Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1886-12-16
reEsnEnr Sauo CABINET.

ARoreits &C t}Io ChAr4,ss of Dissensions
| 10 thS 69fcs9I R8mItS.
l Rhea ceetsi4 cgiaicS OF the Admins
| tfaeion ere shoBt o6 other ammunition
sDr thelf gems, oaey Salq back upon the
/! ofteepeated ealerges of unpleasantness
in she refat1oss iettDesB the President
and the naenlisess o2aiS Gabinet How
! ehsprd nost Of the ssoRses of this char
| acter are when eonfpeete& with the
l fleets! And meme is psNre ahssrd 0an
tie one which Is osse4 re&eated, that
TIE President is y sort oG pettS despot
who has changed the ohseial relation
/ Of Cabinet officers &roGa GAs Ella one of
advisers 20 that Of clerks 50 cha-ge.
| tough not IN eeAtnOb q tue several
/ departments.
| The writers pkU ere cmEinuallv
| putting a60as 1ssersioaso os eAis char
Z ae3er Asl64 Sesy sge4 ehas elseY can not
be deeie6 e1 sSbe6eu. The Pre- sident
and the several oheleAers OF his CAB
ipet alo5e cap vita q knowledge of
she facts dispute anca assertions. but
| for the Preside0t. for apy member of
his official family, to enter into dee
NAL of such allegations would be in
compatible with the dignity of the
| offices they hold. Fortunately, how
| ever, the common sense of the Amer
I lean public can be reached. even though
street denials from the interested per-
sons can not he had. The logic of
facts in this as in other matters is in
| disputable.
| What are the facts as to Mr.. Cleve-
land and his Cabinet that are known
or may be learned by every one2 Mr.
| Cleveland came into office as President
without practical experience of National
| Administration. He selected as his Cab
| met officers three men oflong experience
in national affairs as Representatives
and Senators in Congress; three whose
services in the higher line of political
organization had made their names
household words in their party, and
the seventh jurist of unquestioned
ability and responsibility. This Cab
iret, thus selected, he has held intact
for nearly two years, longer than any
President since Van Buren,, except
Presidents Fillmore and Pierce, who
did not change their Cabinets at all.
and Buchanan. whose Cabinet lasted
three years without change in its per-
sOnnel. HARRISON changed the men,
| bership of his Cabinet in the first year
| of his administration. Polk in the first
year reor9anized his. Lincoln changed
his Secretaries of War in the first year
after his election. Grant Glanced his
Secretary of State and of thesInterior
within a month. and Hayes within two
years changed his Secretaries of War
and of the Interior. his Postmaster
General and his Acknowledgement.
In spite of assaults upon almost
every member. of his Cabinet, which
have been characterized by malice,
mendacity and violence, Mr.. Cleve-
lands Official family in the twenty-frst
month of its establishment remains the
same as it was when he gathered it
about him on March 4, 1885.
In view of these facts alone, can any
| thinking person credit the assertion
that there have been serious differences
in Mr.. Cleveland Cabinet or that he
has treated his Cabinet officers with
disrespectp Is it credible that Secre-
tary Bayard, with his seventeen years
of experience OF public life, W ould sub
NIT to be treated as n mere executive
| clerk by man who a novice in
National affairs when he had attained
TO the degree of MASTER? That Mr..
! Lamar. n representative statesman of
the South, who was national
legislator ere Mr.. cleveland had
cast his first vote. would permit
! himself to be thus sighted?
That Mr.. Manning, Mr.. Cleveland :
friend and counsellor before the Presi-
dency had dawned upon his widest
ambition; his guiding spirit in later
days and the manager of his cam
paign for election to the Office of
Chief Magistrate, would brook such
treatment now? Each of these three
has had excellent opportunities to
withdraw from the Cabinet, without
trouble. had they wished it, and vet
they remained beside their chief
Surely, the common sense of the
American people will assume that
these men did remain because they
desired 10 assist that chief in admins
! tering the laws of the land. not as ex-
ecutive clerks, but rs advisers and
counsellors Ansl so with all the
others.
And liz like manner with regard to
the stories of diScOrd and disagree
ment githin the Cabinet The stand
ing of the gentlemen who compose it.
and the fact that they show no DISPOSE
ton TO retire from it, ought to be suf-
ficient proof that there is no founda-
ton for statements which discredit
their high character. and which go I'M
contradicted by them. for the sole rea-
son that the dignity of the office they
hold does not permit of their STOPPING
to resent such imputations--M \.
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