The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-21

danger. Wrights commission expires
March q, and his friends have begun
boom for his re-appointment. which would
indicate that some one has his eye on the
job. The secretary of the interior recon-
mends the man TO be appointed to this
place and he has not yet recommended
Wright apparently, for the New York
Evening Post, the organ of the Indian
protective society in the east, says:
Unless the president is familiar with
Wright's record, or the secretary takes
the initiative, some candidate with a
heavy political backing may work his way
into the place, and such an accident
would be nothing short of a disaster TO
the Indian service. Wright is one Of
those rare men in government employ-a
natural administrator He has passed
substantially all his adult life in the In
dian establishment, first as an assistant
to his father, an excellent agent for the
Rosebud Sioux; later as agent himself for
a number of years, and since then as in
spector. Whatever work ne has under
taken he has made q success. AMI his
merits have been recognized equally by
Republican and Democratic administra-
his duty. He is the quietest and most
modest man in the world. and as one Of
fetal commission after another mas ex-
pired. his untrumpeted qualities have
won its renewal without the necessity Of
his haunting a secretary's ante-room CT
taking root IN the senate LOBBY. 1t has
become a habit with successive secre-
taries. when they have particularly deli
cate task in hand. to send for Wright to
do it. He is shrewd and very thorough
investigator, reads human nature uncom-
monty well. and makes his reports with
out fear or favor. He simply states the
facts as he finds them, and leaves his
chief the responsibility of condemnation
or appreciation, suspension or removal,
unless directly empowered to act IN this
way himself, in which case he does what
he believes right without inqIiring
whether this man is the son of a senator,
or that one the nephew of a cabinet mem
Der. It is this combination of honesty,
force of character, intelligence, ard per-
feet discipline that has given MIN place
in the very first rank of the governrent
generally, and left him without
a superior in any branch of the Indian
service. He is today, everywhere il the
Indian Territory, addressed popularity as
Governor for he represents 10 the peo-
pie of the territory everything they know
OF the authority of the federal govern
ment. The secretary of the interior has
made him his personal and official re.re-
with authority TO act IN his
name and stead in all matters in which
the statutes do not require literally the
application Of the secretary's own hand:
and as to even those things he is the sec
retary's medium of information and COM
He has directly under his
control the educational interests of the |
territory. its mining leases, and the col |
lection of revenues. These things all re-
quire a clear head and a clean pair of |
hands. It would be the most unfortunate |
thing that could happen to the territory |
IN its present transition stage if a man |
ike Wright should by any chance have |
10 give way before one of the time-serv-
ng crew whom political pressure too Of
ten foists upon the public service