Show WATTERSON ON CLEVELAND AND CARLISLE henry watterson was at first expected to enter tho now cabinet aa a healer of his own and his friends ill feeling toward sir cleveland and Carlisles selection would of course preclude the clinice of Watte raon since the two are from ono state it is a double pleasure to read the utterance of alie gifted southern editor concerning tho next president and his prospective secretary of the treasury in the following paragraphs which arc part of a lengthy editorial in the cj brier journ al note the deferential tons toward carlisle and alie almost contemptuous doubts expressed of Cleveland 8 breadth and depth nothing could bo neater than the thrust at passion almost amounting toen iua for administrative istra tive detail watterson says one thing is quite certain neither the tariff question nor the currency question can bo left to take care of itself if mr cleveland thinks that he can confine himself to the sending afable generali ilea in the form of messages to congress leaving upon the two houses the responsibility ot filling in the particulars he will deceive himself the administration must have a policy of its own both in whole and in part the country expected this when it elected the democratic ticket on a well de fined democratic platform it will be content with nothing less it looks to mr cleveland as its representative to execute it mandate if wa repeat mr cleveland feels himself equal to the situation and has clearly defined ideas of bis own embodying the precise and exact terms of actual measures to be prepared and put upon their passage as administrative policies then he will require none other than a nominal secretary of the treasury will be in point of fact his own secretary of the treasury and can find no more capable chief clerk than sir fairchild hut we still rep a if he doi s not consider himself an expert either in the making of proposed acis of congress or in the handling of legislative bodies ho must find a secretary odthe treasury who Is and he will follow the wise example of mr polk in committing to this secretary the entire management of the business the name of mr carlisle is being discus cussed in this connection it la natural that it should be As a master of economic questions mr carlisle has no rival on tha democratic side in congress assuming that mr cleveland having no original knowledge derived from experience in legislation either on the tariff or the finances assuming that in the nature of the case ho must get his information at second hand and reach his conclusions by the indirect process of absorption he could surely find an advisor so thoroughly equipped so unselfish and so thoroughly moderate as the senator the washington monument does not stand out to the eye of ahn national capitol more distinctly than does the character of this eminent man as a representative of sound and sale democratic policies kobert J walker himself was not a greater tariff authority in his day and his day was a great one than is mr carlisle he is a leader in the highest sense of the term a leader who rule not by covert and venal and still less by knock down and drag out methods but by the force of his intellect integrity and tact his immense superiority over nis followers in resources temper and ability intellectually he would have beba the ideal chief justice in all points if given the fiscal portfolio and left to himself he would be the ideal secretary of the treasury but mr cleveland should beware of placing mr carlisle at the head of the treasury with the idea of discovering disc overine tn him a man merely very much abler and very much more experienced than mr fairchild in the simple matter of administrative appointments point ments to office the president elect would indeed find mr carlisle a man after his own heart that is to say mr carlisle would be only too glad to have no opinion or volition on choso points more than willing to leave them to mr cleveland himself who has a passion almost amounting to genius for ad detail but upon lines of larger thought nd the incidents of economic and fiscal policies mr cleveland could not interfere with mr carlisle except to the injury of bogli his administration and his secretary odthe treasury mr carlisle is too high minded a man to be a wrangler lie la too strong a man to be a subaltern if mr cleverand takes him as mr polk took mr walker for a colleague and on his peculiar ground for a guide philosopher and friend he will have secretary of the treasury a areat administrative policy a great result both as to the tariff and as to the finances and he and his administration will go down to history gloriously but otherwise he had better look elsewhere and get him a good chief clerk like mr fairchild |