Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-11-27
SURVIVING CABINET OFFICERS


Tho Venerable Bancroft, Folks Sec
Rotary OF state, and other Men whs
Were Part OF More Recent Admin
istratfon.
A Washington correspondent Of The ChicG
90 Times writes: Secretary Manning's death
calls attention TO the numerous eI-cablnct Of.
ncers who still live. saw George Bancroft
Folks secretary OF the navy, on the streets Of
Washington to-day. His long white beard
shone out from under the broad visor Of
sealskin cap and his trousers were rolled uE
to avoid the slush. He had on rubbers and
an overcoat, and was taking his daily consti-
tutionaL Jefferson Davis, President Pierce'i
secretary Of war, is still living at Bsauvoir.
Miss, after having gone through an expert
ence equal to a thousand ordinary llfetimei
since he left the cabinet Horatio King, who
was postmaster general under Buchanan, 10
living Q retired life at Washington, writing
for the historical magazines, and as clipper ~
. man OF Is, instead Of one Of more than 70
He Is . trihe fatter than Bancroft, but hii
mind 10 as clear as spring water, and
he likes to give his receptions as well now Is
he did when he was at the head Of the post.
Office department Joseph Holt BuchaDan's
secretary Of war, and at one time his postmeS
ter general is also living in Washington, and
as for the younger cabinet officers, you bump
mp against them on every street corner.
George NJ. Robson, Grants secretary OF
the navy, is as fat as Shakespeare's justice,
and there 10 hardly man on the supreme bench
as feshy as he He has q 500, 600 house
within stones throw Of Scott circle, WASH
ington, and, indeed, q number of the big
houses which surround him have be-
longed to cabinet officers OF the MEM
bers of Garfed's cabinet Coy. Klrkwood, who
was at the head of the interior department,
Ia leading quiet life In Iowa, and bis savings
are enough to keep his bed soft during old
age. Robert I. Lincoln, his secretary OF war,
has lucrative law practice 10 Chicago, and
he Is building, one Of the finest houses 10
that city of palaces Wayne MacVeagh still
lives at Philadelphia, and In the same town
you may see the frllled shirt aud the thick
furred white hat Of Bennie Brewster, who
was MacVesgh's successor under Arthur
OF Lincoln's cabinet Simon Cameron 10
living at Harrisburg q hale old man, full OF
"reminiscences and pregnant with sound ad.
vice TO the young. He lately said, speaking
of his son Don and his advantages: Yes
Don had great advantages, and he improved
them well; but had one advantage over
Don, and that was poverty. The struggle for
made me what am" Hugh McCulloch, one
Of Lincoln's secretaries Of the treasury, has
a residence near Washington, and he spends
his winters at the capital. He went to Lon
don after he had left the cabinet and made .
fortune as a banker there and years after he
came back he took the treasury again under
Arthur. Senator Evarts was a cabinet off,
Ger as far back as 1868, when he was Andy
Johnson's attorney general, and nearly ten
year after this he made a reputation as Mr..
Hayes secretary Of state. He entertained
profusely while he was In the cabinet, and
living
salary.
Senator Sherman, Hayes secretary of the
treasury, told me that his health was not In
jured by the duties of the department, and
met in Florida last spring Alexander Ramsey,
Hayes secretary Of war, and found him to be
as straight as string and as bright as a but
ton. Dick Thompson, Of Indiana, who held
the navy portfolio during the same admins
tration, leads hale and hearty life among the
Hoosiers. Nathan Golf has received fortune
BY inheritance since he left the cabinet. Carl
Schurz has had a number Of new ideas since
he headed the interior department, and his
life Of Henry Clay is having a fair sale.
Grant had a long list Of cabinet officers,
and quite number OF them yet live, move,
and have their being. Hamilton Fish leads Q
tual face OF George s Boutwell, NAV be seen
In any crowd OF public men at Washington,
and he is practicing law at the capital. Gen
eral Sherman, who acted for q time as secre-
tary OF war, leads happy life In New York,
and General Belknap moves about the hotels
Of Washington, one Of the handsomest and
youngest of our old young men. Two OF
Grants secretaries of the interior are alive,
aud both are In Ohio. Jacob d. Cox practices
law In Cincinnati, while Columbus Delano,
with his pockets well lined from the sale OF
thousands of fieeces of wool, lives on a farm
In the vicinity of Mount Vernon. One Of
Grants postmaster generals, John A. j. Cres-
well, is as handsome as Belknap, and fully as
bright. He has shekels laid up, and his bus
mess brain works as actively as to investment
and speculation as 1t did as to the politics OF
country postmasters.
Judge Tyner, another OF Grants postmaster
generals, is now a Washington lawyer, and his
tall, fine figure, and his face so rosy that II
seems to have stepped forth from a portrait of
Rubeps, shines out In the court-rooms and at
the receptions Tyner is well-to-do but not
wealthy, and he Is one Of the most genial and
well-informed men among the ex.cabinet off,
GERS Alphonso Taft, one OF Grants attorney
generals, 10 having a comfortable old age at
CincInnati; and as for 'Lsndsulet" Williams,
he Is still In Oregon. William E. Chandler,
Arthur's head of the navy, is now q senator,
and Frank Hatton has joined the army Of New
York editors. Gresham has . soft seat at q
few thousand dollars year as Judge; Teller
Is back to the United States senate, and
Lucius Quintius Curtius Lamar 10 to leave bis
5000 a year place In the interior for q &c.
600 nlace on the aunreme bench