Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — THE NEW DEAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEW DEAL.

Sketches of President Cleveland and His Constitutional , Advisers. With Portraits of the President, Vice President, and Most of the Ministers. _ THE CABINET. A List of the New Ministry. Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware. Secretary of the Treasury, Daniel Manning, of New York. Secretary of the Interior, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi. Secretary of TFor, William C. Endicott, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney, of New~York. Postmaster General, William F.YiLaS, of Wisconsin. Attorney General, Augustus H. Garland, of Arkansas. biographical. Brief Sketches of the Public Services of the Chosen Ministers. [Vfe are indebted to the Chicago Daily News for the following brief sketches of the President and his advisers:]

Grover Cleveland is a native of New Jersey, bom at Caldwell, Essex County, March 18, 1837. His father was a minister, and the President has living relatives prominent among the Protestant clergy, not to speak of his numerous clerical ancestors. After receiving such instruction as was procurable from the common school In various places of the paternal residence, young Cleveland was sent to the academy at Clinton. Oneida County, N. Y. Upon leaving this seat of learning he went to New York City, -where he filled for some time the position of clerk in an institution of charity. He is next heard of making his way West, with an emerprlsing young man, with Cleveland, Ohio, as his Objective point; but visiting, while on his way, an uncle residing in Buffalo, he was induced to. remain in tha’. city as clerk in the store of his relative. He was 18 years of age at the time, an ambitious young fellow ossessed of the earnest desire to become a successful lawyer. His uncle save ed his asp:ration,and we soon find the youth a clerk In the office of a prominent law firm, and at the same time enjoying the com torts of a good home at his relative’s house. He was admitted to the bar in 1869. His first political office was as Assistant District Attorney for the county of Erie, under C. C. Torrance. He held the position three years, until the end of his superior’s term of office, when he was nominated for Distr.ct Attorney on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. In 18.’0, live years after th s failnre, he was elected Sheriff of Erie County, and in November. 1«81, was elected Mayor of Buffalo by a decided majority. His incumbency of this office was successful and popular. In the fall election of 1882 Mr. Cleveland was elected Governor of New York, receiving 535,318 votes to 312,404 for Folger. He was nominated for President July 12, and was elected Nov. 4, receiving 4.874,985 votes to 4,861,981 for Blaine, 175,370 for Butler, and 150,369 for St. John.

Thomas A. Hendricks was horn in Ohio cm the 7th of Ser tember, 181.>. H was gra anted from Sou h Hanover College, in th-.t State, In 1-40, waen he rein ved to Chambersbnrg, Pa., and began the study of law. Three years lat rhe WiiS dml.ted to the bar an i b gan the praett e of his pro seloa in indiam. His career opened auspiciously, and In a few years he became a lawyer of excellent standing. In 1818 he w>.s elected t> the S;ate Legislature, and in 1850 was a delegate to the State Constttut onal Convention. The next year he was elected to the Honse of Representatives, and in 1853 his term expired. Ho was appointed Commies oner of the Gene-al Land Oilice by President 1 lerce, and from this on he has been on of cue most important political characters in Indiana. In 18 ohe ran for Gove-no against Henry 8. Lane, and was defeated. He was e'ected to the bniced States Se ate in .863 lor the long term. After leaving the Senate in iB6O he practiced law in lodianapol s until 18 2. He was .hen made the candidate for Governor of the State, and was elected by ama ority of Bis name was pr sen ted to'the Democratic National < onvention ih 1868 as candidate foirtbe Presidency, and he would no doubt have received the nomination but for the Ohio delegates, who. by persistently voting for Horatio Seymour, finally caused a stampede in his iaver Again, In 872, he was proposed as a candidate in the Democratic ational Convention. and bnt for the unexpected l unions of that time he would probably have been the nominee of his party. He was nominated for \ ice President in 1876, and was nominated for the same othoefn l‘M. He was married near Cincinnati on the 25th of September, BUS, to M:** Eliza C. J.oraan, by whom he had one son, born In 1848, bt who Jived to be only 3 f ars of a- e. This was the only child, and its death greatly affected the father. He was nurtured in the Pr sbyterian faith, nd was a m inber of that common on nntil the o ganl atmn of St. l am's • p:sc't>al Church in Indianap lis in tee year 1862, when he became a member of that parish, and was elected Senior Warden. THOH. F. BATAKD. OF DELAWAME, ffiECBSTABT OF BTaTZ. Thomas F. Bayard ys the h reditary Senator from Delaware, repres nttog the third snec s# re generation of h » family to octupy a seat lnths.Dni.ed States Senate from th t State. Besides Us grandfather and father. Us uncle, I ■ ‘ '

