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Show m I ( Tribute to Bryan H i If the apparent verily of reports shall be jus. H j j tilled by the event, President Wilson is going to M j have a pretty good eabiuct. Tbcrc seems to be H a unity of understanding that Air. Bryan will M i ' v bave a pluci that of secretary of state The M ! Ireasury portfolio is credited to a number of H different men, but there seems a general belief M that Daniels of Virginia will be secretary of the M navy. M Of course Mir. Daniels doesn't know much B experimentally about water salt or otherwise. M But. it will be remembered that Colonel Dick M Thompson of Tcrre Haute, Indiana, made an M excellent secretary of the navy in Hayes' time. M lie didn't interfere at all with the boys of the 1 department- Ami they say at Washington that B ' is the, best kind of cabinet officer. M They will hardly liud a better man for tho m ' treasury than Mr. MaeVoagh has been, and can i"" i hardly hope to equal the excellence of Mr. tlitch- cock as postmaster general. Mr. Wickorshani has served his country admirably as attorney general. 1, But the selection of Mr. Bryan for the place ' usually eo nsidcred most honorable in the gift of W the President will meet with approval every- B where. In the first place, he is the big man of M his party- In the absence of Bryan one can r easily believe that the Democratic organization M j, would have gone to pieces with the passing of M ! the Cleveland era. But he has held Democrats M ( together, and moved them up a good deal nearer M the progressive line than ever they were before. M j Aside from that, Mr. Bryan is a man of ripe m thought, recognized the world over as a leader M of men, acquainted as any with the affairs of M i international dealing, and with a. shrewd sense M j, and n politic pen. They will not fool him greatly. M and they will not bluff him at nil. Any man , who could discipline a Democratic national eon- i ' vention nnd he "certainly did that will not. be V ' frightened by any power on earth. Efl- It is to lie hoped, though, in the interest of M peace, that both he and Mr. Daniels may not be f required to sit at the same council table. Their M ' views on many important subjects rather fail to H coincide. M But there is a sort of pathos in the fact that M a eabiuct position is the best that, the biggest M man in his party can get. It was the fate of M Clay, and it was the fate of Blaine- And these H I were the leaders of their people in their respee- H i live days. But the world will with few dissent- M ing voices indorse the seleetion of Mr. Bryan for m the best place possible under tho new ndminis- M tration. Ogden Kxaminer. |