The Saline County journal., 1892-11-10
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CIRCLES.
Fr--id@at HErrB-sa'- Administrator on has
NBrs----d q sHy Personal fser-sSe-

-PersouAl bereavement has come
closer and more frequently to Presi-
Der Harrison than il did TO any OF
ne tE-niy- two Predee--sOrs except
9oiIB TyIer. Before he had been in
me White House = yesr Mrs. Hsrri-
sBd Bos comes the demise Of Mrs.
Es-ri-an herself Death has also
ts-eu asusy ia tine bou-eholis of bis
oficisi family Secretary Window
s-hs b-ld the treasury portfolio, was
-urlckeB down about q year and
thre--gusrters ago, zt q banquet Ia
Nee Work while apparently in pos
session sf G-eTfeci health. while Sc
ereisrr TrS-y Io-t hi- wife and
dHuEiser. and Mr. Blaine, while at
Fbe bead oi the department OF state,
kosl q slsIer, sBe -OB and daughter,
and . feW days sitter his resignation
aDstber san died Seldom, indeed,
e1ceEd shen it has come through as
~.s-isaiisn, hzs death manifested IT,
startling aud tragic shape than il
hss 90 she one headed by Benjamin
Harrissn- John Tyler alone, of the
other presidents. lost his wife while
IN offiee
Desih- IN the cabinet have not
been altogether infrequent. One oc-
CURED - far back a. washington's
administration, or almost q century
ago, when William Bradford, of 1
Pennsylvzuia was stricken down |
Bradford Vas the second man To 1
bold the Esusi Of attorney general,
Edmund Randolph. Of the great Vir-
ginia family Of R.ndolphs, being the
first The country has forgotten
Bradford, but he was q man of some
standing and influence in his time.
A fev years later, or in lsO6, death
visited the Attorney Generals Office
again. and tins time took John
Rreckinridge, Of Virginia, sn suces-
tor of the Kentucky Breckinridges,
and grand father of John G. Breck-
iBridge. who WIS vice president in
the Buchanan administration. who
xss the presidential candidate Of {
the southern wing Of the democratic
party in the csmpain Of issO, and
who vas subsequently, = msjor gen.
eral IN the Confederate army. a
The next man to die In Office who q
stood near the president WAS George
Cliuson, Of New York, and who Was \
in the vice presidency at the time, =
and whose demise occurred in lsl2
Clinton stood fourth in the list of
vice presidents, and he was the first
cf them 20 die while in the service. a
He had been in this Office a little .
over seven years, entering it at the =
beginning Of the second term for
which Jefferso1 wzs elected to the Z
presidency, and serving until the
,ast year Of Msdison's first term.
Ciiaton's name is better remembered a
lhan is tina; Of any of the others who q
had figured thus far on the necrologi- :
ral roll Of the officials near the head !,
,f the government Another Vice
President died two years later, or In Il
,sit. This WAS Elbridge Gerry, OF d
who WAS elected In u
lsiS on the Madison ticket, when {,
Madison went to the White House n
the second time. Gerry was not q
scch an inosing persobzge as Clin- v
Ion. yet he Was n big figure In his sI
lime He had been q member OF the %
congress and Of the con- u
vention which framed the federal q
and had also been gov b
erncr. Fate. however. has been un- ai
kind 20 the memory OF Gerry. White A
= has allowed the wave Of oblivion Y