, 1886-07-22
The Presidents Cabinet.l

If ever the life of public man was
filled with perpleXities, Grover Cleve
land is that man. Scarcely eighteen
months in office, he finds himself at
loggerheads with his cabinet. His
Secretary of the Treasury, who is, by
all accounts, more efficient as a poll
tician than as minister, is breaking
down under hard work and unable to
afford counsel in regard to the na
tional finances. His Attorney General
is man against whom the press of
the nation points the finger of scorn,
while it reiterates charges of bribery
and corruption. And his Secretary
of State is SO disguised with the shape
that affairs have taken in the foreign
office that he is liable to resign at any
moment. In a word, the President. a
hard working and well meaning man
himself, has already become an object
of pity, just through having a set of
advisers wholly unsuited to him.
The great trouble with Mr.. Cleve-
land is that he seems TO have ignored
every other part of the Federal Union,
for the sake of dignifying the state of
New York, which came within a
thousand votes of encompassing his
defeat. 1t was quite enough that he
should have given the treasury port
folio to citizen Of that state, without
putting the navy department in
charge of another New Yorker, and
one whose reputation was that of a
shrewd and unscrupulous political
jobber, rather than large minded
| and comprehensive statesman. His
other appointments have been singu
larly negative in their excellence.
Lamar, a man suffering from i'm
paired memory growing out of a stroke
of paralysis; Villas, Wisconsin poll
tician, whose reputation extended not
beyond the confines of his own state;
| and EndicOtt, whose chief claim to
public preference rests upon the fact
| that he was born on bedstead that
came over in the Mayfower, a vessel
which, to judge by the quantity of
her cargo still on hand in the first
families of the Bay state, must have
been several tons larger than the
Great Eastern
Garland's retirement from the cab
met is only question of few hours;
and with him go all hope of a renom
ination in 1888. Harris and Atkins,
now in the senate from Tennessee, are
as deep in the Pan Electric mud as
Garland is in the mire; and his dis
missal from tho cabinet will only
antagoniZe them and cause solid anti
Cleveland delegations to be sent from
Tennessee and Arkansas two years
hence. And let us here take occasion
to say that as great q stencil in the
nostrlls of the people as was the
Credit AIobilier affair of fifteen years
ago. its effluvia was confined entirely
TO the halls of Congress, and involved
no cabinet minister MIR. Garland
has, vulgarly speaking, put Mr. Cleve,
land ''in the hole" He may get out
and he may not, but no man can recall
the splendid circumstances that sur
rounded his inauguration and con
template his present attitude, without
feeling a stroke of pity for the man
who, having risen from poverty and
darkness up to light and power, finds
his official hOnors merely delusion
and snare.
| Two years ago, under Ii forfeiture
scare, and III 4 hurrah campaign, we
rushed ii democrat TO consrt IS. Tn
able 10 discern the glorious cpportun-
ity presented for organizing his party
upon II tue Jetfersunian basis. orl
delegate has undertaken to Euiid ur
a personal fullowing in the territory,
expecting the forfeiture craze To run
through two campaigns. As stated,
tie efficacy OF il second shot from
this forfeiture gun Is very much
| questioned Without proper con
| tidence in the strength of his demo
oracle constituency, our delegate is
working up a new issue. At Olympia
last winter the prohibition laws were
enacted with slam and bang IN
der the spur and the prod Of the gal
leries. INSTANTLY our leader of mem
caught on. The word was given
that Washington territory was wild
Oh the whisky question, and that any
man who coulu scramble onto a
prohibition platform would cyclene
the country. Mugwumps and mug
wUmp journals, who have been Crap
pied by our delegate with hooks of
steel, began singing a song 20 Little
Willie and buying their toddies In
the drug stores. Delegate Voorhees,
stands today as honorably committed
to prohibition through his mouth
pieces and friends In this territory
as ever a politician can be committed.
Since the election of 81 We have
doEbted his democracy on account of
his political associates. and ROW
claim that these associates but reflect
his sentiments on prohibition.-Spo-
kane Falls Democrat.