Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-12-25
THE COMING CABINET.
INTERESTING GOSSIP. ABOUT THE NEXT AD-
MINISTRAIION.


SPECIAL CorraDoadencs or TIE Sunday REGISTER
WASHINGTON, December EFT Is
difficult TO realize that we are within
three months and less OF new admin
istration. In q few weeks the news
papers will be filed day after day with
gossip concerning the formation OF the
new Presidents Cabinet. Let us anti
cipate our friends OF the daily dispatches
little and see II we can throw any
light upon the important and interest
ing topic OF what Mr.. Cleveland Is like
ly to do and not TO do.
think l can say without fear OF con-
tradiction that Mr.. Cleveland Is going
to be very large part OF the new adj
ministration himself. He always was
accustomed to having his way about
things, and as he grows older and meets
with new successes IL Is very natural
that this habit should become more no.
tlceable. One hears about twenty times
a day In Washington the prediction that
in less than six months MIR. Cleveland
will be the most cordially hated ana lu-
ridly cursed man In the Democratic
party-that is TO say, his own party
friends will be cursing him. This may
be true, but II it Is imagine that Mr..
Cleveland isn't losing any sleep about II.
There are numerous and unmlstaKa9le
indications that when he comes to the
White House for the second time MIR.
Cleveland will take up the cares OF his
great Office with the supreme satlsfac-
ton OF feeling that he Is going to do
what he pleases and father the conse-
quences.
1t Is an odd thing, but President OF
the United States, the nest powerful
official on this continent and one OF the
greatest rulers OF the world, Is under or
binary circumstances man who soon
becomes noted for not having his own
way. A President who wants TO be re-
elected-and nearly all Presidents do,
sooner or later-must bow the knee TO
horde OF politicians great and small or
bid farewell TO any hope OF succeeding
himself.
II he stands up and fights and has his
own way about things, be will become
unpopular, will be cursed from Maine
to Texas and will not be renomiuated or
Tn-elecfeO. II w ea'
snce of the politicians and submits to
their domination, he will advertise him
self 10 the country as man too plant
and weak 10 be trusted with the great
RESPONSIBILITIES Of the Office. In seeking
a happy mean between the two ex-
tremes President OF the United States
Is one OF the most miserable, most
harassed and most unhappy mortals on
the face OF the earth.
This brings me TO point which l
have often made before In these letters.
II Is that we are surely coming TO q
change in our constitution which Will
forbid the reelection OF President.
Men Of all parties are now agreed that
Il IL unwise to choose man as his own
successor in the Presidential chair.
The politicians are agreed that it is
only under exceptional circumstances,
such as war or danger OF war, that q
President can be reelected, even II II Is
then desirable. Cleveland tried IL and
failed: Harrison tried IL and failed.
The trouble is that during the first
term a President necessarily makes so
many enemies that when the campaign
for his reelection comes on he Is newt
ably weaker than his party.
still more serious is the influence
which a denomination has upon the pol
IIlcians and local leaders throughout the
country. They say: "Oh, what differ
ence does II make to US whether this
man is elected again or not? He didn't
give US any Office during the present
term, aud II we turn TO and help him TO
q second term we are simply working TO
kee in Office the fellows who are al
ready there" But II new man Is put
M the men VINO hold good jobs turn Ia
and work in hope OF keeping them. and
the chaps who are on the outside pull
off THEFT coats in hope OF getting In.
Besides there Is some peculiar quality
in the public mind which welcomes
change. The people become tired OF the
very name OF President. They become
tired OF gossip about him and stories
which illustrate his character and meth
ods. They would like 70 see new sun
rise in the horizon. They have an In
stIuctiye, even II unconscious, craving
for novelty. In four years about all the
sentiment there is IN the personality OF
a President is dissipated In the popular
mind.
-Four years ago the people were 1T
tie weary Of Grover, whose stroug char
acter and certain mental pecuIiarities
had At first strangely attracted then
ast month they gave evidence that
3 sentiment which Little Ben had
sed 10 them Wis no longer . force.
+ an you come think about Il, SEN
A emit Is affr 3 hiRRest thing In