The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-03-04
M'kINLEY'S TRIBULATIONS.

Considering that the change OF just
20, 259 votes in half dozen States last
November would have made William j..
Bryan, instead of Mckinley, President
Of the United States, the friends OF the
latter are acting in decidedly reckless
fashion even before their man, VINO
came so dangerously near defeat, is IN
augllrated. The cabinet, as far as 1t
has been selected, suits nobody-not
even the great Hanna, who finds him.
self in the most remarkably unexpected
quandary of not knowing where he Is
at" in the curious deal that has been
going on.
John Sherman, who is to be the Sec
retary of State, resigned his seat in the
Senate at the suggestion of Mckinley
and Hanna, beyond a doubt, the ex-
pectation being that Governor R''sh
nell would appoint the latter TO the
vacancy without asking any questions,
and now that it is definitely announced
that he will not do SO unless certain
StipulationS as to the future manage
ment of the Republican party in Ohio
are entered into, the President-elect and
the man who elected him do not know
what to do, and while they are hesita-
ting as to what course to adopt, the
political cauldron, stirred by Foraker,
threatens to boil over and make the sue
cess of the Democrats in the State once
again certain.
Then the giving OF the second place
of importance in the Cabinet to Gage,
the Chicago mugWump national banker,
has angered the Republican workers,
not only in the great State Of Illinois,
but in the entire West and Northwest.
He has. since his selection, too, COM
mitted the serious error of talking too
much, and the discovery that he was
not always a conservative fnancier has
made some Of the leaders blurt right
out that Mckinley was buncoed into
giving him the Secretaryship of the
Treasury.
Then the picking out of that chronic
millionaire office-seeker, Russell A.
Alger, for the head of the War Depart
ment, has not satisfied either the form
his own State of Michigan, or the Nc
Kinleyites in the neighboring States Of
Wisconsin, Indiana and Minnesota,
where Cabinet timber abounds
Coming further East the Cabinet Sc
lectiOns that are understood to have
been made, and to be beyond the likeli-
hood of recall, are scarcely more salts
factory than the Western ones to the
party leaders and workers. EX-Gover-
nor Long of Massachusetts, who is sup
folio, or possibly for the Postmaster
Generalship, has been out of politics
for quitea long time. and he is not cred
tied with that whOle-souled sympathy
for those who run party primaries and
caucuses for their health" which the
situation is. supposed to require.
AS for New York, it is putting itself
in shape. under Thomas c. Platt's per-
suasive manipulation, to be the sharp
est thorn, next to Ohio, in the flesh of
the Republican President-elect. Nc
Kinley would like to take somebody
from this State into his cabinet, but
those whom the Easy Boss is willing
to indorse are distasteful to the Strong
Bro0kfeld- Warner Miller Milholland
crowd, which actually has some infiu-
ence at Canton, ana whoever is salts
factory to the latter is, of course, OBJ
jectiorable to the gentleman who will
do business in Senator David 3. Hills
seat after the fourth of next month in
the Capitol at Washington.
A Southern man and a Pacific coast
man are also wanted for the cabinet,
but the task Of finding them is a hard
one. The hunt is still going On and it
is evident that no really first-class man
will be obtained from either section and
the Mckinley administration will be-
gin its existence with little strength at
its head and with all the conditions
favorable for an early internecine party
roW.-NeW York News.