New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-02-27
A PERSONAL C4BINET.

Democratic authority, possibly rs well IN
formed as any other, ailirms that Mr. Cleve-
lands Cabinet will not embrace the names oil
Thurman or Mcdonald, but will include Bayard
in the State Department, Manning for the
Treasury, Lamar for the Interior, Villas for the
Postal and Garland for the Law Departments
with Endicott, of Massachusetts, for Secretary
of War; and probably Whitney, of New-Iork
for Secretary of the Navy. The objection
against taking two members of the Cabinet
from this State, il is admitted still causes Mr..
Cleveland to hesitate. but there is belief that
he is at present more likely to select Mr.. Whitney,
after all, than to stir upa war of factions by
choosing anybody from Indiana, Ohio or New
Jersey, and more likely than lie il to select two
members from New England, or more than
three from the Southern States. With Bayard,
Lamar and Garland from the South, MIR. Cleve-
land may naturally Hesitate to take another
member from that section. lie can iind nobody
west of PENNSYLVANIA whose selection will not
involve wrange from the outset Pennsyi-
vania gave 10000 majority against hin' ana
New jersey has fight of factions with when
Mr.. Cleveland is not anxious to meddle. H.
therefore, he has to choose between taking TWO
members from New-YOrk or two from New
England, it is thought that the personal liking
for Mr. Whitney and his probable usefulness
with regard to a denomination Will turn the
scale.
These are the latest speculations Probably
neither Mr.. Cleveland nor anybody else Is quite
sure as yet what is going to be done. The
statement of the case is interesting because it
shows some of the difficulties with which MIR.
Cleveland has to contend. But those difficult
ties would be less if he were not just the man
that he is. Naturally he wants personal friends
in his Cabinet. Unhappily for his party, he
has not formed personal friends outside oil one
State. Naturally he wants to avoid taking part
in the strife of factions, but that strife exists
within the Democratic party in almost every
State where there are competent men. Ii he
takes men who have been discarded by the
people and the party he will be censurcd for
that; and if he takes men who are now in
responsible and important positions in the
Senate and in the House, he will be censured
for weakening his party where it most needs
strength.
He is being censured already, and by
nearly all the people who voted for him. The
Independents were naturally indignant at the
selection of Mr.. Manning and still more at the
refusal to touch Mr.. PendletOn, and still more
at the determination to put Mr.. Bayard where
he would have as little as possible to do either
with the finances or with the patronage. Some
of them already observe, with pitiful chagrin,
that Mr. Cleveland "dOes not seem to be n
good Judge of men," The Democrats of the
House are enraged because he shows DISPOSE
ton to court the favor of the Senate. That
means, they say that Republican Senators will
be able to "pr0tect their favOrites." Demo-
Gratis of the Senate, and Democrats generally
who are not personally interested, say that it
is bad policy to take from the Senate, where
debate is vitality important, three of the
strongest speakers, who cannot at present be
replaced by men of equal ability. For the
rest, observers who care only for the political
principles which the selection of Cabinet may
promote, see that Mr.. Cleveland means by the
selection of Mr.. Bayard high regard for
British influence, but distinctly not free trade,
since he is not ch Dsen for the Treasury. They
see that the selection of Mr.. Manning means
the domination of rings and jobs OF personal
chums and schemes for denomination, but not
reform Of the Civil Service. They see that the
selection of Mr.. Lamar means the South in the
saddle" and an appeal to the followers of
Jefferson Davis, but not ant-monOpoly. They
see that Mr.. Garland means the abolition of
election laws, and that Mr.. Villas does not mean
reform in the Post Office Department. In
short, as outlined by the latest report, it is
likely to be q much better Cabinet for Mr..
Cleveland as a candidate than for his party or
ha