St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-23

Dul lue uHDOpuldfItE Oh MI. blSSeu Is
not entirely personal. His official duties
bring him III contact with more men,
Ders of congress than any other man in
tue cabinet. The elusive postofice at
the cross roads rests within his gift, and
the poStoffice has many ambitious claim
ants. 1t is known that Mr.. Cleveland
has Instructed his cabinet to give all
Republican acknowledgements in
cluded)theIr regular four years innings.
But the people at the corners are anX-
iOuS for change, and are forever ham,
! mtring at their member OF congress TO
displace the offensive partisan who dis
tributes and hands out the mail. and to
replace him with a Democrat who is
known to entertain just and righteous
political principles. Mr.. BisSel holds
the key to the official situation, and
Democratic congressman appeal and
threaten in vain Then the congress
man goes out into the local colony i'll
Washington and paints the circumam-
bient atmosphere lurid with profanity
| over the derelicIion of the postmaster
| general.
Doubtless Hoke Smith, Mr.. Cleve-
| lands secretary of the interior, is more
widely and cauSelessly abused through
out the country than any other member
| of the cabinet. Every suspended pen
SIOil 10 iOii gu MO uOO1s IO
never has anything to do with the pen
| sion bureau except where appeal may
| be made from the decision of Commits
| Sioner Lochren. The same is also true
of the land office, the patent Office. and
| other bureaus of the interior depart
ment.
Mr.. Smith, in Washington,is person.
ally very popular. He is a typical
Southern man, who loves his friends
| and cares for the material well being of
| his compatriots. OF course he loves
| Georgians, and naturally puts quite a
number of them into official positions
under him. But he is genial. kindly
and considerable man, and Withal very
| able and genuinely honest. There is a
fashion too prevalent i'll the North of
| Sneering at Mr.. Smith as ian eX-rebel."
| This is the cheapest form of political
clap-trap in this era of peace and good
will. The secretary would doubtless
| have fought against the Union had he
| been old enough to enter the Confeder-
ate service, but the fact is he was 4
school boy from 1861 to 1865 too young
to enter the service. But few months
| residence III Washington will convince
any man that the war is entirely over.
| Appeals to sectional prejudice no longer
| provoke even ripple of applause from
the galleries of the house or senate.
Sectional assaults by either Northern
erS OF SOutherncrS nc longer fill the
| galleries. Other questions are eXerciS-
| ing the genius of modern statesmen.
The ''JohnnieS" aud the ''YankS" of a
| generation ago instead of mounting
| barbed Steeds to tight the souls of fear
| full adversaries," now HE them III
| groups to the Sun-kissed side of the
capitol, and grow young again while
1 1Al-a tlfaYN ,.G-
| ment, and lie Sagtly aud with garrulity
as to what they did and what they saw.
Rebel and UniOnist alike, they are too
| stiff with rheumatism to fight, and have
| too much philosophy to quarrel. The
| eXhilarating but innOcuous mendacity
| of Imaginary warfare i'll the long, long
ago is still left. thank God, to balSam
! the wounds and put in motion the
| tongues of the veterans, federal and
| Confederate. Long may the old fell
| lows live to entertain their descendants
| North and South with tales of pro-
| digi0us courage and uncomfortable
valor, and thereby instil into the listen
! ing ears of the young patriotism as
broad as the republic which is just COM
mencing its career of real greatness.
Now, your correspondent wishes to
| personally assure readers of the GLOBE
that Hoke Smith. of Georgia, now sec
rotary of the interior, did not create the
great rebellion of history.
Mr.. Gresham, secretary Of state, is
head OF the most exclusive department
of the government. He deals with for
eign nations, and has but little to do
with members of congress, other than
! those who have constituents ambitious
for consulsbips, and even these he turns
over to his assistant secretaries. Of
course, the Republican congressman do
not like Mr.. Gresham. no more than
John Randolph, of Roanoake, liked
| Henry Clay, and for much the same
reason. But nobody in congress-Dem-
Ocrat or Republican-quarrels with Mr..
| Gresham. The people of the entire
nation love him, and members of con-
gress can do no less than tolerate him.
The attorney general and the secre-
taries of war and the navy are but little
known to congressman in their official
capacity. They never give office-or
very rarely-tO the political blowers
and strikers from the provincial re-
gions. They are said to be nice men
each after"hiS fashion-especially Dan
Lamont, who is the best known of the
three.
Mr.. Morton, secretary of agriculture,
wears the haySeed in his hair with far
less grace than Uncle Jerry Rusk. His
smile is not so kindly and bucoiic. His
presence is not SO suggestive of hay
well stocked, grain garnered and corn
in the shock as that of the Wisconsin
cultivator of the soil Morton is
smart" and smartness is of the office
and not of the barn yard or the field Ii
is very doubtful if the Omaha man ever
MIXED the sweet-breathed cows under
the slanting rays of the early sunshine
in his whole life; or threw down the
perfumed hay to the faithful beasts; OIL
hoe his row in the corn field under the
ardent rays of July sun; OF sprouted
potatoes for the market in the raw
springtime; or even YEARLY welded the
daSher in the old stone churn, while
mother stllled the baby. Neither did
Mr.. Rusk, possibly, but if he did not the
Almighty somehow got the mark of all
these boyish tasks onto the wrong mans
person.
MIR. Cleveland'S cabinet is good one,
and deserves more popularity than il
has. Compared to that of the last adj
mInlstration it is supereXcellent. 1t is
more American, more able, more in
sympathy with the great masses of the
people, more economical, more obsery-
ant of the laws, less in touch with the
wealthy classes than was the cabinet of
Mr.. Harrison.
The cabinet OF. no president Aas ever
been perfect piece of political furni-
ture, but MIR. Cleveland's is as good, as
serYiceable, as honestly built as any in
American history. FRANK j.. MEAD.
| With nerves unstrunp and hands tbo,