The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-03-09
is NOT A DEMOCRAT !
The Secretary of State Not Yet in
Full Sympathy.
He Is Solid, However, on the Gfea'
Tariff Question.
JUDGE GRESHAM AS A POLITICIAN

Democrat Did Not Get 1t.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-[Special.l j
THE GLOBE correspondent in an article
which we cannot print in full says this
about Gresham. Judge Gresham has
been a lifelong republican and does not
now profess to be a democrat. He is in
sympathy with the tariff views of Mr.
Cleveland, but this alone can hardly be
held to make him a democrat. What
ever public honors he has enjoyed came
from the republican party. He was in
the cabinet of President Arthur, first as
postmaster general and then as secretary
the treasury, and he was appointed to
the judicial position he now occupies as
a republican. Men who have always
been democrats, fighting for the princi-
pies of the party under all circumstance
and conditions, are justified in complain.
ing at the bestoWal OF the most impOr-
tant cabinet office p O a man who has
been doing battle against them neatly his
entire liftime.
1t may be said that the action of Mr..
Cleveland in this matter is characteristic,
but it is none the less AN affront to the
old line democrats who had reason to eX
pect that the next administration was to
be distinctively democratic in all respects
1t was said during the campaign that Mr..
Cleveland proposed, if elected, to pursue
a different course from that which
marked his first administration. There
were to be no favors shown, so it was
proclaimed, to any but tried and true
the effect to rally the rank and file of the
democracy to the support of the ticket.
In the appointment of Judge Gresham
this promise has been broken, and it sup
plies a reason for expecting that it will
not be the only case in which the assur-
ance given the party in the campaign
will be d~isregarded. 1t has been said
that the design in this appointment is to
put Judge Gresham in a favorable posi-
ton for making the presidential race in
1896. If there is any such plan or idea
it is an additional reason for the dissatis
faction of the old line democrats
There was no necessity for Mr.. Cleve-
land going outside of his party to select
a secretary of state. A score Of demo
Gratis could be named who are fully quail
flied to fill that position ably and worthily.
Nobody questions the capabilities and the
high character of Judge Gresham, but it
would be absurd to say that there are not
men in the democratic party who are his
peers in these respects. The selection of
Judge Gresham was doubtless made by
Mr.. Cleveland without any outside sug-
gestiOn and after careful deliberation.
Very likely he has some idea of reform.
ing the democratic party, but if so the
method he has adopted in this case is
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cult one. 1t can have no other result
than to intensity the hostility of a mum
Der of leaders toward him, and it is
altogether doubtful whether it will at
tract to the party as many new voters as
will be driven from it. Meanwhile it is
to be said that Judge Gresham will un-
doubtedly discharge the duties of secre-
tary of state ably and creditably. 1t is
not known that he is especially learned
in international law and he has had 20
opportunity to acquire a knowledge of
diplomacy, but he may be expected to
rapidly equip himself in both respects.
Another instance of the success If the
foreign policy of the present administra.
ton is supplied in the case of Mr. News,
an American merchant, who was arrested
in IIayti and kept for some time in prison
without a trial. He appealed to this
government for reparation and the case
was promptly urged upon the attention
of the Haytian government, backed up
by the presence Of a wal steamer in the
waters of the black republic. The effect
was immediate and negotiations are in
progress for a settlement that will atone
for the wrong done an American citizen
and teach another wholesale lesson to
foreign government. The administra-
ton of President Harrison has made a
most honorable record in maintaining the