The morning news., 1889-03-03
HARRISON EASILY LED.
DIANE AND HIS BAND TOO SHARP
TO TRY TO DRIVE HIM.


rbe President Elect Would Immedi-
o+elv Develop Mulish Tendencies if
they We're TO Try It On-The Char
octeristic as Illustrated in Making
Up the Cabinet.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-Presdent-elect
Harrison said the day he got here: i must
8nish the Job by Saturday night. l want
70 rest on Sunday" Tonight he said to
friend that he had gotten through, both
with his cabinet and his inaugural address.
He has done a good deal of work on both since
he rame here, in spite of the announcement
that he had practically completed both be-
fora he left Indianapolis. Messrs. Blaine,
Window and Wanamaker were determined
unon for the state, treasury and
nostofFice before he came. Gov.
Proctor and Gen. Noble had
nromised him to take whatever cabinet
place he found he could give them. w. H.
H. Miller had promised to take either a
cabinet place or the solicitor generalship as
Gen. Harrison might think best, but no
New York man had been determined upon,
and five out of the eight places were prac-
tically open on that account.
HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
The inaugural address was in a more ad-
vanced state. 1t was all in form in type
written CODY, but it had not been seen or
criticized except by a few personal friends,
and had not been given final shape Since
he has been here Gen. Harrison has read 1t
or parts of it to MeSsrs. Blame. sherman
and other party leaders with a view to their
of been
adopted.
The cabinet making has been done chiefly
in those solitary walks, which Gen. Har-
rison has been taking morning and even
ing OF course the suggestions upon winch
he has gone on have been made at the cou-
ference with this man and that, and espe-
cially at those with Messrs. Blaine and
Elkins, but Gen. Harrison has worked
them all out or in by himself.
SELF CONFIDENT.
He thinks he is his own best counselor.
He thinks sincerely that he has thought out
his own cabinet, and that it IS peculiarly
and personally his own. He would not
tolerate the idea so Hospitality entertained
bv others that Messrs Blaine Elxns and
Window, his managing partners in other
business enterprises, have also been
the managing partners in the making of
this cabinet In the New York matter
for rejecting ex-Senators Platt and Miller,
although Mr.. Elkins SO strongly recon-
mended his taking one or the other. Yet
he took Judge Tracy when he was diplo-
matically suggested by Mr.. Blaine.
CAN'T BE DRIVEN.
Mr.. Blaine has discovered that Gen.
Harrison cannot be safely ridden, but there
are artful ways of judiciously driving such
horses. Nothing is more Ger, ain at all
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been largely made for Gen. Harrison He
did not want Mr.. Blaine, yet he has him.
Mr.. Blaine wanted Window, and he
has him. Senator Quay and the
other Pennsylvania managers wanted
Mr. Wanamaker, and Gen. Harri-
son has him, although Senator Quay
said to-day that Gen. Harrison had been
careful never to pledge himself to appoint
Mr.. Wanamaker; yet no one but Senator
Quay has doubted at any time this week
that Wanamaker was a fixture. So it is
with the other plans, except Of course those
assigned to personal friends on purely per-
sonal grounds.
THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.
Take the Secretaryship of Agriculture
Gen. Harrison had a man picked out for
that, Mr.. Brigham, a prominent Ohio
granger physically great as one Of the
Ohio congressman said, whom nobody else
of old. 1t took all the Ekins- Blaine infiu-
ence to persuade Gen Harrison that it
would not do to appoint Mr.. Brigham
TO the cabinet. For time
1t seemed impossible to persuade
him not to appoint Mr.. Brigham, but
finally he compromised on Mr.. Brigham for
the Assistant Secretaryship of Agriculture.
Thus the politicians could figure on the first
place. The Secretaryship Of Agriculture,
by the way, has given the Presdent-elect
more trouble since he came here than all
the other places. All day to-day little else
was talked to him than Messrs. Palmer,
Rusk Furnas and Clarkson.
PICKING AT PALMER
Senator Palmer would have gone right in
as soon as he signifed his willingness 20 ac-
cept had it not been for tine selishness of
Senator Stockbridge, his colleague, who,
just TO spite Senator Palmer, promptly in
dorsed Gov. Rusk. Then in came
Gov Alger this morning and
instead Of magnanimously indorsing
senator Palmer played dog in the man
GER and opposed him. Hearing this the
friends Of Mr.. Clarkson put him forward to
compete with Gov. Rusk and ex-Gov. Fur
mas mas Mr.. Clarkson, himself, saw Gen.
harrison and told him how willingly he
", you'd accept the department of az iculture.
Inc Iowa delegation called TO say what
sood secretary Of Agriculture Mr.. Clark
son would make, and SO on. Meanwhile
senators Spooner and Sawyer were urging
Ny. Eusk and father-in-law, Saunders, of
III NgnIaNsa was urging eX-Gov. Furnas.
Dy lne process Of elimination, ex-Gov.
u,hds OF Nebraska seems to have been set
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