The sun., 1895-05-28


ngEreEating several quarts, were given.
which was the foundation for the report that
ne ne was resting easily As soon as the phys-
preaching. the heroic measures @ usuni "s IN such
cases were adopted. notwithstanding their
efforts the patient sank rapidly The pISscians
called into the case within the past few days.
of Injecting the normal saline.
Tho Secretary. who has been conscious during
his entire illness, seems to have been more con,
cserned for his wife than for himself. He real
ined ny yesterday s that tho end was, approach
ing, but his constant suggestion made in feeble
whispers to his daughter. was: "Look out for
your mother; give her all your attention; don't
The news OF Secretary Gresham's relapse did
not become known nutil . o'clock last evening
Capt; Fuller of the army, was sent for. 1t spread
RAPIDLY, ana "a by o'clock scores Of persons
Secretary. and Mrs. Lamont. MIR. Thurber the
hanr Fynte also arrived at an
He did So and later in the " evening n eommuni Sa
snsa At wdpoGey pFHss BY ssnf ness hc
that @ ne desired to com come to the city as soon as
dition was made known to him. but that he re-
trained from doing SO at the advice OF his ply
y, The only persons who have been admitted to
tho privacy OF the sick room are Mrs. Gresham,
hss rs Ss bss Snd
ly left her husbands room since his Illness be-
She has been plucky and courageous and has
been hopeful until to-day that the Secretary's
life would be spared. When she realized to-day
manifested her emotion repeatedly. but bore it
as bravely as her exhausted condition would
permit
Walter Quintin Gresham was one Of the few
on March II. 1882, in an ld-fashioned farm
house near Lanssyille, Harrison county, Ind.
from ex: President Benjamin Harrison's birth
PLACE His Pn PSTsn,s were of English DESCENT
the backwoods county. and he was shot to death
while attempting to arrest an outlaw. Walter
Gresham .s was at that time years old. and next
Of tho pioneer settlers OF the State. Walter
limited. In his boyhood he ollowsd the plough
by day and studied his books at night. His
tho Rsm the
went to the district school until he was 10
oee ps hs Ia
attend - ths GoTydon Seminary min for two Years:
f. studied law in the once Of Judge Viii lam 4.
Gresham was Whs in politics. and his part: art:
the Circuit Court. was in 1856 a delegate from m
Indiana TO the philadelphia Convention that
his active political career by stumpns the State State
for the Pathfinder" He was nominated for
the degslstnrs u In 1890 and
When the war broke out Gresham was the
aps Of IT. shS military Rsss in
private in the Thirty .sishsh Indiana Kssimsst.
his Az service ss shiloh and IstsF hs TOOK par.
Grant and sSsrmas anited in Recommending
a f'f in
ayiGn Hin before s5 csn army rosS S
am was shot in the knee. awound from which
he never fully recovered. When Gresham was
% TO S
tss S Of Iaw I a. New albany Ind: as When GEN.
Orleans. and subsequently the District Attor-
neiyshiP OF Indiana Both of these offers were
Gen. Gresham twice ran for Congress, and was
President Grants appointment United
States District Judge for Indiana in 1869, and
Of h
yersed. President Arthur called him from the
no M ss as in
politics; He took the portfolio in President
noticeable incident Of his career as Post.
Of tho m mail i,S Sear the Close i Of Presid dent
Arthnrs term.on the death Of Secretary Foger,
Mr.. Gresham was appointed Secretary OF. the
treasury. Mr.; Gresham, however. longed for q
the Arthur Administration he was appointed
Circuit Judge. to succeed Judge Drummond for
"a
friends believed when he acceptedit that he had
hidden farewell to p9litics His most m t famous %
which were east Of the Mississippi River and
placed them in the hands OF Judge Cooley rs re-
Judge Gresham and Benjamin Harrison were
they have never been friendly. Harrison's fol.
lowing in Indiana has always been a. little
nan and PsPhaps in Ms
there was slight tslk Of Judxe Gresham as the
later lac was considered more than possibility.
but the man who defeated him in the canvass
Gresham had paved the way for revolt.
had @ assisted, during he Ii time % that he was wa in in
President Arthur's Cabinet Ono of his last acts
Speech % delivered in NV Wall street in Which, Gas al
though Blaine, the Kepqblican candidate for
should be revision OF the tariff and a reduction
of the surplus revenue. President Harrison had
the opportunity OF his political career to heal nn
old sore and dsarm his enemies at home by
appointing Judge Gresham to the supreme
bench. but he didn't do 1t. The feeling between
the Harrison men and the Gresham men in In
diana was for years Il bitter one, and there was
not as much surprise as might have been cx-
pected when Judge Gresham announced his
intention OF voting for Grover Cleveland in the
last Presidential campaign, In his letter, dated
Oct. %, 1892, and addressed to Major Buford
Wilson, he announced that he thought a Re-
publican could vote for Mr.. Cleveland without
joining the Democratic party. When Mr.
Cleveland. as President elect, announced at
as Secretary OF State, and Judge Gresham &C.
cepted. he became the most prominent figure in
Mr.. Cleveland Cabinet, Not even iioke smith
tincton. After a long career q Republican,
he had not only voted for the Democratic candi-
date, but had accepted the most responsible and
honorable port folio in his Cabinet. Five years
before this he had been conspicuous candidate
for the Republican Presidential nomination at
Chicago. and the year before when the POpu-