OCR Text |
Show BRYAN'S CABINET. Are These the Men You Want for Administrators? If William J. Bryan should be elected elect-ed president, who would be his counselors? coun-selors? Undoubtedly the men who have been most loyal to his rising fortunes, for-tunes, who have striven most effectively effect-ively to promote his ambitious, who have brought to his cause the most powerful aid. This would be just and right. Moreover, it would be in accordance accord-ance with the traditions and precedents prece-dents of American politics. Who, then, would Mr. Bryan's counselors be? Iu New England. George Fred Williams; Wil-liams; in the middle states, Richard Croker; in the South, Benjamin Tillman; Till-man; in the middle West, John P. Alt-geld; Alt-geld; iu the Northwest, Richard F. Pet-tigrew; Pet-tigrew; in the Southwest, James K. Jones, in the far West, William R. Hearst. Some of these men are intelligent, some not. Some of them are sagacious saga-cious in their personal affairs, some not. Some possess great personal virtues, vir-tues, some none at all. But all these things are irrelevant to the present question, because that question has to do wholly with public men and not private pri-vate citizens. It is: Do the American people wish to place American trade and commerce, American' law, justice and order, American Amer-ican policy and American destiny iu the hands of Messrs. Bryan, Williams, Croker, Tillman, Altgeld, Pettigrew, .Tones and Hearst? In other words are they anxious to have the affairs of the republic administered admin-istered for the four years after next March 4th under such auspices as these: President William J. Bryan. Secretary of State William E. Hearst. Secretary of the Treasury Richard Croker. Secretary of War Richard F. Pettigrew. Petti-grew. Attorney General John P. Altgeld. Postmaster General James K. Jones. Secretary of the Navy George Fred Williams. Secretary of the Interior Benjamin R. Tillman. |