The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-07

1 think, is the only man in Indiana really
available, and must recognize Indiana. Let
me see Minis is a lawyer. He doesn't know
anything about the army or the navy or
finance. He's not business man, so he can't
run the posteff1ce department. He's ignorant
OF agriculture. | can't make him secretary
of the interior because he's corporation
lawyer. Hang it! The only hole he'll fit is
that of attorney general. I'm awfully sorry,
Jorkins, but you'll have to come out of that.
In goes Minis" And the president-elect will
knit his brows and study the field again.
FURTHER COMPLICATIONS.
Minis is all right-now." he will say. but
what shall | do with Jorkins. He doesn't
seem to fit in anywhere but in the depart
ment Of justice. It's a deuced shame, Jor-
kins but you'll have to go back in the heap.
Now, what else have we in New York. There's
Bildads. He's not so good a man as Jorkins
but he was brought up to milk cows and
feed hogs and he ran for congress as the
farmers friend. / wonder if he wouldn't
make good secretary of agriculture Then
with less confidence than before, I'm you go
temporarily at least
And so the game will proceed. But If 1t is
complicated on the third move, what do you
think it is on the seventh or eighth2 BY that
time the shifting has become q procession
with perhaps enc or two pegs firmly fixed in
place. Sometimes the eighth hole. does not
receive its peg till the Sd of March,
complication in the game is the occasion
al splitting Of peg. The president-elect
knows hundreds of men who are yearning
for cabinet places, but these are not always
the. men he wants. When he picks out the
man he wants, the man may decline to ac-
dozens of cases. Chauncey Depew would not
take Blaines place in the Harrison cabinet.
Senator Allison has declined offers of cab
met places from several presidents. Senator
Gray has declined twice to go into the cab
met of President Cleveland.
Until four years ago 1t had been the Gus
tom of the president-eect to hold back the
names Of the cabinet people until March or
5. Mr.. Cleveland inaugurated a new system.
AS fast as his cabinet choices accepted he
gave out their names. This was hard on
the newspapers with guessing contests and
on the betting men, but it relieved the ap-
pointees of great strain. 1t is hard to be
cabinet member-elect and not be able to tell
any one about it.
HANNA MAY HAVE 1T.
II Mr.. Hanna wants to be secretary of the
treasury, he can have the place. Nothing Is
could fill. besides, the peculiar position of the
presidents personal friend and there is al
ways one such in the cabinet. In the case
of Mr.. Cleveland Mr.. Lamont Is the personal
friend He would never have been consid
cred seriously for a cabinet position by any
one but Mr. Cleveland, and Mr. Cleveland
gave him the place because he wanted some
one near him with whom he could be on
confidential terms In the Harrison cabinet
was Attorney General Miller. His appoint
ment did not please any one in Indiana and
politically 1t was poor one, but Mr. Harri-
son wanted a confidential friend in the cab
met, and Mr.. Miller answered the descrip-
ton. incidentally it should be said in JUS
tice to Mr.. Miller that he filed the at
torney generals place very well
Mr.. Hanna has told his friends again and
again that he would not take a seat in the
cabinet If it was rendered to him. He has
Iothing to gain by holding Office, and he has
no taste for it. Mrs. Hanna, too, is much
opposed to it. But business men all over the
country are urging him to change his mind.
So far as anything is determined about the
cabinet it is the understanding now that no
New York man will be made secretary of the
treasury The shadow of Wall street is over
about Cornelius Bliss is the widest specu-
lation. The treasury portfolio will go west Of
Pennsylvania. and Mr.. Allison could have it,
probably, if he wanted it.
Unless conditions change, tie representative
Of the South in the cabinet will
be H. Clay Evans, of Tennessee. He was
the most conspicuous candidate for the vice
presidential nomination at st. Louis, and
when 1t became known that Mr.. Mckinley
wanted Hobart nominated Evans withdrew
gracefully and with no display of i'll feeling
| met him leaving the convention hall just
as the vote for vice president was about to
be taken. He was smiling as though some
told me he expected the convention to nom
mate Mr.. Hobart. The night before he had
told me with some confidence that he ex-
pected to get the nomination 1t ques-
ton largely of expediency when he was turned
down. and he acquiesced in the judgment of
Mr.. Mckinley. But the understanding from
the beginning OF the campaign has been that
if Tennessee made good showing Mr.. Evans
would be made postmaster general He has
served as first assistant postmaster general
and he possesses every qualification for the
place.
NEW ENGLAND TIMBER
New England has a great deal of cabinet
timber. There is Senator Redfield Proctor,
of Vermont, who came out early for Nc
Kinley to the confusion of the Reed men. He
was a member of the cabinet of Mr.. Har-
rison, and resigned in 1891 to accept a seat
in the senate. 1t is hardly likely he will
leave the senate for the cabinet He has
told me he much prefers the senate place.
Chandler, of New Hampshire, was more than
half Mckinley man through the preliminary
rotary of the navy in Arthur's cabinet Mr..
Reed would rather be speaker of the next
house-and he Is foreordained to that posi-
tion-than one of the presidents counselors.
Mr.. Lodge who led the Reed forces at St
Louis is eligible for either the treasury or
the state portfolio, though either of them is
more likely to go to a man of greater ex-
perience. He might be secretary of the
navy. Mr.. Dingley of Maine, would make
a good secretary of the navy.
Pennsylvania seems likely 10 furnish the
in Grants cabinet, in the person of the re-
| tir senator, Don Cameron. Cameron went
over to the free silver crowd-lured by the
buzzing Of a presidential bee some years ago
| and he is not eligible. Mr.. Quay, who
| helped manage the campaign for Mckinley in
| the East, Is tired of life IN the senate He
has given notice that this is his last term
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