Evening star., 1896-03-14

believe. the weakest man who ever held
the portfolio OF state. Bayard was always
an English trimmer. When he was Secre-
tary Of State he knuckled down to the
English. and he was only happy when he
was giving a luncheon to some Of the Eng
iishIaen who now and then come to tho
capital
Olney and Cleveland.
Secretary Olney has a summer homo not
far from Gray Gables, where Cleveland has
been spending his summer vacations. and it
was probably through the acquaintance
there formed that the President chose him
as Attorney General am told that Olney
took the place thinking that his work would
De, to large extent, judicial in it's nature.
He found it was much more political than
anything else: 1t is said that he was much
disgusted with 1t, and that he was glad to
leave it for the Secretaryship of State
While he was Attorney General, Cleveland
advised with him as to state matters, and
the two are very close to one another upon
all matters relating to the administration
Olney is made of different stuff from the
average cabinet minister that Cleveland has
had. During his last administration the
dtHerent Secretaries were only clerks to the
President, and this Is, to a large extent
the case today, with the exception of Sec
retary Oiney. Olney has an opinion of his
own on every subject He always has q
reason 1or MS op nion, and Cleveland, obsti-
nate as he is on most matters is always
ameaable to reason. AS to whether CIeve-
land really wants a third term or not l am
not able to say. AS to whether he wants
oiney to be President. I do not know, but
1t Is very certain that Olney would make a
better presidential cand date than any a h
er man in the cabinet.
A Word About Mrs. Olncy.
Secretary Olnay lives here at Washington
In house on the corner of 18th and
Rhode Island avenue. His house is within
Two blocks of the British legation, within
stones throw Of the statue of Gen. Scott
ana ABOUT six blocks from the White House
IL Is cream-colored brick Of three stories
ana contains In the neighborhood of twenty
looms. ICONS his wife presides over the es-
adjustment, and one of his daughters. Mrs
Minot. is with him. He has I believe. n
second daughter. who is married to a phy-
slc-an and who lives in Germany. Mrs.
oihey comes of an ancestry quite as ndted
as that of the Secretary. She is a daughter
OF the Judge Thomas with whom Mr' OF
hey studied law. While the future Secre-
tary was counting Blackstone he courted
MISS Ihomas as well, and the result of his
courtship was marriage The Thoma ses
came over to this country from England
at very early date. Mrs. Olneys great
great-grandfather was Isaiah Thomas one
OF the founders of the Massachusetts Spy.
This paper began it's publication in 1i7u
IL was tr!-weekly ard was very strongly
antl-Brltish. The tories tried to hreaH t
up, and Mrs. Olneys great-great-granl-
iather had TO flee number of times with
ms type and machinery, in order to save
IT. This man Thomas was with Paul Re
we're on that famouS-ride,' when he carried
the news of the crossing of the Charles
river river by the British troops to the inhab-
itants of the interior towns. 1t was the
ride celebrated by LongfeIow in that poem
which begins follows:
Listen. my children :.nd you shall hear
of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, In seveuty-fyc:
Il
Mno remembers that day and year.
Tie said to his friend. IF the British M. rcl
BY land or sea from the tonight,
tnng u lantern aott In TIE bclfry areh
Of the North Church Tower us a signal light
ore. II by land and two, IL 10y sea
AEi on the opposite shore will hc,
Ready TO ride and spread the alarm
Through every Midllcscx village and farm
For the country folk to be up and to arm
Well Mrs. Oiney's great-sreat-graEdfath ther
was with Paul Revere when he took the
ride. AID it was in his Massachusetts
Spy, on the Sd of the next month, that he
printed the motto:
Americans. liberty death! JOIN or die"
Now. one hundred and twenty years later
the great-sreat-granddaug of this man is
Wife of the Secretary of State who is caus-
ing England more trouble than any Sec:c-
tary We have lad for the past two genera
tions. 1t is queer, is it not how to a GER
tain extent, history repeats itself?
FRANK c. CARPENTER.