New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-20
HARRISON THE SILENT.
,r.rrsMAN WHO KEEPS HIS OWN eouN
Sell.
- u.Rp TO SERVE THE NATION We'll
N'"n n,.r GRATIFYING LITTLE THE 'uH'

is .be Preside Intellect has lm'resseo itsen
nSVe Az. NIL lie so forcibly since bs eiecuon as
up0A n,rlete ability to keep his own secrets
"a. silencc about his Cabinet ana ms pol0s mas
-. hssn an ingrained taciturnlE n~o o,"no .
-.ho.e military instinct loved SURPRISES auu el9a,A
dom the divulgence of an opnion 49, 'i,0
.;0e for action had arrived oenel"i iieliisons
.scretiyencss has double roo - Io' :" p"r@
secreu '.-oI ,.serve Of a cool and imperturbable
inc n' put more than that it is the rpened
;. =, lone and thorough political training.
iS'. ,hi rroctised mask caution. patience and
pen,no toyo bcen ding what they can to
ha.e ,,odeI Cabinet and successful Admin
insui. put co far The mask has been i'm
is'i"1 The Cabnt problem is as great a
pen. ss ever. Thoe who get closest TO the
nysv confidence vii tell YOU that so far as
-, ,-nou not a single head of Department has
49, chosen. Withina week the Presdentelect
ne been credited Will saying that he has not yet
.ssntioned the name Of O member OF his Cabinet
/ 20 any living man.
To keen secret % long and SO completely. and
.rainst such enormous pressure from the OUT
,sae has been in iself good-sized achievement.
pohablv a tIoassad skilled politicians have been
a.re trying for tie last three months to get some
"a. ~ General Harrisons plans and purposes.
:. e safe to s.v that not one has gone away
,,om Indianapolis really satisfied that he knew
.nvthing deinie about the Cabinet or the policy
A. the next Administration. One political pill
s-;r, has potte, one hint. another another. Cen
f..I,v the hins put side by side, have seemed
..rtrad,ctory ind if the experts. as rule. have
.ornrared nots further they have mournfully
.rresd In thelanguage of two discounted New
Wy State Seniors who were here month ago:
We are Dig enough politicians to como out
e. Indianapos and make General Harrison's
Cabinet for ban"
Tbero haycbeen other visitors here guests In
vited by the General. who might have been sup
posed to shar his secrets without question but
who. apparerly, did not get much further into
,ba mystery the Cabinet than the average ex-
rert Take for instance. the Vice-Presldent-
s,sct Mr. M.ton. and Senator Quay. Mr. and
Mrs Morton anne to Indianapolis at the special
invitation Of he Presidcnt-elect. and the two sue
esssful candiotes were thrown together for hours,
taking long ullxs about the CITY. or smoking and
chatting qaidy in the library at the Generals
House. Mr.. Iorton had long practised sue
cessfuI silenc, and his relations with the coming
Administrative were close enough, perhaps. TO
Justify any Evidences about the Cabinet that
might have len offered. Yet after o stay Of
three DAYS. Il Vice-President-elect is known to
have gone aw scarcely any wiser as to General
Hsrrison's inttions than when he came. At
dinner party iNew-Yorl1 since Christmas he said
Smilinply to swel-known New-York Republican
WIN has beeniere within the week that he haC
not been ableo sound the President-elect on his
choice for ngle one of the Cabinet Depart
ments Gene Harrison has said recently that
M mart of Iii Cabinet had been selected then.
But il is sigicant of the Presidentelects de-
Iberativeness nd caution that fully five weeks
after the electn Mr.. Morton could not get. as he
confessed. evehn inkling of what General Harri-
sons firal decbn on the Cabinet question would
be.
Senator Qus too made the journey here from
Washington a6ereral Harrison's invitation. and
his talk w1tlthe President-eiect which lasted
about three ours. was presumably exhaustive
and coniderfI. When he came down to the
New DenisoJotel suffering from racdng head
ache he satthe conference was satisfactory"
Just in whiwavit was satisfactory to the chair
man of Irrational Committee has never been
tullv expned. Confidence in the success Of
his eno,tc get John Wanarnaker of Phila-
deInba. % the Cabinet has increased since the
day no Indianapolis. But after all. rumors
have no crowdng back here from the Capital
every n weeks that the Pennsylvania Senator's
visit sled nothing and that Mr. Quay himself
had ,vJpered among his closest friends the secret
A. b;sl success. definite report to that effect
has N brought here within few DAYS by the
samsepublican who repeated Mr.. Mortons good
nath remark
rail- this maze of uncertainty as to the
cayet there are still a few comforting guide
mo- for speculation. General Harrison does oc-
,a1nallv drop hint that NAV be taken at
rhinc valuation. He said last Monday. in two
shrate talks with the New-YorlSers who were
Ye. that the Empire State could scarcely ex-
1t TO get the Secretaryship of the Treasury.
bat great Department would 60 TO the West. and
| ew-York would have to be satisfied with the
kepartment of War or Of the Navy. 1t is fair
DEDUCTION from this statcme 1t that the Secretary
ship Of State is to GO to the East. perhaps TO New
England. That wodld leaw one Department for
Pennsylvania. one for the South. and two adj
dltional ones for the West. with the chance of
three if the Department of Agriculture is raised
70 the rank of the other Departments. A rough
uess like this is of course all that is warranted
/ By tina present situation.
i Arthur Il. Bateman. ex-Commodore Of the
! american Yacht Club. banker. railroad man and
hustling politician, was telling some good stories
here last Monday in the intervals of his work for
Warner Miller. One OF two given below is at
Mr.. Bateman's own expense; the other is at that
Of Senator John Sherman. Mr.. Bateman
one of the managers Of Mr.. Sherman's campaign
Tor the Republican nomination in 1880 and got
TO Chicago several davs before the National Con-
venton was TO meet. lie was looking around
Tor Headquarters and getting ready generally for
canvass of the delegations, when o dignifed
colored man, dressed in broadcloth and wearing
high silk hat came into his rooms and intro
daced himself The visitor said he was Mr.
Bank, one OF the delegates from Arkansas He
had lot OF other Southern delegates also colored,
down at a s'nall hotel and they were going to
have dance that night. The Arkansas man was
anxious 10 see the dance success and was look
I Ing for patronage.
Mr. Bateman slipped into the back room, took
out n directory Of the delegates. and found
name corresponding to his callers in the list from
Il Arlnncan