New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-17
CABINET MAKERS AT WORK.
GUESSEs PLENTY ABOUT Mr.. CLEvELANDS
PROBABLE CHOICE
HIS HIGHT YEARS EXPERIENCE MAY KEEP HIM
FROM SOME OF HIS PREVIOUS BLUNDERs-
PROMINENT MEN SUGGESTED FOR
CABINET PLACES
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE

CABINET PLACES.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.1
Washington Nov. 16.-Poli,ical gossip both here and
IN New York has already begun the construction OF Mr.
Ceveands Cabinet. and this entertaining form of spec
uaton is likely to be pursued with great activity from
now until March s. when the names of the new PreSi-
dents eight official advisors will be announced for
naly 70 the Senate Mr.. Cleveland himself Will prob
ably wait until after Christmas before troubling his
urt the task of distributing the eight Cabinet
,ace at his disposal among perhaps thirty or forty
,spirants for portfolios Eight years OF thorough ex
pcrence In National politics have made him entirely
familiar with the character and abilities Of the various
marty leaders and should save him now from the per
plexities ana hesitatons which so embarrassed hts
choice OF a Cabinet In 1885 and led him finally into
many serious errors Of judgment.
OF the seven Cabinet officers selected by Mr.. Cleve-
land at the beginning Of his first Administration, no less
than four proved before their terms were out GORGEOUS
failures while only two be said 10 have made any
thing like average success in the management OF
their Departments one OF the easiest predict IONS.
therefore, that be made about the second Glove
land Cabinet Is that 1t will not be constructed on the
lines Of the first one In choosing his former oiciai
family Mr. Cleveland gave two Cabinet places to New
York, three the South, one to NewEngand ana one
10 the West some complaint was made that one
State New-York should have two portfolios besides
the Presidency Itself But strangely enough the two
New York appointments turned out 10 be the most
iudcious and successful Of ALL and the Departments
ntloled by Manning and then Fairchlld, and by
Whitney may without eXaggeration be said to be the
only oaes whose management reflected any substantial
credit on the last Administration.
To represent the South in his Cabinet MI Cieve-
and choose three prominent Democratic Senators
Bayard Garland and Lamar. Accustomed f2r many
yeas 10 leading parliament opposition, they oeVcE
oped little fitness for administration. and proved one
and all conspicuous executive failures. MI. BayhFu
entered the Cabinet In 1856 with a popular reputation
for craftsmanship the dgnihed and respectable
character. He was unchallenecd Democratic
loader I'm Congress and the avorite southern cadi-
date for the Presidency. His disappointing career
in the State Department is too recent to need recae
II left him with only shadow Of his former stand
Inc and authority In his party, and since 1851 lie
has sunk practically into political obscurlty. As
striking evidence Of the quickly changing position
and fortunes of public men it is now seriously pro
posed in some quarters that George Gray, the vii
mincton lawyer Nho ftd out MIR. Bayard's term In
the senate be now transferred 10 tho head OF inc
state Department. in order that Mr.. Bayard may DO
returned - his former modest post in the de-
lucrative branch Of Congress.
Mr. Cleveland I'D an experience no loss unfortunate
with his other two southern Cabinet officers Mr. Gar
land and Mr.. Lamar Both had personal Official dill
entities with the President. and both were driven to
offer their rcsigraons before tu.ir terms hsd nan
expired Mr.. Cleveland feared. however, TO SEND
either adrft openly. lie finally appointed secretary
Lamar to an Associate Justiceshp on the supreme
Bench thus getting rid " HIN decorously ana WITHOUT
friction Mr. Garland. however, could not be ci'-
po.ed o.. and was retained till the end. though his
relations with Mr. Cleveland throughout the last TWO
years OF his term anything but coulal. Mr'
Garland had been chosen Attorney General becaise
OF a nctitons legal reputation, with which passing
allusion in the speech Of ltading Repubican mem
her OF the senate Judiciary Committee had oAce
Ne
IN tl,e South and there are people now in Little
Rock who say that Mr.. Galand's refusal to wear
dress coat Mr. Cevelands wedding has mad more 70
do with reardlns the prosperity Of Arkansas than the
failure OF two cotton crops. and the threat OF ooHen
aForeen bills.
