The sun., 1884-12-07
ADVICE TO MR.. CLEVELAND.
WILLIAM @ DEWITT RECOMMENDS 4
CABINET OF OPPOSITES
Nj. Cenk,ins Should he Let Back 10 Devess
the Foxes that Trapped Hin. aud Beechse
Should bo Made Minister 20 Eosiand.

Mr.. csnt,ins Should he I.et Back to Deve.s
the Foxes that Trapped Hin. aud Beeckse
SHOULD Lo Made Minister 60 Ensiand.
At the dinner OF the st. Nicholas Society al
tho Pierrepont House In Brooklyn last evening.
william @. Dewitt responded to tho tonst "T The
Presidency OF the United States" Ho spoke 10
substance as follows.
Tho late election was a civil revolution,
discipline. and rockless OF the past. lifted one
OF their own number into the post OF supreme
ter Ter Hi the White House in condition Of personal
nee snoyed Sy n, none Wn. oi hls p59deSss %
who wandsssd away s'e srans: YS:
BY. which he, ,succeedod liberate him.
not be chareeable with treachery or ingrati-
tude., lie maj, Ill his ofllees from one party or
the day he may take whichever side eommends
Itself to his indiyidual Judgment. What makes
is the portentous fact that we are at the begin-
g ming OF ,eS new epoch % In our poli;ica history.
has passed away. The great organic questions
OF our form Of government were closed for the
amendments or the arbtrament OF arms. We
haye new man and now age.
tense interest and sOctude and rejoice to
see that he has constant recourse to his own
times Of trial and pcrplexity, because such 10
the pniyersa m r , 9s me human n heSTs
nature shall not lack support,
He is likewise much to bo congratulated
shosm ms wss pss hs
mind in seasons OF popular turbulence and
should an sandd
ton upon oil tho 1.-Two political questions Of the
day to the end ID that m each American citizen may
or the party which shall opposo,tho President,
ac.S.QyJding yt to to his Individual a. convictions. ,r-
do IS most dsiisa,e aSssion ?a Ills situation /.
quite similar to that which cGnnfronted the first
into his Cabinet tho leading minds OF his day,
irre'speSctye OF their political cconyictions, and
peciay between Hamilton and Jefferson. often
srSs his hG o ,Sro tbo of the
Should President GleysIand follow the oI:
smns o1 sf be @aa
from iron both parties t or q from % 2ne2 Ian Demo.
lived and died in that faith, and shall follow
their eSSampie eS I'M ,b But my democraey Is IN the
prnepes to- psy
favor favor a liberal. expensive; progressive Demos.
the Gt @eanH Of sSnf
bsSs91 brorht ant By as we all o wa.
ties. or course. such selection must bo sub
sidiary to the supreme test Of fitness and ca
pacity In Individual cases. The more contra:
rlous the better. Such men BRyard and
Groesbeck Conkling and Curtis Hampton and
Lamar are mighty opposites' whom viewed In
the shadows Of departed politics but might bs
compounded into most effective material for
good service In the future Of o regenerated. re-
ConklinR and the Senate, there strs In mo 8
sentiment OF fair play When see lion trap.
open the trap and let the lion go for the foxes.
Beecher ought to 20 as Minister to England.
He would be grand representative among the
leading men OF the world, and at his age. after
his great la6ors. he should have royal rest.
Free and untrammelled rs President Cleve-
land IL. there is one cause to which he is con.
spicuously committed and for which he will b
held to strict accountability. This is the cause
practical and business-l like duty which is here
imposed upon him. The great law Of the sur
vival OF the httest goes on in politics as In ma
tuTs; na;;;, II the new Administration governed by
the worse element Of either or both parties
thus calling into the public service the old-tno
parasites OF parties and converting the public
for the President II he had had a stone puS
around his neck and been flung into the middle
OF the ocean than to have met with his un-
hand. exercising the utmost scrutn and care.
ne shall intrust tho offices to the better men in
each OF the localities and thus purge the pub
nc service OF CORRUPTION and elevate 1t to the
Its early days. he will be justly entitled to the
gratitude and praise OF his countrymen.
"A corrupt republic is worse than a mon.
arehy II the manifold abuses everywhere ex.
must be declared a failure. This is the task
committed to the new President. which IL well
performed may entitlo him to be called
at, the savior OF his country. And now as he sets
him. Strong in the right he need fear no evi.S