Springfield Globe Republic

AH, THERE: MR. PRESIDENT.

For the first time in this last quarter of a century a gentle, though wintry Sunday morning dawns under a Democratic administration, especially here in the United States. The gentleman who wakes this morning, yawns and rolls over for another nap, realizing it is Sunday, in the white washed building at Washington D. C. is a Democrat, and he is, also, probably glad of it today. His real name is Stephen Grover Cleveland, formerly of Albany, N. Y. He listens to the quiet Sabbath bells this morning with a realizing sense that, being a stranger in Washington and a Democrat he will not be expected to attend church. It is hoped that he may also be excused from looking after the post-masters of this great nation for a space of time extending up to the afternoon luncheon at least. He has spoken his piece well; he has been sworn in, and he also has a cabinet. It was hoped that the old fashion of wearing a cabinet would go out after Carl Schurz and other gentlemen had done with it, but it seems that we are to go right along under the old arrangement, as if nothing of this kind had happened. So we must make some mention of the cabinet.

There is Thomas F. Bayard, he will keep the minutes of the cabinet meetings, because he is Secretary of State, and he will have a warm place next to the President when the whole combination of talent assembles to talk about things in general. He is right from Delaware state where he was born, because a man must be born somewhere if he ever hopes to amount to anything in a cabinet.

Augustus H. Garland, having never graduated in any law school, is deemed to have sufficient practical run of the "old thing" to direct the cabinet clear of all legal snags. He will also adjust the legal steel-yards so that even-tempered Justice may not butt her precious brains out against the beam every time, in other words he is the attorney-general. He was born in Tennessee, but that was not his fault, so he early migrated to Arkansas where he was better appreciated.

Next comes Lucius Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi. We don't pretend to know what the O. C. stand for, unless it be the Quit-Claim that the gentleman represents as held by the section from which he comes. Anyway the quit-claim has been recognized, and the gentleman will wrestle with the noble savage "outside our borders" (as Pres. Cleveland says) for he is Secretary of the Interior. If his chin whiskers were taken off he would resemble John A. Logan, in some trifling respects of a physical nature only. He went with his State into secession, but he is sorry for it sufficiently so, at least, to come back and draw his salary regularly as Senator.

Daniel Manning is from New York and was born right in Albany; beside this he is a married man, and was a member of Boss Tweed's Cabinet in New York. He has charge of the money bags, as secretary of the treasury, and will see that the $400,000,000 in the reserve fund will be distributed to Mr. Hendrick's constituency, according to promise, at the rate of $7.50 per head.

William C. Whitney is from New York, but is the son-in-law of Henry C. Payne, who is from Ohio. This was deemed sufficient recognition of John R. McLean, and in view of the possible contingency, seems to be satisfactory to Ohio. He (Whitney) will go down to the beach some day this spring and haul the U. S. navy up on the sand, and go off where he can best amuse himself, because he is Secretary of the U. S. navy. (We use U. S. advisably because it thunders in the index, so to speak, and we desire to have some strength in the navy).

William C. Endicott is from Massachusetts, and is Secretary of War. He will call the U. S. army up to his room this morning and tell him to be a good boy because it is Sunday—that's all now go out and muster, my son.

William F. Vilas the postmaster general is from Wisconsin, though he was not born there having escaped from Vermont at the age of eleven years. New post offices, named Vilas, will begin to crop forth with the dandelions this spring. In this respect he is expected to stand a peer with Mr. Hatton, his predecessor, and Vilas will do it, though there is good record in this respect right ahead of Mr. Vilas.

These gentlemen are all Democrats and have been chosen apparently on that account. Most everything seems to be of a Democratic tendency this year, and it depends largely upon the public acts of the above gentlemen as to the length of time that this new hue shall pervade the political aspect.