Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-06-17
THE PASSING OF NOBLE

1t is a foregone conclusion that |
Secretly Noble is TO resign forthwith.
Strangely enough, the circustance
which gives the most FEASIBILITY TO
the story is that his "lady friend"
the companion OF his longtime inva-
lid wife, as the telegraph says, has
left Washington and returned to St.
Louis, presumably, taking her trunk
with her. 1t is not in the least dis
paraging TO the administration to say
that the vacancy which Mr.. Noble
will leave behind him is the best part
OF him and his stewardship. Few
presidents have gone through term
without making changes in the cabi-
net; and IL would seem that President
Harrison has made as few changes as
he has made mistakes in his secreta-
ries. He made a mistake IN selecting
Noble and it is probable that he has
given him an intimation that he de-
sires now TO correct the error
The pre-eminence OF Blaine ahd the
important deeds Of his doing have so
overshadowed the little men OF the
cabinet that no one has kept watch
Of them. Noble was a classmate Of
President Harrisons at a Western
college. He settled at Keasauqua,
Iowa, where at the breaking out of
the war, or about 1862, he was living
tho 10 pf a cnncafta1 fppniob briof
less barrister. He was a man Of whom
IL is impossible TO say even a little
without saying much that he would
regret. Commissioned adjutant OF the
Third Iowa cavalry, regiment whose
casualties in three years were more
alarmingly small than any Of the ac-
tions in which it was engaged were
alarming or great, he bowed, smirked
and primped his way along in a man
ner which would be interesting as
mere small talk. After the war he
settled in st. Louis, 40, where in part
nership with Mr. Orrick, a gentleman
of character, ability, learning and in
dustry, In his profession, he let out TO
curry favor with the rebel element
while his partner did the real work of
their office. So when the Republican
president was elected this unworthy
son OF good fortune had IL brought TO
notice that he would make a good
Southern representative in the cabi-
net; that it would tickle Southern ears
TO hear 1t and carry great influence
with it. We venture to say that his
deeds will be shown TO have been
paltry, petty, insincere-if not venal. |
His first conspicuous act was to "sit
down" on Corporal Tanner, the pension
commissioner, for doing exactly what
he himself had favored, because Tan
ner's natural and soldierly frankness
had drawn the fire OF a few Demo-
cratic papers, as he had talked his
mind. Then, after allowing some OF |
the most shameless scandals in the
pension Office 10 go unrebuked, he |
jumped upon young Raum on trifling
charge, based on rumor. He signed /
orders dismissing ciyil-service clerks
"for want of appropriation to pay sal
aries" and Immediately filed them
with other men at higher salaries, and
when demonstrated with would admit
the mendacity of his written and om-
cial reasons. We venture TO say that
no cabinet minister ever descended TO
such petty and at once audacious mis-
deeds as did this ignoble Noble.
In bis large scope Of action there
has been loud complaint OF his course.
In the Oregonian OF May % last, is a
letter from Mr.. James G.. Clark, OF
Grants Pass, showing some OF Mr..
Mobiles methods, which ought to