The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-02-01
CABINET SPECULATION.

Cabinet gossip has taken fresh start
from the recent visit of Mr.. Wanamaker
to Indianapolis, and the alleged sum-
moning of Senator Allison to confer
ence with General Harrison. The Phil
adelphia man ID put down as having a
"sinch" on the postoffice department,
and doubtless he can have it if he wants
it, which we deem improbable. The
story that Allison Is to have the treasury
portfolio seems more likely to be veri-
fed by future events. Senator Allison
is one of the sound men of the country,
and President Harrison will make no
mistake in putting him in charge of the
financial bureau. We are inclined to
doubt the supreme importance of hav-
ing New York man secretary of the
treasury, and rather think President
Harrison will not look kindly on the re-
cent double-leaded article in the New
York Press demanding that the treasury
department and New York custom house
be at once dedicated to the purposes of
carrying the Empire State in 1892. New
York is not going to cut such big figure
in Presidential elections hereafter, and
when that fact once dawns upon the
would-be bosses down there they NAV
condescend to be trifle less dictatorial
and more harmonious IN their demands.
1t is again "authoritatively stated"
that Mr.. Blaine is to be secretary of
state. Certainly Mr.. Blame has equal,
if not superior, claims upon the incom-
ing administration of any citizen. He
did woman service in the cause of Re-
publican success, and no single appoint
ment would give more general satisfac-
ton to the country at large than the Sc
lection of the plumed knight as secre-
tary of state. 1t is true that General |
Harrison was the choice of his party for |
the high Office of President, and it is
equally true that he was the choice of a |
great majority of the best thinking peo-
pie of the nation. The mass of his SUP
porters hope he may call Mr.. Blaine in
to his council of close advisers, knowing
him to be the Gladstone of America and |
the champion Of American rights. OIL
course there are other eminently quail |
fed statesmen, any one of whom will
give general satisfaction, and if the Pres
ident-elect shall see proper to select one
other than the man from Maine, there
will be no murmur of disappointment
from loyal party adherents, who look
forward to thoroughly successful ad-
under the leadership of
Gen. Harrison.
There is no statesman whose presence
in the cabinet would more quickly give
the administration the peoples conf
dence than John Sherman. But the
United States senate is not overrunning
with able men just now, and Gen. Har-
rison will doubtless be careful about
too largely upon Its numbers.
The senate can i'll afford the loss of
Messrs. Sherman and Allison.
Gossip over this and that in connec-
ton with the cabinet seems to be accept
ed as affording interesting reading, and
80 we have INDUCED little in it to-day,
believing that there is just as much in
to be had here in the North
west as most any whore else. And that
brings up the reflection, if Iowa should
be left out, what other State would be
likely to furnish a representative in the
cabinet? There are lots of 'em, to be
sure. There is Senator Sabin, for in
stance, who is soon to retire from the
senate. In a number of respects he
would make valuable cabinet officer,
having had experience in the senate and
possessing business abilities that would
come into needed play. If Mr.. sabin
has other plans for the future, there are
plenty more of them, and what is no
small matter In their favor, none of them
are making visits to indianapolis claim
ing to have mortgage upon some place.