brothers named bayard were among the

Huguenots that fled from France to escape the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s day in 138*. They went first to Ireland, and later to New York. Senator Thomas V. Bayard was born at Wilmington, Delaware, Oct. 29. 1828, and was educated at Flushing school. Though trained for a mercantile life In his early years, he adopted the profession of the law and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He was appointed United States District Attorney for the State of Delaware In 1833, bat resigned the following year. March 1, 1869, he succeeded to his father’s seat in the United States Senate, a place he now h‘ Ida by a third election. He was a member of the electoral commission of 1876, and has oßen been a prominent figure in Democratic conventions. Ho has been the reco nized leader of his party in the Senate for a number of years, and at the last two National Democratic Conventions his name was favorably considered in connection with the Presidential nomination. Senator Bayard's career as a lawyer has nothing in it of more than local importance, though he has long been recognized as one of the beet lawyers in his State. He has made a record in the Senate of being a diligent, conservative, and watchful member. His constant attendance on the sessions of. the Senate, his long service in that body, and his close attention to its business, have made him one! of the best-informed Senators. Though a thorough partisan, his political opinions have not narrowed his grasp of public affairs. He is a graceful and pleasant speaker, but is not given to muoh talking. He is a man of good judgment, well balanoed, and deliberate. Personally he is tall, smooth-laced, and & finp specimen of physical manhood in the prime of life. , Socially Mr. Bayard’s family ia said to be exclusive, ana to have aristocratic tendencies. He, however, is of a genial nature and poDnlar with his fellow Senators.

L. Q. C. .Lamar is a native of the State of Georgia. He comes of an old family which has distinguished itself in government affairs ever since the Dec ara lon of Independence. He was bora in 1825, and graduated from Emory College, Georgia, in 1846. He was admitted to the bar in 1847. He moved to Mississippi in 1849 and soon after was elected adjunct professor of mathematics in the university of that State. At the same time he held the place of assistant editor of the Southern Review. He returned to Georgia in 1850, locating at Covington for the practice of law. He was elected to the Legislature of Georgia in 1853. and in 1854 moved to Lafayette County, Miss., where he owned a plantation. He was elected to Congress in 18*6, and re-elected in 1858. He resigned bis seat in 1860 to become a member of the Seoes--8 on Convention of his State in 1861. and the same year entered the Confederate army, being shortly pr *moted to a colonelcy. In 1863 President Davis sent him to Russia on a diplomatic mission. At the close of the war in 1866, he became prof.-sso. of political economy and social science in the University of Mississippi, and the following year professor of law in that institution. He was elected to Congress in again in .874. and succeeded James L. Alcorn in the United States senate, in 1877, to which place be was ;e-elected for the term beginning March 5,1 83. He has been in public life aver since he came of age, and is a man of large experience, though no; a hard worker like Bayard. He is Suiet, reticent, and something cf an idealist. " ring the troublous reconstruction peri**! be was liberal and conscientious in Ids views and threw his influence on the side of harmony between the different sections of the country. His mind is remarkable rather for its fine temper than its force He is an eloquent speaker when aroused, though be is not often beard in Congressional d bat". He mad? a n -ttoaal reputation In his eulogy of Charles Sumner on the floor of the House. He is a man slightly above the average height, possesses a full, rounded figure, and has the bearing of a student snd scholar.

Angustus H. Garland was born in Tipton County, Tennessee, June 11,1831 His parents removed to the Stare of Arkansas the following Sar and settled in the bottom lands of tbs Bed ver Valley. At a suitable age young Garland was sent to Bard-town. Ky., to bo educated in' wh.t. was then the most famous seat of learning in the ho tbwest. His academic studies were Pursued in the Catboßc colleges of St. Mary and Bt. Jo eph. During the latter part of his residence in Bardstown he read law, and attended the rial of esn-e* in the court-room whenever he had the opportunity. At that time the loral b. r was very strong. Garland profited greatly by tb s practice as well as by Us studies, which ns pursued with persistent devotion. Returning home he continued to woo that jealous mistress the law, and in U 33 was admitted to praeU eat Washington, Ark. In 1856 he removed to Little Bock, the capital of the State. He was

—ir' '""HZ stfSrsstiSSS "lon of Arkansas as lout a• t&ere was-any hops of a peaceful solution of acoitenal differthrew ln'hia IoWUhMs wait a member of the Provisional Congress whch met at Montgomery, Ala., in May, 1861. and took part In drawing up the Ccmstltntftm of tit* Confederate States. Dining the straggle between the Federal and Confederate governments be gave bis counsel to the Southern cause, first ssa B*presentative and afterward as Senator. He was serv m t as a Senator in its Congress when the Confederacy collapsed. In ISIS Mr Carland pettttoned the Supreme Court of the United States, to practice therein without taking *?!* Ironclad oatb,~ at the same time submitting an argument to support of his petition which was a masterpiece or reasoning: He won Ms esse, which was not decided until the December tom of the Supreme Court, 1867. While tt was lending he was elected Unit*! States Senator from Arkansas. He appeared to take his seat in the Senate March 4.1867, but was not permitted to do so. In 1874 Hr. Garland was elected Governor of Arkansas without opposition. His election as Senator took place to January, 1876, without opposition. He began his term aa successor to Powell Clayton, Republican, on March 8, 1877. In 1883 he was. re-eleete i. sn<l his term of service would not have expired until March 8,

