The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-03-14
WHO THEY ARE.
Our Correspondent Sizes Up Harrison's
Cabinet.


Especial Cbrrespondence to the SENTINEL
WASHINGTON, March 12.-The new
administration is slowly getting
down to work. The inaugural adj,
dress was fairly well received here.
1t excited no enthusiasm among the
Republicans and little criticism from
the Democrats. He was careful to
make no promises, contenting him.
self with general statements.
The Cabinet is queer sort of a
combination when you take the
trouble to go over it individually,
carefully noting the personal charac-
teristics of it's members. Like this
for instance:
"JingO Jim," otherwise known as
james G. Blaine, Secretary of State.
This is the man who deliberately
wrecked the Garfield administration
in order to pay off an old personal
score, and who was himself wrecked
in 1884. If he does not have the
new President in d hard place very
soon the new President will prove
himself to be the possessor of much
more strength than he is generally
credited with having.
"Dorsey's Billy" alias William
Window, Secretary of the Treasury.
This is the man who stood by Blaine
IN the Garfield wreck Having been
repudiated by the Republicans of
Minnesota, he went to New York and
became a sort of stool. pigeon for
Steve Dorsey, of star route notoriety.
in the floating of speculative, or as
some people call them, Wildcat
schemes. A few years ago Mr.. Win
dom had the Presidential bee buzzing
In his hat at a terrific rate, and it
would not be surprising if he should
follow the example of John Sherman,
who, when he was Secretary of the
Treasury, turned the Department.
into a political machine to boom
himself for the Presidency. Whether
this would interfere with the future
plans of Harrison or Blaine, cannot
say:
cold Monopoly" alias Redfield
Proctor, Secretary of War, is man
that few people outside of Vermont
ever heard of before the last few
weeks. He controls all of the marble
quarries in Vermont and has thereby
become rich, but nobody has yet
been able to discover any good rea-
son why he should have been made a
Cabinet officer.
'sCoon Benny" alias BENJAMIN F.
Tracy, Secretary of the Navy, is a
man of somewhat unsavory record.
He was colonel of a negro regiment
for while Turing the war and was
afterwards in command of the mill
tary prison at Elmira, New York,
where 10, 900 confederates were con.
fined. He gained more notoriety as
one of Beecher's lawyers in the great
Beecher-Tilton scandal. He has been
a chronic candidate for office in
Brooklyn, but has always failed Of
election, even when he succeeded in
getting the nomination. He knows
nothing about the Navy and why HI
should have been selected is a ques
ton that is pulling everybody, New
York Republicans included.
John W. Noble, of Missouri, is thu
Secretary of the Interior. He is wei
known in St. Louis, where he ha,
practiced law, but nobody in this sec
ton ever heard of him until he was
mentioned few weeks ago for hi
present position.
"Me too" alias w. H. II. Miller
of Indiana, is Attorney General
The only reason for his being in tn,
Cabinet, is that he is Harrison's Law
partner.
"Cheap john" alias John Wanna
maker, of Pennsylvania, is the Post
master General. Of course every
body knows why he is in the cabinet
| He bought the place lust as he WOul,
any Sob lot" Of goods in which h
thought there was a profit. TIL
price he paid-$1OO,OOO-wa bi,
one, and it is to be hoped that b
does not expect to realize a profit O.
the transaction.
Fighting Jerry" alias John Rusl
of Wisconsin, is the selection for tn
new Agricultural department.. Hi
| first prominence was obtained by tn
proclamation ordering out the militis
during the anarchist row in his State