The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-11-08

Adams also continued in Office three mem.
bers each of the Cabinets as they found
them.
Jackson was the first President whe
made a complete change in the Cabinet OF
his predecessor; but Van Buren,, who sue
ceeded him. changed at the beginning oil
his administration but one Secretary,
That. however, was the end Of the early
system.
Harrison made a clean sweep of Van
Buren's Cabinet, and Mr.. Tyler, who be-
came President a month later, IN Harris
on's death, was not long in beginning this
work of change. Four of the six mem bers
of the Cabinet were removed in September,
1941, on the last day of the first session OF
Congress after Harrison's death; a fifth
was dismissed in October, and Daniel Web
ster, the Secretary of State, was forced ont
in May. 1s43-thus finishing the work of
change.
Polk and Taylor each selected entirely
new men to fill the positions. Gen. Taylor
died on the 9th OF July, 1850. Mr.. Fill
more displaced five of the seven members
of Mr.. Taylot's Cabinet in favor of new
men on the Goth of the same month, one
more on the 23d, and the last retired on
the 18th of September. a change through
out was made in two months and three
days.
Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln each took
new men. Johnson alone of all the Presi-
| dents since the first Adams accepted all his
predecessors constitutional advisers. Mr..
Lincoln died April Is, 1865. No change
in the Cabinet was made except that rem
dered necessary by the resignation of Mr..
Usher, Secretary OF the Interior, for more
than a year, and no change at all, except
in the case of Mr.. Stanton, Secretary of
War, in consequence OF a disagreement be-
tween Mr.. Johnson and a member of the
Cabinet.
To complete the list, Presidents Grant,
Hayes. Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland and
Harrison have all made sweeping changes
except in the case of Wee President Arthur,
who succeeded Garfield. We have given
a rather long and perhaps unnecessary re-
sumo of the Importance and dignity of the
position held by Mr.. Robson, advisor of
the President, than the subject inst now
under consideration would perhaps war
rant, our object being to impress the reader
that it was this same Geo. NJ. Robson, ex-
member of the Cabinet. and Secretary
Of the Navy under Grant, that is just now
emerging from his seelusion and addressed
tine public meeting before spoken of on the
night of Nov. Cd, at Moore S Opera House,
Bridgeton.
The ex- minister makes a splendid figure
on the platform, and as lie strobe in front
of the footlights on that occasion, now
dealing in fiery denunciation of the DEM
ocrats and rebels, (synonymons terms
with him), now softened down Ia
tones of persuasive eloqnence, and anon
ripping with quiet humor it was impos-
sible not to be pleased, even charmed, with
his manner and appearance. In this latter
he reminds enc strongly of Bismarck at
the Reichstag and Gladstone in Parlia-
ment. Stretching out his arms and
Strengthening himself up at one passage,
he said: Il am full grown and response
BILE for what | say" At another time,
with genuine pathos, he touched the audi
enee as the magnetic touch of elbow to
elbow of men in line Of battle, in the ut
terance 81 recognize strong drink as the
ban of society and an evil greatly to be
deplored, and if the remedy lay with me.
before | slept this night the curse would
be banished from our midst, no more to
wreck noble manhood or make miserable
the lives of innocent ONE and children
This sentiment was met with bursts of
applause.
There is but small doubt but ripened
age and adverse experience has mellowed
down much of the asperity once a part, so
large a part, Of his nature and made him
more thoroughly an American and less the
partisan than of yore. Opposed to Mr..
Robson rs we are to much that he holds
as good in politics, we cannot but regret
that such men as he and Bayard and
Thurman and Blaine and st. John, splen-
did specimens of American craftsmanship
and manhood, should ever grow old, and
more sad still that their p%oSthumous rec
ord will some of these days be compiled.
The following are the probable members
Of the coming Legislature.
Sena!e-Atlantie county, j. ]. Gardner,
Rep. ; Bergen, Henry d. Winton, Dem. /:
Burlington, William II. Carter, Rep. !;
Camden, George pfeifcr, Jr., Dem. Cape
May, Walter S. Leaning, Rep. !; Cumber-
land, Samuel r. Fowler, Rep. Essex,
Augustus +. r. Martin, Rep. Gloucester,
Joseph b. Roe, Rep. Hudson, +. T. Me
Donald, Dem; lIunterdon, Moses X. Eve
rift, Dem. Mercer, John d. Rue, Rep.
Middlesex, Robert Adrian, Dem. : Mon
mouth, Henry NJ. Nevius, Rep. /; Morris,
George T. Werts, Dem. Ocean, George r.
Cranmer, Rep. Passaic, John Mallon,
Dem. ; Salem, William Newell. Dem.
Somerset, Lewis A. Thompson, i:ep. Sus-
sex, Peter D. Smith, Dem. onion James
L. Miller, Rep. Warren, Martin Wyckoff,
Dem. Democrats, 10; Republicans, II.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS county. s. S. Hud-
son, Rep. Bergen county, George thinner
man, Dem, A. Deronde, Dem; Darlington
oountv II q Hufohincon Dop Nj ID u,