The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-03-13
President Clevelands Cabinet.

President Cleveland's Cabinet.
On the 9TH instant, the day after he was
inaugurated, President Cleveland sent TO
the Senate his first message. 1t contained
simply the list of his Cabinet officers, as fol-
lows:
Secretary Of State-Thomas F. Bayard, of Della
ware.
Secretary ofMe Treasury Manning, of
New York.
Secretary Of W@-william C. Endicott, of
Secretary cfAe Navy-William c. Whitney, of
New York.
Secretary of0e hterior-L. Q. c, Lamar, of
Mississippi.
Postmaster General-William Villas, of Wis
consin.
attorney Geleral-A. II. Garland, of Arkansas.
1t has been the custom of the Senate when
any of its members have been appointed to
office to confirm them at once without the
formaity ofsendng the names to committee
A motion was made to confirm the appoint
ment of Senators Bayard Lamar and Gar.
land, but upon objection by Mr.. Riddle
berger, of Virginia, to the confirmation of
Senator Bayard, the courtesy of the Senate
could not be exercised and the appointments
had to go over. Riddleberger is the Read.
juster Senator from Virginia, the colleague of
Malone. Fortunately he represents only q
disreputable minority in his State, and not
the better sentiment of the grand old Com.
monwealth; otherwise Virginia might have
cause to blush for him. Republican Senators
were outspoken in their denunciations of the
contemplate conduct of Riddleberger who
based his objection TO Mr.. Bayard on the
ground that he sympathized with England
in the late dynamite outrages. The next day
the entire Cabinet was confirmed, Mr.. Rid
deberger graciously holding his tongue.
President Cleveland's Cabinet has been re-
ceived with the most marked satisfaction by
the entire country. Some little criticism has
been made because two of its members are
from one State, New York, but as no one has
been able to suggest better man for either
position than the President has appointed the
objection amounts to nothing. In its person.
mel the Cabinet is pledge and guarantee
that Mr.. Cleveland intends to stand by all the
platform and in his letter of acceptance, and
in doing this he should have the undivided
support of his party and of all good citizens.
The task before him and his Cabinet is one
ofno little magnitude, and it can not be &C.
complished in days or even months. 1t will
take some time to discover and turn all the
rascals out, but they will have to go, if any
real reform is to be made.
Mr.. A. NJ. Mcclure, editor of the Philadel-
phia Times, writing to his newspaper from
Washington, gives the following criticism
and description of the new Cabinet:
The new Cabinet is one of the abest selected
in modern times and there is not shade of sUs-
picion attaching to its integrity. Bayard is the
embodiment of the most chivalrous honor and
purity In craftsmanship and Lamar and Gar
himself and fairly reflect the exceptional stand
dard of public honesty that was so long a charae.
teristic OF leading Southern statesmen. Bayard
will bring to the State Department not only ripe
experience and broad comprehension OF the
high duties of his office, but his conservative
Democracy, so scrupulously maintained in the
surges OF faction and expediency in politics. will
greatly assure the commercia business and in
dustrial interests of the country He is not an
expert politician in the present acceptation of
the term, and the more vigorous and aggressive
elements of the party fear that Bayard, Lamar
with the Democratic commonality.
Lamar is untried in administrative position
and 1t is not claimed that he is likely to make n
vigorous Secretary of the Interior by his own
personal labors; but it is expected that he will
organize his department wisely and practically
and that he will be to the fore in all great emer
gencies and especially when the government is
called upon to grapple with the colossal specula-
tive combinations which have made the Interior
their objective point.
Garland is very generally regarded by all par
les as one of the best-equipped men in the whole
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wisdom of the choice is admitted on every side,
Both Lamar and Garland were soldiers and
statesmen in the Confederacy, Lamar had been
in Congress before the war; but the complete
reinforcement of sectionalism is exhibited in the
general welcome accorded to those thoroughly
representative southern men coming into the
Cabinet. True, Grant had set the example by
calling the Ex-Confederate Ackerman to Gar
lands place dozen years ago and Hayes had re-
peated the lesson by the appointment of Ex-Con-
federate Key to the Cabinet eight years ago but
it was not pretended that Alderman and Key
voiced the sentiment of the South in the govern
ment, while Lamar and Garland admittedly re-
fleet the sincere convictions of the large majori-
ty of the reconstructed States in favor of patro-
tic and honest administration of the government
of the Union.
OF the Northern members OF the new Cabinet
Manning Is the broadeSt and most practical His
great resources are his general intelligence, his
unfailng common sense and his cool, clear judg-
ment, that always asserts itself under the most
trying circumstances. He is a trained business
man, practical banker, and he has no crank
notions of patent inventions about finance. He
understands that the laws of finance and trade
are old as the world and irresistible, requiring
only sensible adaptation to present necessities
on the business tranquility of the country. He
will attempt nothing brilliant and he will there
fore be safe.
Whitney his colleague from New York, is one
of the able men of his State, but like Manning
untried in the broad field of national statesman
ship. He is more mercurial than Manning, but
is shrewd and resoute leader. and will stake
reputation that he highly values upon thor
oughly prudent and progressive administration
Qnd
close personal and political friends of President
Cleveland they know much of both public men
others, and he naturally wants them to share the
responsibility before the world that they would be
called on to assume If not officially connected
Colonel Villas is the youngest member of the
Cabinet, being only forty-five and one year the
junior of Whitney. He was gallant soldier and
is regarded as the most promising young Demo-
GRAFT OF the Northwest The large adverse politi-
cal majority OF Wisconsin was not calculated TO
inspire political ambition and he has devoted
himself assiduousy to his profession since he re-
tired from the army. He was forced to the front
made permanent president, and his ability and
admirable bearing in that body gave him
national fame: He is an accomplished and 60.
he will make most creditable Postmaster Cen
cral and terror to the whole pestiferous brood
Judge Endcott is the embodiment of the best
element of New England Democracy. His selec-
ton will not be welcomed by the debauched
Butler fragments that hang around the edges of
the party in Massachusetts, but it will emphasize
the purpose of the administration to have honest
government and honest politics in every part OF
the country. He practical Democrat In faith,
but his appointment is specially acceptable to the
Republican Independents who supported Cleve-
lands election.
Such are the chief qualities which distinguish
the new ministry and its indisputed integrity and
whole country, regardless of dividing party lines.
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