The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-06-07
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, May 81, 1895.

President Cleveland never had a
closer or dearer friend than the late
Secretary Gresham. His grief could
not have been greater had his brother
died. He insisted that the dead Sec
retary should have the honor of a
military funeral-only one other civil.
ian, (the late John A. Logan was
ever accorded that although
Mrs. Gresham at first desired that the
services should be private. And, al
though he had himself not been well
for some days before Secretary Gres-
hams death, he decided at once that
he and the surviving members of the
cabinet would accompany the remains
to their last resting place, at Chicago,
which was an honor never before ac-
corded a dead official. While the
busy bodies have already begun to
guess and suggest the name of the
next Secretary of State, 1t is certain
that the Presidents grief has been too
deep to give the matter a thought,
and probable that all or the greater
part Of the thirty days allowed by law
will expire before the selection is
made, The democratic party is rich
in material and President Cleveland
enjoys the deserved reputation of be,
| ing a good Judge of men, so there is
no occasion for any worry about a
mistake being made in the selection.
The eulogy Of Senator Voorhees, on
the late Secretary Gresham, although
compressed into a short telegram,
sent to Sergeant-at-Arms Bright Of
| the Senate, will hardly be surpassed
| by any of the longer ones to be writ.
ten or spoken. MIR. Voorhees, said ::
" Indiana is in mourning for her most
distinguished native born son. OF
commanding ability, stainless honor
and undaunted courage, Walter @.
Gresham lived and died the great
soldier, the great jurist, and the great
Secretary. No manlier spirit was
ever called from earth, no truer nor
more patriotic heart ever ceased 10
beat He loved his neighbor as him
self and his country more than him.
self. His name and fame will conlin.
ue to live on the best pages of Ameri-
can history as long as that history it.
self endures. You and l will never
look upon his like again. The pub.
lie service loses statesman, you and
l lose friend beloved. May God
bless the bereaved ones in his darken-
ed home
Politicians of all parties who hap
pened to be in Washington when the
news of the easy triumph of the
Foraker men over the McKinleyites
in the Ohio republican State conven-
ton was received, agreed in express
ing the opinion that the Mckinley
boom was thereby heavily handicap
ped, Notwithstanding the perfunctory
Mckinley resolution that was after
wards adopted by the convention.
Mckinley stock has been dropping
for some time, and if the idea once
gets accepted that there are large
number of influential republicans in
Ohio who, while pretending to be for
him are in reality engaged in bargain
ing with the other candidates for the
nomination, it will drop out Of sight
and the name of Mckinley will not
even 60 before the republican Nation,
al convention.
There is another thing about the
Ohio convention that was much COM
fmented on by the politicians. That
was John Shermans speech, which
indicates almost to certainty the at
: tention of the republicans to try to
iugg!e the silver question through
,, another National campaign by the
adoption Of platform that both the
silver and the gold republicans will
8 interpret to be in their favor, and
which will in reality mean nothing,
except putting off settlement of the
question to some indefinite future
4 time.
= Among the many things told to the
4 credit Of the late Secretary Gresham
4 is the following, given as his remarks
S to Gen Grant who visited him while
he was in command at Natchez, Miss
: "Why, general, l regard the enmity
Of these people as the most natura
thing on earth. We are all made BY
our geography, moulded by our en-
n vironment. If you or l had beer
a born in the South, reared in The
o South, you and l would both have
o been intense Southern men. We re
;, present the sentiment of our people
' and these Southern folks represen
theirs. To me it all appears yer!
natural. And, to tell you the truth
!, general, when l find Southern maj
r who is not for the South l experience
: all that instructive distrust for hin
9 which do for a copperhead. l don
a quite hate him like do a copperhead
~ because he's siding with me and I'm
a too weak to hate people who are OF
my side, no matter where they com
from. But It's fact, general, when