The morning times., 1897-03-01
Hanna and the Cabinet.

Hanna and the Cabinet
1t is incredible in every way, this ae-
count of Mr. Hanna's dissatisfaction with
the Mckinley Cabinet. He took but quiet
part N making it, having his own grasp
extended for the Ohio Senatorship alone.
Now that no political complications can
possibly take that away from him, he not
only gives to his confidential friends his
frank opinion of the members of Mr.. Nc
Kinley's official family, but, if 1T is not
too late, he proposes to dabble in the
final makeup of it; for it is not yet GER
tain that Mr. McCook. OF New York, will
be Attorney General, and upon that com
plication might hang many serious de
rangements OF the new President 5 plans
Mr. Hanna 5 view is that the men who
made Mr McKinIey's nomination posi-
bic have been sadly sighted by the now
celebrated Cabinet maker OF Canton.
What man in the Mckinley Cabinet
says the Mckinley manager. through
confidential friend, did u thing to no:ni-
nate him at st. Louis? Sherman was
idle" he adds: Gage was a Democrat;
Gary was asked to interest himself, Int
pleaded Illness; Long had no part whaN
ever in the convention; Wilson is simply
a sop to Allison McKenna absolutely re-
fused TO help Mckinley on account of has
devotion to Reed who had put him on the
WAYS and Means Committee, and AcCook,
Ike Gage, voted against Blaine in "a"
AIr Hanna's dissatisfaction is the more
serious and his kick the harder, because
such men as Henry Clay Payne Of Wis
consin. and Henry Clay Evans OF Ten
nessee fought bitterly and successfully
in their own States to take Mckinley
delegations to st. Louis.
Is the Mckinley manager, we wonder,
really getting angry already that circum-
stances have prevented him from control
ling every political act of the new Presi-
dent, and that other eXigencies may pos
sibly prevent him from being The whole
thing here in Washington? Stranger things
have happened in this very neck of woods.
We hardly look for a general eruption n
the Mckinley Cabinet list as it is written.
1t is true, no prospective Cabinet officer
may feel absolutely secure in his position
until he begins clerking in his particular
department. The tenders always have a
I., tn L vol
settled in this particular instance, how
ever, that most of the gentlemen who are
Oh the way to Washington with their
families, who have in some cases rented
houses here, and whose wives and daugh-
ters have caused to be constructed stun
ming gowns in which they may appear as
the wives and daughters of Cabinet off
GERS at the inauguration ball, will not be
disappointed; but If Mr.. Hanna is dis
satisfied, he eau yet make trouble, for
he is resourceful and ubiquitous. BY
making a little trouble here and there,
indeed, he could possibly upset the whole
milkpan, so to speak.
Our auVice To Mr. hanna would be- now
ever, that since he is personally faring very
well, he leave the matter of the new Cab
met to compose itself Presidents al
ways select their advisers more for per-
sonal than political reasons. They do not
feel, in the first place, that they are par
ticularly under obligations to anybody
except themselves, and in certain instances
within the recent past, to an All-wise and
Fore-ordained Order of Things. Perhaps,
too, Mr.. Hanna may yet be able to estab-
lish the fact that he has some pull with
the new administration by procuring con
sulships for Henry Clay Evans and the
others. At all events, he will be in Wash
ington for couple of months, and he will
have the chance to try.