Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-18
HOW ABOUT THE CABINET 2
Polaticians Already Speculattng as
20 HarrisOm,s Advisers.

HOW AbOUF TnE OADINEI
Already Spcculating as
60 Harrison,s Advisers.
The astute and vigilant politicians are
already beginning to figure on who will
control General Harrison and make up
his Cabinet for him. Mr.. Harrison is
fortunate in having q great many conf
Dental friends. He has them in Wash.
inRton, in Indiana, in Pennsylvania and
New York. He has always been
closely allied with machine politics:
In Indiana he is regarded as the head
of the machine. His friends are machine
politicians, and General Harrison is not
on record as having ever attacked ma
chine politics. Therefore the makeup OF
his Cabinet, which is already discussed
among politicians, is of the greatest i'm
portance, for if General Harrison per-
mits the various States that benefited
him at the Chicago Convention by forcing
their delegations to vote for him to
name Cabinet officers, and il he
fsvors States which we're regarded as
Democratic and which honored him with
their electoral vote his Administration
will begin under q cloud. Who are Gem
eral Harrison's intimates and who are
men most likely to control him in the
selection of his Cabinet? There is no
denying the fact that General Harrison
received his nomination at Chicago
through bargain. Every one conver-
SAINT with politics is aware that bargains
are next door to corruption. General
Harrison's friends, in order to capture
certain delegations, did not hesi-
tate to make arrangements WIN
the men who controlled certain
delegations. Thus, for instance.
Mr.. Thomas G. Platt, of New York, who
unquestionably dictated to the delegation
Of New York State how it should vote,
will control all the Federal patronage OF
that State, and have the naming Of
Cabinet officer. Mr.. Blaine will certain
ly be Secretary of State, if he lives, q
fact that will not be at all palatable to
the politicians of New York, who remem-
ber his treachery to Conkling during the
brief and painful existence OF the Gar
field Administration.
General Harrison is regarded by poll
ticians outside of Indiana as very much
the same kind of man as General Gar
feld-pliable, ductile and credulous. He
Is . man who boasts that he is in the
hands of his friends, and who is willing
to surrender q good deal to please men to
whom he is under obligations. The
close relations between the Vice-Presi-
dent elect, Mr.. Morton, and Mr.. Platt,
and the fact that General Harrison's
friends begged Mr.. Platt to put Mr.. Nor
ton on the ticket with the lndianiaD,
have led disinterested politicians to
believe that the future Secretary of the
Treasury will be a man selected by
Mr.. Plat, but really named by Mr..
Morton. 1t is no secret that the once
friendly relations between General Ar
thur and Mr.. Morton were strained when
the former refused to appoint Charles E.
Coon Secretary of the Treasury after
Judge Folger's death. Mr.. Coon was at
the time Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury. He had started in the Treas
ury as 500 year clerk and has
worked his way up as Judge Folger's 3
assistant. He was considered to be in
every way capable of filling the position.
It was through his sagacity and
enterprise that millions of our 4
per cent. bonds were marketed
in London when they could hardly
find market in this country. But Gen.
eral Arthur appointed Judge Gresham as
Judge Folger's successor, and MIR. Nor
ton, who had largely benefited by the
refunding operations Of the Govern
ment, was disappointed and chagrined
Now, however, Mr.. Coon's chances for q
Cabinet office are believed to be very
close to Mr.. Morton. He is one of Mr.
Platt's most particular friends. He
openly proclaimed in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel last May that General Harrison
would be the nominee of the Republican
party at Chicago. He is interested with
Mr.. Morton in many enterprises in
the Northwest. General Harrison il
known to have alluded to him in
terms of the warmest commendation
There is no question but that the Secre.
taryship Of the Treasury will 60 to New
York. That portfolio, next to the Secre
taryship of State, which is pledged to Mr.
Blaine, is the most important in the gift
of the President. New York is entitled
to it above any other State for the glory
it has achieved for the Republican ticket
in the present campaign. Mr.. Thomas
g. Platt will name the Secretary of the
Treasury, and the new Vice-President
who is known to have contributed any
where from half million to million o1
dollars, will have considerable to say as
to who that Secretary will be-. There is
but one choice among the New York
politicians.
The only name mentioned is that oi
Mr.. Coon. 1t is possible, however, that
Mr.. Harrison's kitchen cabinet may op-
pose Mr.. Coon and decide upon John
Sherman, and curious state of politics
is exposed by this opposition to the New
York candidate. The Indiana Repubii-
cans take the the position that the New
York politicians are governed more by
desire to impress the country that New
York should have the nomination OF
President in 1892, and that
the enormous patronage welded by
the Secretary of State will enable an un-
scrupulous politician to manipulate the
New York delegation for the choice OF
the man who manipulated them. The
Indianians assert that the New York
Republicans were desirous of having
Indiana 20 Democratic this fall in order
to show that the chances of Republican
success in q Presidential campaign were
greater in the hands of an Eastern man
than Western. For that reason they
claim the New York Republicans strove
to make Harison's majority in New
York larger than it otherwise would
have been.
Mr.. Harrison's most loyal and intimate
friends are John 9. New, Attorney Cen
eral Michener, William H. Elan, General
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