The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-03-19
cLEyELArD,s CABINET.

CLEyELAND'S CABINET.
he Distinguished Men VINO VIII Advise
the President.
The following sketches of the mem.
bers of Mr.. Cleveland's Cabinet will be
of interest:
TIE SECRETARY OF STATE.
The Hon. Thomas Francis Bayard, OF
Delaware. is one of the best and most
favorably known Democratic Statesmen
in the United States. he has been in
continuous service in the Senate
longer than any of the other Democratic
Senators, and when he was called to the
Cabinet by President Cleveland was
serving his third term, and had been q
Senator for sixteen years. He succeeded
his father. He is the third in direct line
in his family in the Senate. He will be
81 years of age the 29th of October. He
does not look day over 81. He is vefy
tall, with a good, well-filled.out figure,
although he is by no means stout. de
has the fresh color Of man who lives
plainly and simply, and the alert look of
a young man of 25. His face is inclined
to be long, while his features are angular.
His forehead is broad and high and pro.
iects we'll over pair Of keen blue eyes.
His nose is large Roman. His face is
smooth .shaven, leaving bare his pointed
chin and squarely.lined jaws. He has
very even white teeth, which might we'll
be the envy of man 80 years younger
than h He always dresses with great
neatness, and is rs careful in the. selec'
tion of bis gloves and boots as the most
fashionable young man.. He is man of
very pure private record While he is
not an interesting public speaker, on &C.
count of the weakness of his voice, yet
he.is always listened to with the greatest
respect. His chief prominence in pub
lie life has been through the study and
demonstration of financial topics. AL.
though he is a member of the Senate
judiciary committee, he has made more
reputation in the part he has taken as a
member, and, when the Democrats were
in control, as the chairman of the finance
committee. He is an incorporating
man, who would yield no principle
where there was any sacrifice required of
his ideas of personal honor. He is one
of the highest minded men in public
life. He has 8 moderate fortune of $780,:
600 tn 5000 900. This is the result of
the natural increase of the inheritance
left him by his father. He has two
dauphtars and three sons. who are grown.
Mr.. Bayard was born at Wilmington,
Delaware. He received bis education at
the Flushing school. He had no cole.
giate education. He was admitted to
the Bar in 1851. The only office that he
ever held before he was elected to the
Senatein 1869 was the Office of District
Attorney Of Delaware, which Office he
held in 1853 and 1854. He was ranked
as one of the best lawyers of Delaware.
He has great dignity and conservatism,
and will make avery satisfactory Secre.
tary of State.
THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
The Hon. Daniel Manning, who has
been chosen by President Cleveland as
Secretary of the Treasury, was born in
Albany, N. Y, August l6, 1881. His
parentage was of Irish, English and
Dutch extraction. He was poor boy,
and his early opportunities for schooling
we're very limited. At II years of age
he went to work as an Office boy at the
establishment of the Albany 4Atlas.
which was afterwards merged into the
Albany Argus, with which paper be has
ever since, in one capacity or another,
been connected. 3 In 1873 he assumed
sole charge of the argus, and WAS elect
ed President of the company, which
position he yet holds, though he has
done little or no writing for some time.
He was member. of the Democratic
State Convention of 1874 that nolnina.
ted Samuel j. Tilden for Governor, and
was delegate to the st. Louis Conven-
tion of 1876 that nominated Mr.. Tilden
for President. He has been member
of the Democratic State Committee since
1870. He WAS its Secretary in 1879 and
1880, and was elected chairman in 1881,
which place he nov fills. Hewas VAIN.
ly interested in the nomination Of Mr..
Cleveland for President at Chicago last
July, and it is generally conceded that
he.showed great skill in the Convention
as the head of the New York delegation.
Mr.. Manning has been active and sue.
cessful outside of journalism and politics.
He has long been Director of the Alba.
ny and SusquehaDna Railway Company,
and was, until few days ago, President
of the National Commercial Bank OF
Albany, of which he was first Director
and then Vice President. He is also
Park Commissioner of Albany and is a
Director of the Albany Electric Light
Company.
Mr.. Manning will bring at once high
political ability to the station. While
not wanting in financial ability of the
kind usually expected in the station, bis
habits and pursuits in life have not been
specially in that line. But hil training
has been of the kind to enable him to
know where and how to find what be
wants, if he cannot readily supply it.
An experienced editor, q successful bank.
er aud a man of the world on large
scale should be a good Cabinet officer.
THE SECRETARY OF WAR.
The Hon. William Crowqinshield
Endcott, Mr.. Cleveland's Secretary Of.
war, was born in Salem in 1927, and is
the son of William Putnam Endicott
and Mary, daughter of Hon. Jacob
Crowninsllield, who was Representa-
tive to Congress. He attended the Sa.
lem schools, and was graduated from
Harvard College in the class Of lS47.
He married his cousin, a daughter Of
George Peabody, aud has Two children, II
son and daughter. He studied at the
Harvard Law School, and read law in
the office of the late Nathaniel ]. Lord.
He was admitted 10 the Bar about 1850
and few years later formed a partner
ship with the late j. W. Perry and con.
tinued with him until his appointment
by Governor Washburn to seat on the
Supreme Bench in 1873. This position
he held until 1882, when be resigned on
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