Show SECRETARY NOBLE THE country has much cause to regret the resignation of secretary noble from the cabinet he is the exact sort of man that to is needed above all others in the kind of positions he has occupied for the past two and a half years with such men in such places while the country will not be entertained with any pyrotechnic displays of genius it will always be safe and prosperous it has been evident from the first that secretary nobles idea of capability in office was the conscientious discharge of duty he has had no time for con coding schemes to advertise advert ize his bis brilliancy the time that the average office holder is called upon to spend in running about the country on cam palan missions he has occupied among his subordinates and at his desk attending to his official business this is an example in american office holding more rare than genius and a thousand times more profitable the brilliant men to whom cefre we fre make the mistake of entrusting public duty are usually so conscious that the salvation of the country is de pendent upon thy their continua tion in office that the labor of keeping themselves there demands ft a far larger proportion of their energies than the public duthen duty en trusted to them the record of mr J noble has been a perfect contrast to this sort of official worthlessness ss aj J 8 S clarkson is tow talked of as aa his hie probable successor mr clarkson is too brilliant a politician to be a used ful servant of the people as a cabin cabine fr it 1 officer mr clarkson occupied twe the a position of assistant postmaster gener general 1 under mr wannamaker for the thea a vowed avowed purpose of turning Demo democratic cratie 3 postmasters out of office because they were not of his bis political faith and 2 replacing them with men pledged toh vote the republican ticket his extraordinary tra ordinary achievement sin this capacity have given him the name of the he political headsman mr clarkson Clark aon is a brilliant and useful party worker and a very capable man but we w do not think the country would view with favor his bis appointment in the place or of so flo patriotic a public servant fervant as noble Bes besides idee we do not see how the 1 lican party can spare him as the jaek head of its central committee where h he I 1 would render it greater salce and b completely at home |