Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-23
ALLEGED CABINET MATERIAL.

Naturally one of the early results of the
| Democratic victory Is that enterprising
editors at once betake themselves to con-
structing cabinets for President Cleve-
land. Of course any attempt to foretell
what the exact composition of the Cabinet
will be is not worth the paper it is written
on. The Presideht-elect would probably
be unable to designate half the Cabinet
appointments for weeks to come. But an
effort of the Philadelphia Record to point
out the material available for Cabinet min
listers is worthy of comment, as indicating
the possibilities of the new administration.
For Secretary of State that Democratic
organ named as available Bayard or Gray,
of Delaware; Carlisle Phelps, of Vermont;
James G. Carter, of New York, and Chief
Justice Fuller. All of these names are
respectable. Except Bayard and Phelps,
none of them have diplomatic experience,
and the first name revlves a memory of
the positive sentiment of the State De.
partment during Cleveland's first term
that it would be an irretrievable misfor-
tune if the United States should gain any
influence or extend its commerce in foreign
lands.
The available men for Secretary of the
Treasury are stated to be Mcpherson,
Flower, Gable, of Illinois, Franklin, Mac
Veagh and Simmons, the New York
banker. The list is redolent of corporate
associations, the name of Simmons being
the most hopeful, while some of the other
candidates are the reverse of satisfactory.
For Attorney General Wilson BisselI,
William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, and
Wayne MacVeagh are named. The first
suggests a possible repetition of the ex-
perience of President Harrison in selecting
a personal friend and law partner for the
place. Either Wilson or MacVeagh would
make first-class Attorney General The
West VirginIan would be preferable to
those who wish to see the interests of the
people vigorously upheld in opposition to
the great combinations.
1t is when we get to the possibilities for
Postmaster General and Secretary of the
Interior that we find suggestions incon-
sistent with the professions of the party
for reform and opposition to corporate
abuses. For Postmaster General our own
Harrity is first named; and it needs no
pTOpH6b W lUTcbtu bIldb his appointment
would reproduce in the Postofice De-
partment the campaign of spoils which
signalized his administration of the
Philadelphia postoffice during Cleveland's
first administrs ton. The name of Campbell,
of Ohio, for thesame Office suggests better
possibilities, while Duncan B. Cooper, of
the Nashville american, and J. W. Doane,
of Chicago, are unknown quantities. The
list for Secretary of the Interior, compris-
ing Henry Willard, Governor Gray, of In.
diana, Daniel S. Lamont and Editor
Charles 81. Jones, of the st. Louis Re-
public, is very questionable one. Mr..
Willard has controlled that department
once by proxy with disastrous results to
the interests of the people; and once
ought to be enough. Mr.. Lamont's cor
porate affiliations are public property;
Governor Gray's relations on that impor-
tant point in this department are unknown,
and Mr.. Jones is professedly an opponent
of corporate abuses
For Secretary of the Navy Governor
Pattison, Daniel ]. Campau, of Michigan,
and Felix Campbell, of Brooklyn, are
named, and for Secretary of War, P.
A Collins and General Palmer. It may