New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-11
THE CABINET WORRY.

THE CABINET WORRY
From all accounts Mr.. Cleveland does not
seem to be having an altogether easy time IN
making up his list Of Cabinet appointments.
| The statesmen 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 ne
wants. The shyneSS Of the first named has
been attributed to the prevailing impression
said to have been gathered from the experience
| OF Cabinet ministers during his last Admins
tration 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 brlsque
| in his manners and dictatoral in dealing with
| the details of public business in the depart
| ments. This may or may not be true whether
| true or not the fact remains. we believe, that
his offers of Cabinet positions have in so many
| instances been declined with thanks that he
has become somewhat worried over Inc uheN'
pected embarrassments of the situation. Inc
acceptance of the portfolio of state by Judge
| Gresham. which is now generally credited, mas
undoubtedly brought some relief, but that APP
pointment provOlles the criticism OF many
prominent persons who call themselves Old
fashioned Democrats" and do not believe in
iumping new converts from the anxious seat
to the highest places in the synagogue
They even 90 so far as to say that Judge
Gre sham is not a Democrat. And that raises
the question: What really is Democrat IN
these mixed and bewildering times? That Is
what test is there OF genuine Democracy eX-
cept that man voted for Mr.. Cleveland in the
late election? The platform adopted at CHI
cago is certainly no test. The vote on the
preliminary questions relating to the repeal Oh
tho Silver Purchase act shows that the promise
of the platform on that subject meant moth
ing. A man NAV be on either side OF that
question without having his orthodoxy as
Democrat disputed Indeed, majority OF the
representatives Of the party in beth branches
of Congress, with the promise CT speedy re-
peal staring them in the face from Chicago'
calmly and deliberately voted against the hrst
step in that direction On the tarlif question:
which the National Convention made the lead
ing issue of the campaign, there Is notorlouS!
such wide divergence of views that man NAV
he for absolute Free Trade, or for the species
NJ Projection denounced in the platform a.
robbe,y and fraud without losing his stand
ing as q Democrat. SO on the question Oh
Civil Service, a man may be Mugwump eA-
tremst or Bourbon spokesman without AZ
fecting his Democracy. The truth Is thcfe
il no real test of Democracy except the vote
for or against Cleveland. Gresham voted Tor
| Cleveland and bv that test is as good Dem
ociat 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 meaS''fably SUD
sided But within the last week Connecticut
has risen up in an energetic way III the form
of double loaded editorial articles i'll 1.-The
New-IIaven Register" demanding place in
| the Cabinet on the ground that it is the only
| New England State that voted for Cleveland
and as New-Eneland is entitled to a Cabinet
placa it belongs Of right to Connecticut. "'Ihe
Register does not name the Connecticnt can
didate hut as exc ,vernOr Waller since the
campaicn in which he denounced with 50 much
yigor all monopolies and trusts. has turned his
attention to gridironing the State with electric
railroads. and as Ex-Governor lngersoll would
| not take a Cabinet appointment. and ex-senator
Eaton is Hill man and out of the question,
and Professor Baldwin has been provided FOR
| on the Supreme Bench. and Bob Vance has
been appointed Labor Commissioner, and Editor
Osborne himself already fills with grace and
dignity position of vastly greater usefulness
and importance than any political ofiice-all
these being out of the way one name doubtless
| Uses to all lips-Banker Benedict, OF Greenwich
and Broad-st. and the steam yacht Oneida
Yes: he must be the man. And for the Navy
| Department of course. Only that Will appeaSe
Connecticut. If we are wrong "Thc Register
| will please say so.
Meantime in all of this Cabinet worry it must
he some relief to Mr.. Cleveland that lloke
Smith is disposed of and Georgia Gained. The
pulling and hauling for and against lloke OF
Georgia politicians some Of whom looked as
if they had just stepped off the frontispiece
Of blood and thunder dime novel, while others
had so little hair on top and 50 much under
the chin that they had the phantasmagoric ef-
feet of men with heads put on bottom side
I'D, must have added to Mr.. Cleveand's worry
. o;ohfmaro of uncommon mower.