Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-03-13

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but legitimate trade. but panics are the
exclusive fruit of the New York idea.''
THE NEW CABINET.
Under ordinary circumstances the Sec
rotary of State would be considered the
head of our American cabinet, but as the
Republicans have left The country no
navy with which to enforce protection
Of American citizens abroad or resent an
insult from foreign nation; as the Senate
has expressed its views of foreign treaties
of commerce by pitching two of them into
the fire, and as President Cleveland has
set himself square upon the good old Anne
rcan doctrine of Monroe, our new Secre-
tary, Mr.. Bayard, will have little more
for the first year or so Of his term than to
purify his departm ont,a and dine tie dlplu-
matte corps on some of that terrapin stew
which he has the reputation of being able
to make with his own hand. Of one thing
we may be certain that if he attempts any
exploration into the fields Of foreign
diplomacy it will not be in the direction
that Mr.. Blaine took. and which proved
so detrimental TO that disting uished gen.
tleman7s campaign. Mr.. Bayard is in the
fifty -sixth year of his age and the seven
teenth year of bis public life, and now
holds seat in the Senate which has been
sort of heirloom in his family for genera
tionS-his grandfather, father and uncle
having held it pretty nearly ever since the
republic was founded. With this heir
loom. he Inherited the unblemished public
character which has characterized its pos
SCISSORS for nearly century, and the mere
fact that his name IS in cabinet is
guarantee to the American people that
for one term, at least, political tricksters
ellis of the nation. He has been for many
years the, if we may use the term, "per-
sonal" preference of Democratic Virginia
for the Presidency, a preference that
never took shape at a National convention
because Of the belief held elsewhere that
he WAS not available. lie is not in accord
with the people of the South on some
questions which they deem of Importance,
but there has been a sort of affection for
him that overlooked the lack.
The Secretary Of the Treasury, the post
most important just now to the coun
try, is Daniel Manning, of New York. He
commenced life like the President, as q
poor boy, exc ept that in one case the poor
boy swept out store, and in Mr.. Man
ning's case he was the devil" in print
ing Office, which, in any other trade means
the apprentice. From that beginning he
rose to the proprietorsh1p Of the paper
Office he first entered-the Albany Journal.
He has lived ffty-four years and been
prominent in New York State affairs, but
never attempted an entrance into national
affairs on his own account On the &C
count of others, for instance managing
the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden. for
President, at st. Louis, he has been prom
inent, and has exhibited wonderful polt-
ical sagacity. He is at present President
of a National bank at Albany.
The Secretary Of the Interior, Lucius
public life, either State, Confederate or
Federal, for thirty-two years and is one Of
the ableSt men the Southern States have
produced. He is native of Georgia,
sixty years of age, and represented that
State in the two congresses that preceded
the civil war. He volunteered at the
opening of that war in Mississippi regi-
ment, but in 1868 was sent by the ConfeG-
crate government to Europe 90 diplo-
matte errand. He returned after the war
ended, made his home in Mississippi and
has represented her eight years in the
Senate
Augustus Fl. Garland, of Arkansas, the
Attorney General, is a native Of Tennis
see, and is a member of the bar, of thirty
years standing. His political life has been
spent in Arkansas. which State he repre-
sented both in the Confederate and Fede-
raj Senate. He has the reputation as
strong, strange to say, at the North as at
the South, of being one of the best lawyers
in the country. Ex-Justice David Davis
of the United States Supreme Court,
says of him that she knows more law and
has read more law than any man in the
South.''
VIM. G. Whitney, of New York, the
Secretary of the Navy, is native of Mas
sachussetts. One of the best things that
the nation can hear of him is that he first
appeared in politics in the fight against
the Tweed ring in New York in 1870, and
at that time attracted the attention of
Mr.. Tilden.
VIM. F. Villas, of Wisconsin. is the
Postmaster General. He was Colonel
during the civil war. He presided over
the Chicago convention which nominated
Mr.. Cleveland.
Judge W. G. Endicott, of Massachus-
etts, is the Secretary of War.
On Monday next, March 16sh, the V1r-
ginia coupon cases Will be argued before
the U. S. Supreme Court. Messrs W. l..
Royal, Wager Swayne and D. H. Cham
berlaine. will appear for the bondhOlders