The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1895-06-07
~ ashingIon Letter.

Washington. June /. lS93.-Presl.
dent Cleveland never had closer or
dearer friend than the late secretary
Gresham. His grief could no: nave
been greater had his brother died. lie
insisted that the dead secretary should
have the honor of a military funeral
only one other civilian, Uhe late John
4 Io,,an1 was ever accorded that honor
-although Mrs Gresham at first de
sired that the services should he private.
And although he had himself not been
well for some days before Secretary
Gresham : death, he decided at once
that he and the Surviving members OF
the cabinet would accompany the re
mains to their last resting place, al
Chicago, which was an honor never be
fore accorded a dead official. While
the buSybOdieS have already begun to
guess and suggest the name of the next
secretary of state, II is certain that the
presidents grief has been too deep To
give the matter a thought, and prOba
ble that all or the greater part of the
thirty days allowed 10y law will expire
before the selection Is made. The Dem
Ocratic party l. rich in material and
President Cleveland enjoys the deserved
reputation of being good judge OF men,
So there Is no occasion for any worry
about mistake being made III the Sc
lection.
The euIogy of Senator NorheeS on the
late Secretary Gresham, although com
pressed into short telegram, sent To
Sergeant at arms Bright, of the senate,
will hardly toe surpassed 10y any of the
l..
Mr. Voorhees, said: Indiana is in
mourning for her most distinguished
native born son. OF commanding abIl
ity, stainless honor and undaunted
courage. Walter q. Gresham lived and
died the great soldier, the great jurist
and the great secretary. No manlIer
spirit was ever called from earth, no
uuer nor more patriotic heart ever
ceased to beat He loved his neighbOr
as himself and his country more than
himself His name and fame
will cOntine to live on the best pages of
American history as long as that history
itself endures. You and | will never
look upon his like again. The public
service loses Il statesman; you and lose
a friend beloved. May God bless the
bcreaved ones in his darkened home. -
Politicians of all parties who hap
pened to be in Washington when the
news Of the easy triumph Of ihe For
aker men over the Mckinleyites in the
Ohio Republican state convention was
received, agreed in expressing the
opinion that the Mckinley boom was
thereby heavily handicapped, notwith
standing the purfunctOry Mckinley reso
luton that was afterwards adopted 10y
the convention. Mckinley stock has
been dropping for some time. and If the
idea once gets accepted that there
are a large number ofIntlucntiai Rcpub
lIcanS in Ohio who, while pretending to
he for him are in reality engaged in
bargaining with the other candidates for
the nomination, il Will drop out of sight
and the name of Mckinley will not even
90 before the Republican national con
ventiun.
There Is another thing about the Ohio
convention that was much commented
on 10y the politicians. That was John
Sherman speech, which indicates al
most 10 certainty the intention of the
Republicans to try to juggle the silver
question through another national cam
palgn by the adoption of a platform that
both the silver and the gold Republicans
Will interpret to be in their favor, and
which Will IN reality mean nothing, eN
cept putting off settlement of the ques
ton 60 some indefinite future time.
Among the many things told of the
late Secretary Gresham is the following,
given as his remarks to General Grant
who visited him while he was in com
mand At Natchez, Miss: '.Why, gen.
eral, / regard the enmity Of these people
as the most natural thing on earth II
/ you or | had been born in the South
reared in the South, you and | would
both have been Southern men. We
represent the sentiment of our people
and these Southern folks represent
theirs. To me it all appears very ma.
tural. And, TO tell you the truth, gen
eral, when | find "A Southern man who
Il not for the South | experience all that
instructive dIstrust for him which | do
for copperhead. | don't quite hate
HIM like do copperhead, because he's
siding with me and m too weak to hate
people who are on my side, no matter
where they come from. But it's fact,
general, when | find a Southern man
who Is against the South, | somehow
diSbeIIeVe in him and can't give him
credit for being either manly or honest
NJ.