Show presidential CABINETS the completion of the now new presidential cabinet of whose timber only one piece was waa ever employed I 1 in a like service beloro suggests sug genta a thought as to which sections of the country have shown themselves roost moat prolific in producing material out of which to make executive department head we of the west will be interested in the fact that our choice men have not yet succeeded in obtaining much n though colorado anil and oregon have each hal bad one cabinet officer and nebraska now has one for the first time the honor of never having baving contributed a member to the presidents president official family is accordingly borne by our neigh neighboring borin 9 states of california nevada kansas montana the dakotas wyoming and idaho and excepting these the only northern noT thern state which la is noted in the same connection is rhode island every southern state except texas florida and alabama has a at t some time been represented in the cabinet but west wesl virginia and arkansas like oregon and colorado have only had one representative each the leading producers of such material are shown to be now new york massachusetts penn pen n vanla and virginia the airet named easily in the lead and each with more wan than twenty names to its credit A AB has been already noted mr cleveland in both instances has departed from an unwritten law in appointing two of his advisers from one state and that state his own further peculiarities and coincidences relative to this same subject are thus thug touched by the now new ark Y rk recorder among cabinet officers of the past these afterward attained the presidency jefferson madison adams van buren baren buchanan and grant the last named having been an ad interim war secretary under johnson the following cabinet officials have become unsuccessful competitors for election as president crawford webster clay case bell and blaine several other cabinet officers of trie past were unsuccessful presidential candidates before party conventions it is a political superstition that a seat in the cabinet proves unlucky for a presidential aspirant and neither the success of the earlier presidents who had been in cabinets nor that of buchanan has counteracted the superstition sti sLi tion |