The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-12-11

offer to Daniel Manning. He did not
know public men very we'll, and therefore
was compelled TO turn his eyes TO the
United States senate. In February Senator
Bayard made q trip from Washington to
Albany, and when he returned it WAS said
that he was to be secretary of state. A few
days later Senator Garland made the same
trip, and then they said he was
to be attorney general. Next fol-
lowed Gen. Lamar, and he went Dack
to Washington smiling and dld not
deny that he, too, was to be a member of
the cabinet. Senator Villas, as the pre-
siding officer of the convention which NOM
mated Cleveland, was believed to be the
far western member of the cabinet. Ihe
surprises were the nominations of William
G. Whitney, Cleveland initiating Grants
example by taking two members OF the CAB
met from the same state, and William Y.
Endicott, who was unknown to the country
at large, who was selected as the New Eng
land representative. There was probably
more politics in Whitney's appointment
than in that of any other member OF that
cabinet.
President Harrison was greatly per-
plexed. on account of the difficulty of Sc
Letting a secretary of the treasury. with
that choice made, the cabinet easily re-
solved itself in his mind into a satisfactory
structure, and curionsly enough he was
compelled to almost duplicate General Gat-
fields experience. He urged Senator ALL
son to accept the treasury, and the senator
for the second time declined that splendid
office, and then one day in perplexlty and
almost despair Harrison happened to think
of William Window. then a quiet business
man in New York CITY, and sent for him
lust as Garfield had done eight years be-
fore. and to Windom'B bewilderment he
found himself again in the whirl of politl-
cal life and at the head of the treasury de-
partment, in which service he was to end
his days.
MIR. Cleveland will necessarily have
brought to his consideration a number of
names whose relations to his party would
justify their appointment rs members OF
his political family, and who were not con-
sidered by him in 1884. Some OF them are
men who won their political spurs since
that time; others in the new 40 justments
and developments of politics have been
brought prominently to the front. Ills per-
Bonal acquaintance IL so much wider than
it was ia 1884 that this of itself would give
him a larger list to select from. II MIR.
Whitney should go into the cabinet his Sc
lection would be the keystone of the cabi-
net structure, and 1t has been the general
imp eBsion that Mr.. Cleveland would gladly
call him again into his political family, and
as secretary of state.
If Mr.. Whitney is not chosen 1t will be
because he does not care to enter the cabi-
net, and Mr.. Cleveland will probably con
slider the name of ex-Minister l.. j. Phelps.
of Vermont, who, if chosen, would repre-
sent New England, or Senator Carlisle.
Gov. Russell, Of Massachusetts, many
think, will be called to the cabinet, since
he is a warm personal friend of Cleveland,
and his remarkable triple victories when Il
candidate for governor would justify his So.
lection. II he is not chosen Cleveland ia sure
to give some thought to Gen. Patrick A.
Collins, of Boston, as he did i'll 1884. Gov.
Flower, of New York, may possibly be con
sidered in connection with the treasury de-
partment, although Mt present it is hardly
likely that he will be chosen. Mr.. i~Iarrity
of Pennsylvania, who was the general IL
command of the battle, will surely be ser
iougly considered. The logic of poll
ticiaus makes it necessary that CleyelanC
should incline toward the appointment o
Gov. Gray, of Indiana, to some one of tn,
cabinet POSITIONS, and he surely will tax,
into consideration tho name Of Senate
Gray. Of Delaware. Benjamin L. Cable, o
Illinois, will be urged ulon Cleveland
consideration, and SO would Don Dickinson
of Michigan, but for the fact that MIR. Dick
in5on does not care to re-enter the cabinet
1t has been one of the after-eiection report
that MIR. Cleveland may think it wise t
appoint Wayne MACY to the cabinet
and it Is cer tain that he will not pass owe
the name of Judge Wilson, of West VIZ
ginia, unless the exigencies of cabinet
making compel it, while his know
friendship for Gov. Campbell, OF OhIt
coupled with the fact that the party mad
remarkable gains in that state, will III
questionably lead him to give the governor
name most favorable consideration.