The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-07

years. The installation ceremonies
were gra~a and impressive. and thou
sands joined in the grand demonstra-
ton. The Cabinet selected by MIR.
Cleveland is composed If men emf
nent for ability, and are tersely de-
scribed by the Picay une as follows:
Thomas Francis Bayard, the Secre-
tary If State, is man SO thoroughly
known to the nation that his name is
a synonym for breadth aud stature Of
statesmansllip and for purity aud hon
esty in politics. He is possessed If
great force Of character, aud is not
anybody's man in any matter. He is
emphatically Southerner, although
neither his State nor he seeded. His
p"litical prospects have been nearly
ruined by his Southern sympathies.
Lncius Q. C. Lamar, the Secretary Of
the Interior, like Bayarl is lawyer,
although three years older, aud fur
nished with longer Legislative expe-
rience. He has held three different
rrofesserships in the State University
If Mississippi, aud served in the army
as colonel aud also in the diplomatic
service of the C0nfederacy. He was
in Congress four years before the war.
aud in the House four years since and
in the Senate eight. More. brilliant
than Baysrd intellectually, but per-
lsaps less energetic and lalnrieus, he
has national reputation of which his
friends are properly proud.
Augustus H. Garland, the Attorney
General, is also a lawyer, abunt four
years younger than Bayard, and there
fore four years younger than Eslmunls,
tho only lawyer in the Senate whose
legal ability exceeds Garland's. He
served In the Secession Convention Of
Arkansas, in the Provisional Congress
at Montgomery, in both houses Of the
Confederate Congress, and as Governor
If Arkansas. Like Bayard and Lamar,
he has practically . life-lease on his
Senatorial seat, aud like Lamar, aban-
done four years of his present term to
enter the Cabinet at Cleveland's call
II Is indeed an honor to the South that
she has three such men, with whom tO
undertake the task of reinstating Dem
ocratic principles In the national add
ministratiun.
Daniel H. Manning. the Secretary Of
the Treasury. is . printer, who began
at the case and has fought his way step
by step tn greatness. lie is An expert
enced journalist, having long edited
the Albany Argus, the powerful organ
Of the Democratic party of New York.
He has grown into politics through his
editorial position and ability, and for
ten years has been one of the most
powerful chiefs of the New York Dem
ocracy, not given to seeking position,
hut manager whose assistance every
body seeks and whose council is always
regarded as wise.
Judge w. o. Endicott, of Massachu
sets, is gentleman Of the old Puritan
stock, Of unblemishesl reputation, of
very superior education, and Of excel
lent legal and judicial ability. He
comes from OLD John Endicott, who
was Governor Of Massachusetts fifteen
times. dying in Office in 1865. Judge
Endicott is unquestional,Iy the hest
representative of old fashioned Massa-
chusctts Democracy that could have
been picked out, aud under his charge
the War Department will recover ifs
old character, debancl,ed though it be
by postbellum administrations. The
Judge is wealthy, and came by his
wealth honestly.
William c. Whitney. the Secretary
If the Navy, il the only strictly per-
s0naI choice which Cleveland has al
lowed himself to make. He is n son
Of the late Gen. James S. Whitney, a
strung Democratic leader of Massaciu
sets, and u delegate to the Charleston
Convention in 1860. The General wa
successful business man AS we'll as a
political chief. The son is only As
years old, n pr"tege Of Gov. Tildcn,
aud has been in politics ten years. He
has not only taken care Of his patri-
,noBy, but has married mo- less person
than the daughter If the enormonsly
wealthy Senator Payne of Ohio, and
lives in = house as good as Wander
bilt's. The house was presented t.
Mrs. Whitney by her brother, Col