National Republican., 1885-03-05
cLEvELANp,s CABINET.
The Gentlemen who Nvin constl,u'

tor Lamar, secretary Of interior; Senator
Garland, attorney general Daniel Man
ming, of Albany, N. Y, secretary Of the
treasury Judge William c. Endicott, of
Massachusetts, secretary OF war; William
G. Whitney, of New York city, secretary
of the navy, aud Con. William L. Villas,
Of Wisconsin, postmaster general. As
tho public will feel lively curiosity in
regard to the gentlemen who will thus
become the Presidents advisers. the fol-
lowing sketches of their careers will bo
found interesting:
THOMAS +. BAYARD,
secretary of state, was born at Whining
ton, Del, on the goth OF October, 1899,
aud was principally educated ut Flushing
school. As q youth he was trained for
mercantile pursuits, but his tastes led In
another direction, aud he entered upon
tho study Of the law with such zeal and
industry that in 1851, before he was %
years of age, he was admitted to tho bar.
In two years ho attained q distinction
which procured him the appointment Of
United States district attorney for Del
aware. He hold that position for two
years. and then resigned and removed to
Philadelphia. But in 1854 he returned
to his old home at Wilmington and re.
sumed tho practice OF his profession
there. Ho SOON took front.rank in pol
itiCs aud became, though q young man,
one of tho trusted leaders and advisers of
the democracy. In 1860 he succeeded his
father as senator from his native state,
and has occupied tho office continuously
since. He early became prominent
figure on the floor of tho senate and has
lan,, hany, ranaanty.A af hn
leaders of his party. He was member
of tho electoral commission in 1876, and
was Clovelands principal rival for the
presidential nomination last year. Mr.
Bayard descends from family that is
famous In the annals of Delaware and in
national affairs. Ho is the fourth mem
ber Of his family who has served in the
United States senate. His grandfather,
James Ashton Bayard. held seat in that
body from 1904 to 1913; his father. James
A. Bayard, served from 1851 TO 1869,
when he was succeeded by his son, and
his uncle, Richard H., was elected in
1896 and again in 1Si1. In 1856 Mr..
Bayard married Miss Louisa Lee, of Bal
timorc. Ho has six daughters, one mar
ricd, and three sons.
DANIEL MANNING,
of New York, who is slated for tho i'm
portant secretaryship of the treasury,
was born at Albany August l6, 1881. Tho
death of his father forced him to earn
his own livelihood when but mere
child of years. lie became Office boy
of the argus, and managed to learn type
setting in the intervals between running
errauds. He became q conipositor upon
the paper and after awhile succeeded in
securing place upon tho reportorial
force, where ho displayed marked ability.
BY slow steps he advanced his position
upon the paper until he became its sole
manager and principal owner, having
been elected president of the Argus Com.
pany in 1873. His connection with tho
paper drew him into politics, and he
soon developed into one OF tho most
adroit and sagacious political managers
in the state. His capacity as q politician
attracted the attention of Mr.. Tilden,
whose trusted ally he has long been. HE
nomination to his present office is at
tributed largely TO Tilden's influence.
Mr.. Manning was member of the New
York state convention which nominated
Tilden for governor in 1874, and he was
delego to to the national convention al
st. Louis which nominated Tilden fol
president. Since 1876 hc has been "a mem.
Der Of the Now York state democratic
committee. He was its sec rotary for two
years, and in 1881 he was elected chair
man. He was Cleveland's firm champion
in the Chicago convention, and his untir.
ing efforts in behalf of the President
greatly contributed to bringing about his
nomination. Since the election Mr.. Man
ming was married to q beautiful and brill
liant young lady, who will no doubt be
one of the shining Lights Of Washington
society.
The secretary of the interior.
LUCIUs @. c. LAMAR,
is ono of the most widely known and
ablest men that the south has sent int
the field of politics since the civil war
He was born at oxford, Putnam county
Ga, and received his early educationa
training at an excellent private school IL
that town. At the age of 20 he gradu
ated with distinction at Emery college
Georgia, and after two years study of tn
law was admitted to the bar. In 1S49 h
accepted the position of adjunct prolesso
of mathematics in the state university o
Mississippi, at Oxford, but resigned it th
next year and returned 10 Georgia. ii
located in Covington for the practice o
his profession, and very soon took hig
rank as q lawyer. In 1858 he was electe
to the Georgia legislature, but he aban
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native state to return to Mississippi. ii
was elected to congress from his no'
state in 1856, and continued there unit
the breaking out Of tho rebellion whe
he resigned and entered the rebel arm
as lieutenant colonel Of the Nineteent
Mississippi, and subsequently became II
colonel. In 1868 he was sent on mil
sion to Russia in behalf of the confedel
acy. At tho close of the war he II
turned to Mississippi, and in 1866 wa
elected professor of political economy an
social science in the university of tn
state. About year later he was mad
professor of law. In 1873 he was agai
called into the public service by his pc,
pie He was elected to the lower hous
, Of tho forty-third congress- was re-electe
to the forty-fourth, but was in 1876
transferred to the senate, aud at the en-
Of his first term he was reelected by tn
unanimous vote of his party.
Mr.. Lamar married when quite youu
man, but has lately lost his wife, she ha,
ing died within few months back. II
has one son. who is grown and marriet
and three daughters, the youngest beln
, about 10 or IL. His eldest daughter
married.
HON. AUGUSTUS II. GARLAND,
, | VIM ouCCccuh ALtOluty pSuSIal DIoWbbc
: is another distinguished representative
the south. AS q senator from Arkans
no has established lasting reputation
one possessed Of a high order Of abilit
= and Attainments. Ho was born In Til
ton county, Team, but while an infaI
! his parents moved to Arkansas. He WI
sent to Kentucky for his education, an,
I after graduating, studied law and was
1853 admitted to practice at Washington
Ark, the homo Of his parents. In IS,
no located in Little Rock, the capital
Z tho state, a wider field for his legal Ia
n onts. In 1861 he was member Of III
a Arkansas convention which passed IL
ordinance Of secession, and immediateI
T thereafter he was chosen member of Il
a provisional government of the confede
a ate states. He followed tho confed era
n capital from Montgomery TO Rich MOI
q as member of congress, and later W
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