The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-03-16
THE CABINETOF PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND.
-Il,altimorp SUM-

men thus selected for the the most
important executive positions IN his
gift, the most striking and significant
feature in the case is the number OF
new men, comparatively speaking,
whom the President has thus called
into the public service. 1t isn't the
absence Of party hacks from the
cabinet that is especially notable.
Nobody expected Mr.. Cleveland to
select for cabinet positions men OF
that sort. Not only as a class were
they bitterly opposed to his re-nomlna-
ton, but the less responsible but more
lucrative positions of collector, post
master, naval officer and the like are,
as a rule, more congenial to their
tastes as we'll as nearer the level OF
their capacities. The significant fact IS
the positive and affirmative one that
the majority Of the gentlemen selected
| by Nh Cleveland are "new mem
new to the country at large and new,
in some degree, to political life. 1t is
Mr.. Cleveland's recognition of the
undoubted and unquestionable fact of
the Democratic party's need at this
important Crisis in its history of "new
blood" New men, new blood, is the
need of the party everywhere, not
only at Washington, but wherever the
party organization has fallen into the
hands of set of professionals who,
with wearisome regularity, rotate from
one office into another-change places
just as players change partners at the
-table-out of Congress into some
fat State Office and out OF one State
office into another, or back again into
Congress or some federal appointment
of the class we have mentioned-col
lectorship, postmastership, naval Off
Cership and the like. This has been
the case in Maryland, as in many
other States, until the plain people,
who want no offices for themselves,
but wish to see them properly filled
and worthily administered, grow sick
fthe idea that there are only dozen or
SO men in the whole State fit to fill any
Of the offices, State or Federal, that
may become vacant
Against this special idea of an
official or bureaucratic caste-an
artistocracy not OF birth, talent or
breeding, but of simple ofticeholding
Mr.. Cleveland's action in the selec-
ton is most significant and welcome
protest. With the exception of Judge
Gresham and ex-senator Carlisle,
both of them statesmen of national
reputation, and Mr.. Herbert, whose
long and valuable service in Congress
as chairman Of the House committee
on naval affairs indicated him in adj
vance as the best possible selection Mr..
Cleveland could make for Secretary
of the Navy, all of Mr.. Cleveland's
appointees have their national record
yet to make. All of them are men
we'll known and respected in the
States in which they live, and the
appointment of each one has been
hailed with qualification and applause
by those who have had the best
opportunity to know and to judge of
the fitness of the particular appoint
ment. In two cases, at least, Mr..
Cleveland has had the best possible
opportunity of judging of the quail
fCations of the gentlemen he has
selected-one OF them having been his
former law partner in Buffalo, his
close personal and political friend
during all the earlier stages Of his
career until he reached the presidency
in 1884, and the other his confidential
friend and secretary during the whole
Of his administration from 1884 to
1888.
The general impression as reflected
by the press of the country, and more
particularly the press of the States
from which the several members OF the
cabinet have been chosen, is that it
Will prove strong cabinet, strong not
only by reason of the individual
ability of its several members, but
because Of their unity of purpose and
entire sympathy with the aims and
objects of their chief, and of the party
itself as set forth in the Chicago
| platform. To have constructed a
cabinet of old "war-horses" and So
called "party leaders, with any pros
pect or possibility of securing like
unanimity in purpose and harmony
in action would have been hopeless
undertaking. The country will be
| quick to recognize this fact, if it does
not thoroughly understand and ap-
preCiate it already, and will welcome
the advent of new men and the in
fusion of new blood into the councils
of the country and of the party. The
need for as similar rejuvenatlon of the
party is, as we have suggested, a
| general and widespread one. Let
us trust that the example set by Mr..
Cleveland will prove a catching one,
and that the influence of the new
administration may be felt far and
wide, quickening the pulses and filling
| the veins Of the old party Of Jeffer-
| sonian Democracy, economy and
simplicity with the new blood and the
best blood of the nations intellect,
patriotism and youth.
| FOroad Spa1linc