The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-23
A practical" Cabinet.

An esteemed correspondent In Washing
ton writes us as follows:
cabinet making is the great diversion here. We
have already made up several hundred Cabinets,
ranging from the best possible to the mos, posi-
BILE I send you tho latest effort which we call the
Practical Cabinet:
secretary OF State. REpF1rID PROCTOR of Vermont,
Secretary OF the Treasury, WARNER MILLER Of Now
York.
Secretary OF War. WILLIAM N. HAHN of Ohio.
Secretary OF the Navy. GEORGE L. WELLINGTON Of
Maryland.
Attorney. General, JOHN n. THuRsToN OF Nebraska.
'Postm aster General. POWELL CLAYTON OF Arkansas.
Secretary of the Interior. CYRUS LELAND of Kansas
Secretary OF Agriculture, II. Il. De YOUNG OF CALI
aornia.' How does IL strike you ?"
Well, not especially hard. and yet it Is an
interesting lot, and while, in the infinite per-
mutations and combinations OF the science
of Cabinet making, you might go further
and fare better. yet this Cabinet is as re-
markable in some ways as could be desired.
The trouble with it is that it is not practi-
cal, but theoretical. The Hon. REDFIELD
PROCTOR, for instance, Is q warrior, and not
a d~iplomatist. His touching loyalty to the
Hon. THOMAS BRACKET REED this year
shows that he has not taken n heart from
his quarry business. He is too impulsive
and unselish for a Secretary of State.
The Hon. WARNER MILLER may be per-
mitted to aspire to a Cabinet Office on &C
count of his notable triumph in the last
New York Republican State Convention,
provided the Hon. TITUS SHEARD and others
interpose no objection; but the Herkimer
statesman's speciality ever since 1883 has
been Notifications from the exterior. He
hould be named one of the visitors to West
Point If Mr.. PLATT has no objection. The
Union League Club is full of budding Sec
retaries Of Treasury already, and 1t would
be cruel to add to their number.
The Hon. WILLIAM NJ. HAHN is eminently
man of peace and quietness. He is also
clothed and shod with comeliness. II he
dreams of Office. the Marshalship Of the
District of Columbia may comfort him in
his agitated sleep.
The Hon. GEORGE L. WELLINGTON would
not a a Cabinet office if Gen. FELIX ANGUS
had to go without one. Besides, he is too
magnanimous to leave the Senate, and cause
chickering's among the aspirants to his place.
TIL Hon. JON NJ. THURsToN is a man of
light and cheerful, airy eloquence, and
doubtless n seat in the Cabinet might be no
uniting reminder of his services In the
Soihpuikh Jul liz CobicS SitsslOppeE
State, and a Rrasshopper would succeed him
II he had to resign.
The Hon. POWELL CLAYTON, lately direc-
tor OF the Republican stump speakers, Is not
absolutely a novice in politics, and no doubt
he Is a man of administrative capability.
Unfortunately, the Hon. JIM JONES has
given Arkansas a bad reputation. More
over, there Is a suspicion that Mr.. CLAY
ToN's views in regard to civil service reform
are not strictly orthodox.
We must absolutely refuse to ratify the
nomination of the Hon. CY LELAND for
Secretary of the Interior or any other Cabi-
net post. The Hon. jim SIMPSON is the
greatest Kansas Republican statesman in
active practice. And under existing con-
dition the Senat would not be justified in
confirming the nomination of any Kansas
man who could not present certificates
showing that he had been confined In a
sane asylum for at least from three to
six months previous.
The Hon. MIKE DE YOUNG is Just the
man for Secretary OF Agriculture. He
knows nothing about agriculture, and
could enter upon its duties with an open
and unprecedented mind. At the same time,
why should not a New York man be chosen,
Mr.. M~ILHoLLAND, for instance. or Mr..
FREDERICK s.. GIBBsi