The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-07-07
AROuT PEOPLE


Representative Springer. of Illinois. did not
return with the other members of the House
who attended the Chicago Convention. and
will net be here again thiS season. Mr. Springer,
accompanied by his wife, will go from Chicago
TO his home, and from there TO Travers Bay.
Lake Michigan, where he viii stay during tho
heated term. During his ABSENCE Mr. McSfiI-
lin, OF Tennessee, will act as Chairman Of the
Ways and Means Committee.
st. Paul paper has this to say of ex-Secre-
tary of the Navy w. C. Whitney:
Mr.. Whitney Is still q young man, and Of
the class which practical politicians sometimes
affect TO despise. He is college bred, wealthy.
a gentleman, fond of social qualifications. of
refined tastes and agreeable personal bearing,
familiar with books, and interested in intellect
ual things. The country has evidently grovB,
when on the shoulders of one of his temporal
ment and training has fallen the mantle which
Samuel J. Tilden and Daniel Manning wore.
He has proved himself greater manager and
director Of men than either Of bis ilIustrious
predecessors. He has displayed their acute
ness aud power of penetration. But he has
fulfilled his mission and accomplished bis pur-
pose. as they often failed to do, without
exciting the auimosity Of any Of the leaders
whose purpose he has thwarted, or sacrificing
his own popularity or personal prestige. Grover
Cleveland, fortunate always, has been dogbly
fortunate in Whitney, his first lieutenant
An authority says that you may pronounes the
given name of the nominee Of the Democratic
party, Adiai Stevenson, either Ad-iay. Ad-
I've, or Ad-lay-eye, as you please. for it is
case where everything goes The two last
mentioned pronunciations have the sanction of
etymologists and the first of native Illinoisaus,
who consistently pronounce the syllable "ai"
in Adlai as they do in Cairo.
Col John W. Foster made his first appear
ance in public as Secretary Of State on We'd
nesday evening, June % the day on which hs
was nominated and confirmed. The occasion
was dinner given az the Arlington Hotel in
honor of Hon. Edward s. Lacey, who Is about
to retire from the Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency. The dinner was presided over
by Senator Mcmillan, of Michigan, and num-
Der OF distinguished gentlemen were present.
Much amusement was created by the fact that
the new Secretary of State was seated directly
opposite his namesake, Hon. Charles Foster,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Secretary Noble does not like the racket
caused by the rough pavement in front of the
Interior Department building, and he is trying
to persuade the District Commissioners to SUBJ
stitute asphalt therefor. They are willing to
comply, if the cost can be charged to Uncle
Sam.
Senator Sherman, accompanied By his Private
Secretary left Baltimore on a steamer Thurs
day, June 30, for Boston, where he will remain
about two weeks The Senator's trip is merely
for rest and recreation.
Secretary Tracy left here Wednesday. June
%, for New York en- route to Woodstock, Conn.,,
where be delivered an address on the Fourth
of July. He used the United States steamer
Dolphin for the trip.
Senator Vance, CT North Carolina, left WASH
ington Friday. July /, by the Atlantic Coast
Line for Wrightsviile, n. c., o health resort in
that State. The Senator returned to the city
from his Summer home several weeks ago in
bad health, but has improved considerably Of
late, and hopes to regain his full strength again
at the place selected for his Summer vacation.
COL John Watson Foster is the first Indiana
man to become Secretary Of State. and the
ninth to hold Cabinet Office. The other
Indiana men who have been chosen to sit at
the Presidents round table were Hugh MeCul-
loch and Walter @. Gresham, IS Secretaries of
the Treasury; Caleb B. Smith and John P
Usher as Secretaries of the Interior; James N.
Tynsr aud Walter Q. Gresham as Postmasters-
General; Richard Thompson, as Secretary OF
the Navy, and Hon. w. II. III. Miller, as Attor-
uey- General. With the exception of Usher
and Smith, who were in Lincoln's Cabinet. no
Indiana man was given a Cabinet portfolio
until Tyner, in 1876, was invited into Grants
Cabinet.
Several prominent Democratic Senators aud
members have recently stated that ex-Secre-
.ary William c. Whitney should be placed in
charge of the Cleveland campaign, because no
IS the logical Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee. They say that he owes
t to his party to az once accept the place when
rendered him. as it surely will be when the
Democratic National Committee meet, which
will be shortly.