The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-04-18

I t+<sAJe house, next 10 his private Oh
| flee. 1t is a small room and q plain
one, with table and nine chairs,
There is chair for Cleveland, the
head workman, and one for each OF
his head men--Gresham, Carlisle,
Lamont, Bissell, Hoke Smith, Herbert,
Morton and Olney.
Tpe eight Secretaries do all the ex-
ecutive work of the country with the
President as general boss and overseer.
Gresham is the nations peacemaker
and the man to look after the nations
honor, and see to it that we are not in
suited or robbed by outside nations
while busy in our rush for wealth.
~Herbert, who is Secretary of the
Navy, is there to back up what Mr..
Gresham may say. His seven thous-
and officers and men are the peoples
police of the State Department--watch-
dogs left outside the house and ready
to run in every direction when Or
derdd.
Lamont is the great war man, off,
cially. In reality, looking after the
army is small part of the work that
the President has marked out for him.
His nominal task, however, is to help
Herbert do the nations fighting, if
any is to be done.
bi&ell looks after the mails. Nor
tn has charge of the crops and of the
farmers interests. Hoke Smith does
all sorts of national chores, attends to
Inventors. to pensioners, protects the
national domains, feeds the Indians,
etc.!
Oln6y is the public lawyer, supplies
all his colleagues with legal advice and
watches over the interests of the
country in the various legal fights
that come up. His business is also to
put down thieving on national scale.
Carlisle has the Treasury to look
age. He must supply money to
meet the expenses of all the other de-
parements, and do the nations collect
ing and placing Of loans. Each man
does his share of the housekeeping of
the great Republic.
All of these public servants have be-
gun to get their work in hand, and
with the President overseeing them
have started out to show the people
what sort of government they have
elected this time.
In the Cabinet room the President
on Tuesday and on Friday of each
week talks over the situation with all
his men and gets from them any ideas
that they may have, afterwards telling
them what he wants done. When the
meetings are over each Of the Secre-
taries goes off to his own particular
Workshop and gets at the business
mafSfd out
THENPREsIDENT' WORKING HOURS.
The greater part of Grover Cleve-
l4hd's time in working hours has
bekn devoted thus far to talking to
men VINO want offices for themselves
or friends. Not little of it has been
occupied with the painful task of
blasting statements hopes. 1t is prob
able that Mr.. Cleveland has spent
some time in arranging work for his
Cabinet officers and making up his
mind what he wants them to do, but
it is difficult to understand how he
finds time for anything but office
Seekers.
Mr.. Cleveland's personal assistant is
Mn. Henry Thomas Thurber, his pri-
vate secretary. Mr.. Thurber has
fine office with new chandeliers next
to the private office of the President.
He is very serious man and one
with properly exalted idea of the
part which fate has called upon him
to perform in the great game of ma
tional reform. Mr.. Thurber sits I'M
til or o'clock every merning and
then finds it difficult to do all the
work that his patriotism impels him
to undertake.
The picturesque figures in the Cleve-
land workshop are those of Gresham
and Carlisle. Mr.. Gresham is a re-
markably handsome man, in spite of
the fact, which he deplores, that he
has not had time to have his hair or
Reard cut since he became Secretary
eyState. He has wonderfully big
blue eyes and an intellectual head for
his compatriots to be proud of The
of. men to serve Uncle J