The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-07-15
THE HAWAIIAN TREATY.
Views Of Secretary Sherman and
Senator Davis.

Senator Davis.
| George Alfred Townsend in New York Sun.
WASHINGTON, June 26.-An-
nexation of the Hawaiian Is
lands having become all but a
fact, the treaty having been
signed and the ratification Of
the Senate only being needed,
1 called upon the Chairman Of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, Cushman K. Davis,
and afterward upon the Secre-
tary of State, John Sherman, to
inquire as to the news of the
event.
Mr.. Davis, whose middle
name is kellogg, is just 50 years
old this month, and has been
ten years a Senator.
| Secretary Sherman is fifteen
years older and was "a last
May.
Davis graduated at the Uni
versity of Michigan, the best
institution of learning in the
West. Sherman merely went
to the plain schools of Lancas-
ter, Ohio, and his student and
LAWYER life quickly passed into
the career of a successful Con-
gresham and Senatorial can
didate. At 38 he had been
elected Senator,
Davis was nearly 30 when he
became a Senator, but was Gov
ernor Of Minnesota at IS. He
went to the war while a young
lawyer, and had little legisla-
tive career; rather was an adj
vocate and student. He at
tracted attention by a bold re
ply to a demand upon him by
the Debs power to cast his vote
so that disorder would have a
legal status. The reply was
that of anybody but a vote get
ter, and therefore appealed to
the country.
Mr.. Sherman has never filled
an executive Office, though half
a century in controlling politics,
and never ran before the peo-
pie of any part of the country
but his Congressional district.
Sherman is of Connecticut
stock, his fathers original JEFF
fersonian and Madisonian Dem
ocrats.
Davis originated on the St.
Lawrence River, New York,
and is probably of Vermont
stock.
The two men who made
this treaty and promulgated it
are altogether unlike.
Davis is a modern product,
an individual, not cast in any
other Senator's pattern. He is
child of nature and a man of
literary care. What is written
rather than what is said inn
presses his mind. Books come
to him like clients, and he dis
Germs them with a scholars
discretion and acquisitiveness,
and arises more sober and old
err from their absorption.
Sherman reads without the
youthful grasp. Heis CONNER
cial-minded man. The legal and
literary presentation of case
is not so important to him as a
matter of banking, interest and
trade.
Davis is man of good size,
above the medium, with little
child's ear, a peaked head of the
Latin pattern, like Albert Gal
latin's, a sense of humor and
solemnity alternating in a nat
ural vein. He looks warily out
at a new question, yet with i'm
pulse of youth and an Ameri-
lean. His comfade life in the
war made international things
not dismaying. He still has
the picket's outlook, thinking
between his company behind
and the possible enemy before
Sherman took up Foreig n
Relations late and still studies
them from the post of a Chair.
man of the Finance Committee
The business proposition takes
all the romance out OF a case
with him. Yet he is not bolo
business man, indeed an ex
ceedingly prudent one. Aftel
he lost the speakership in 1855
Mr.. Sherman became a conserv
alive.
In talking on the Hawaiian
question it was plain that Dav
is had a conviction, and tina
Sherman was looking at botl
sides of the case.
; AS a student of our history Mr.
Sherman is not nimble, ht