Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — CLEVELAND’S CABINET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CLEVELAND’S CABINET.

BKETCHES OF MEN WHO WILL HOLD PORTFOLIOS. Cabinet Make-Up Curiously at Variance with Precedent—The President- Elect Has Relied Solely on His Own Personal Judgment. I — 1 *«■ The President’s Advisers. Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet is now complete. In making his appointments Mr. Cleveland has evidently been governed entirely by his own personal judgment, and neither outside influences nor established precedents have had any hand in his selections. The Secretary o. State. Judge Walter Q. Gresham has the unique dlstinctldn of having acted successively as Postmaster General and Secretary.of the Treasury under a Republican administration, of having been, courted by the Populists in connection with the Presidency in 1892, and, finally, of being installed at the head of a Democratic Cabinet. Ho was born March IT, 1834, on a farm near Corydon, Ind. His early surroundings were unprophetic of the distinguished position he afterward attained, and his education, general and • legal, was acquired only by dint of indomitable peisistence and rigid, self-denial. He was sent to the Indiana Legislature in

1860, where he framed the Indiana Legion measure and saw it pass into a law. He. commanded a volunteer company at the outbreak of the war, and was disabled at the battle of Peach Tree Creek in 1865, after which he resumed the practice of law. He was appointed District Judge by Grant in 1860, in which capacity he served with ability for twelve years. Under President Arthur he acted first as Postmaster Gen eral and later as Secrotary of the Treasury, graduating thence to the Circuit bench, which he leaves now to take the premiership in Cleveland’s Cabinet. Tlie Treasury Portfolio. John G. Carlisle, who will act as Secretary of the Treasury, has filled the public eye for many years, and before

the President-elect appeared on the stage o f national polities Carlisle championed in Congross the anti-pro-tection principles with which Cleveland’s name is now so distinctly associated. Strong in debate, with the courage of his convictions and power of leadership, he

will be an undoubted element of strength In the coming Cabinet. He was born in Kentucky 58 years ago, and after a brief experience as a pedagogue at Covington, Ky., he engaged in the practice of law. He served several terms in the Legislature of his natlvo State, and from 1871 to 1875 ho was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. In 1876 he acted as Presidential elector, and was elected to Congress the same year.

The Secretary of War. The graduation of Col. Daniel S. Lamont from the position of Private Secretary to President Cleveland to the War

portfolio is without a parallel in the Washington records. He was born in Cortlandville, N. Y., in 1862, and enters tho Cabinet at an exceptionally early ago. Educated at Union College, he was early initiated into themysteries of New York politics by

Samuel J. Tilden. When but 20 years of age he was a delegate at the convention at which Tweed -was defeated by Tilden. He held an interest in tho Albany Argus and was connected with that paper when Governor Cleveland appointed him his Private Secretary. The Postmaster General. The appointment of Wilson Shannon Bißsell is essentially a personal one, and one for which the great friendship ex-

isting between the appointee and the President-elect is responsible. Mr. Bissell has no political record whatever, and his reputation, which is a high one and more than local, is based entirely on his ''prominence as a corporation lawyer

► End on his general business ability. He was born in Oneida County, New York, Ip 1847, being taken when six years old tp Buffalo, of which city he has been a liesident ever sldco. In 1872 he entered lb to a partnership with Lyman K. Bass, pnd a few months later Grover Cleveland entered the firm, leaving when elected Governor of the State. Mr. Sissell is a director in many corporaons, railroad and commercial. The Seen* ary ot the Interior. The youngest man In the Cabinet will be Hoke Smith of Georgia, who, like Mr. Bissell, is a very large man, weighing

Dearly 250 pounds. A young lawyer in Atlanta six years . c go, he leaped to the front by his energetic and suc-oes-ful championipg of tariff* reform principles in Georgia. He. bought the Atlanta Journal -for a small sum and waged relentless war on the oppo-

nents of Cleveland’s tariff views In Georgia. He finally worked the defeat of the anti-Cleveland forces in his State. He is a very successful lawyer, railroad cases being his specialty. The attorney General. Bichard Olney, who has been chosen for Attorney General, graduated from Brown University in 1856 and Harvard law school two years later. Twice he has been offered a Massachusetts justiceship, but declined, having the last offer from Governor Russell. Mr. Olney was bob in Oxford, Mass., in 1836. Hie

only polldpal venture was when he rep. resented me Second Norfolk District ip. the Legislature in 1874- This was the year whe* there was a great overturn in State iolitip#, William Gaston defeating Governor Talbot by nearly 8,000 votes. In Mr. Oiney’s district there was a close contest. On the face of the returns he was only five behind. A recount made It a tie, and on a election he won the seat. It has been supposed by jnany that Mr. OTney was a mugwump; but his fealty to his party has never been que stioned. Secretary of the Navy. Hilary A. Herbert, the representative of Alabama in Cleveland’s Cabinet, will be placed in control of the Navy

Department. He is how a resident of Montgomery, Ala.,but was born at LaucensvUle, S. C. When he was a child , his father removed to Alabama, settling in Greene *ll le. He received his education at the University of Alar, bama and the.UnK ver6ity of- Vir-

ginla, studied law and was admitted to practice. At the outbreak of tb4 civil war he enterod the Confederate service as a Captain and was promoted to Colonel of the Eighth regiment of Alabama Volunteers. ■ He was elected a member of the Forty-fifth and each succeeding Congress up to the present time. He was twice a member of the committee on naval affairs of the House and in the, present Congress is chairman of that committee. The Portfolio of Agriculture. J. Sterling Morton was born at Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y., in 1832, going when a boy to Michigan, where he at

tended school at Ann Arbor, later attending classes at Union College, New York. From New York he went/ to Nebraska, where' he acted as editor, of the Nebraska City News. After being twice elected to the Territorial

Legislature, he made an unsuccessful run for the Governorship. Three times thereafter he was a candidate for the same position, each time Without success. Mr. Morton’s orchards at Arbor Lodge are the finest in the State. r ’ i

WALTER Q. GRESHAM.

J. G. CARLISLE.

DANIEL S. LAMONT.

WILSON S. BISSELL

EOKE SMITH.

H. A. HERBERT.

J. S. MORTON.