Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-03-05
CLEVELAND'S CABINET,
THE GOSSIP AT THE CAPITAL AS
TO WHO WILL BE II 1T.
Preparing for the Inauguration--An
Immense Crowd of Visitors Expected
to be In Attendance.

Preparing for the Inauguration--An
Immense Crowd of Visitors Expected
to be In Attendance.
Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 27.-The
labors of the Executive Committee
having the inaugural ceremonies in
charge have now assumed tangible
shape, and everything in the way of
details is in excellent condition. Should
the weather prove propitious the mill
tary and civic display will undoubta-
bly, be the grandest and most success
full in all essentials ever known in the
country's history. The greatest care
and circumspection have been exercis-
ed In every direction, and failure will
DO impossible save only from very in
clement weather. THE SENTINEL cor
respondent obtained an interview to-
day with Colonel James 6. Berret, the
chairman of the Inaugural Ceremonies
Committee, and was most courteously
received. "You may say to the read
ers of The SENTINEL said one of the
managers" that everything is going
along smoothly and we have assuran-
ces that the Inauguration ceremonies
will be carried out according to pro-
gram, barring the accident of severe
weather. We can stand medium
amount of cold, but neither rain, snow
nor billiards.. If we should have a
repetition of the severe weather, such
as attended the second inauguration of
President Grant in 1873, then all our
labor .and pains will have gone for
naught. The Sd, 4th and 9th days of
March, 1873, were the most inclement
ever remembered in Washington. 1t
was Impossible to keep hotels or even
private residences comfortably warm,
and the suffering became intense.
Twelve years have passed since that
memorable Arctic Inauguration, but
its very recolleetions make me shiver.
AS the hour approaches when the
President-elect must finally determine
who shall constitute his eabinut, the
excitement in public circles naturally
increases and may be considered to
have attained its perihelion. Go where
you will. the question uppermost in
the minds of politicians is, .'Who is
going into the cabinet?' Then comes
the speculation, "Will Thurman be
chosen % Chow about ] oe Mcdonald"
~"Garland for Attorney-General has
been definitely fixed !' 'sBayard will
certainly accept the portfolio of State. p
Lamar will enter the cabinet, because
Cleveland believes him to be the most
acceptahle Southern man to tha moo
pie of the Northn' "The Postmaster
Generalship lies between Money, of
Mississippi, and Jonas of Louisiana" i"
"Vilas, Of Wisconsin can have either
the War or Navy portfolios" "Whit-
ney will be Secretary of the Interior
beyond question:" and so on to the
end of the chapter.
Judged from the Washington stand
point, it is clear that the Democratic
party, 50 far as cabinet preferment is
concerned, suffers the burden of toe
much availability, and the Republican
leaders who have run the gauntlet for
the past quarter of century in this
regard, unite in opinion that for this
reason that the forthcoming Cabinet
will contain several first-class surpris-
es. They predict that much disap-
pointment and bitterness will result
from the choice of two or three posi-.
| bic incumbents, and accusations OF
bad faith, double dealing, treachery
and deceit will fill the air from the
Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Slope
WALTER ERICKFORD.