Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-08
DEPEW ON THE CABINET,
On the Whole He Seems to Be
 Well Pleased.
HE IS GLAD MIR. BLAINE IS IN IT

Words for All, but He Does Not wan
 to Spill TaTy All Arouna-,rr. Allison Declined to Become an "Animated Retrospect"
 CHICAGO March s.-Mr. Depew talked, freely about the cabinet to a correspondent
 here He said: "In selecting Gen. Tracy the | president has shown that he is not n seuti. mentalist by taking an unknown man. Gen. Tracy Is fiue gentleman, of superb abilities.
 was in the New York legislature with him Ill 1852, at a time when it contained twenty. five of the brightest men of the state. He then went into the war
 Afterwards h. was jul ye O. the court of appeals, an attorney in the Beecher trial and very eminent at the har. Mr. Harrison gave him place in the clbin,s because Warnsr Miiie1 and Mir. Plntt could not agree Their relation was som .thiny like the immovable against the irresistible. Two express trains on the same track going in opposite directions cart pass each other very well"
 'In what condition does Gen, Tracy,s an- pointment leave the New York factionsr
 "On an equal footing, thiak The selection of either Mir. Miller or Mr. Platt, and the consequent patronage, would have disturbed the situation very much They can now % in and fight it out for a majority of delegates Ill the state convention and the temporary craftsmanship. The distribution of the great offices ill the state is likely to bs pretty even.
 "How about Biaine"
 "I am glad Mir. Blaine is in the cabinet It would have been a misfortune to the party and the country, too, had he not been: In republican governments the great party lead- CTS must be recognized. If Mfr Harrison had not appointed Mir. Blaine he would have shown that he did not understand the rela- tions of q leader to his party or that he was not big enough to have great man in his cabinet MT. Hal rison has shown that he has excellent executive ability in his cabinet se- lectlons, and l hope he may have another term. was talking the other day with a very great man in the politics of our country about chances and the theory of the mascot in presidential politics. He had thought a great deal about such things, and he believed 1t was impossible for a man to be nominated to the presidency after he was 60 years old What destruction there will be of family Bibles and a reconstruction of biographies as soon as that gets out. But it can't be helped. suppose" And MT. Depew pulled reflect lively at his gray side whiskers
 "What do you think of some of the other members of the cabinets'
 "Do you want me to spoil my chances for foreign mission by trying to spill taffy all around" rejoined Mir. Depew, severely Then he remarked ironically: "There's Jerry Rusk. l like his granger railroad policy. Wana- maker ought to make a good postmaster general. He is regular Chicago man. Ho began small business and made it an im- mense one, pushing it forward and widening 1t out with 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 a way that ought to make your board of trade brokers howl. Mr. Wanamaker. ap- plying his immense business sense to the post office business, ought to manage it very sue. cessfully."
 MT. Depew said pleasant things of Mr. Windom, and, in talking of why Senator Allison did not go into the cabinet, said ho could not afford to become an animated re- trospect" like ex Senator Bayam.