Evening journal., 1910-11-16
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
Why Sen. Garland HeSitated
to Enter the First
Cleveland Cabinet
BY "Heuand."

After President-elect Grover Cleve-
land had resigned the Office of Gov
ernor Of New York and taken part ia
the ceremony by which he formally
transferred that Office to David 3.
Hill, the lieutenant governor, he began
the difficult work of cabinet-making.
As he had rarely visited Washington
and was without intimate acquaint-
ance with any of the leading men of
his party outside New York state, he
felt that It was essential that he should
have in his cabinet men who had been
in close touch with public life, and
especially the public life which con-
centrates at Washington.
For that reason Cleveland decided
that il was imperative that he should
choose majority of his cabinet from
the group of able Democratic Senators
I'm Congress, and he sent, In the order
named, fo- Thomas +. Bayard OF
Delaware. John G. Carlisle OF Ken
lucky, l.. q. c. Lamar of Mississippi.
the Augustus H. Garland of Arkansas.
and offered them, respectively, the
posts of Secretary of State, Secretary
of the Treasury, Secretary of the In
terror and Attorney General.
Senators Bayord Carlisle and La
mar gave almost instant acceptance to
the invitations of the president-elect
to enter his cabinet But when the
offer of the attorney generalship was
made TO Senator Garland, Mr.. Cleve-
land noticed that il was received hesi-
tatingly and almost as though the
former Confederate senator from, and
former governor Of, Arkansas was GO
ing to give peremptory but courteous
declination TO enter the cabinet.
Now, Mr. Cleveland had very high
regard for the ability and the char
acter of Senator Garland. He knew
that the Arkansan was esteemed as
able lawyer as any that had sat in
the Senate chamber since the Civil
War, ranking in that respect with
Senator Allen G. Thurman Of Ohio,
who had left the Senate four years
earlier, and with Senator George T..
\ Edmunds of Vermont, who was TO
: leave that body six years later. There
! fore, when he noticed that Senator
Garland hesitated TO accept the cabi-
net post, Cleveland asked him point
blank If he did not think he should
be willing TO forego his personal p-ef-
erence to remain in the Senate in or
der that he might serve his country
and his party to better advantage,
perhaps, as attorney general
ITO that question: said the late
Daniel Lamont, VINO told me the anec-
dote. having had It from Cleveland di-
rect when he was that presidents
private secretary, Senator Garland
replied that he should esteem II a
great honor to serve as attorney gem
eral, but that he ought not to accept
the offer without a clear understand
ing on the part of Mr.. Cleveland Of
one objection which he had to enter
ing the cabinet.
am a student, absorbed I'm my
duties as Senator and in some pro-
fessional work said Senator Garland
NJ am utterly untitled by temperament
and experience TO take any part i'm the
social life which is one of the char
acteristics deemed essential. If a cab
met office is to be successful. l do not
attend public diners, and / give no
dinners. To do that would cause me
i embarrassment, and il would be abso-
lutely impossible for me to wear a
swallow-tail coat
Judge Garland said the Governor
and he couldn't help smiling broadly
AL that need give you no concern
at all. lt will be understood between
us that your present manner OF life IS
to be respected. But It won't prevent
your coming over and chatting with
me occasionally
j When Senator Garland heard this
cordial recognition of what he was
afraid would be regarded as a defect
that would bar him from cabinet assc-
ciation. he assured Mr.. Cleveland that
nothing would givo him greater graft
ncation then to enter the cabinet with
that understanding" continued Mr.