Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-26
NEXT CABINET.
Interesting Gossip About the
Next Administration.
fairchild Only Member Of Old Cabi-
net Who May be Re-appointed.
why uhslssy Viii NJ Aeespt 0siee -Isaae
Pusey ersy's Prospects.


PvseJ ersy's Prsspsets.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 25.--it is difficult
TO realize that we are within three
months and less of q new administra-
,son. In few weeks the newspapers
will be filled day after day with gossip
concerning the formation Of the new
presidents cabinet. Let us anticipate
our friends of the daily dispatches u lit
tie and see if we can thQw any light
upon the important and interesting
topic of what Mr.. Cleveland is likely TO
do and not to do.
think 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 it is very natural
that this habit should become more no
ticeable. One hears about twenty times
day in Washington the prediction that
in less than six months Mr.. Cleveland
will be the most cordially hated and 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 il it is | imagine that Mr.. Cleve-
land isn't losing any sleep about 1t.
There are numerous and unnistakable
indications that when lie comes to the
White House for the second time Mr..
Cleveland will take up the cares of his
great office with the supreme satisfac-
ton of feeling that he is going to do
what he pleases and bother the conse-
quences.
1t is an odd thing, but president OF
the United States, the most powerful
official, Of this continent and one of the
greatest rulers of the world, is under
ordinary circumstances II 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 laser-inust bow the knee to a
horde Of politicians great and small or
bid farewell to any hope Of succeeding
himself
If he stands up and fights and has his
own way about things, he will become
unpopular, Will be cursed from Maine to
Texas and will not be reuominatod or
reelected. If he succumbs to the in
fnence of the politicians and snbuaits to
their domination, he will advertise him
self to the country as Il man too plant
and weak to 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 a point which J
have often made before i'll these letters.
1t is that we are surely coming to ii
change in our constitution which will
forbid the reelection of a president.
Men of all parties are now agreed that
it is unwise TO choose man as his own
successor in the presidential chair. The
politicians are agreed that it is only I'M
der exceptional circumstances, such as
war or danger of war. that n president
can be reelected, even if it is then
desirable. Cleveland tried it and failed
Harrison tried it and failed. The trou-
ble is that during his first term n presi-
dent necessarily makes SO many enemies
that when the campaign for his re-eiec-
ton comes on he is inevitably weaker
than his party.
Still more serious is the influence
which "a denomination has upon the pol
iticians and local leaders throughout the
country. They say: 'Oh. what differ.
epce does it make to us whether this
man is elected again or not? He didn't
give us an office during the present term,
and if we tutn 10 aud help him to p
second term we are simply working 80
keen in Office the fellows who ARE already
there Bat if n new man is put mp the
men who already hold good jobs turn IL
and work in hope of keeping them, and
the chaps who are on the outside pull oil
| their coats in hope Of getting in.
Besides there is some peculiar quality
in the pnblic mind which welcomes
change. The people become tired of tn,
very name of president. They become
tired Of gossip about him and stories
which illustrate his character and meth
ods. They would like to see a new snn
rise in the horizon. They have an iu.
| stinctive, even if unconscious, craving
/ for novelty. In four years about all the
sentiment there is in the personality Of =
president is iissipated i'll the popul n
mind.
J Four years ago the people were liitl'
I weary of Grover. whose strong charac
ter and certain mental pecnliarities lg.o
mt first strangely attracted them. Las
month they gave evidence that the seIlti
,nent which Little Ben" had roused IN
them was no longer force. When yoy
come to think about it, sentiment is after
all the biggest thing in the world. Il
beats money and brains all to pieces
Andrew Jackson obtained his marvel
Gus hold upon the people OF our earlier
republic because his rude character anc
uncouth manners were just suited TO I'll
+ and satisfy the imagination of the times
/ He was u heroic figure. aud his clay pip'
/ and .'By the Eternalr' did more to main
tain him in power than all mis- craft ant
wisdom.
1t was the same with Lincoln, the mex
/ president sitter jackson who appealed
( to the popular imagination. OF cours'
Lincoln was great, Il wonderful man
as we see him now, but when he wa!
proposed for second term there wer'
plenty IF reople who did not take ta'
view Of him which history takes. le
the sentiment which attached 10 ''Dlt
Abe and the rail splitting. and the $40
ries, and{thc anecdotes about his tender
ness of heart and hoineliness of speecl
made him invincible IN the face OF pow
erful opposition. OF course Genera
Grant obtained second term alinos
without a struggle. A great military
hero ike Grant could never be ovsr
turned in popular election in this -1sS
I try in the generation of the stru2s sic II
| which be had distinguished himself.
Mr.. Cleveland will come III with TN
! advantage ~ fear years experience ans
+. ir wears Eaora of observation from tas
ostsisln. If he can't make a good presi
dent this time, sisere is NJ virtue iu dp
portunity.
There is one thing that | dc not thinl
Mr. Cleveland will do, and that is to al'
point any member Of his old cabinet i
place in the new niaistry- If there !
any exception 20 this fule. is viii Proba
biz be found in the case Of MI. Fair
child. who Was secretary of the irsasar.
after the death of Manning. Mr.. Fair
child is not only q warm personal trien'
of the new PRESIDENT. hut he Is an abb