into the Cabinet to prevent the
. President from giving way altogether 10 the
influence which brought the Republican party
so near to total shipwreck at Chicago and
defeated the nomination OF Nj. Blaine hIm-
. self If we set aside MI. Blaine as the rep
reSentatiye of tie most energetic and pro-
/ and Mr.. James as the representative of adj
. ministrative experience, the remaining Off
. ceS are so filled as to nuliiy the value OF the
. Cabinet either for the Republican party or
+ Tor the public administration. When the
/ Cabinet of Mr.. Hayes was named nobody
. dreamt it could hang together for year,
. and vet the individuals who composed It
were much stronger than the majority of the
. present Ministers, and the Cabinet they
/ composed was much more homogeneous tnan
{ this of Mr.. HaycS'S successor. Carl SchurZ
is much more Of a public man and repre-
sent a much more important element in the
party than does kiTkwOOd Dick ThOmp-
son was better known and politically more
respectable than KeNOgT'S pal Judge
Hunt, of Louisiana; and General DeYens
stands very much higher, both as a lawyer
and as a politician, Than Mr.. Wayne Mae
Neagh. Whom or what any one or these
persons represents is not at all clear, nor has
any one of them so mnch personal strength
as TO make it possible even for Republican
organist to pretend that he has personal
VaIue OF ms own, as Mr.. Blaine, 1Or example,
has personal valTe of his own. What
possible claim can Judge Hunt have to the
place Of Sir Joseph in the American service,
. except the fact that some years ago he lived
in Louisiana and within reach Of tlde-water
Mr.. KirkwOod except that he lives in
Iowa and has served a term in the Senate, III
quiet obscuTity from which he has only
emerged from time to time to become ridicU-
lOuS % Or Mr.. cNeagh. except that his
kinsfolk the Camerons dislike him, that he
. is the representative of that feeble folk, the
faction which in Pennsylvania CORES pond,
TO the Young ScratcheTs in New York, anC
that his recent candidacy for the Senate de
mOnStrated that he had no following in hi,
own State
The most amazing OF the appointments, o.
. course, is that Of Window. A Washington
despatch in tO-days World reyiVeS Tor Oul
readers the financial record of the man whC
has been called upon to confirm resumption
and to complete refunding in the Cabinet o.
q hard-moucy President! There is scarcely
. q more cons SUiCuDuSlE unfit man in the cOuI
try than Mr.. Window for the place to whicI
/ he has been nominated. The wild way O
dealing with great public questions whicl
lie has haUitudiiy followed In the Senate i
. precisely calculated to alarm investors. do
meStic and foreign, as to the financial policy
of the country at time when every possibl,
security as to it ought to he given to them
in view of the certainty that some scheme o
further TeiundIUg must be adopted by Con
| greSs, no matter what becomes of the meas
uTe which Mr.. Hayes vetoed to oblige tin
banks. Ii it he true that the appointment
OF Mr.. WINDOW was suggested or accepted
by senator COnklng either as his first chOlc
or as a compromise what a revelation is thi
to New Ockers Of the SOundneSS on ques
tiOnS OF currency and finance of their rep
TeSentatiyeS in the Senate Senator COnk
ling has repeatedly failed to submit his
2 views on these subjects to the test of a vot
upon any measure when the facts were ol
one side of the case and popular preiudjc
existed OF was imagined by nm TO exist Cl
the other II Mr.. Window be Senate
COukling's Secretary there need be no furth
l eT test applied The nomination of Genera
Weaver would not have been more elOqUeu
of peril. Possibly General Garfield ma
have chosen Mir. Window Of his own motion
2 and because the Minnesota delegation
1 which had clung to Mr.. Window during tn
battle against Blaine at Chicago, was anon
= the FIRST to break. and TeSOUteiV ran ava
D from Mr. Window to General Garfield whel
, the convention could hold out no Longer
| If this be the case, it is a pity that a Pres
= dent from whom the country had hoped 70
a conservative front could find no cheape
way of acquitting his political debts than a
D the expense Of the credit and to the imm
, nent peril of the prosperity Of the country
: --NezC York World, 9Th.
e MANY of the Republican Journals proy
=. dOleful over Garfeld's Inauguration upon
Friday. No wonder. No President inauc
5 urat5d upon Friday has been elected to
second term. John Quincy Adams in 1872
and Franklin Pierce, in 1853, were inaueura
0 ted on a Friday. Possibly these precedent
f may not distress Secretary Blaine, Genera
Grant OF John Sherman. Every day of til
D week except Sunday has seen a Presider
Y sworn into Office. Washington, jackson
: Jefferson, Tyler, Taylor, Lincoln and Have
Z were sworn in on Monday. In four instar
t ces this resulted from the accident of Mare
4Jh falling on Sunday. MOnrOeg Polk an
Grant Gn his second term) were Inaugurs
G ted on Tuesday. Washington, Jefferson
jackson, Fillmore and Buchanan entere
the White House on Wednesday. Madiso
: in his second and Grant in his first term wa
sworn in on Thursday. John Adams Mad
ison in his first term, Van Buren,, Lincoln i
his second term and johnson were sworn i
. on Saturday. 1t may comfort politician
.f 10 TO l-r,r hot