Daniel Manning was educated in a newspaper office. He began at the age of 9 as sa errandboy, became a reporter at 15, and subsequently a city editor, and graduated the general manager of a newspaper company. He afterward became identified with the management of the Commercial National Bank of Albany, and finally its President. While employed In tha newspaper office he became familiar frith local politics, and as a reporter of legislative proceedings of New York be acquired an extensive acquaintance with State political affaire. Ho already had something more than a local reputation as a politician when, in 1876, ho became a member of the New York State Democratic Central Committee, of which body hewae made Chairman in 1882. He managed the campaign that elected Cleveland Gove nor of New York, and was the first to name the latter for the Presidency. Cleveland’s nomination for the office is generally conceded to be due to the adroit management of Mr. Manning, and bin election to the no less ably conducted Presidential campaign in New York. Mr. Manning ia a remarkably uccessful organizer and shrewd politician. He has had no experience in public affairs nor as a munag r of great financial inter* eets. His personal habits of close economy and bis success in private business enterprises may be the foundation for great success as Secretary or the Treasury. His record is yet to be made. Mr. Manning is 47 years of age and a native of Albany, N. Y, __

William P. Vilas traces his genealogy to Or Richard de Vilas, a crusader under Edward L of England. He was born in Chelsea, Vt, Jaly 9,1840. His father was a member of the Vermont Legislature in 1860, but removed to Madison, Wis., in 1861, where be became proniin nt aa a Democrat in the politics of that State. William F. graduated from the Wisconsin State University in lsw.snd two years later entered upon the practice of the low. in 1862 be raised a company and entered the- Unkm army as Captain, tie was rapidly nromoted and resigned a Colonelcy in 1863. Hem one of the letter ere in the law department of the Wisconsin Stats University. In 1873 he was one of the committee of three appointed to revise the statutes of Wisconsin. He was President of tbs Democratic convention that nominated Cleveland, and la now a member of the lower bouse of the Legislature of bis State, the first elective office he ever held. Col. Vilas to an aide and eloquent advocate, a studious and hard-working lawyer, and a brilliant man. WILLIAM a ENDICOTT, OP MASSACHUSETTS, SECRETARY OP WAX. r William C. Endicott to a native of Salem, Maas., where he still res dee, and to now about (9 years old. He gndn ted from Harvard College in 1847, and entered upon the practice of law in iB6O. Gov. Washburn appointed tin to a place on the Supreme bench of Massachusetts, which position he resigned in 1889 on account of ill-health. Until 1860 Judge Endicott was an old-line Whig. but from that time forward was a Democrat. He never was prominent In politics until the last campaign, when be was the Democratic candidate for Governor of the Bay State. Aa a lawyer ha to said to be thorough, painstaking, and dignified. He stood high in the ranks of the judiciary while ■ member of the Supreme bench. He to a de* seendant of John J .ndicott, one of the first colonial Governors of Massachusetts His mothm was a daughter of tha Hon. Jacob Crowninshield, who served a term in Congress, mid was President Jefferson’s Secretary a€ the Navy fr m 1806 to 1899. . WILLIAM C. OT SEW YORK, SECRETARY or th* navy. William 0. Whitney was bora at Conway, Maas, in 1840. He graduated at Yale CoUege m 1893, and at the Harvard tow reboot to 1864- He at once began the practice of Jaw in New Ycfck city, and speedily drifted Into politics He was appointed Corporation Counsel of New York City 1 upon the downfall of the Tweed Tine- His energy and ability in clearing up the mass of litigation that grew out of the ring a fraudulent transactions made his reputation as a lawyer. He laid the foundation of a comfortable fortune * daughter or unTer w. njne, or unio* one oi the millionaire stockholders of the Standard CHI Company. Throughout hie political career be has enjoyed intimate retottotis with flam—l J. Tllden, and has Labored under the advice and direction of the sage of Greyatone for the orrerYork Cttv.* J ML*\&itney conceived the plan of organising the County Democracy of New York, and largely aided In ita execution. He is a successful organizer, and. after Daniel Manning; ■ i- ■ ' ~ 1 ’ - | i -1 ii r ' i;'- \ . Mint. Rttttkay writes from Turin Owl her brother, Laois Kossuth, ia ia good Twain* lime to reduoe a

GROVER CLEVELAND, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

THOMAS A. EENDR. CKS, VICE PRESIDENT.

L. Q. C. LAMAR, OF MISSISSIPPI, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

A. H. GARLAND, OF ARKANSAS, ATTORNEY GENERAL.

DANIEL MANNING, OF NEW YORK, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

WILLIAM F. VILAS, OF WISCONSIN, POSTMASTER GENERAL.