New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-06
KITCHEN CABINET" BUSY.
Mach 4gitated Over Nee Boom
for Jerome.

Those familiar with the workings of certain
phases of the last municipal campaign, who re-
member the activities of the Kitchen Cabinet
which sought to make District Attorney Jerome
Mayor of the city, are beginning to realize that
the same organization, with its vision now fixed
upon the distant horizon of the nomination for
Governor. is once more at work. The Kitchen
Cabinet has for It's unofficial president Assistant
District Attorney Lord the young Yale grad
uate. who recently entered the home of Mrs.
Elias with so much eclat. He believes that
great political men should have wise counsellOrs
and for small portion of the period that Gull
minated in the denomination of ex-Mayor Low
Mr.. Lord regarded himself Of the Dis
trict Attorneys advisers Then there was How
ard Cans who occupied seat at the midnight
conferences which attempted TO settle Mr.. Je-
romes future. Assistant District Attorney Cor
rigan played an important role in the sessions
but to John A. Henneberry, who began political
activity before Mr. Lord began life. the Kitchen
Cabinet gave an important seat He the
practical politician; Lord the theoretical and
submarine engineer.
All the careful planning of this cabinet came
to nothing. To the intense disgust OF it's mem
bers. District Attorney Jerome declined to follow
their judgment. They had provided for him
schedule of the proper way to occupy his days.
which he consistently neglected They besought
him 10 avoid public discussion. and he continued
talk out in meeting. Finally. he told his cab
met. gently but firmly. that he must still do
his talking. Then the cabinet. which had
all but convinced itself that the public demand
for the District Attorney to run Mayor was.
result of it's efforts. tremendous. sadly faded
away. From an aggressive Kitchen Cabinet
1t faded into unhappy "mourners' bench"
The members met in sadness, and referred
politics only in the light of what might have
been.
But something like two months ago the
Kitchen Cabinet light. Chief Con-
spirator Lord whose ear had been glued to the
ground for some time. suddenly announced that
he heard the rumble of approaching boom
The Hush; there's something doin.'' expression
suddenly returned to the faces of the cabinet.
The members began to walk on their toes and
talk in terms OF high politics once more. They
summoned John Henneberry and asked him TO
mount the watcEtower and play Sister Ann"
But Mr.. Henneberry had been up in the tower
in the same organization once before. and man
aged to escape the cruel repetition of the Mayor
atty happenings With the midnight confer
ences No. Rutgers-st suddenly assumed a po-
Itical Importance. which in the absence of every
Democratic politician OF Importance save Mr..
Lord due TO the national convention. gave added
dignity to the conspiracy.
Meanwhile. ex-senator David Il. Hill. for rea-
sons somewhat. If not entirely. different from
those of Mr.. Lords. decided that under
circumstances District Attorney Jerome might
he n valuable pre-cOnvention candidate. He
sent out his trusty messenger, who has car
riAd his messages for a score of years. TO inves-
tigate the ground. Just about that time Tam
many district convention indorsed Mayor Nc
Clellan for Governor. Then legislative cor
respondent advised ex-senator Hill to indOrSe
Jerome In one of the Embossed Democratic
county conventions by way of retaliation. and
nothing but the publication in The Tribune of
the Hill plans with reference 10 Jerome checked
this. In several ways ex-senator Hill has
managed to convey to Mr.. Jerome his express
sion of regard. But. while Mr.. Jerome has at
least a vague idea OF the part that Hill intends
10 have him play in his combinations. the "FSitch-
en- Cabinet" has had suspicion When AL
fred Holder District Attorney JerOmes private
secretary and official Boswell. left this side Of
the Atlantic recently a result OF attack
of natrimony the Kitchen Cabinet hailed his
departure with Joy Secretary Holder has al
-vays believed that not only would District At
that that action was in all probability wisest.
The Kitchen Cabinet" in part at least. deemed
this heretical. Its notion OF a candidate was
man that could be thought for. and if Holders
definition obtained it could find no excuse for
it's activity.