Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-04-10

Still President Cleveland has
made a months record and its mean.
ing is so PLAIN that "those who run
may read" He has shown a deco
rous desire to reward personal
friends and to crafty personal par
tialities, possibly in some cases
framed upon brief acquaintance
with the individuals for whom he
has shown preference. The brief.
est reference to the formation ofhis
Cabinet establishes this fact with.
out possible serious controversy
Save Secretaries Manning and
Whitney, respectively of the Treas
ury and Navy Departments, it is
doubtful if the President ever saw
before his nomination any one of
his Cabinet. Excepting these two
gentlemen and Postmaster General
Villas, who presided over the con-
vention that nominated him, there
is good reason to believe that the
President never saw another men,
Der of his Cabinet, and this means
Bayard, Garland, Endicott and La
mar, until his election had been for
several weeks an aScertained fact.
Yet all his appointments to the
Cabinet reveal party loyalty with
limitatiOns-very important limita-
tions, too, to those who believe that
party fealty means in every case
and in all localities, emolument in
the way of reward for services to
party. Its unnecessary to go back
to the old-time creed of Marcy that
"to the victOrs belong the spOils,"
to establish the almost universal
Democratic hope and expectation
when it was declared that a Demo
cratic President had been elected.
Yet in no case has the President re-
vealed the purpose of conformity
with that time hOnored Democratic
principle, in the formation of his
Cabinet, save as to New York.
Why as to New York; Why choose
a Secretary Of the Treasury and a
Secretary of the Navy, too, from
New York Because New York is
a doubtful State; a great imperial,
commercial commonwealth, where
popular intelligence is years beyond
the average in other States; where
men divide, after discussion of pub
lie questions and where there is a
fair reckoning of public opinion.
In such a community patronage
may often and does often decide by
a few hundred votes, where hun
dreds of thousands of votes are
cast, an election SO close that an
official count is necessary to decide
the result. Hence the presence Of
two members of the Cabinet from
New York, and both the New York
members of the Cabinet have large
patronage particularly available in
New York city in bard.fOught and
closely = contested political cam
paigne
Secretary Of State Bayard repre-
sents a rotten borough State, little
Delaware, secure in her Democratic
mornings, with few capable parti-
sans to reward or provide for
Secretary Lamar represents State
among those most securely anchor
ed in the now placid waters of the
solid South. Secretary Endicott
represents Massachusetts, hope
lessly Republican State, and gives
the administration the aid of re-
spectacle, historic, name. Mr.. Villas
represents Wisconsin, uniformly
Republican State heretofore, but
now assumed to be doubtful, and
Attorney General Garland helps
Secretary of the Interior Lamar to
hold the solid South true to the
fortunes of the administration and
the so.called Democratic party.
In this brief assortment of the
local status of Mr.. Cleveland's Cab.
met and of the relations to national
politics of each Of his constitution
al advisers, we mean merely to in
dictate that in no case has he shown
the purpose to reward with patron.
age active partisan zeal save as tC
New York, which he must save to
his administration or be immediate
ly wrecked. Elsewhere he gratife,
he safe States the Civil.Servic'
Retormers, the purists and pretend
ers without stint-that is wher,
nothing is to be lost.
To the doubtful States the soli'
South the President says virtually
Take care of yourselves; you can
not abandon the Democratic party
because you have been too long it,
"hewers of wood and drawers o
water,' and you have not yet learn
cd the virtue of independence" IL
Virginia especially, he says " l give
you the mission to Rome, because
NY Secretary of State is the ally
of England, and | must appoint
somebody to a conspicuous place
likely to conciliate IriShmen and
Catholics, and ! offer the "sop t.
Cerberns of Gen. Joe Johnston tC
the Confederate element" Now
virginians, active party-wOrkers, dc
keep quiet and do not annoy the
President with your beseeching'
about your party-work. You have
Kelley because Mr.. Bayard wanted
to sOothe the offended Irish and