Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-11

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Nominate hlh LOT uuorhV! ~. MIL
the grehtest surprise was l"u, w., ,,,
pelch thal niah WHO peV"hiN 9'N'''''
OF thc INTERIOR A.. o..
IN the morning Of the day lhhl NHl
neil nominations were sent 70 wv
senate, one OF ths younger heu'' ,.,',,
went 10 governor NlfkWopu' thei se.i
atOr from Iowa nnd sqiu 10 hlhl' NoN-
ernor would IKE TO nave your Seat
ia the senate lie meant ny thht ne
would like TO occupy klfkwoou chniF,
IT being z more desirable one tlah the
seat he then had
years vet 10 serye and don't expect
TO die. What Is the matter with your
own scatE'
Why. ] hear that you are going into
the cabinet today.
Nonsense. the idea is absurd, was
hirkwoods reply And yet within IN
hour the nominations for the cabinet came
IN aud thcrp among them was the name
Of samuel j. kirkwOOd for secretary of
the interior. The look Of nmnzement
which came over kirllwOOd's cuunten-
nucr was something wonderful 70 see.
On the death Of Garfield all of his
cabinet rendered their designations TO
no NMAN fs7r'Af L AtHANNlhA AAAltNAs ~ "
fused 10 accept any Of them at the time.
hut when Arthur retired from the presi-
dcncy the only Original member OF Gar
hcld's cabinet who went ont with him
was Secretary Lincoln.
After Cleveland was elected he re-
signed the gpvcrnOrship of New York,
hired o small house IN Albany, and. ut
terly Inexperienced. set about making
lis cabinet The keystone with him was
the treasury department. which hc had
determined TO offer TO Daniel Manning.
lie did not know public men very well,
nnd therefore compelled to turn his eyes
to the United States senate. In Febru-
nry Senator Buynrd made trip from
Washington ~ Albany. and when he RI
secretary Of state A few days later
Senator Garland made the same trip,
and then they suid he was to be attor-
general. Next followed General La
mar, aud he went back 10 Washington
smiling. and he did not deny that he
too was 10 he II member Of the cabinet
senator Villas, MS the presiding officer
of the convention which nominated Cleye-
land, was believed To be the far Western
member of the cabinpt The surprises
were the nominations of Willinm q.
Whitney, Cleveland initiating Grants
example by taking two members of the
cabinet from the same state, aud vii
the country at lnrge. was selected as
the New England representative. There
was probably more politics IN Whitneys
appointment than In that of any other
member OF tie cabinet.
President Harrison was greatly per-
picked on account of the difficulty of
selecting secretary Of the treasury
With that choice made the cabinet cas-
lily resolved itself in his mind into a sat
isfactury structure, and curiously enough
he was compelled TO almost duplicate
General Gariicld's experience. He urged
Senator Allison to accept the treasury,
aud the senator for the second time de.
cllned that splendid office, and then one
day in pcrplexity and despair. Harrison
huppened 10 think Of William Window.
then a mict business man in New York
CITY. and sent for him lust MS Garfield
had done eight years before. and to
Windows hcwildcrment he found him
self again in the whirl of politicnl life,
and M the head of the treasury depart.
mcnt. IN which service he was to end his
DAYS.
Mr.. Cleveland will necessarily have
brought 10 his confederation II number
of mines whose relations 10 his marty
would Justify thcir nppointmept ma
members of his political family. and
who were not considered by him Ia 1884.
Some of them nrc mon who won their
political spurs siucc that time: others
in the now ndiugtmeuts and dcyelop-
ments Of politics hnve bepn brought
TO the front. His pprsonnl
N 40 much wider than II
was in 1854 that this of itself would
give him Il larger list to select from.
II Mr. Whitney should 20 into the cabi
net. his selection would he The keystone
of the cabinet structure. md Il hns
been the general impression thnt Mr.
Cleveland would gladly call him nrlin