Show A PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S CABINET SOME SOJIE SECRETARIES HAVE ATTAINED ATTAINED AT- AT GREATER FAME THAN y THEIR CHIEF tiK's While Appointments Are Political r Er the Cabinet Is Usually the p I dents dent's Closest Adviser Lf L- L f James crames S. S Henry y it takes According to the old saw i nine mine tailors t to make tomake a man ruan so in the e it Government of the United States make makes nine Cabinet officers to of takes Primarily American Ameri Ameri- s an nn administration can cabinet officers are selected to become become become be- be nine great exe executive ex- ex the heads of the come Govern Govern- of the departments e S from another another another an an- k star f r r ment As one other star in glory so one cabinet officer offs in opportunity 4 l differs from another ability and the power to make malte a f. f i i ity impression the history of lasting upon heads of de de' departments nine These the country 2 the Pres President ir i- i are chosen by dent d and although the approval al of the r States is required Senate of the United and to make their appointment legal y constitutional the preference of the invariably respected and k Executive is his the nine Cabinet officers represent personal choice so far as politics i agent leaves Cleaves 1 him a free v To be a member of the Presidents President's Cabinet has filled the ambition of many r statesmen It is a place only one remove re re- which all native Ii dry ii R move from that to i born citizens citizen's of the United States have havea haver it- it Presidency r a right to the aspire aspire the disappointments disappoint disappoint- self If there have been ir and unrealized ambitions on the r- r A. ments meats part of the the- great men who have been of 1 President the world has not heard the thedis discouragements dist dis dis- Jt c. them The disappointments the the disillusionment t i restrictions that have been experienced j 1 by statesmen who had hoped to toi i achieve glory and fame as Cabinet off f- f in the national records records rec rec- read can be cers the foundation of the Gov Coy t from Failure Failure Fail Fail- the present sent time i t eminent t to v and to great plans to accomplish ure in history history his his- realize hopes of a lasting place tory tort has sent many Cabinet officers officer S i V into inti embittered and disappointed back private life May Not be Personal Friends the United Unites I. I While the President of States States States' is entitled to choose the nine gentlemen who shall sit about hi his council table as his Cabinet advisors the political system in effect in the United States often robs this selection of Its personal character i A newly i elected President may know of nine men in his circle of business social anc and political acquaintances whom he would like to have around him as counsellors counsellor r a 1 V and whom he believes would make efficient ef- ef V heads of departments in the administration of Government laws of politics poli poll politics and business The exigencies tics however usually compel him to choose his Cabinet officers from different different differ differ- ent sections of the country and in acknowledgement acknowledgement ac ac- V of certain potent influences influences sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- commercial sometimes times economic sometimes religious and often purely political that helped The Chief make malte his election sur sure 5 V Executive before deciding upon the composition of his Cabinet inquires carefully into the qualifications ability and character of the men whom he will Invite to sit at at his council table but it often happens that the first time he has come in personal contact with his future advisor is when he meets him to extend the invitation to him to enter enter en en- ter the Cabinet is In the economy of of and andin in the social life at the nations nation's C Cap Cap- p- p l- l 5 Hal ital an American Cabinet officer occupies occupies occupies oc oc- a n commanding position but butIn in inthe inthe the accomplishment of great deeds of statesmanship and as a power in fashioning fashioning fash fash- t Toning the policies of the nation the Cabinet ministers minister's own personality his ability and genius can alone make malte success There are conspicuous examples ex ex- V am amples pies in the history of the United iJ States where Cabinet ministers have hav dominated the Executive and carved their names higher on the pillar villar of fame than the Presidents with whom they served The impress made on national affairs by such men as Daniel Webster John C. C Calhoun and James G. G Blaine Elaine as ministers of state ii is greater reater than that of many Presidents of the United States It is not t nary sary to refer to musty history for examples examples examples ex ex- amples of Cabinet ministers who have won international fame The late John Hay