People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-03-12
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McKinIey's Cabinet.

AFASANAAAtOJ - OC~NAAAOSA
There is no suggestion of mugwump-
cry about this new Administration. 1t
is stalwart to the core.
Mckinley has not obtained his cleo
ton as Republican with the purpose
of antagonizing Republican policies.
He is not posing as the big chief, who
is bigger and better than all the other
chiefs, and who is, therefore, above all
party shackles.
He is Republican of the strictest
sect. and he brings all the weight of d
lofty character, superior intellect and
amiable disposition to the matt tenance
of his party's creed.
The Cabinet he has chosen is as de-
cidedly positive in its makeup as the
President himself. No Democratic
Gresham holds place in it. No Palm
erite secures recognition. The Cabinet
is rigidly Republican, and those who
compose it are all men of strength, ca
paeity and partisan natures.
Group the whole official Presidential
family together, and you get an impress
sion of most decided character.
CABINET OF THE 'PRIvHEGED.
These men do not represent the COM
MONS There is no hint of the third
estate" whatsoever. In McKinley's
Cabinet the privileged orders are rep
resented as they have never been be-
fore in any American Administra-. IN.
With John Sherman as centrepiece,
the grouping harmonizes perfectly with
the political size, shape aud color of
that eminent spokesman of privileged
combinations of wealth. The country
at large knows Mr.. Sherman well, and
the public opinion concerning him has
crystalized.
He commenced his public career
without money. He has been continu-
ously in politics; he has drawn the
small salary of a congressman and of
Secretary of the Treasury; out of this
he has had to support his family, and
to-day he is a millionaire.
This fortune was made honestly, no
doubt, just as Cleveland's was made,
but the world believes that Sherman
made his fortune las Cleveland did) by
using the advantages his position gave
him.
sHERMAN'S USE OF OPPORTUNITY.
AS Secretary of the Treasury he had
larger opportunities than any other
Secretary ever had. There were greater
sums of public money to be handled
There were millions upon millions to
be handed over to favorite banks to be
used, without interest, at time when
the banks found no difficulty in safely
lending it at large profits.
There were huge bond deals to be
manipulated. Hundreds of millions of
the national debt had 10 be refunded
and heavy commissions were paid,
amounting to millions. In these trans
actions Mr.. Sherman found himself
breathing the opulent atmosphere of
the Belmonts, the Morgans and the
Rothschilds.
immense fortunes were made by pri-
vate persons in these colossal transac-
tions, and when they were ended Mr..
Sherman was a rich man. The coinci-
dence is worthy of attention,
Not only is Mr.. Sherman held by the
public generally to be the very embod-
iment of the poor politician who gets
rich by doing what the corporations
want done, but he is also regarded as
the especial representative of the dead
ly policy of contracting the currency.
He is held responsible for the destruc-
ton of the paper money which the
people believe was so beneficial to the
country
He is held responsible, more than
any living man, for the legislation
which disturbed the harmonious rela
tions between silver and gold, made
trouble between two allies and fettered
silver with unfriendly legislation in
the interest of gold.
He is also regarded as the especial
sponsor and champion of the national
banking system, which system is de-
tested by all those WHO understand it
and who do not belong TO the class
which fattens upon it.
To the masses of the people, there
fore, the selection of john Sherman as
Premier of the Administration is
significant and ominous fact, and Mr..