The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-10-19

even as against his oficial chief, until
early in 1864. shortly before the dele
gates to that years convention were
to be chosen, Ohio's Republicans made
it plain that they wanted to have Lin
coin nominated. Then Chase stopped
his friends from working further for
him, and soon afterward he left the
cabinet,
Hopes Not Realized.
Even on the supreme bench, how
ever, where Lincoln placed him. he re-
tanned hopes of ultimately reaching the
presidency, but the Democrats, on
whom he relied in his latter days to
put him up. declined to touch him
In Seward, Chase and Stanton. the
heads of the state, the treasury and
the war departments, respectively, Lin
coin had a strong body Of councillors
in the more important stations. Stan
ton. though not the first head of the
war office in the Lincoln administra-
ton. held the post during most OF
Lincoln's service. and served johnson
for time, until the rupture between
johnson and the Republican congress
became acute. Seward remained with
Johnson to the end, and thus lost the
prestige with the Republicans which
Webster lost with the Wings when he
remained with Tyler after the latter
had been formally read out of the WING
party.
Sherman's own prominence and the
importance Of the issues which he was
called upon to deal with made him. as
the head of the treasury. the biggest
ofncial in the Hayes cabinet. Blaine
under Garfield, however, and for a
short time under Arthur, made the
place where the secretary of state sat
the head of the cabinet table. 1t was
believed, indeed, at the outset that the
premier and not the president would
be the largest parsonage in the Gar
field administration, but death stepped
in before the country had much of a
chance to test Garfields ability as an
executive.
Blaine's stay was short under Ar
thur, as the country expected it would
be, and his successor, Frelinghuysen
attracted no especial attention. Ar
thurs favorite in his council was Fol-
ger, from his own state, the head OF
the treasury. Folger, innocentty,r was
the cause Of the severest setback which
the Arthur administration ever re-
ceived. and also he contributed much
toward giving Cleveland the prestige
which landed him in the presidency
All this came through Arthur's mistake
in nominating Folger for governor OF
New York, and thus in splitting the
party in giving Cleveland the $4,000
plurality which gave him the nomina-
ton for president a year and a hall
later.
Bayard. Manning, Whitney. Carlisle
Lamont and Lamar, in Cleveland's two
cabinets, were his favorite ministers
and they did their work faithfully ard
successfully. The conditions were
against Carlisle when he was at the
head of the treasury in Clevelands
second term, but he made as good use
of his opportunities as anybody could
have done in that situation. OF all the
Cleveland cabinet officers here named
Carlisle is the only survivor, although
only a little over ten years have passed
since Cleveland's second term closed
Under Harrison Blaine was by far the
largest parsonage in the cabinet, and
his resignation from It,, shortly before
the convention which was to renori
nate Harrison, against the attempt by
Blaine to capture the candidacy. was
the greatest blunder in Blaine.s career
Webster remained in the cabinet while
a. rival of his chief, Fillmore. In the
convention. and the harmonious rela-
lions between the two were not in
terrupted. But the gulf which Blaine
though out Of the cabinet. built by hi.
aspirations in 1892 between himself and
Harrison was never brideed.