The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-05
JOHN BARRtTrS TRAVELS.
TOrXC yEWsPAPER MAN WHO HAS
MADE 4 REPUTATION.
Siaa ~ SArewa Work. aaa Has
Sinee Going Out Of O4ee KeDa

Special Dispatch to the Poss-Intellgencer.
WASHINGTON. May A-By the time
John Barrett. ex-minister and consul gen.
eral to Siam. has completed his tour
around the world and gets back TO Ore
gon. the state from which he was APP
pointed. the administration and the world
may begin 10 know that such a man held
such an Office. He was not altogether
unheard OF while filing the responsible
post at the court OF Siam. but those on
the coast who remembered Barrett as a
newspaper man connected with the little
afternoon paper In Portland and a maker
Of speeches at college commandments,
have not yet felt like taking the man
seriously. The state department. how
ever. knows him in a different light. He
has made some OF the best reports ever
received from the far East. and has fur
nished valuable amount Of data con-
corning almost unknown commercial sec
tons.
II 10 something like a year now since
he was obliged 10 yield up his lucrative
Office to the demands OF a Republican.
and he is stiIi homeward bound Barrett
was always an economical young man.
and he has evidently done more than
most foreign ministers do-saved enough
out OF his four years salary TO enable
him to travel and enjoy life for awhile
II enc may judge from reports published
in papers in foreign countries-aii the way
from Hongkong. through India and the
South European countries up to England
with the occasional reports that creep in
to the Associate Press-the young East
ern newspaper man who adopted Oregon
as his legal residence with a view to
political preferment. has been making a
study OF political. social and commercial
conditions in the far East and will re-
turn TO this country well equipped TO
make living by his pen or on the lecture
platform
quite the thing among the newspaper men
OF Oregon TO make all sorts of fun OF the
Eastern dude who came out there and
took away one OF the latest political
plums which Cleveland gave TO the state.
To be sure Oregon at that time being
strongly Republican, with all its senators
and representatives Republican. 1t didn't
have right to expect much from a Dem
ocratic president But what the old war
horse Democratic politicians and the
bright young Democratic newspaper men
who had not Yet cut their eye teeth could
not forgive was the shrewd way that
Dude Barrett played IL on them when
he laid his plans of attack upon the
Cleveland administration
1t was when George II. Monett was
running the Evening Telegram of Port
land. and red-hot Democratic sheet IL
was then, edtorially. although the count
ing room was still Republican, and the
Oregonian safe. as always. held the re-
ceipts. Barrett began work on the Tele-
gram as an ordinary reporter. but soon
succeeded to the post of city editor, which
didn't moan much in those days except
chance 10 cut the other fellows copy
MI. IL hssUt t{v.o -
news on your own hook. Occasionally
Barrett would write an editorial. ana It
was always noticed that IL was Iaudatory
OF Cleveland whenever he did Then the
Legislature met. and Barrett WAS there
and quietly circulated among the members
papers setting forth In varied terms OF
approval. but always Of approval the
fact that Mr. Barrett would be a most
excellent young man TO represent this
country a, some foreign post. He Is said
TO have told them all that he wanted To
80 as plain. ordinary consul to Kanag-
ava, and few. indeed. of the Oregon legis-
lators knew where that place was At
any rate they evidently thought II would
be a good place for Barrett to go to. for
no one refused to give him good recon-
mendation.
In the Endorsements. however. Kanag-
ava did not figure conspicuously. So
quietly and so successfully did he carry
on his canvass for Endorsements that when
Cleveland was inaugurated and Barrett
came on to Washington he brought with
him whole trunk full. and II is said at
the state department that never was a
man so completely and unanimously tn
dersed by the leading Democratic poiiti-
clans OF a state as was Mr.. John Barrett
Besides, he had papers and letters from
all the college men. most of the news
paper men and ministers OF the gospel
Furthermore. the Endorsements did not
many Of them say anything abou, his al
legged desire tn go 10 kanagawa and
some say he even though. seriously OF
asking for the appointment OF minister
10 China Apart from his papers show
Ing how highly he was thought Of in the
community In which he had made his
home. Barrett had strong personal back
Ing In this city. He stopped while here
at the home OF his cousin. the wife OF
Or. Tabor Johnson, one II the leading
physicians Of this city. ard at that time
the family physician Of Mrs Grover Cieve-
land. Barrett was grea, A dresser as
James Hamilton Lewis. and made = good
impression a, the White HOUSE Whether
the personal or social feature had any
thing TO do with the appointment could
not be learned al the time. but the state
ment from the department relative 10 the
strength OF Rarreit's papers Was Sufficient
TO have gwen TIE president an excuse for
appointment. Furthermore. these things
are s;ill on file. and ia the event Of an
other Democratic administration, which
likelihood Is now ever growing DINNER
and DINNER. Barrett may he expected 20
come UP for a good place again.
The latest news from Barrett is that
when In London few days ago be de-
Iivered a sort OF an ssnpromptu lecture
Ia a large assembly az members of psri!a-
rnent IN one Of the committee rooms OF
that body concerning the situation in the
Philippines and the far East
Patents have been ISSUED 10 the follow
ing residents OF Washi agton.
James 4. Russell. Tacoma. roasting and
smelling furnace, Isaac Smith South
Bend pruning implement; Martin l. Will
Jams. coupling :of bicycle chain. Joseph
H~Tferr Tuakess design for toll head
Discharges. Trumpefer Charles Has
senpfiag Troop q. Fourth cavalry. Fort
W ALA wsiia-
Private Rafs@rs II. Sichols. Company a,
FIRST I1srn volunteers.
First Ssrgt James Williams Company
* First Washington volunteers. ON. ac-
count ~ wounds.
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