St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-28
BUILT FOR BUSINESS,
President Cleveland's Cabinet
Meets the Approval Of
the Country.
Strong Men Who Will Carry
Out His Wishes Have Been
Chosen.
Something About the Nan
Who Will Succeed Law
Partner Miller.
Maj. Halford to Locate In st.
Paul--Need More Re-
movalS.

brings forth new evidence that the
Northwest is going to be looked on
with favor by the incoming administra-
ton. Although no cabinet position was
given to Iowa. Minnesota, the Dakotas
or Wisconsin, none of these states has
reason to feel sighted. Gov. Boies, of
Iowa, was offered place in the official
family of the president. but declined
because he believes that his field OF
labor is in the Hawkeye state until its
redemption is complete. But there is
more in having the president and his
counselors feeling kindly toward the
Northwest than in having but one man,
with perhaps Eastern ideas, out
of the eight advisers. The new
cabinet will take hold of the govern
ment. filled with the idea that the North
west is the most promising field that
the Democracy can cultivate. And this
feeling is worth much to the people of
Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas.
A Great Cabinet
Fair-minded men Of all parties agree
theto III tilO ilahO-up vi ulo 1857
dent Cleveland has displayed that rare
good Judgment so peculiarly his own.
While gathering about him body of
able aud honest advisers in whom all
the people have confidence, he has done
more. Never believing in the scripturaI
adage that ''to him that hath shall be
given," Mr.. Cleveland, in making up
his official family, has honored two
states that, while not members of the
original thirteen, are old enough and
great enough to deserve the honor of
having had at least once cabinet Off
clal. These two states are Alabama
and Nebraska, and no other appoint
ments have been better received
or more warmly indorsed than
those of Congressman Herbert and
Hon. j. Sterling Morton. Both are
level-headed. tried and true Democrats,
who may be depended upon to do all in
their power to make the incoming ad-
miniStratlon success.
Cabinet appointments. throu ghout
the history of the government, have
been made with due regard for local
itY, but the country has been divided
into three or four sections in this mat
ter. and the sections, and not the in
dividual states, have been considered.
Thus the New England states, the
Middle states, the South and the West,
have been honored by presidents in the
past This explains the fact that, up to
the close of the administration of Presi-
dent Harrison, the various states have
been recognized by cabinet appoint
ments the following number of times:
Three for Minnesota.
Massachusetts, 81; New York, IS;
Pennsylvania, 25; Virginia, %; Ohio,
Is; Maryland, 15; Kentucky, ID; Con-
necticut, 9; Indiana, 9; Tennessee, s;
Georgia. Z; South Carolina, 6; Maine, 6;
Delaware, 5 :; Iilinois.5; Missouri, 5; Wis
eonsin, 5; Iowa, 4 Michigan, 4; New Jer-
sey, 4; Mississippi, 4; North Caro-
lima, A; Louisiana, 3: New Hamp-
shire, 3; Minnesota, 3; Yer
mont, 2; West Virginia, 2. and
Colorado, Oregon and Arkansas
one each. Up to the present time
Alabama, California, Florida, Idaho,
Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
North Dakota, Rhode Island. South Da-
kota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming
have never had member of the cab
met of president.
When Kansas was rolling up $4,000
Republican majority and Nebraska a
third as much the Republican party
went elsewhere for their advisers to the
president. With Alabama and Ne
braska taken out of this list the only
states Old enough to vote that have
never been called upon for cabinet Off
Gals will be Rhode Island. Texas. Kan
sas, California, Florida ana Nevada.
Gresham,s Great Record.
OF the new cabinet only one. Judge
position and he has had wide experience
iii that line, the state department being
the third over which he has been called
to preside. On the death of Timothy o.
Howe, OF Wisconsin, in 1888, Judge
Gresham was appointed postmaster gen
eral by President Arthur, and when
Judge kolger dropped out OF the treas
ury department in 1854 he was sue
ceeded for short time by the distln-
guished son of the HoUsier state. Thus
it will be seen that when Judge GreSh-
am serves his country as secretary of
state he will have filled three of the five
departments that were established when
the constitution went into force. These
five departments are state, treasury,
war, postoffice and department of JUS
tice-attorney general. This is a re-
markable record and one that will be
valuable to the neY administration.
There is one member of the new cab
met. little known outside of his own
state, VINO so much resembles in point
of ability another attorney general fur
nished by the same state that it will be
man is Richard Olney, of Massachu-
sets. commonwealth, by the way, that
has furnished, including Mr.. Olney. no
less than six of the forty-five men who
have filled the Office since the time
George Washington called to it the brill
liant Edmund Randolph, of Virginia.
The five Massachusetts men who have
preceded Mr.. Olney were Theopilus
Parsons. Charles Lincoln, Caleb Cush-
ing, EbeneZer r. Hoar and Charles
venS-
A Notable Array.
U6 REGdlCSI VI Illc HfC. DO all Will
admit, was Caleb Cushing, who served
during the administration OF Franklin
Pierce Brilliant, able and accom-
plished in half dozen different fields,
Caleb Cushing brought all of his talents
to bear on the administration of his
Office.
A writer in speaking of Cushing de-
clared that he seemed to have taken
all knowledge for his province" Schol-
ar. author, lawyer, statesman. diplomat,
general and judge, in all of which he
achieved success. After trip to Eu-
rope he wrote an interesting book, and
during three years i'll congress he won
high reputation as an orator. Sent to
China by President Tyler. he negotiated
a treaty that for the first time opened
up the celestial empire to us. During
the Mexican war he served as general,
and later went ON the bench of the su-
preme court of Massachusetts, which
position he resigned to go into Pierce's
cabinet, where. by the way, he aided in
securing a reciprocity treaty with Can
ada which tho RpDuhlip9nS winQd ont