Obviously Mr. Cleveland cannot think OF reappoint-
Ing any one Of his former advisers from the SOUTH
asd II the south Is to be represented IN ue Naohe'
commensurately with its Democratic electoral votes
here win have to he AN active arch lh'utut~u ior
statesmen equal TO the demands Of q Cabinet post
There is Just now an uncommon dearth In the south
Of public men OF the first rank, and there Is scarceV
q sinrle southern member OF either branch OF Con-
gress who u possess especial quahncauohS i''
Cabinet work. senator's Gray, OF Delaware "orniah'
OF MARYLAND, and Carlisle. Of Kentucky II t"ey m"
be counted as Southern men, would make s'r'u n.a's
OF DEPARTMENTS But Mr.. Carlisle cannot well Dc
sn.-ed from the NyOrh OF directing Democratic urn
legislation I'm the Senate during the next Two years
he and Mr. NILS being the only Democratic senators WIN
have any practical acquaintance Wan U'il" scheuo''
Mr. German will be needed. too, 10 con'Fo me WORK
Of the Appropriations Committee, II the Democr"'s
reorranlzo the Senate next March. Apart ffom hf'
uu,o, n, west Virginia. ard MIR. Match OF Missouri
,o,b fancinu euggestions-n1 southern Representative
t. at present even talked Of for Cabinet postum
The south ought get three Cabinet places again. ou'
viii have hard to bring TO the front 'at MAN!
nrstc candidates. 80 ., A..
wing and was rspresented In 'lF. Oe'ei'h . il" %
,r,,, of tne Administration lie is remembered
only for the lg!cid zone he drew ABOUT the war De
partment in Washington, ana because one u MS
daughters met aud married the lioh' 'oe N'''0
lain when that eminent antllome kuler "a' - ia "''
by Lord salisbury to negotiate treaty hMhs inc
rights of American fishermen in CANADIAN ""'eiS'
Mr. Eudlco,t long since retired 10 glacial piV%y III
en,o,, and II Mr. Cleveland again chooses NEW
Tupland,r for his Cabinet II Is sale 70 say '"'' ~
will not be- the fathern-law OF the cA-""9'i VA
K,imiuglam but a more praclcal anu eNe''u";
Massachusetts Democrat ike General fa'r"h ~ ~
Inns or some member OF the mui"lio an" "e'
cessiul family If RusseNs .,,a
g.. a., >c,yy York 4, concerned, Mr.. Cleveland
cruid ner,nu, scarcely do better than 10 reaPp'i'
his I'D associates Mr.. Whitney, US secretary Va ~
Navy was By far the most popular anu 49,
member of the last Cabinet and Mr. fai'on" -
well IN the main, with the WORK cut Oh. 'oi u.s."
IN IN. Treasury Department during Dahe MahnihS
brief incnmboncy The frrsidentcecV OWES -"
lop,untlou ana reelection more 10 HT' whit,
tl.n to sny ether OF his supporters anu '''' Wv
hey can of course, have anything De may ~
under the new Administration, the . nte pcP"' u"'"
the Navy Department again, OF inc VS. cl,,sa.
FOREIGN missions HIS rcappcarance III the Cioi"7'
49,, la ,onular here ard would mean mHch lOf
HE .oc,.i and other successes Of the second I've
Mnd Administration. whether 1t VIII b. io.hu h.
L---lrs IA raDpoint Nj. tarcn!d, III NIoN Va -,
tto-'n',.. IN Tnr ,yricnse antisnipper nloVcnie,
annot now be g,cssca. lie Is n.an OF nssc
ss s1oo - secrcl.ry oil the treasury as M Jew
iIa could IND , ,., .s,i,.s IN AT In
In 1. said mat Richard Croker a"plles ~ " and
tts ne,, ,shiuel mis- suggestion Is hcnrues INV
snould lac sept from the readers OF ine ,.'"bIr
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