The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-03
cLEvELAND's oA5INET.MAKiNo.
Dissatisfaction Among the oId-Fashioned
Democrats.

Dissatisfaction Among the oId-Fashioned
Democrats.
From all accounts Mr.. Cleveland
does nos 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-
easements 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-
toned 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 democrat And
that raises the question: What really
is a democrat in these mixed and be-
wildering times? That is, what test is
there of genuine democracy except
that a 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
orthodoxy as democrat disputed. In
deed, 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 a 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 a democrat So on the question of
civil service, man may be 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 a /.
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, |
a place in the cabinet on I
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 1
as ex-Gov. Waller, since the campaign 1
in which he 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 cabi-
net appointment, and ex-senator Eaton
is 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 a position of vastly greater use
fulness and Importance than any polit
ical office-all these being ont of the
way one name doubtless rises to all
all lips-Banker Benedict, of Green
witch and Broad street and the steam
yacht Oneida Yes; he must be the man.
And for the navy 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-
" it must be some relief to Mr.. Cleve-
and 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
he frontispiece of blood and thunder
lime novel, while others had so little
hair on top and so much under the chin
hat they had the phantasmagoric eff
'ect of men with heads put on bottom
side up, must have added to Mr.. Cleve-
and's worry a nightmare of uncom-
mon power.-N. Y. Tribune.
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