St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-23
Hoke Smith, the Georgian.
Has More Money Than Any
OF His Colleagues.
John De Witt Warner on the
Alleged Decadenee Of the
Politician.
Northwestern Newspaper Men
Get to the Front in thu
Press Club.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Hereafter the
possession of a large fortune will not be
prerequisite to the acceptance of a
seat in the cabinet of the president Of
the United States. And this is exactly
what the cabinet selections so far made
by the president-elect mean. For many
years past it has been out of the ques-
ton for poor man to accept position
IN the official family of the chief eXecu-
| tive of this so-called democratic or pop
ular government OH account OF the vast
| expense necessary to keep up the So
| cial requirements. This was true of
the government under Grant, Hayes,
Garfield. Arthur, of the first admins
tration of President Cleveland, as well
| as of the administration which will in
| less than two weeks 60 out of power.
But President Cleveland. who is one
of the most democratic of men, is also
one who learns from experience, and
during the next four years the cabinet
officials will not be able financially, even
if so inclined, to cut the wide Swath
socially that has been characteristic of
some of their predecessors. Hoke Smith,
the able and eloquent Georgian, who
will succeed the irritable and dyspeptic
Gen. Noble as secretary of the interior,
is probably the WealthieSt man of the
number, and he is rated at less than
S300,000, all of which he m AIDE himself
by the practice of his profession.
Unless all signs fail, the coming ad
minstration will bring about revival
of the social customs and manners of
the earlier years of the republic, when
mllliOnaireS were unknown and the
plainest and poorest were not only eli
gible, but were frequently sent to the
national capital to represent the people
of the various states. TO the people Of
the country, who hayei observed the in
creaSing arrogance OF the wealthy i'll
politics, this departure of the next adj
ministration will be warmly welcomed.
The7oiily DIRECTORS will be found among
that large class Of wOuld-be aristocrats
who, after making fortune dealing in
soap or oil OF pork, nave fl0cked to
Washington during the past few years
to spend their incomes i'll magnificent
balls and receptions.
During the past week one of the
Washington papers undertook to inter-
view the members Of the two houses of
congress on the question whether or not
the appointment of Judge Gresham by
the president-elect and of Judge jack
son by Gen. Harrison indicate that there
is a decay of partisan feeling. or
course, representatives and senators
were found on both sides of this dues
ton, but the expression of Representa-
tive John De Witt Warner, of New
York, will doubtless come nearer to the
ideas of the Democratic and lndepend-
ent voters of the Northwest. Mr.. War
ner said:
PARTY feeling is settling upon more
definite lines than ever before since L
have known anything about politics
Partisanship is becoming more and
more the legitimate assertion of prin-
ciDle."
"You think, them" was suggested,
"that party feelyg has more rational
grounds now than it has had"
Eyes, party feeling represents more
clearly belief in defined economic
ideas"
sBut there is not quite the same in
tensity of feeling in some ways, do you
think?"
ION, no. The issues upon which the
parties now divide are not such as to
arouse popular passions to the extent
that was the case Immediately after
the war, but there is equal strength of
conviction, and more. While there were
at that time dividing principles, yet the
issues were more largely those in which
passion and sentiment were dormant,
instead of differences over economic
principles. The change of feeling has
been Strikingly shown in the recent de-
bate in the, house over the pension
amendments. The subject was one
upon which the old lines would natur-
ally be drawn, but the discussion has
been perhaps more characterized by the
comparative GOODNESS of the greater
number than for the revival by few of
the sentimental considerations in
yOlved."
Northwestern newspaper men were
largely Sin it" at the recent election of
the National Press club, and Of the
board which has just taken hold, Maj.
j. S. Van Antwerp, of the Minneapolis
Journal, holds the position of treasurer,
and Col. Arthur w. Dunn, of the Pho
DeGf 1TeSS, Is q IlCLlUeT vi tue UOlTu VI
directors. Both were elected with little
opposition. Mr.. Dunn receiving nearly
every vote cast. The club has splendid
quarters near Newspaper row, and is
one of the institutions OF the capital
city.
When Congressman Nils p. Haugen,
of the Superior. Wis, district, tackled
ex-Ald. Charley" Long, of Duluth. on
the bridge question, he found a man
who is making things decidedly inter-
esting for him in his policy of obstruc-
ton. Things had progressed so far
few days ago that the Wisconsin mem
Der felt obliged to make new move,
and so threw in bridge bill of his own,
which, while providing for bridge. is
really scheme to prevent the building
of one. Long was sick at the time, but
he is out again, and doing the liveliest
kind of hUstling. His opponent, Banker
Mendenhall, thinking that all danger is
over, has left the city, and, while the
chances are against it, it will not be
surprising if Long gets the commercial
Improvement bill through before the
adjournment.