Evening journal., 1889-03-08
ONE CENT.
DEPEW ON THE CABINET.
On the Whole He Seems to Be
Well Pleased.
HE is GLAD MIR. BLAINE Is IN IN.

Con. Tracy an Admirable cl,oice--Good
words for All, but lie Does Not Want
20 Spill Tany All Around-Mr. Allison
Declined TO become an Animated
Retrospect"
CHICAGO, March s-Mr Depew talked
freely about the cabinet TO a correspondents
here. He said: "In selecting Gen. Tracy the
president has shown that he is not a senti-
mentalist by taking an unknown man. Gen.
Tracy is a fine gentleman, Of superb abilities
| was in the New York legislature with him
in 1862, at time when it contained twenty
five Of the brightest men Of the state. He
then went into the war.
afterwards he was Judge OF the court OF
appeals an attorney in the Beecher trial and
very eminent at the bar Mr. Harrison gave
him place in the cabinst because Warner
Miller and Mr.. Platt could not agree. Their
relation was somsthing like the mmovable
against the irresistible. Two express trains
on the same track going In opposite directions
can't pass each other very we'll y
'In what condition does Gen. Tracys APP
pointment leave the New York factionsr
"On an equal footing, think The selection
Of either Mr.. Miller or Mr. Platt, and the
consequent patronage, would have disturbed
the situation very much. They can now go
in and fight it out for a majority Of delegates
in the state convention and the temporary
craftsmanship. The distribution Of the great
offices in the state is likely to BIS pretty oven
"How about Blainef
~ am glad Mr. Blaine Is In thecahinet II
would have been a misfortune TO the party
and the country, too, had he not been. In
republican governments the great party lead
eis must be recognized. II Mr. Harrison he'd
not appointed Mr.. Blaine he would have
shown that he did not understand the rela-
tions OF a lender to his party or that he was
not big enough to have great man In his
cabinet. Mr.. Harrison has shown that he has
excellent executive ability in his cabinet so
lections, and / hope he may have another
term / was talking the other day with
very great man In the politics Of our country
about chances and the theory Of the mascot
in presidential politics He had thought
great deal about such things, and ne believed
IL was impossible for a man 10 be nominated
10 the presidency after he was 60 years old
What a destruction there will be Of family
Bibles and IA reconstruction OF biographies as
soon as that gets out, But It can't be helped
] suppose And Mr.. Depew pulled reflect
lively ut his gray side whiskers
"What do you think Of some of the other
members Of the cabnetF'
"Do you want me to spoil my chances for a
foreign mission by trying 70 spin taify al
aroundr rejoined Mr.. Depew, severely. Then
he remarked ironically; "Theres Jerry Ruslx
/ like his granger railroad policy Wana-
maker ought TO make a good postmaster
general He is a regular Chicago man He
began small business and made il an inn
mense one, pushing il forward and widening
it out with a thousand horse power energy.
The way he has piled up fortune ought to
please State street and Packing Town He
has kept religion and business hand in hand
in way that ought to make your board OF
trade brokers howl Mr. Wanamaber, ap-
plying his immense business sense 70 the posi-
office business, ought to manage It very sue
cessfully.n
Mr.. Depew said pleasant things Of Mr.
Window, and, in talking Of Why Senator
Allison did not 60 into the cabinet, said he
could not afford 20 become an animated re-
Prospect ike ex Senator Bayard.