Show THE CHEEK OF KOSECKAXS The election of Cleveland was followed by the announcement that Gen Hose crans would be an applicant for a Cabinet Cabi-net position the Secretaryship 01 War As II Itosey had been an applicant for pretty nearly everything in sight for the past eight years people looked upon his reaching out for a Cabinet office as the result of the force of habit but it transpires that the old man is in dead earnest and really expects the position nor is he at all modest in sounding his own praises Most men like to have their good qualities pointed out bothers b-others but Rosecrans likes to sing his own laudations and however much we J i may condemn his gal we cainofbut i t admire his candor Referring to his I desires in the premises he frankly says I think I ought to be appointed I Secretary of War I want the office I the people want me there and my experience i ex-perience fits me for it If everybody had I as exalted an opinion of Gen W S Ilosecrans as that gentleman has of himself the offices under government are neither numerous enough nor exalted ex-alted enough for him Every place would be greatly enlarged and he I would be put into all of them Fortunately Fortun-ately the opinion of the public does not agree with that of the fussy old fossil as Ito I-to the latters ability and it is hoped that Cleveland is as levelheaded in this matter asinothers Rosecrans is about as well fitted for the war secretaryship as a pig is for the parlor In his time he may have been useful though he was never clever but the day for his activity ac-tivity in the affairs of the nation passed long since and his crowding himself iinto prominence lately was unreasonable I un-reasonable and disgusting The best place for him is absolute retirement from public life and if he hasnt money to live on let him join with Grantaud ask apen ion I i |