Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-16

cabinet men whom he feels assured will
serve the public interests best. He will NO,
select Jones because Jones comes of a good
Delfocratic line, nor because ne has back
ers q frontiers either; nor because Jones
STAG gave big majority, for the Governor
KNOBS full well that Jones Is one thing, aud
the q, 900 majority quite another. He will
esc5ew all sentiment and bosh, for he is a
cool careful, business-like, painstaking
maH Better still, he has made no prom
isce and is not weighed down with burdens.
And what is better than ALL he loves his
couAtry and realizes what public Office is,
and>what it calls for.
is safe to say that he will have no fos.
silskn his Cabinet. The age and the inter
est&of the people demand activity and ca
pac1y to work. What, then, is the use of
talL5ng of a man OF seventy for a Cabinet
plafeH He may be able, polished, and of
imH Hense reputation, but what under the
sunwould such an old soul do in a great
department like the Treasury? He would
ride up and down in the elevator, day after
day sign the letters poked at him by the
clerks, write big annual report, and per-
haBs an article for the North American Re
yiek now and then. Some peo-
PIE would say. great man" Fosls
would think him wonderful secretary
Meantime the rust and the dirt and the
coAwebs and the filth in chinks and holes
anG rooms and places would remain, busi-
mes would be done in ruts, and the old
msh at the head would know nothing be.
yotd his room, and if you said: "Mr. Secre-
taty. this part Of the building is in bad
shape" or that division needs looking af
tel" or "the records of such people call for
investigation" he would say the same old
thing that old men say every hour, why
my, dear sir, you can't expect man of my
age to run about the building, can you? As
for the order Of the place. have nothing to
do with that. The chief clerks duty is to
do that I'm not chief clerk. And as to
the individuals whose records need in.
vestigation, | can only rely upon
what the bureau officers report
to me, and they of course, are dependent
upon the chiefs of divisions" And the poor
old man, poor old fool, goes on his course
and the spittoons stink because the clerk
can't control the messenger, and the clerk
does as he pleases because the chief of
division is his chum, and the chief Of div!-
sion saws what he pleases to the head of the
bureau because very often he is a mere
politician, without qualifications for the
place he occupies and he, in his turn, reports
10 the Secretary what the chief Of division
reported to him. Thus it goes.
No old men, Mr. President But active
keen.eyed, business men, who will have feet
to walk, hands to feel, and do, eyes to see
ears to hear and mouth to speak-men
who will understand that they must work
and live, and move and act, that the people
expect it of them-men who will regard
their places as calling for their most earnest
efforts. Such men, for example, would be
Randall for the Treasury. The Democrats
of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
think this, even if Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky
doesn't.
No better than Edward Atkinson, of Bos-
ton, could be found for the posLotfice de.
partment. He is a business man, very
scholarly, of splendid capacity, a wonder.
fully good statistician, fine speaker, has
great common sense, knows the country
from 10 Mexico, knows the people and their
wants, too
There this Mai. L. A. Burke of the New
Orleans Times-Democrat, State Treasurer
and Director General of the greatest exposi.
ton of the world has ever seen, he, LOO,
would make an excellent Postmaster Gen
eral He is great business man. Gov.
Cleveland knows that.
The Wisest Man of All.
1t is generally conceded by just minded
.Smen that Mr.. Randall is the wisest and the
strongest man in the Democratic party
Had he not killed the Morrison bill, it
would have made little difference who was
nominated at Chicago, for every Northern
State would have been lost hopelessly, to
the Democrats. He it waS who shaped the
tariff plank Of the party platform. The
opposition to him comes from few stub
born, anyielding men who have fixed no
ticns, who see nothing forget nothing, and
care nothing. Mr.. Randall himself has no
special desire for cabinet position. He
prefers the House, and as be is entitled to
the Spekaership hewill doubtless be elected
to it in the Forty-ninth Congress, unless
prejudice and blindness prevail against the
true interests of the party.
For Attorney General there's Carlisle Of
Kentucky, and eminently able lawyer aud
fair man. The South would be compli-
mented by his appointment. Then there's
Senator Garland. of Arkansas, the sblest
Law yer in the South, after Edmunds.
Another name that has not gene a'lv
been spoken is that Of Hon. William Walsh,
Of Maryland, the first lawyer Of the State,
a man whom Reverdy Johnson once said,
vas the ablest lawyer he had ever known
il this country or in Europe" Walsh
served in the Forty fourth and Fourty-ftth
Congress, and was regarded as the strongest
lawyer in the House. lie has an immense
practice worth $4,000 a year Charles
O'Conner once told me that Walsh was a
remarkably shrewd lawyer; "but," added
Mr. O'Connor, "he will never be fully ap'
preciated, he is too modest and retiring.
Walsh was one of Cieveland's frmest
friends in the convention.
Senator Herman, of New York, is an
other whose name is mentioned, an hon
est, upright man, personaltriend Of Gov
ernor Cleyehnds.
For Secretary Of War, there's Gen. Nc.
Clellsnd and VIM. r. Morrison, of Illinois,
a good soldier and an honest man.
Williauo Pinkey White. of Maryland, will
be highly recommended for the part Of Min
lister to the Court of st. James. His father
was once our Minister there.
Thurman, of Ohio, is the best man /
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