Secretary of State under dent ent McKinley and President Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose- Roose velt elt seems yet a living actual personality personality per- per in the affairs of the world If Ifo no o other monument had bad been established establish- establish ed d by his long public service the open door policy for which he obtained recognition recognition recognition rec rec- rec- rec in the Far East would mark his statesmanship for all time With his ils colleague Ellhu Elihu Root who is now his lis successor he shared the glory of administration admin- admin administration the he late President McKinley's in which both men were superlative superlative superlative su su- su- su influences Shermans Sherman's Earlier Iler Fame Going back a little further we find the he late John Sherman standing as ashe the he monument of sound finance and marking the otherwise colorless Hayes administration from 1877 1871 to 1881 1981 as au an an of the epoch in the financial financial- history I country In the days of the Civil War Stanton Stanlon at the head of the War Department Department De De- earned the name of being the he greatest Secretary of War the the United States ever had and was immortal Lincoln inthe Inthe in inthe mainstay Of bf the the latter's heartbreaking heartbreaking experiences experiences with traitors politicians and self seek ing ne army officers The years of national life of the United States furnished furnished furnished fur fur- many brilliant examples of what a Cabinet officer can accomplish and the influential part he can play In Inthe inthe inthe the achievements of an administration It depends largely upon the President President what extent extent ex extent dent of the United States to tent a Cabinet officer may achieve prominence in national affairs Dur L generation most of 01 the lUI ing Ing th the last have Presidents of the United States been men of iron will and commanding command command- them however however however how how- personality Most of ing ng of upon members o otheir ever have depended their Cabinet for expert advice on great national and International issues In th the administration of Grant Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land Harrison McKinley and Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt pertain certain of their ministers w were re pre-eminent pre in the direction of affairs affair and domestic policies These Thes of state Presidents were and ar are strong men men- but ever ready to listen to the advice and appreciate the of th the strong men they had chosen for their thel Ga Cabinet ine Different Treatment of Cabinets Each President has had his ow own conception of the functions of a Cab Cab- L r Y t fi f t Clinedinst Wash Nash DC D.C. I 8 r Copyright 1004 ff r PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND HIS ms CABINET 1004 Y V r Taft Wilson Hay Day Morton Hitchcock Moody Wynne Metcalf l Shaw Shat net met officer Each one has adopted his own method of Cabinet consulta consulta- tion President R Roosevelt might be said to have a Cabinet of oi specialists He has selected men e. e believed ell ved peculiarly fitted to to administer the affairs affairs affairs af af- fairs of the different departments Atthe At Atthe Atthe the bi weekly Cabinet meetings which are held when the President is In is his executive office in Washington each Cabinet officer presents a short resume resume resume re re- re- re sume of the condition of his depart depart- ment If there is any matter that has arisen under his Jurisdiction that is of ofa a widespread general character it is reserved for discussion by himself and the President and perhaps one or twp tw 11 other members of the Cabinet who remain remain re reo re- re main after the formal meeting Great questions of national and international policy are not matters of general discussion discussion discussion dis dis- dis- dis in Mr Roosevelt's Cabinet They are taken up and debated by the President and those Cabinet officers whom he believes are specially qualified quaIl qualified fied to give expert- expert opinion upon them The late President McKinley had haa an entirely different nt method d and the meetings of his Cabinet were were actual state councils Every matter affecting the be nation at large or bearing upon our International rel relations was brought up at it these meetings and each one of the Presidents President's advisors Was requested to submit his opinion The Secretary of pf Agriculture was asked for his views on n the advance on Pekin while the opinion of the Secretary of ot State on the he type of battleships to to tobe be adopted I by y the Navy was welcomed Mr McKinley Mc Me- MeI I Kinley inley believed In this way that he secured secured se se- cured the best results and gave gaveLis gave his Lis cabinet officers an opportunity to exhibit whatever of talent or genius II of if statesmanship they they possessed d. d |