Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1889 — “Kickers” in the Cabinet. [ARTICLE]

“Kickers” in the Cabinet.

The conceit and self-assertion of the President aie said to be so irksome to his Cabinet that three of its members have threatened to resign. This part of the story is very improbable, but there is no particular reasdn to oonbt that Mr. Harrison, like other persons of limited mental caliber who happen to be suddenly placed in important positions, thinks he must trust to an offensive positiveness of manner to conceal the weakness of which he is painfully conscious. In choosing his Cabinet he was pjudently careful to select men as insignificant as himself for most of the departments, so that there could be no unfavorable comparisons. Influences that were too Btrong for him compelled the acceptance of some men of positive character, like Blaine, Wanamaker, and Windom; and it is imagined that these three may be the malcontents who are “kicking” against the inconsiderate and dictatorial methods of the President. That anything like an open rupture will be preoipitated by the voluntary act of cabinet secretaries, however, is almost beyond belief. Miller, Noble, Tracy, Rusk and the Vermont man whose name, never heard of before his appointment, has been wholly forgotten since, are now so far above anyplace they could have expected to reach, and so entirely contented, like the celebrated “possum on the ’simmon tree,” no shaking will dislodge them; they will “wind their tails around the limb, and cling and cling forever.” And Blaine and Windom had too much trouble in “getting there” to think of voluntary retirement! They have many ends tars serve—many axes to grind, and will pocket their dignity and endure the offensiveness of the President as best they may, while working out their own plans and preparing to dump him in the soup in 1892. —Chicago Globe.