Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-06
SECRETARY oF STATE.

OF Wisconsin.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
The history of James G. Blame is that OF
the most popular man in the republican party
who in the moment of adversely is stronger
than most great men are while in the zenith
Of their glory. He has some bitter enemies.
To every one of them he counts n thousand
devotees He has no lukewarm friends. His
history is as we'll known as that of Webster
or Clay. His name has more charm to ms
thousands Of admirers than any title that
could be prefixed to it. From speaker OF the
house to senator, to secretary Of state, to
candidate for president, TO "Uncrowned
King" he has held the enthusiastic admira-
tion of thousands and steadily grown in
power with his party.
He was chosen for secretary of state be-
cause his Is the most prominent personality
IN public life to-day, because his retirement
rendered the nomination of any other for the
presidency possible. and because popular
opinion attributes to him the most eminent
qualifications tor the place.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
William Window was born in Ohio in
1897 he had practiced law for several years
in his native state, when, in 1855 he removed
to Minnesota. During the ten years, 1S5S-'6S,
he was member of the house of representa-
tives at Washington He was appointed
United States senator, to fill vacancy, in
1870 and the following year was elected for
O full term. In 1876 he was reelected, and
was senator when appointed secretary Of the
treasury in 1881. In 1888 he was candidate
for re- election to the senate but M. Sabin
carried off the prize. During the time
when the presidcnt-elect and Mr..
Window were in the senate together they
sat near each other and were good friends.
While he was in Office rs secretary of the
treasury in the Garfield administration Mr..
Window was q minnesota man. Since 1882,
however, he has lived almost constantly in
New York and Europe, connected with tn @
Eads ship railway scheme and other large
interests.
SECRETARY OF WAR.
Ex-Governor Redfield Proctor, of Vermont,
takes the third place in the cabinet as Sec
retary Of war. Among the reasons for
the recognition OF the Green Mountain state
in cabinet counsels are the eminence
of MIR. Proctor in his party, it being stated
that he virtually controls it in his own state
and the fact that he, us the chairman of the
Vermont delegation to the Chicago conven-
ton last year, was head of the only one IN
the whole body which voted solidly for Har
rison first, last and all the time. On his way
home from visit to California MIR. Proctor
deyiated to the house of the president-elect
at Indianapolis, acting on the invitation of
Its owner. There, it Is understood, the ar
rangement was made which gives Vermont
the chief place in the administration of the
agricultural affairs of the nation. Ex-Gov-
ernor Proctor is farmer on large scale,
living at Proctor, a town founded by him and
which is situated few miles from Rutland.
He is in practical control of the whole output
of the Vermont marble quarries, and Is one
of the largest dealers in that commodity In
the United States.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
General Benjamin +. Tracy, the new sec
retary of the navy, IS about hfty-nine years
old He was born In Owego, N. Y, and
secured his education in the common school
OF his native town. After leaving the Owego
academy he entered the law Office of
Nathaniel w. Davis, where he remained en-
gagged in the study of law until 1851, when he
uI, fnH IN ha hlif- md do
mark in his profession. In 1855 he became
the republican candidate for district attor-
ney Of Tioga county, and though It was
democratic stronghold he was elected. Two
years later he was again elected to the same
Office He was elected to the assembly in
1861 and q year later he recruited the One
Hundred and Ninth and One Hundred and
Thirty-seventh regiments and received his
commission as colonel of the former regi-
ment from Governor Morgan. In the battle
of the Wilderness, May o, Colonel Tracy led
in the thick of the fight. He was carried
from the field exhausted, but refused to go
to hospital, but led his command through
the three days fight at SpotsylvaIia, when,
being completely broken down, he was
forced to turn over his command to his jun
ior officer. He was subsequently rendered
and accepted the command of the One Hun
dred and Twenty seventh United States col
ored troops. After the war General Tracy
settled in New York and resumed his prac-
tice Of the law as one OF the firm OF Benedict,
Tracy Il Benedict. He was one or the de-
fenso in the celebrated Beecter trial. In
1866 General Tracy was made United States
district attorney for the eastern district of
New York, which position he held until 1873,
when he was forced TO resign because of the
growth OF his private practice. In 1881 he
was appointed Judge of the court of appeals,
and served one year. General Tracy is
wellknown breeder of trotters and with his
son owns the Marshland stud, at Apalachin,
Tioga county, NJ Y, where he has as stall
nrinp Du1lav nv WOnI ford Nam
brino's record, 2, l9s{; Che!tenham. by Ok
more, record, 22S, and Bravado, by Ken
tucky Wilkes. General Tracy also owns
Kentucky Wilkes, by George Wilkes, rec
ord 2,21.
sEcRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
John Wilcox Noble was born in Lancaster,
o., October 20, 1881, being the eighth of nine
children. He passed his early days in Co
luDbus and Cincinnnti, studied a year in
Miami university, and, taking the junior ana
senior courses in Yale college, graduated in
1857. After graduating he applied himself TO
the study of law entering the office of Henry
Stanbcry, who was afterwaru attorney gen.
eral of the United States under President
Johnson. In 1895 he settled IN ST Louis aud
was admitted 10 the bar the same year, but
moved TO kcolSuk, Ia. in 1856, whore he es
tablishcd an excellent practice. AT the
breaking out of the war he enlisted as a priv
ate. but was soon elected Lieutenant and aft
erwGrd adjutant AT the close of the war he
was promoted TO be brigadier general for
meritorlous conduct During the war he
was married ut North Hampton, Mass, TO a
daughter Of DIR. tlaistcad. In 1867 he was
appointed United States district attorney Of