The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-12
And Proves to His Own Satisfaction that the
New Secretary Of the Treasury Must
BE Ex- Senator Mcdonald.
The Friends of the Indiana Statesman
Well Pleased with the Outlook.
The Civil-Seryice Commission Makes It's Sec
ond Annual Report, and Points Out the
Good Points of the New System.
MDoNALD AND THE TREASURY.

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The Giyings- Out of Intimate Friends and
Prominent Democrats.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Fob. Ito days New York
Herald has over column of Cabinet gossip.
which it considers of sufficient Importance to
supplement- with half-coumn of editorial COM
ment 1t publishes an extract from q letter
written by an intimate friend Of Cleveland, who
says:
'sYou may depend upon this-that up to last night
Mr.. Cleveland had not actually offered Cabinet
position to any one He is thinking seriously OF
Mr. Bayard for the State Department, Mr. Nc
Donald for the Treasury. Mr. Garland for at
torney generalship, Mr.. Whitney for the Interior
Department and Mr.. Villas for Postmaster
general or for the War Department. So far.
he has not looked into New Eng
land for Cabinet officer, and hs
has not settled on any one for
the portfolios of war and the navy. This was
the position in Mr.. Cleveland's mind on Sunday
afternoon"
The Herald also prints an interview with .
New York member of Congress- which it vouchee
for as being from high authority He says Of
the letter and of the situation generally: '.Yon
can see that the principal name this writer gives
Il mean the name he attaches to the most i'm
portant Cabinet place, that of Mcdonald to he
Secretary of the Treasury-is almost inevitable
Look at the situation: 1t was -~snored, ten
days ago, that w. c. Whitney, of New ~
would be made Secretary of the Treasury. That
report had this much truth in it That Cleve-
land likes Whitney and, j believe will give
M plaa i ,1.mR
/ think good authority that he had even con-
suited with some friends whose opinion he
values, about putting Whitney at the head Of
Treasury; but these friends so strongly advised
him against this, that he had, believe given it
up. When your friend, therefore, in this letter.
assigns Whitney to the Interior Department.
that may very likely be correct. So we come
back to the Treasury. If Whitney is to have
the Interior Department. Cleveland would
scarcely take another New York man for the
Treasury. In my belief, which is something
more than a belief, lie vii! turn to the West for
that place. but if he does, what West
tern man of eminence can he select
whose record on finances is absolutely in
agreement With Clevelands own ideas and whose
experience of public life is large and full except
McDonalds don't know of any one, and Me-
Donalds record and experience are such that he
fills the bill. In such the general situation
often makes the man inevitable, and think this
is the case now Ny belief, therefore, is that
while the gentleman named in the letter you
have shown me may be in the next Cabinet,
there is but one name in that list which is reas-
onably certain, and that is McDonads ] think
it very likely that he will be first approached by
Cleveland, because believe that the Treasury
is the place about which he will find it expedient
to form the remainder of his Cabinet"
The Herald speaks highly Of McDonalds finan-
cial record Friends of tho ex-senator here com
menting on this publication to-day. seemed 10
think it significant, and probably thrown out
through Mr. Cleveland, to what is thought
of Mcdonald for the Treasury. They are de-
lighted with the manner in which it is received,
and say he is sure of success