The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-03-11

utter of its individual members. No
weightier body of men were ever assem-
bled about a President.
mo more high minded OF more
honorable and aspiring men ever sat at
a council board. OF course success In
public life means organized forces and
moral ideas. The greatest, the best
men, often fail Of these where some Of
the worst succeed, and the future can
alone disclose the fate of this admirable
combination of individuals. Mean
while We shall speak of them in their
separate character as men.
"Mr. Bayard was, as a matter Of
course, made Secretary Of state. He
should have been Secretary of the
Treasury. but this was for Mr. Cleve-
land To- determine. He was indispensa-
ble to the Cabinet. This is to say that
he is the recognized chief and head of
the Democratic party, rice Mr.. Tilden
and Judge Thurman retired. In either
depart ment he would and will make a
great Secretary. He is instinctively,
and by education, sound i'm his ecOno-
mics, faithful and courageous to his
convictions; true in his nature and of
the best sympathies. He is neither a
dictator nor a schoolmaster as his crit
les say he il. He is an ardent, full man
who has never learned the dastardly
lesson of keeping his mouth shut to
friend or foe
For Mr.. Manning, who to the coun-
try ut large is new man, We wish To
speak a just word. and To skeptics, a
reassuriDg word. Mr.. Manning is the
incarnation of good sense, good inten-
tons, and good will. He has shown
himself faithful over few things,
which is an excellent, as it is IA rare,
record. We look to see him equal to
many things. The story that he is a
managing politician is lie out Of whole
cloth. He is "a straight up-and-down,
clear headed and cool headed man of
affairs, and we shall be- wofully deceived
if he does not make success Of the
Treasury, recalling the days of Walker
and Guthrie.
'In this connection, We may as well
dispose of Mr.. Whitney. He will not
he brought into close intimacy with the
country at large. Rut he is All honest
man, who can be trusted to build. our
new navy without wasting penny.
He is lawyer Of accomplishments and
abilities, a gentleman of the highest
social, professional and personal
standing, and hard working.
pains-taking man, with 10 nonsense
about him.
"Mr. Lamar is, in our judgment, the
most eminent man, intellectually, who
has appeared in the public life of the
United States since the war. He is q
great scholar and great orator. He
has never gone wrong at all, in any
thing. II he ever does go wrong, il
will he either knowingly or because his
great natural faculties-sagacity, tenn
pered by knowledge, penetration, modi-
fled by love of man, and mathematical
accuracy, liberslized aud enlarged by
imagination and affectiOn-have quit.
ted him forever. Ii is a tribute to Mr.
Cleveland that he fell in love with
Lamar on sight. 1t foretokens keen
aud clear sense of the value of men
1t is true that this supremest of Missis-
sippians is dreamy, distracted and
eccentric; but it is not true that he i:
INDECENT. Above all, he il brave anC
honest, and that makes up for a worlC
of a certain kind of isolation, which
men often mistake for lack of world,
wisdom.
Right alongside of Lamar come,
Garland. He, too, is "A great man o
somewhat different mold. He has tn,
genius of work, the genius Of honor
the genius of faith, the genius of truth
A most accomplished lawyer neve
one more safely accomplished, not even
Legare or Gushing he is Il Democrat
of the school of Grundy and Black
He will make "a National and a nobl,
Attorney General. All who have
business with the Department of Justic,
: will go away feeling that its Chief is
just man.
"Col. Villas is known to the cOuntr,
as a brilliant speaker. He is known I,
those who know him as most careful
and industrious lawyer. These are ex
cellent foundations for an efficient
Postmaster General. He is youn,
man, new to office, but full of the bes
elements that make up the best publ,
men, thoroughly instructed and thor
oughly right on great questions, and
of promise which no Democrat need
fear.
Judge Endicott, the Secretary Of
War, is personally unknown to us. We
have spoken of the rest from the fullest
knowledge. Him we only know by
reputation. But that is good, and We
have every reason to regard him as 8
wise selection.
1--WE have not taken time to speak
of the political tendency of this CaLi-
net on the great questions of the day
On the tariff question ii is all right
Four of its members, Bayard, lamar
Garland aud Villas, are Revenue Re-
formers after our own heart. Of the
rest we are unadvised, except that they
are honest men and men of sense But
four, with the President himself, makes
a majority of two, at the very worst,
and, with that, We shall rest content.
son the whole, therefore, barring