The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-12-22
VIII Make his Own Cabinet.

been largely concentrated on the effort
to form a Cabinet for the President
elect at the earliest possible date, and
to compel him to accept the Cabinet
thus formed, At the same time
large number of more or less emf
nent Republican statesmen have
visited indianapolis and offered to
relieve Gen. Harrison from any diff
Guilty of choice or responsibility of
action by their suggestions and adj
vice.
Tens of thousands of columns of
varied and contradictory reports as
to the private and public expressions
of Gen. Harrison have been furnish
ed by the, alert and able corps of cor
respondents at Indianapolis who have
united the vigilance of detectives
with the most extraordinary abilities
for making "copy" by the yard with
the slightest possible basis of real
news. These ingenious and versatile
representative of the press furnished
the material for two or three COM
plete Cabinets last month, The De-
cember Cabinets, it must be admit
ted, are rather short of material. and
are announced with so many reser-
yations in favor of the liability of
Gen. Harrison to make his own Cab
met, in his own good time and way,
and without publicity or confdants,
that there is a partial collapse of the
Cabinet-making industry.
A month ago we took occasion to
say that this peculiarly American in
dustry was not only harmless, at the
present juncture, but was likely to
yield good results. We felt sure that
Gen. Harrison would not be disturb
ed by it and that he would not limit
its proportions by any statements
that would indicate his own prefer
ences or intentions. Since that time
scores of eminent statesmen and ac-
cOmplished journalists have visited
Indianapolis, have had courteous
hearings and kindly treatment, and
have come away with realizing
e.>se .,f tho wisdom of Josh Billings
saying that "it is better not to know
so much than to know so many
things that amt So" and that Gen.
Harrison is not only likely to be
President all the time and under all
circumstances, but that he has found
that the necessary condition of his
success is to be found in keeping his
own counsel absolutely, while seek
ing all the counsel ard information
he can from all sorts and sizes of adj
Yisers.
Vice-President-elect Morton has
summed up the result of his recent
pleasant visit with Gen. Harrison by
saying that the latter is ga great, big
man." Like other distinguished WISH
| tors, he undoubtedly felt that the
chosen Chief Magistrate had the fac
ulty of silence and the just conscious
ness of the fact that he has tremend-
Gus responsibilities to bear and that
no one can share those responsibilities
with Kim, to any great degree, and
the determination to put above all
personal opportunities and pressure
the obligations he owes to the best
elements of the Republican party.
who supported him because they be.
lieved he united with the other great
qualifications for the Presidency a
firmness and decision of character
that have been shown by few Presi-
dents, and which, had Garfield pos.
sessed more of it, the New York in
surrectiOn against his Administration
would have been coWed and beaten
into insignificance and powerIessness
for evil before it had swollen into any
formidable magnitude.
During the early part of the last
campaign the Mail and Express based
its predictions of the steady. noble
and inspiring leadership of Gen. Har.
rison on his record in public life and
on his independence, courage, sagac.
ity and equality to every emergency
Every public and reported private
utterance of our great candidate JUS
titled this safe prediction,
So, now, the true and safe reliance
of the Republican party in the actor
of President Harrison must be in the
fact that since the election he has Sc
well sustained his own past recorl
and the hopes of his wIsest admirer.
and has not said or written a wore
that tends in the slightest degree tC
weaken the faith of the disinteresteC
and notwithstanding Republicans
who, after all, are to be chiefly con
sidered and their hopes gratitied by
Gen. Harrison, if his Administration
is to be success and the beginning
of half a dozen other Republican Ad
mlniStratiOnS.
OF what consequence to the future