The morning news., 1897-06-17
SENDS WooDFORD TO SPAIN.
MKINLEY NOMINATEs PLAT"Ts MAN
FOR MINISTER.

The Boss and the Nominee Coll
leagues In Congress N score of
Years AgO-WOOdfOrd One of the
StaIwnrt Boilers of FOIGer In the
Famous Campaign Led by Roscoe
COnkling-PIatt Urged Mckinley to
Appoint Him Secretary of the In
terror.
Washington, June 16.-The President to-
day nominated Stewart T. Woodford of
New York to be minister to Spain. MIR
Woodford is an old friend OF Senator
Platt, and the two have been on intimate
terms since they were colleagues in con
gress a score OF years ago. The incident
in the early eighties, when Mr.. Wood
ford refused to support for governor Judge
Folger, later Secretary of the Treasurer,
saying he would not support a republi-
can nominated on "a forged telegram"
put him at odds with the republicans of
the state for some years, but he finally
went back into the fold.
Senator Platt vigorously urged him for
a cabinet position, trying to have him
made Secretary OF the Interior. Mr.
Woodford has made fortune in, ais law
practice, and republican friends to-day
spoke OF him as a natural diplomat. His
nomination has been foreshadowed in gos-
sip about the office for some weeks. but
the actual decision to appoint him was
not reached until to-day. The cabinet
talked the matter over yesterday and re-
ferred to several persons suggested for the
post, and intimated that the preference
was with Mr. Woodford. The question
was brought up again to-day, and late
this afternoon Secretary Bliss was called
to the white house. and shortly after the
nomination was sent to the Senate.
Mr.. Woodford has been summoned here
and viii arrive tomorrow, when he will
have talk with the President. There Is
excellent authority for the statement that
Mr.. Woodford will accept.
New York, June 16.-Stewart L. Wood
ford, the newly appointed minister to
Spain, was born in this city, Sept. 3,
1855, and is descended from early settlers
of Connecticut. His grandfather fought
in the revolution, and in the war of 1872.
Gen. Woodford entered Columbia col
lege at l5 but spent the sophomore year
at Yale, completing his education at Co
lumbia and graduating In 1854. He was
admitted to the bar in 1857 and entered
politics in the first Lincoln campaign,
1860.
territory of Nebraska, but he declined il.
Later he became assistant United States
district attorney of New York, and pros
ecuted the cases growing out of the block
ade. He resigned to enter the army as
a volunteer in Company II. 127th New
York Volunteers. He was made captain
and served till 1864 in Virginia, South
Carolina and the District of Columbia.
He was judge advocate general of the de-
partment of the south, provost marshal
general and chief OF stan OF Gen. Gill
more. He was breyetted brigadier gem
eral for gallantry in action.
After the war he was military governor
Of the city OF Charleston and later OF
Savannah. He resigned his commission
Aug. %, 1885, and resumed his law prac-
tice. In the fan OF 1865 he was nominated
for judge of the common pleas court In
this city, though he lived in Brooklyn.
In 1866 he was elected lieutenant govern
or on the ticket with Gov. Fenton, the
youngest lieutenant governor up to that
time. He presided over the Grant electo-
raj college of the state in 1872 and defeat
ed w. W. Goodrich for congress the same
year. Gen. Woodford was the unsuceess-
ful candidate for governor against John
p. Hoffman, and In 1876, he was a candi-
date in the republican national ccnven-
tion for Vice President, receiving 10 votes.