National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-07
The Cabinet,

interested and the generally informed
have kept pace with the steps which have
led up to the final result.
Air. Blaine's name in connection with
the State Department was received from
the beginning with expressions of very
general approval. He is a recognized
party leader, whose following is mainly
of the stalwart kind. He has large ex-
perience i'll public affairs, great fertility of
resources in emergencies, happy combi-
nation of caution and dash, q thorough
knowledge Of governmental history and
practice, an enlightened and broad ambi-
ton for the Nations future, and a personal
manner which is itself valuable stock in
the trade Of diplomacy. He will recog-
nize that, as the past decade has been one
of convalescence and healing, following
the preceding one of war and surgery, so
the coming one is TO be marked by the
business activity of Nation restored to
health. We shall look to him for the
growth of amity and trade with nations,
rather than the Inauguration of an era of
war and conquest, and we shall not be
disappointed. The premiership is well
bestowed.
The appointment Of Mr. Window to
the Treasury Department guarantees an
able and honest conduct of the collection
and disbursement of the revenues and a
safe and prudent course in financial af-
fairs. He is a man of high personal char
acter, large and clear brain, fine and
equal temper, and such knowledge of
men and affairs as will insure wise selec-
ton of agencies i'll the administration of
the immense business he has I'M
dertaken. His seif-poise in the
midst Of exciting cares has been
thoroughly proven by the manner
in which he discharged his duties as
chairman of the Senate Committee on
appropriations, than which there is no
place in this Government which subjects
man to greater strain or requires 4
greater degree of patience, firnness, en-
durance, and method. Mr.. Window is q
quiet man of great reserved power, and
we look for all administration Of The Ma
tons finances under him which will
make for him a fame equal 20 that
achieved by any of his predecessors.
Next in point of imPortance, though not
in The order Of its creation by law, comes
the Interior Department. To this Depart
ment has been called one of the old
school Republican statesmen, of the class
ofLincoln, Wade, Simon Cameron, Chand-
Ter, Ramsey, and Howe. Samuel J. Kirk
wood, Of Iowa, is a man Of great intellect,
iron will, unfiinching integrity, practical
wisdom, large experience, and such frank
and open nature as commands confidence
with all. He is especially well informed
concerning public lands and Indian az
fairs. and he country may expect to see
him bring 10 the discharge of his new
duties the directness, simplicity. and in
telligence which have marked his career
both As Governor and Senator.
The practical and the merely theo-
retical have never been brought
into more conspicuous comparison
than they will be by the entrance
into the Interior Department of Kirk
wood to succeed Schurz.
The Post-Office Department is to be pre-
sided over by the present accomplished
postmaster of the great city of New York.
He brings TO the discharge ofhis duties fine
business qualifications and good name
lie Will find the Department steadily adj
vancing toward selfsupport: and if no
new experiments are introduced, but the
present policy followed, of increasing ex-
penditurcs. where greater increase of
receipts are thereby assured, we believe
he will be able TO figure as thc Postmaster
General under whose administration
the postal service was made self-sustain-
ing.
The War Department is worhily placed
in the keep;n" of the able voting stalwart
from Illinois, Robert T. Lincoln. That
he will fulfill the promise already given
by his life and prove himself worthy of
the hOnorcd name lac bears none doubt
who know him.
The Navy Department Will be in charge
OF very able man-one who could have
well filed more responsible station.
Az we have small navy, his labors will
he light; but it is not impossible that
during his time navy will have 10 be
built To maintain the American doctrine
originated by President Monroe and re-
itcrated on Friday last by President Gar
field.
The appointment Of Wayne McVeagh
as Attorney General would be somewhat
unsatisfactory were It not for the stalwart
uttcrances Of the President in his matt
gurIl but in view Of the promises that it
contains, and the acceptance Of the posi-
ton of AttorGey-Genera By Mr. McNeagh
after they had been given to the country,
there ought not to be any fear that crimes
against the ballot anywhere viii 60 I'M
whipped Of justice through any indiffer-
erCc Of the AttOrney-Geueral,0 or of the
district attorneys and uarshals. who
must in the main, be selected by him,
lie has beea inclined 10 underrate the
value Of party organization and had the
misfortune IL be on the Louisiana Com
mission in 1877. when The Packard gov
eminent. chosen on the same day with
the Hayes aud Wheeler electors, was oyer
thrown. These facts arc alluded TO in the
interest of frankness and good understand
ing. There is no more reason 10 doubt
that he will be faithful TO the stalwart
policy Of President Garfield than there
was to doubt that he would On the occa-
sion referred to faithfully perform the
work for which the Louisiana Commission
WAS created.
The party bearing of the Cabinet APP