Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-31
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RARRlSoNS CABINET.
Slate Arranged which See ms to be
Generally Agreed to.

Slate Arranged Which See ms to be
Generally Agreed to.
Washington special: The nearly uni
versa! conviction that the momentous
question of the next cabinet hos besn ell
but decided at Indianapolis, and the
general agreement OF public conjecture
upon its main features open the way to
| review of the covering streams of cir
cnmstances end event which have led up
SO nearly to the final culmination. 1t is
not prudeut to take anything for grant
ed until Gen. Harrison's conclusions are
announced upon his own authority. The
unanlmity of copleotures, however, fur
| nishes Q sufficiently substantial Frame
work for reminiscent comment. These
things may be taken for granted: That
Allison is Gan. Harrison's choice for the
treasury; that Sherman is no longer
thought of for any position; that Blaine
is most likely to be secretary of state
for the reason that no other republican
leader of equal rank cares to contest the
place with him; that New York is uu-
| likely to be represented in any promi-
| neBt place; that John Wenamaher will
| have some portfolio; that no other SEN
| ator than Allison will be called into the
| cabinet, and that the smaller places will
be given to men relatively qualified for
them, like Gen. Aleer, Estes or Swift of
| California, the lesser Indiana sspirants
or the comparatively unknown candi-
dates from the south. 1t will not be a
distinguished cabinet. except in one or
two places. 1t will not drain the senate
of its talent; it will not be an essemblage
of the great lights of the party nor a
gronp of factional leaders.
| Is will be reasonably harmonious in
itself and fairly representative. II will
probably be q good working body. 1t
will not be brilliant body OF statesmen
| OF national fame and commanding sh!l-
ity. How has such cabinet grown out
OF the very different probabilities which
took shape in the public mind soon after
Harrison election? Mainly by pro-
| cess of progressive exclusion. One name
| after another dropped out of the first
tentative lists as the views of the presi-
| dent-elect and OF the gentlemen prc-
posed to him as his cabinet advisors be-
came known. II the great suggesting
and advising public has not had its way
| altogether about the cabinet, there is
some consolation for it in the reflection
that General Harrison hss not wholly
had his way about it either. He has
had to make cabinet such as he could
not such as he would. The available
cabinet material presented to him after
his election is roughly divisible into two
categories, men who wanted places with
out being notably unfit for them, and men
who were notably fit for place without
wanting 1t. That is to say, men who u.g.
ed their claims to cabinet appointments
upon the president-elect, and men whose
appointment was urged upon him with.
out any effort on their part. This di-
vision does not necessarily stamp one
class es selfish office seekers and the
other as patients. Men are often as
selfish in refusing office as seeking It,
IL happens that most of the cabinet
candidates urged on Gen. Harrison
without any effort on their own part
had better places already. Most OF the
candidates OF the second category are in
the senate. The party leaders to whom
the public mind spontaneous turned as
the fttest men to serve as advisors OF
the new president were nearly all
senators or ex senator's Sherman.
Warner Miller, Allison and John Spoon
er. The men whose claims were urged
by themselves or by interested friends,
like Blaine, Platt and Wanamaker, were
ell out of office and, with one brilliant
exception, ont of the range OF sponts-
| neous public selection.