New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-08
REPUBLICAN, RESPONSIBILITY.

1t will no doubt interest and perhaps amuse
the President-eect TO observe the readiness
with which the press of the country is coming
forward to relieve him of the care and anxiety
of selecting a Cabinet and formulating a policy
for his Administration. He will no doubt no
tice as an unusually interesting feature OF the
situation that the most forward Of these adj
visers are newspapers which opposed with
much warmth either his nomination or election
or both; while Republican journals which adj
vocatcd both his nomination and election are
maintaining. for the present at least. a decent
and respectful silence Perhaps the latter will
all break out with WISE though somewhat con-
fusing counses later. but at present they are
keeping still and letting the other fellows tell
Mr.. Mckinley whom he ought to appoint and
what he ought to do.
As TO Cabinet Ministers. they are not very
much exercised They have that sort Of conf
dence In the general good Judgment and dis
erection of the President-elect that they do not
think II necessary to burden him with sug-
gestIons or push their preferences. The conf
dence they reposed In him before the nomlna-
t,on which made him their candidate has been
heightened and deepened by the wonderful
solidltv of character and manly self-poise lie
has exhibited during this most trying campaign.
IN which he has 50 vsibly grown in public
estimation day by day. The original Mckinley
Journals have no idea that the candidate who
has stood the tests of the last four months with
out making Il single mistake Of which his adj
yersaries could SO much as pretend to take ad-
vantage. will make any mistake in the first step
he has to take upon entering office. Their be-
lief In him Is too well grounded for the admis-
sion of any doubt on that point SO, while our
State pride is gratifed by the fact that some OF
our city contemporaries evince a desire to fill
the entire Cabinet with own citizens, we
have still to say that among the original Nc
Kinley supporters there Is no great anxiety on
the subject.
As to the policy of the Administration 1t may
also be said that the same confidence prevails
1t will be Republican. And when we say Re-
publican we mean, Of course. that 1t will be
In entire accord with the principles and doc
trines enunciated by the National Convention
which nominated Mckinley and Hobart. chief
OF which are Protection and Sound Money. 1t
Is true that In the mountebank campaign inti-
ated by the Democratic party In It's selection
OF candidates and its platform declarat ions-the
dangers Of reputation. revolution. lawlessness
and anarchy did divert the public mind in some
measure from the tariff issue which the col
Lapse Of the Cleveland Administration the fail
,re OF Democratic Congress and the conse-
ouent condition of the National Treasury had
kept predominant up to that moment. None
the less the fact remained that Major McKIn-
ley's nomination had been brought about chiefly
because Of the connection Of his name with a
tariff measure and the issue Of Protection. And
now that the election IL over and Republican
Administration ana Congress are secured. that