Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
aoLDSBoRo. N. c.. MARCH 9. I'D
THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.

eSterOay 0rOVer OIeEelanu Was
administered the oath of Office as
President of these United States
the greatest country on earth-the
greatest office on earth-and GER
tainly does the man who fills it
this blessed Sunday morning fill,
also, the highest IDEA of American
citizenship.
AZ has already been announced
in these columns, his tficial family
will consist of the following geD-
tlemen:-
Walter Q. Gresham. OF Illinois, Secre-
tary of State.
John G. Carlisle, Of Kentucky, Stcre-
tary of Treasury.
Wilson S. Bissell, of New York, Post
master-General.
PANEL s. Lamont, of NV York, Sec
rotary of War.
Hilary A. Herbert, Of Alabama, Secre-
tary of the Navy.
Richard Olney, Of Massachusetts,
Attorney General.
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, Secretary OF
the Interior.
]. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, Sec
rotary of Agriculture.
The cabine: Is strong where
strength is most required. Mr..
Gresham, who receives the highest
place, was a Republican up to last
Fall, when he abandoned his party
on conscientious grounds and gave
timely and valuable support to
MIR. Cleveland. A Democrat OF
longer standing might have been
more acceptable to the majority of
the party; but ;nasmuch as the
Democrat most prominently men
toned for the place a few weeks
ago was Nj. Bayard, there will be
no general regret over the selection
of a newer and certainly a fs:er
man.
Carlisle of Kentucky needs nc
introduction to the country; his
public career has been long and
honorable. Mr.. Bissell is a former
law partner of the President-elect
He will have no trouble in filling
the official shoes OF John Wanna
maker, though no mortal man may
hope to equal that worthy in pietJ
and the exhibition thereof. "Dan'
Lamont is known to all the people
as Mr.. Cleveland's able and cour'
teous private secretary for man.
years. He has brains and tao
enough fer H. position.
Herbert of Alabama is one O
the best selections in the list. A
chairman of the House COMMITTEE
on Naval Affairs he has done ex
cellent work toward the rebnildin,
Of the navy. He will not depsr
from the policy laid down by hi
able predecessors, Whitney AM
Tracy. In selecting an executed
crate for this office Mr.. Clevelan,
has displayed his customary in
dependence; but he could ~.hav
chosen no public man whose ap
pointment would give go much sat
isfac,ion to the country at large.
Oiney of Massachusetts is a dis
tinguished layer, of more thai
local reputation. Smith and Nor
ton are new men, who will have Il
be very insignificant men if the.
do not eqnal or surpass their pre-
deeessora.
Geographically the new cabine
contains tao, or, inc udirg Gar
Isle, three Ieprest natives iron
the South, Two from the West, tw,
from New York and one from New
England. They are all compare
lively Young men, the oldest bein!
but little over sixty and the young
est, Mr.. Smith, but thirtyseigh
years OF age. They are all, more
over, with perhaps a single excsp-
ton, men of moderate means WIN,
thank Heaven. cannot afford to
"entertain.' There are no mil
lionnaires TO flourish their newly
acquired riches before the world,
in mockery o! tie republican sins
plicity which is our country's real
glory. Nor are thsre airy repre-
sentatives of the an ma'ons absurd.
ity american arist ocracy," tic
make Us ridiculous in the eyes Of
foreign nations.
The new Administration starts