The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-12-27
oREsHAM's BLuNDeRs.
Imbecile Conduct of the Departmen
 of State.

great service and save his administra-
 tion from much future humiliation by
 instituting an official inquiry as to the
 sanity of the present head of the state
 department. We make the suggestion
 in all seriousness. In no other way
 can the amazing and unprecedented
 antics of Secretary Gresham be ac-
 counted for. He had been in office
 scarcely day before he began to en-
 tangle his too-confiding chief in the
 meshes of what has since been woven
 into perfect web of deceit, trickery
 and double dealing. The ink was not dry on his commission when he secret
 ly sent Paramount" Blount off post
 haste to Hawaii with letter of intro
 duction to Mir. Cleveland's great and
 good friend" President Dole, in one
 pocket, and private instructions in the
 other to enter into conspiracy with
 bloodthirsty and discredited mon-
 arch to stab that same friend" under
 the fifth rib. The senate of the United States was in session.. at
 the time, and had sole and complete
 jurisdiction over the Hawaiian nego-
 tIaJlons, as well as coordinate author
 ity in the appointment of ambassadors
 to friendly nations. but that did not
 matter to Gresham. "Why," he prob-
 ably said to himself, should the con- stitution be allowed to stand between
 me and Lil?" And it was not allowed
 to. The news of the secret mission
 leaked out at last, and the controversy over it and its developments waxed
 hot, but Gresham was not abashed; not he. He surrounded himself with a halo of mystery, denied everything, and acted generally as if he thought
 the archives of the government were
 his private property; and it was only on the positive order of congress that
 he made public the correspondence and records which covered with dis grace both himself and the admins tration he had brought into contempt.
 Nor has he yet relaxed his tenacious grip, for even now there lies on his desk in Washington a report from Admiral Walker, made months ago, and which congress is calling for, and which, according to the best informa, tion and belief, will add another chap ter of humiliation to a record of foreign policy already black with dis donor.
 So much for the first evidence of in- sanity. There are many others.
 When China and Japan got into dis pute over Corea, the same man who had vainly attempted to restore the reactionary queen, Liliuokalani, to a throne not hers by any legal or moral right, sat down, and, in the face of his own numerous and solemn warnings against foreign entanglcments of any kind, calmly indicted dispatch to a friendly nation, striving to protect its citizens from Chinese aggression, ad- monishing it not to levy unjust war against a weaker nation. Natur- ally enough, his offensive interference was spurned, as it should have been, and the United States was once more held up as the laughing stock of the nations of the earth. The war did not cease, and on November 26 the Amer ican minister in Picking sent to the state department an urgent appeal for protection for the legation and the American citizens resident in the Chinese capital. Owing to Mir Gresham's capable mismanagement no marines available for the purpose were within one thousand miles of the scene of danger; so, when knowledge of Minister Denby's dispatch finally came to the surface-the truth will out, in spite of all attempts at con- cealment-our dignified secretary of state tried, by quibbling which would bring the blush of shame to the cheek of third-rate pettifogging lawyer, to convince the public that he never re- ceived it.
 Again, congress was in session in August last when this remarkable statesman entered into an agreement with the representative of Canada to pay an indemnity of $425, 900 to alleged Canadian sealers for damages which they claimed they suffered in conse- quence of our governments action in driving them out of Behring sea pending a settlement of the contro- versy by arbitration. The Paris tri- bunal had arranged a judicial method of settling all claims for damages, but Gresham didn't choose to follow it. Rumors got into circulation that Gresham had agreed to pay the maxi mum indemnity claimed without sub- mission to the court created for the | purpose, but that made no difference to him, he denied everything; and | now the president confirms the truth of the rumors in his message, and | once more convicts his secretary of | state of inability to tell the truth.
 Is there any need to speak of the | manifested and the blun- ders made in dealing with Samoa, Brazil and Nicaragua? Is not the rec ord sufficient as it stands to justify | some friend of the president in start ing an investigation as to the state of | his secretarys mind? We think it due to the president. It certainly is due | to the people.-N. Y. Tribune.
 GB"The citizens who have called | themselves democrats will not die in | hurry. They will go on very much as they have been going. It would be very embarrassing if they should all | become republicans. The democratic |