Huntsville gazette., 1893-03-11
THE CABINET WORRY.
Dissatisfaction Among the Old-Fashioned
Democrats.

Democrats.
From all accounts Mr.. Cleveland
does not seem to be having an alto
gether easy time in making up his list
of cabinet appointments The states
men whom he would like to appoint
apparently fight shy of the honor, and
the statesmen who are willing and
whose friends are urging their claims
are not such as he wants. The shyness
of the first named has been attributed
to the prevailing impression said to
have been gathered from the expert
ence of cabinet ministers during his
last administration that Mr.. Cleveland
is hard man to get along with; that
he is too much 1.-The master, and treats
the members of his cabinet too much
like schoolboys; that he is brusque in
his manners and dictatorial in dealing
with the details of public business in
the departments. This may or may
not be true. Whether true or not the
| fact remains, we believe, that his of
fers of cabinet positions have in so
many instances been declined with
thanks that he has become somewhat
worried over the unexpected embar-
rassments of the situation. The ac-
ceptance of the portfolio of state by
Judge Gresham, which is now general
| ly credited, has undoubtedly brought
some relief, but that appointment pro-
vokes the criticism of many prominent
persons who call themselves 'old-fash-
| ioned democrats" and do not believe
| in jumping new converts from the anx-
ious set to the highest places in the
synagogue.
| They even go so far as to say that
| Judge Gresham is not a democrat. And
| that raises tn. question: What. really
is democrat in these mixed and be-
wildering times? That is, what test is
there of genuine democracy except
| that man voted for Mr.. Cleveland in
the late election? The platform adopt
ed at Chicago is certainly no test. The
vote on the preliminary questions re-
| lating to the repeal of the silver pur-
| chase act shows that the promise of
| the platform on that subject meant
nothing. 4 man may be on either side
of that question without having his
orthodoxy as democrat disputed. In
deed, a majority of the representatives
of the party in both branches of con-
gress, with the promise of speedy re-
| peal staring them in the face from
| Chicago. calmly and deliberately voted
against the first step in that direction.
On the tariff question, which the ma
| tional convention made the leading
issue of the campaign, there is notori-
ously such wide divergence of views
that man may be for absolute free
trade, or for the species of protection
denounced in the platform as robbery
and fraud without losing his standing
as democrat So on the question of
civil service, Il man may be a mug
wump extremist or a bourbon spoils-
man without affecting his democracy.
The truth is. there is no real test for
democracy except the vote for or
against Cleveland. Gresham voted for
Cleveland, and by that test is as good
democrat as Roger Mills.
The pressure upon the president-elect
for recognition from Iowa and Illinois
and other states on local grounds
which set in so strongly Immediately
after election has measurably subsid-
ed But within the last week Connect
icut has risen up in an energetic way
in the form of double-leaded editorial
articles in the New Haven Register,
demanding a place in the cabinet on
the ground that it is the only New
England state that voted for Cleveland,
and, as New England is entitled to a
cabinet place, it belongs of right to
Connecticut. The Register does not
name the Connecticut candidate, but
as ex- Gov Waller, since the campaign
in which be denounced with so much
vigor all monopolies and trusts, has
turned his attention to gridironing the
state with electric railroads, and as ex-
Gov. Ingersoll would not take a cabi-
net appointment, and ex-senator Eaton
is a Hill man and out of the question,
and Prof Baldwin has been provided
for on the supreme bench, and
Bob Vance has been appointed Ia
Dor commissioner, and Editor Osborne
himself already fills with grace and
dignity position Of vastly greater use
fulness and Importance than any polit
ical office-all these being out Of the
all 1ips-Banker BENEDICT of Green
wich and Broad street and the steam
Yacht Oneida Yes; he must be the man.
And for the navv department, of
course. Only that will appease Con-
necticut If we are wrong the Regis
ter will please say SO.
Meantime in all of this cabinet wor-
nv it must be some relief to Mr.. Cleve-
land that Hoke Smith is disposed of
and Georgia Gained. The pulling and
hauling for and against Hoke of
Georgia politicians. some of whom
looked as if they had just stepped off
the frontispiece of blood and thunder
dime novel, while others had so little
hair on top and SO much under the chin
that they had the phantasmagoric ef-
:ect of men with heads put on bottom
..de up, must have added to Mr.. Cleve-
land worry a nightmare of uneom-
mon power.-N Y. Tribune.
THE CRISP CONGRESS,
A Democratic Kick Against Democratic
Legislation.
ti-l,o T;favcaeond CONGRESS- Is now