The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-01-04
PLACES BRING TROUBLE.
There Have been Few Cabinet on
GERS who Have Found Their
Positions sinecures.

first cabinet officer who has found the
position embarrassing. jefferson, in
his diary, referring 10 the controversies
between himself, as secretary Of state in
the cabinet Of Washington, and Alexan-
Der Hamilton, as secretary OF the treas
ury. remarked that 1--WE were pitted
against each other like two fighting
cocks" This condition soon con-
strained Jefferson TO resign, and Ham
ilton did not remain long after hfn.
Some of the scenes between the first
president Adams, on the one side, and
Timothy Pickering, secretary OF state;
Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treas |
ury, and James McHenry, secretary of
war, on the other, one of which is given |
10 the world in letter by McHenry,
were picturesque in their tempestuous-
ness, and led to the retirement of all /
three of them.
Everybody remembers the story Of I
how jackson, in 1882, said he would /
hang Calhoun, then vice president,
higher than Harnan If South Carolina's
notification in that year carried her in
to rebellion. There were several men in
Jackson's cabinet around the same
time for whom jackson, for a much
smaller offense than Calhoun's had
about the same sort Of feeling. One of
these was William J. Duane, secretary
of the treasury, who refused 10 obey
Jackson's request to remove the govern
ment deposits out of the United States
bank, which Jackson was fighting at
that time, and who was himself re-
moved by jackson in consequence. 9th
ers were Samuel j. Ingham, an earlier
secretary of the treasury than Duane;
John Branch, secretary of the navy,
and John McP Berrien, attorney gen.
eral. The wives of these three, like Cal
houn's wife, refused to recognize" Mrs.
Eaton, the wife of the secretary of war,
who was particularly close friend Of
Jackson's.
Martin Van Buren, the secretary of
state, had no wife--he was a widower--
and consequently was free to extend So
cial attentions to Mrs. Eaton, which he
did with his accustomed grace and deli
cacy, and thus won the everlasting
lC1iuShlJ VI OdthbOus IlC W us SuUoll-
tuted for Calhoun as Jackson's political
heir, and went to the presidency on
Jackson's retirement. Ingham, Branch
and Berrien were sent out of the cabinet
and went over to the wings. The affair
gotintop politics for the time ,and the dem
Dcratic party was shaken to its center.
This episode, which was one of the most
absurd incidents" in American poll
tics, was called by the wags of the day
the peggy O'Neill war" O'Neill hav-
ing been Mrs. Eaton's maiden name.
All of President Tyler's cabinet ex-
cept the secretary of state, Daniel Web
ster, resigned in 1S41 because Tyler, as
they said, betrayed his party by his
refusal to sign the bill to restore the
United States bank which jackson had
killed. The accusation was absurd, of
course, because the wings, who elected
Harrison and Tyler, had made no dec
laration on the bank question in the
campaign of 1910, or on any other issue.
The quarrel between president and cab
met put the country against their party
in the congressional elections in 1S42,
and helped to defeat them in the presi- ,
Dental election of 1914.
''SticlS" was the laconic message Of
Charles Sumner to Edward NJ Stanton,
secretary of war, during the contest be-
tween Stanton and President johnson.
Stanton Stuck" and the wrangle be-
tween them was one of the causes of the
Impeachment proceedings against John
son. The Blaine-Conkling feud, when
Blaine. in 1881, was secretary Of state
in the cabinet of President Garfield,
split the republican party in the state
ofNew York, weakened itin every state,
and was the cause of its defeat in the ,
congressional election of 1882 and the
presidential election of 1ss4.-Leslie's
Weekly.
How to Make Life Happy.
Take time; tits no use to fume or fret
or do as the angry housekeeper who
has got hold of the wrong key. and
pushes, shakes and rattles il about ID
the lock until both are broken and the
door is still unopened.
The chief secret of comfort lies In not
suffering trifes to vex us. and in culti-
waiting our underground Of small pleas
ures.
Try to regard present vexations as you
viii regard them month hence
1t Is not riches, it is not poverty,
it IS human nature. that is the trouble.
The world is like a loodng-glass.
Laugh and It laughs back; frown at IL
and II frowns back