The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-06-08

t-C>t! OF il utaltf .iltlu tifttG tue late
Secretary Gresham. His oiiet could
IotEave Been greater Lad hi-blotlel
died. lie insisted that the dead See
Rotary should have the hollol Of Il mil.
itaYy furelal-only one otiIei. Civilian.
(tle late john \. Logan) was tve, ac-
corded that hpno!-alt'fnueil MIS-.
Gresham ut first de>iict. that the ser.
vices should be private. AMI. although
lie had himsel. not been well io. some
days before Secretary Gresham death.
lie decided at once that l.. and the
Surviving members of the cabinet
would accompany the remains to then
last resting place, at Chicago. which
WAS m honor never before accorded =;
dead official. While the bE>,-bo!ie>
have already begun to guess and sn.-
gest the name Of the next Secretary ut
State. 1t is certain that the Presidents
grief has been too deep to give the
matter Il thought. and probable that
all CT the greater pant OF the Thirty
days allowed by law will expire before
the selection is made. The democrat
ic party is lich in material and lre>i-
deut Cleveland enjoys the deserved
reputation of being II good Judge Of
men. so there is no occasion for any
worry about a mistake being made in
the selection.
The ealogy of Senator Voorhees, on
the late Secretary Gresham. although
compressed into ii short telegram, seat
TO Sergeant-at-A Arms Bright Of the
Senate, will hardly be surpassed 10y
NJ OF the many longer ones to be
written or spoken. Mr.. VOORHEES,
said Indiana is in mourning for her
most distinguished native born son.
OF commanding ability, stainless honor
and %Gndaunted courage, Walter e.
Gresham lived and died the great
soldier, the great %jurist, and the great
Secretary. No manlier spirit was
ever called from earth. no tiuer nor
more patriotic heart eve ceased to
3eat. He loved his neighbor as him.
self and his country more than him
self. HIS name and fame will contln-
ue 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 ser
vice loses a statesman, you and lose
q friend beloved. May God bless the
bereaved ones in his darkened home.r
Politicians of all parties who hap
pened to be in Washington when the
news OF the eass triumph of tie Fora.
ker 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. not
outstanding the %perfuEctorx Mckin-
ley resolution that was afterwards
adopted by the convention. Mckinley
stock has been stopping tor some time.
and if the idea once gets accepted that
there are d large number of influential
republicans in Ohio who, while pre-
tending to be for him are IL reality
engaged in bargaining with tile other
candidates for the nomination, il will
d,ep out of sight and the name of
Mckinley will not even go betole the
republican National conventions
There is another thing about the
Ohio convention that was much COM
mented on by the politicians. That
was John Sherman's speech. which
indicates almost to IL certainty the in
tentlon of the republicans to try to
juggle through another National cam
paisn by the adoption of a platform
that both the silver aud the gold re-
pUbllcans Will interpret to he in their
favor. and winch will in reality mean
nothing, except putting off Il settle
ment of the question to some indefinite
future time.
Among the many things told to the
credit Of the late SECRETARY Gresham
Is the following, given as his remarks
10 Geli. Grant who visited him while
he vas in command at Natcllez. Miss.
''Nty, general, regard the eDmitv
of THESE people as the most natural
thing Oh earth. We are all made by
orf geography, moulded by our en-
viroLment. If YOU or | had been
bolu Ia the South, reared in the Seuti,.
yon and woald both have been m
tense Southern men. We represent
the sentiment Of our people and these
Southern folks represent theirs. To
me 1t AL appears very natural. And.
to tell YOU the truth, general. when
lind Il Southern man who is rot for the
South experience all that instructive
dlstrnst for him which | do for a
coppefllead. | don't quite hate him
like do copperhead. because he's
siding With me and I'm too weak TO
hate people who are on my SIDE. no
matter where they com from. But
its a fact, general, when | find a
Southern man who is against the
South, somehow disbelieye in him
and CAN'T give him credit tor being
either manly or honest