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Show THE SCIENCE OF APPOINTMENTS. The New Tork World in its amiable way says: i As attorney general be Strmeonl might mrt the r-quirements r-quirements of a cabinet position. But why make a secretary secre-tary of war of bimf What are his qualifications for the placet Whet does be know about military affairs I i -That the New. Tork. Timea calls treason and in its own amiable way calls up precedents to show its entire want of justification and calls upon the president presi-dent to look over the appointments of his immediate imme-diate predecessors, then to cringe with shame. Then it recalls history aa follows: President- Rooscvalt appointed that battle scarrsd and srar worn retaran, Osn. William H. Taft, to ba ssrrstary of war. President McKinlsv appoint. Gaa. Elinu Boot, who Lad usat by turns in tha infantry, cavalry, artillery and signal' rarps, aad bea illustrious ia all. President Cleveland appointed that bloodthirsty warrior. Gen. Daniel ft Lamont, and before hint that sturdy veteran of Bunker Hil), Gen. William H. Endieott. President Harrison appointed ap-pointed Field Marshal Red field Proctor, the hero of the Vermont quarries, and later that seeond Napoleon, Col. Stephen B. Elkins. President Garfield appointed Gen. Robert Rob-ert T. Lincoln, who had fought in every cattle from Thermopylae Ther-mopylae to Oravelotte. President Haves appointed Marshal Mar-shal George .W. MeOrary, who drew up the plans for the battle of AMIum and from whose brain apranc fall panto-plie' panto-plie' th parliamentary army of Cromwell, tha graad acmei. apd the array of .the Potomac,. . , That is all' good, but in tha history of appointments appoint-ments fherev.is one which cannot be too vividly, remembered. re-membered. When the late President Cleveland espoused the cause of the luckless Queen Lil of Hawaii as commissioner to adjust her claims, one Mr. Blount an ex-confederate colonel, if we re- member aright was appointed. We do tiot know that he would' have been an efficient secretary of war, but that he would have been at home in the navy waa made clear on the voyage from San Francisco Fran-cisco to Honolulu. He wss greatly interested in seeing the sailors pumping the water and washing the decks every morning. He seemed to look upon the phenomenon as natural for two-or three days, but when, with the ship far out at sea, he saw the work continued, he turned in surprise to a fellow passenger and asked where those sailors pumped that water from every morning. There were great men even as far back ks Mr. Cleveland's time. |