Bisbee daily review., 1912-11-17
Woodrow Wilson's Ideas on
 Appointments to Cabinet

In 1895. Walter e. Gresham, who had been a member of Arthur's cab inet. and had been a strong candidate for the republican nomination for president, was appointed secretary of state by Mir. Cleveland There was much bitter criticism of this act Of Mir. Cleveland by the spails brigade, but the choice was made because or Mir Greshams acknowledged fitness for the ofloe and because Of the presidents wish to wipe out purely partisan lines in the selection of a man to look after the foreign affairs of the country, Luke E. Wright a southern man and a democrat. was appointed secretary of var by Pres ident Roosevelt, and Jacob NJ Dick inson, also a southern man and dem- ocrat, was appointed secretary of war by president Taft. There are only two instances in which men haze been called into the cabineS immedi- ately from the opposition Lincoln in his selection of Stanton 10 be his war minister, set aside the prime rule of cabinet making in order to secure a particular man" The other notable
  pointed David M Key, a southern man to be postmaster general in his cab inet. The circumstances which just fly the overstepping of party lines in the administration are exceedingly rare; and" in the opinion of Mary L, Hinsdale in her History of the Pres ident's Cabinet" 2" nobody would ad- voCate it as a practice, unless he .F ha visionary sort"
 Appointments Personal
 In the making of cabinets some rules have been followed. The ap- pointments have been largely person al That is not to be wondered at in view of the very close relation be- tween the president and his cabinet officers This idea of selection for personal reasons obtained in Jackson's cabinet and in Grants cabinet With the selection of cabinet officers geo grsphy has had a good deal to do. The conditions have been regarded as ideal where geographical situation could be combined with fitness and ability In the early times Virginia was rich in cabinet material and New York. Pennsylvania, and Massachu- Setts have all had possibly more than their share of cabinet appointments. It was not until 1895. under John Quincy Adams. that the west was adj mitted 10 the cabinet table. and prior to the war between the states no state west of the Mississippi river had ever supplied a cabinet member. The spells system has also had much to do with the selection of cabinet Offi- cers. and in the division Of the spoils it has been insisted that there should not be more than one cabinet appointment allotted to a single state. This rule has been disregarded not 
 Cleveland Recognized South
 Another rule that was adopted when the Whigs stepped out and the demo crats stepped in was that a state which received a cabinet appointment should not be given a foreign minis ter In the post-bellum period The west has taken the place of the south in cabinet appointments, and it was not until Cleveland's time in 1884 that the south was recognized in cabinet 
 How Governor Wilson will build his cabinet no ore knows: but it can be predicted that he will keep clearly in mind the view that fitness shall be the sole test of selection, ] and that his cabinet advisers will be men of natural good sense and eN- perienced judgment fully informed of the business and social conditions of the country: not representative politicians, but eminent representative citizens" to whom he and the country can look flor advice in the actual con duct of the government rather than in the shaping Of political policy. - New York Times.