The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-03-02
GROVER CLEVELAND.

Every present indication warrants the
prediction that with the inauguration
of Grover Cleveland will be ushered in
new idea in executive administration
new, or rather the revival OF an idea
which obtained in the earlier admin
istrations, the last and most conspicu-
Gus manifestation being made by An
drew Jackson. Partisan adherents as
well as political opponents voice the one
sentiment. Mr.. Cleveland will give the
country an administration in which his
own personality will be predominant.
The selection of his cabinet fully war
rants this inference. With the exception
OF Judge Gresham and Mr.. Carlisle, he
has not been influenced by any recogniz-
able fitness in the qualification of his
appointees, and none of the leaders of
the democracy were consulted in the APP
pointment of any OF them. He has de-
parted from usual precedent. so notably
in placing republican at the head of
his cabinet, as to elicit the sharpest con-
demnatory criticism from the chief men
within his own party. And yet, no one
may say that he has not chosen wisely
in this particular. Judge Gresham has
ability, as a jurist, and few men have
been more highly esteemed by his party.
But by afhliation, tradition and polit.
ical prejudice he has never heretofore
shown any sympathy whatever with
thepublic policies and personal views of
his chief Only four years ago, upon a
platform which is, in every salient fea-
ture. antiprodal to that promulgated by
the Chicago Convention Of 1892, Mr..
Gresham was aggressively anxious to
go before the people as a presidential
candidate pitted against the man whose
principal advisor he now consents to be-
come. Such an anomaly is inexplicable
upon any preconceived theory Of poll
teal consistency on the part of either
party to the transaction. 1t may mean
better things in national administration
1t certainly seems derogatory to party
discipline and conference. If by it Mr..
Cleveland intends to serve notice upon
the democracy that it does not seek to
bind the party to the responsibility of
his administration, by the same token it
is notice that he cares nothing for demo-
cratic support, as such. The country is
scarcely prepared for Utopian politics,
much less for political dictatorship.
The selection of Mr.. Carlisle is more in
unison with the generally accepted ideas
of craftsmanship. A leader of his party
along distinctiveIy party lines, uncom-
promising, able and self-reliant, his po-
sition at the head Of so important bu-
reau is net suggestive of white-winged
peace in case his superior assumes to
reduce him to mere clerk for executing
routine duties.
The other members of the cabinet seem
to have beeAselected upon the grounds
of personal fidelity. With the exception
OF Mr.. Herbert. Secretary of the Navy,
who has served as secretary of the
house committee on naval affairs. none
of them have been chosen with any
view to special qualifications.
Congress has had pretty clearly indi-
Gated to it what viii be expected. IT
will register and make effective. so far as
possible, the desires OF the new president.
and the members will be rewarded or
punished in the matter OF patronag
just to the degree that they discharge
their duties as outlined. Mr.. Cleveland
will Be the next president of the United
States in sense that none of his prede-
cessors have been for more than half a |
century. The bold experiment will be |
watched with interest, not unmixed
with serious misgivings.
WooDcHucKs numbering 1928 were
killed in Cayuga county, New York, last
year, Exchange.
That nothing, Bob Dunn has found |