Evening journal., 1889-02-19
GREAT is THEIR WRATH.
Hoosiers Howl at Harrison's
Rumored Cabinet.
SOME VIGOROUS EXPRESSIONS

There Is No Authentic Information That
1t Is Made as Published. but the Assist.
ant Cabinet Makers Are Indignant nj
the Chiefs Alleged Work.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb 19.-If Republican sen.
hment here has any influence, Gen. Har
rlson's cabinet win be broken up ence again
before he gets chance TO send it 10 the Sen.
ate The publication of the list caused a sen.
sation here. The names in the list had all
been discussed freely during the past few
days, but this was the first time that they
had been put together in cabinet form. and
their relative and aggregated PROPORTIONS
contemplated. The result is that the Hoosier
Republicans are divided between indignation
and disbelief
One well known Republican said: There's
nobody except Blaine in the whole lot that
stands for anything, or thatis representative
Of anybody, except Window, who represents
Blaine, or Of any principle except Wana.
maker, who represents Doodle. Noble, W. II.
Il. Miller Thomas and Rusk are politically
good for nothing, and Warner Miller prob
ably won't go in and won't represent anything
but one side of a New York quarrel, if he does.
The cabinet rewards nobody except Blaine.
and 1t utterly ignores the states to which
both gratitude for favors received and a
lively sense of favors to come should have
dictated the giving of some representation.
Delaware, West Virginia and Virginia. in
each Of which the Republicans had made a
hard fight against great odds and had done
n0liW- md Of 4Vb ial Il n
man for the cabinet, are passed over. and the
representative Of the border states is an un.
known man, taken from the hopelessly Demo
cratic state of Missouri The homes OF
southern Republicans are distinctly rebuffed
The Pacific coast, after its gallant work for
the party, Is left out Iowa, Ohio, Kansas
and Nebraska, great Republican strongholds,
are ignored Minnesota gets man whom she
repudiated years ago, and who hasn't cast
vote within her borders since he had one
sworn in four years ago.
New York is practically left out because
making Warner Miller secretary of agricul.
lure amounts to nothing as a recognition Of
the work OF the party in the state. This cabi.
net satisfies nobody and represents nothing,
and that's all there is about it. I'm no states
man, but I'm politician enough to know that
this Is the most damphoolsh cabinet that
man ever put together, and that if Gen Han.
rlson don't listen to reason and brace il uu
while there Is time he viii realize the fact him
self before he has been in office two weeks.
There Is a ivelier prospect Of the breaking
up OF the cabinet, however, from New York
than from Indiana. The best information
obtalnable here is that Warner Miller has de
cllned the department of agriculture In that
case It Is supposed that Senator Palmer. of
Michigan, will be the man chosen: but this
choice viii entail other changes in the cabi.
net, for it would never do to take six out Of
the eight members of the cabinet from states
that touch shoulders 50 closely as Michigan.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri. That would be a western cabinet
with vengeance The most probable solu
ton Of that trouble would be to drop Thomas
and give New York the secretary Of the navy
The choice of Rusk for secretary of war
pleases the soldier element in Indiana. With.
in few days one Of the leading Republican
otficeholders in the state has been to Gen. Har.
rison especially TO insist up0n recognition
being given to this elemant IN the selection of
the cabinet. The talk was a very plain one
and is understood TO have made some ilnpres
sion upon Gen. Harrison, and it is highly
probable, therefore, that Uncle Jerry will not
he shocked out IN any OF the revisions the
cabinet may undergo.
PITTsBURG, Feb 19-Col. James F. An.
drews said that ex-senator Window had in.
formed him while visiting here on Sunday
that Gen. Harrison would not make known
his cabinet, even by intimation, until after he
has taken the oath Of Office.
"Mr. Window, said the colonel, "gave me
to understand that the rumors about his be
ing offered the secretaryship of the treasury
We're pretty near the truth.
"Then he has aeceptedm asked the re
porter - -FEs t
Yes, sir; the newspapers guessed righi
this time, and no mistake.