Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-07
THE NATIONS LOSS.

THE NATIONS LOSS.
THE DEATH OF SECRETARY GRES-
HAM SINCERELY MOURNED.
The President Feels u Profound
Grief-SenatOr Voorhees, EuIogy
of the Departed - MCKinIey.s
Name May BE "Dennis'.-Sher-
mans JuggIery-Gresha Opin.
lon of Southern People.
Regular Correspondence of the STANDARD.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 81, 1895.
President Cleveland never had
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
rotary should have the honor of a
military funeral-only one other civil
ian, Qhe late John A. Logan) was ever
accorded that honor-although Mrs.
Gresham at first desired that the SER
vices should be private. And, al
though he had himself not been we'll
for some days before Secretary Gresh-
ANS death, he decided at once that he
and the surviving members OF the
cabinet would accompany the re-
mains to their last resting place, at
Chicago, which was an honor never
before accorded dead official. While
the busy-bodies have already begun to
guess and suggest the name Of the
next Secretary of State, it is certain
that the Presidents grief has been too
deep to give the matter q thought,
and probable that all or the greater
part OF the thirty days allowed by law
will expire before the selection is
made.
The eulogy of Senator Voorhees, on
the late Secretary Gresham, although
compressed into short telegram, sent
to Sergeant-at-Arms Bright of the
Senate, will hardly be surpassed by
any 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 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 truer 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 continue to live
on the best pages Of American history
as long as that history itself endures.
You and I will never look upon his
like again. The public service loses a
statesman, you and lose friend be-
loved. May God bless the bereaved
ones in their darkened home"
Politicians of all parties who hap
pened to be in Washington when the
news of the easy triumph Of the 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 perfunctory Mckinley
resolution that was afterwards 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 pre-
tending to be for him are in reality
engaged in bargaining 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 National Convention.
There is another thing about the
Ohio convention that was much com.
nented on by the politicians. That
was John Sherman's speech, which in
dicates almost to . certainty the in
tention OF the Republicans to try to
juggle the silver question through an
other national campaign by the adop-
ton of q platform that both the silver
and the gold Republicans will inter-
pref to be in their favor, and which
will in reality mean nothing. except
putting off . settlement of the ques-
ton 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 to
Gen. Grant who visited him while he
was in command at Natchez, Miss.
"Why, general, I regard the enmity of
these people as the most natural thing
on earth. We are all made by our
geography, moulded by our environ
ment. If you or l had been born in
the South, reared in the South, you
and I would both have been intense
Southern men. We represent the
sentiment of our people and these
Southern folks represent theirs. To
me it all appears very natural. And,
to tell you the truth, general, when l
find a Southern man who is not for
the South I experience all that in.
stinctiye distrust for him which I do
for q copperhead. don't quite hate
him like I do a copperhead, because
he's siding with me and I'm too weak
to hate people who are on my side, no
matter where they come from. But
it's a fact, general, when I find a
southern man, who is against the
South, I somehow disbelieve in him
and can't give him credit for being
either manly or honest" DEM.
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