Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-02-21
(COntInued Next Week.)
OUR SECRETARIES OF STATE.
Blaine the Most brilliant, olncy tho Mos,
soIid-An Ex-Oaiciars Estinate.


solid-An Ex-Ofcial's Estimate.
Gath's Washington correspondence: An
old cX-ofticial of the state department
transmitted some Intelligence which may
"One Of the best men there was Richard
Olney. He was but little Of q partisan
and Locked 90, not to remove men think he
because he was higher-minded than the the
others. nobler citizen and higher class
lawyer: Corporation revenue came not
for himself for tie presidency MI. Bay
ard was more dogmatic, more countrfled,
but extremely polite e everybody n the
for society and dinners, Which followed
him from the department to Europe and
probably shortened his life He was hon
ora1e Eta hnd w nat apenec o.
grains, the old Stuyvesant Dutch and the
Cape Cod New Highlander. He was n gem
tleman, but could lose llin temper. and he
sometimes lost 1t worse than old Peter
stuyvesant ard grew as narrow as his
alleged ancestor Preserved Fish. speak
especially Of the catacazy, Charles SUM
influencing of Cuban independence by the
United States. and yet one of the first
liv Y, =, lost IN that war was his grandson's.
mildly In love. with his own services. He
was fond Of disquisition and of ladies. A
happy kind of oracle he was and would
ident Hayes was peace ali the time-no
navy, no temptation " foreign war and
NE F Eyafs was "a PRESIDENT HAYES idea
had very little sympathy with brutal poll
tics 4; ard Evarts' defense Of President
johnson of o seemed to the former the speech
Evarts liked him. he was six years in
i the, senate during Cleveland's first term
ana part of llarrison's, and there helped
him.
I'VE all thought at the state depart
ment that President Harrison was tho
immedialely interfered in the state de-
VA, Mas elIbtowing and got Blaine's hearty dis
IRENE ardor for a high tariff. He was
both bold and timid; and. therefore, saw
Hence he feared our market nations
would shut us out, and bore away to reef
procitN. He was succeeded by John W.
Foster. a man by Ito means disinterested
not OF lofty mark, but very assiduous,
very smart, one of the underlings who
seized SCI ed every opportunity and made money
by practising international law. But the
aplest man IN law diplomacy was an as
sistant secretary. John Bassett Moore of
IN. N st. state of Delaware; brought by Bayard
New York. He made 100000 by his books
and writings on public questions for the
Canton and the commissioners to make
the treaty of Paris. Mr.. Day was re-
g5 ga, as the presidents personal and
lay, aiS,, counselor ,,,na II the state department
1T is suspected that Gresham got into
GS!eVeland's second cabinet through John
w; roster. While Gresham was in the
cabinet of Arthur he lodged in Foster ;
house In Washington.
Gresham was very much disllked In the
department. He had apparently no conf
nd fbnr f1rn a.
others; He could swear like an army team
ster Serenity OF soul he knew nothing Of
!! As ass, q judge he was. arbitrary. Roscoe
I Conkllng got a fee of $4,000 in the Mora
/ case Tor doing nothing. but supposedly to
have, an influence with Greshnm After
\ Gresham died Mr.. Olncy made the de-
John Sherman ought never to have
nee e1tl put IN the state department. He had
=, ~, cialzen mind, was neither iilibuster
i nor an eX ,la and pined for his old
seat In the senate. ! think Blaine was
/ our most brilliant secretary Of state and
i olney our most solid one.
John Hay Is delightfully."- civil and I'M
INJURIOUS man. and beloved, but his long
| residence at the European courts, Paris,
The hague, Austria, Spain, England, IL
| ture to the ministers and their families in
those countries. He thinks fraternally Of
1 them a s., oid 9 friends HENCE he does not
as ever lived and Of the finest s'i kind II ne OF
! CULTIVATION, but these questions and times
I crate upon his experience and ACQUIRE
| was the least Of a secretary Of state.
Bayard was silt and Gresham a feroc.
/ ity. Anybody who knew them could un-
derstand why Gresham and Harrison were
/ liarrison's late hostility to President Nc.
kinley's. policy has been perhaps we'll
criticised as simple destructiveness.' 80
were Greshams state department nur.
! poses. Extremes there touched'