The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-08-19
JOHN HAY AND ". R. DAY.

proved by the nation. It is doubt
full if President Mckinley could
have chosen a person in every way
more fit. Certainly he could have
made no better choice from the CIR
Gle of his close friends, and at pres
ent it is to be desired that the Sec
retary of state shall be In full accord
with the policy of the president.
THIS is of the more Importance since
the president earnestly disclaims any
"personal policy in the matter of
the Philippines, and expresses him
self as anxious to learn and TO be
guided by the opinion of the best
informed and mos. judicious ele
ment of the body polite. No man
can give more effectual aid to the
president than Mr.. Hay in arriving
at a right conclusion as to that opin-
ion.
During his active political life;
which began in early youth, Mr..
Hay has been both IN close touch
with the people as a mass and with
the able men who, rising from the
mass of the people, have become its
trusted leaders. While in little
more than the adolescent stage Mr..
Hay went through the war for the
union, and in the prime of life he
became joint author of the most
complete and most philosophic his
tory of that great struggle. He was
the associate of the statesmen of
stirring period, and from them i'm
bibed the pioneer spirit of the great
diplomats of the United States of
America. Subsequently he widened
his diplomatic experience at two
courts on the European continent.
AS American ambassador to the
court of St. James, Mr.. Hay has
won q fine and enduring reputation.
He has been an American in for
eign metropolis. When one remem-
bers Lowell, Phelps and Bayard, ard
their Qualifications of all that was
British, and their feeble justifica-
tions, if not rhetorical exculpation,
of all that was distinctly American,
there comes thrill of pride in read,
ing the official and ex-official speech
es of Ambassador Hay. He is the
first, for many years at least, of
United States representative in
London who has known how to De
polite without being fulsome, diplo-
matte without being obsequious,
and broad-minded without sacrifice
of his Americanism.
Welcome as Mr.. Hays appoint
ment will be to the American people,
the whole nation cannot but view
with regret the retirement of William
r. Day. handicapped by the singu-
larity meritOrious record of his pred
ecessor, Mr.. OlneY, without note
worthy kn nowledge of affairs of state,
Mr.. Day entered his high Office an
nntrteG man. But from a crisis
more severe than any which had
tried the temper of an administra-
tion since Lincoln fell he has emerged
with the enduring fame of states
man. He managed the foreign
affairs of this nation while it was
passing from the ranks of a third
rate to that of a frst-rate power, and
was leader in the councils that de-
termined the affairs of the world.
AT the outbreak of the war with
Spain foreign interference was more
than a possibility. With consum-
mate tact, yet with unfinching firm
ness, Secretary Day has averted or
baffied every scheme or intrigue
that threatened the free action of the
United States in the final determ1na-
tion of the most momentous of its
foreign wars. And now that he re-
tires he leaves his Office respected by
all the cabinets of the world, and
with the abundant gratitude Of all
who wish for this republic a glcri-