Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-01

CleVe''l .s,rrp 1owELL's SUCCESSOR.
MlNi' .rd Phelps, the new Minis
MI T rr is Kent Professor OF Law
ter to hI SoIloce He was at one time
t'lae o. the American Bar Associa-
Pres'u a"d is about 60 years OF age, his
ten, anu - ,os received at Middlebury
educalOH President Fillmore appointed
Colle ss5,ona comptroller of the Treasury
p,l several years he pracllseu 20 Jaw R,, ~
For , 's. but in 1857 went to Bur
Wasrli's' W. and has since been a
lnglon' ,t member of the bar in that
P prom In 1881 he was elected professor
s' Yale College, but did not give r up MS
IN l%S For more than twenty-five
practice, hos been Democrat, and was
years ne a ND for Governor OF Yer
once G can ,ras a member of the last Yer
mont cll'e5, E%n Convention. His
mont Co W"io College has been marked
y Nth I treat success. lllro Srbooi has in
and poPs' crown rapidly in numbers ana
lew yea,' Mr.. Phelps is a son OF the
eiicIse l.3tor Phelps, of Vermont. Sena-
late 9 Sein1"nds was his legal preceptor.
M I 1bnIns is a personal friend OF MIR.
NJ ~ TTfeId, of the Supreme Court, who
justly IS n the highest terms Of his learn
ag and ability
oorERyoR M'LANE's NEW DIGNITY.
r,o now minister to France is Robert
ul LIZ McLane, the Governor OF
1 Mu-,tSd He was born in Wilmington,
MA MAJ On an, tbe 23d of June, 1915. His father
L po. Enuis McLane, who was a very
r "a character in the early part OF
his century. Robert attended a public
s ,ntY al Of his native city, and was for a
t %,,ev1 student in st. Mary's College at
baltimore When fourteen years OF age
b@ went abroad with his father, studying
nndar tutor in Paris for two years.
T Tr returning he received a cadetship
ron, General Andrew Jackson, and en-
tered the West Point Military Academy,
from which he graduated in 1887. The
same wear he was appointed second
Iiqutenant in the First artillery, and
served with General Jessup in the Ever
cades. Here began his acquaintance
with Joseph f. Johnston, which finally
Tppned into the warmest friendship. He
also served with General Scott in the
Cherokee country of Georgia, and soon
after was transferred to the corps of topo-
graphical engineers. He was sent to
Europe in 1871 to examine the system of
dykes and drainage in Holland, and be-
fore he returned he married the daughter
Of louisiana merchant'in Paris. Hav-
inc been admitted to the bar, he resigned
his engineering duties in 1S43 and began
the practice OF law in Maryland. In 1915
he was elected to the Maryland House of
Delegates, and two years later became
member Of Congress from the Twelfth
Congressional district of Maryland, which
position he occupied for two consecutive
terms He was appointed commissioner
to China in 1853 by President Pierce, but
he was recalled the next year at his own
| request on account of the climate. At the
| tine Of the civil agitation in Mexico, in
| S9, he was appointed Minister Plenipo
tertiary to that country by Buchanan.
While there he was successful in nego-
tlating treaty giving increased CONNER
clal advantages to citizens of the United
States. He resigned his position in 1860
and resumed the practice OF his probes
ion in Baltimore. In 1868 he was re-
|lned as counsel for the West Pacific
|ailroad, and within the next three years
sited Europe several times in its inter
st. He was elected to the State Senate
rom Baltimore in 1876, and soon after
MAS reelected to Congress. He was
elected Governor of Maryland in 1888 for
heterm of four years, beginning January
g. 1884
TO COPE WITH BISMARCK.
George II. Pendleton, of Cincinnati,
| Ohio, the new Minister to Germany, was
born in Cincinnati, Chic, July l9, 1926
/ revived an academic education in the
/ &OOls of Cincinnati and afterward in
lrope; studied law, was admitted to the
m and has continued ever since the
p81ce at Cincinnati; was a member OF
| te State Senate in 1915, and was a
member of the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-siXth,
Ihrty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Con-
qesses In 1864 he was nominated for
yice-President on the ticket headed by
GeOrge B. Mcclellan, and was defeated.
In 1869 he was the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Ohio and was again de-
leated In 1879 he was elected United
Senator to succeed Stanley Matthews,
and is chiefly distinguished for securing
The passage Of the Civil Service Reform
dlT which hoo,a, he / n Of
year Senator Pendleton was a candidate
iGr denomination, but was defeated by
Mr. Payne.
IRlSH-AMERICAN HOPES.
During the last campaign the Tablet
opposed Mr.. Cleveland's election and was
a. ssIrong adherent of Mr.. Blaine. General
4AlfWln, its editor, said: "Messrs. Nc
Lane and Pendleton | know of. They are
soou men, and | suppose viii reflect cred
noh The Administration and Govern
PEdI only know slightly of Mr..
t tLnelpS, l know nothing against him. All
s %ial VIII be required of him is that he
o1 1!!l De truly American. 1t must be
,oi nl,STe ~, mat Mr.. Lowell has not main
Sn; - Ine dignity Of American citizen
e Srrpi ~ ms relations with the British gov
E NJ BlIi believe, from the fact that
and me iieipS mas kept aloof from politics
FOOD 'p ,,,o spirit, that he must be a
NAV nal VI course my opinion of him
Ihay ye greatly changed by his future acts.
Pres iS5 however, confidence enough in
will bS o Ill.,. G,leveland to believe that he
carr OV d guided in his selection of men to
hearty U ens his foreign policy by their
think i endorsement of his views. I don't
set T + Is right to criticise him at the out
show an Inclined to give him a fair
ell i rar = am heartily glad that Mr.. Low
thn p removed. 1t is one OF the principal
regrst 'llat We have to look back to with
admin;iaatnd 1t is reproach to the recent
long, that he was retained SO
ton w prism, publisher of the Irish Ma
said tba to also supported Mr.. Blaine,
favor 'o of ne ne did not know of anything in
oil VI Or against Mr. phelno Mr. Tou-