The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-03-12
The Cabinet.


prove the Cabinet selections of President
Cleveland, though some regret Is ex-
pressed that the genius and patriotism of
Bayard, Lamar, and Garland are lost to
the Senate. But they have "gone up
higher" into positions of greater useful
ness, and there is excellent material in
their respective States to fill their seats
in the Senate-as in Mississippi, which
sends General Walthall in the place of
Lamar. There is, also, the objection
made that President Cleveland appointed
two from the same State, but George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and
majority of the Presidents did likewise;
indeed, two of Washington's cabinet
were from Virginia and two from Mass a.
chusetts at the same time.
At the head of the official family
which Grover Cleveland, the first clti
zen of the Republic" has gathered to him
self, is Thomas F. Bayard, Of Delaware,
Secretary of State, who was born in
Wilmington, Delaware, fifty-fve years
ago. He is the fourth of his family
who has served in the U. S. Senate,
and the fame Of his worth and ability
is familiar to all. His profession is law
Daniel Manning, of New York, Secre-
tary of the Treasury, and native Of that
State, is fifty-threc years old. His early
life was that Of printer in the Office Of the
Albany 1ry,Gs, with which he has been con-
nected more than forty years, and of
which he has had sole control since 1873
He is Chairman Of the State Democratic
Committee of New York, and as such
managed the Presidential campaign in
that State with great ability. lie is no.
ted for his business capacity in managing
railroad and banking affairs, and is Pres-
dent of National Commercial Bank Of Al
bany.
Lucius O. G. Lamar, of Mississippi, Sec
rotary of the Interior, a rative of Oxford,
Georgia, is fifty-nine years of age. lie
was admitted to the bar at Macon, Geor-
gia, in le47, and moved to Oxford, Mis-
sissippi, in l849, where he was the same
year elected Professor of Mathematics in
the Mississippi State University. He was
twice elected to Congress before the war,
and at its close became again Professor
in the University, first of Political Econ
omy and Social Science, afterwards of
Law He again served two terms in Con-
gress, and was sent to the Senate in 1876,
and served there until called to the Cabi-
net.
William &. Endicott, of Massachusetts,
Secretary of War, native of that State,
is lawyer, is ffty-eight years of age, a
direct descendant of oldGov. John Endi-
colt. He has long been on the bench,
was the Democratic candidate for Cover
nor Of Massachusetts last fall, and bears
a high reputation for ability and probity.
William G. Whitney, of New York,
Secretary of the Navy, is fity-six years
old. He is lawyer, and attained much
distinction as city attorney in prosecuting
the suits against the Tweed ring under
Gov. Saml. J. Tildens administration.
He saved the city of New York millions
of-dollars, and was twice reappointed to
Office, which he resigned three years since.
He is just the man to purify the naval
department of its manifold corruptions.
William f. Villas, of Wisconsin, Post
master General, is lawyer, and Is forty
FIVE years old. lie studied law in Albany,
N. Y, graduated from the law school
there in 1860, and on his twentieth birth
day argued his first case before the Su-
preme Court of Wisconsin. He always
for Governor of Wisconsin in 1879. He
distinguished himself in the difficult posi-
ton of Chairman Of the National Demo
cratic Convention of 1884, at Chicago
Augustus II. Garland, Of Arkansas,
Attorney General, native of Tennessee,
is tifty-three years old. He was admit
ted to the bar in Arkansas in 1853, served
in both House and Senate of the Confed-
crate Congress, was elected to the u. $.
Senate in 1867, but was not admitted to
his seat He made the test oath case as
to lawyers in the Supreme Court of the
United States and gained it. He was
elected Governor of Arkansas in 1874, and
at the expiration of his term was sent to
the U. S. Senate, in which he immedi-
ately took high rank as 3 lawyer.