Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-20
THE EFFECT A CHANGE OF PRESIDENTS
HAS IN WASHINGTON

the transfer of the government was
the sudden flooding Of the city with
strangers from q long distance, most.
ly Of the raw and rustic types, who
contrasted queerly with the rather
cosmopolitan background against
which they were projected. These
were democrats of the class who can
] still be found in remote communities
| trying to vote for Gen. Jackson every
four years. Not a few wore boards
of uncommon length and %scragginess
because, true to an i%nprudent or un-
co-loyal vow, they had not shaved
since Buchanan went out, and were
proud to bear with them these mute
witnesses to their faithfulness, 9th
ers, from gulf.state plantations, were
conspicuous for their long hair, roll.
ing down on the collars of overcoats
which protected their ankles, the pat.
tern of lS59-60., Western.gray SOM
breros and Southern black SLOUGH
hats peppered everything on the eye
line in the streets. On tn bootblacks'
stands appeared rows of boots with
high legs. worn, on ordinary occa.
slons, under the trousers. Loose col
lars and string ties We're the rule
and shirt bosoms blossomed forth,
the white towers of spring for null
titude, exposed either between the Ia
pills Of low.cut waistcoats or by the
unbGttoniIg of all outer garm ents
above the hip-fine.
Visitors SimpIe.Minded Folk.
Most of these visitN's from a dis
lance were simpleEninded folk, with
primitive notions OF governmental
methods. Mr.. Cleveland was their
presiden and they could see no rea-
son why he should not do as he liked,
AID hand them out anything they
hankered for, from a fat office to a
quid of tobacco. Their home week,
lies had RECALLED them with pictur,
esque accounts of the riotOils wallow
of the republicans for so many years
in luXuries provided by the downtrod-
den taxpayers; now it was their turn
to enjoy themselves.
1t did not take them long to make
up their minds that this law~yer-gov-
ernor from up in York State was a.
frigid scrt of fellow, BECAUSE he hous-
ed himself so closely and his welcome
was not of the h0nely h%ospitable kind
to which they were accustomed when
they visited a newly elected sheriff
at home. They were not pressed to
stay to supper at the White House,
or sent around with somebody to see
the sights. One who had come for a
= Innuc1t1ofn on1 hal cnant uhot ,onn,-
: ed to him a small fortune on car
: fares to reach Washington, and was
[ paying 81 or s. a day. for a cot and
!, meals in a crowded hotel, felt ag.
|grieved when Mr.. Cleveland did not
t present him, at their first introduc.
ltion, with a commission and a steam
ship pass to Timbuctoos but, through
a clerical underling, babe him file his
papers at the state department, where
they would be taken up for consid-
~eration in their regular order" .
cieveiand's First Cabinet.
The first Cleveland cabinet was a
curious aggregation. The blue blood
of the border zone was represented
in Thomas +. Bayard, secretary of
state, who, both for that reason and
because as q senator of prominence
he had acquired a certain aloofness
from the crowd, held himself a good
deal apart. Moreover, d domestic be-
~reavenent which Swallowed the early
stages of his cabinet career set a
natural limit to his activities in a 80.
cial way. Daniel Manning, secretary
OF the treasury, was accounted rich
for those times, and had behind his
Washington life the traditions of a
party leader at Albany, then perhaps
the most unsophisticated political
l%center in the United States. The ar
ristocracy of New England was repre-
scented in William c. 1Endicott, .secre-
tary of war, who was an incompre-
lhensible puzzle to most of the em.
ocatic host rthat poured into Wash
|ingtOn to witness their party's rem
%aissance. That he should aspire to
run his department as a military ra-
Their than a political proposition filled
them with dire misgivings Of the
presidents Judgment of men.
This Yankees no better than A
republican" they lamented, as they
wagged their heads over his eccen,
tricities. r
Lucius Quintus Curtius Lamar, sec,
rotary of the interior, was an idealist
and a dreamer, liable at any time to
walk home bare-headed unless a mes
senger ran after him with his hat.
He would shock Mrs. Grundy by ap-
pearing in the street with an apple
in his hand and eating it as he walk
ed along In conversation with a
friend. Too high-ninded himself to
do a mean thing, he never suspected
anyone else of being less honorable,
and was not ~ilfrequently betrayed
by men unworthy of his confidence, to
whom he gave advance information
Of what was pending before him for
decision.
The attorney general, Augustus H.
Garland, hailed from Arkansas, where
he was known as the Sage Of Hon
my HILL" and as a senator he had
acquired a reputation for raising con-
~stitution bubbles on every item OF
appropriation or forward legislation
which would be likely to provoke crit
icism among his neighbors in the
Ozark country. Mr.. Garland was the
style of statesman who took pride III