The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1901-02-23
Blaine the Most Brilliant, Olney the Mo
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hSlalne the NlO6G AtrlltAahts Olney the HAOSt
Solid-An Ex-Oficial's
Gath's Washington correspondence: An
old ex-oficial Of the state department
transmitted some Intelligence which may
be readable. Said he:
Olney. He was but little OF a partisan
and looked not to remove men. l think he
was the greatest In the past thirty years,
others, a nobler citizen and higher class
lawyer. Corporation revenue came not
near his mind. Nor was he an organizer
ard was more dogmatic. more countritied,
but extremely polite 70 everybody In the
department. He exhibited a weakness
for society and dinners, which followed
him from the department to Europe and
probably shortened his life. He was hon
orable, however, and not splenetic.
grains. the old ~Stuyvesant Dutch and the
Cape Cod New Englander. He was u gen
tleman, but could lose his temper; and he
sometimes lost 1t worse than old Peter
Stuyvesant ard grew as marrow as his
alleged ancestor. preserved Fish. l speak
especially Of the Catacazy. Charles sum,
influencing of Cuban independence by the
United States, and yet one OF the first
liyss lost in that war was his graldson.s
mildly in love with his own services. He
was fond of disquisition and of ladies'. a
now, at the age of SO? TIL policy of Pres,
ident Hayes was peace all the time-no
navy. no temptation to foreign war, and
Mr.. Evarts was President Hayes idea Of
the greatest of great Americans. Hayes
had very little sympathy with brutal poll
johnson Seemed to the former the speech
OF the ages. Because Hayes liked it
Evarts liked him.. He was six years In.
the nj during Cleveland's first term
and part of Harrison's, and there helped
to reject some of1ceholders who annoyed
him.
i.yyr. 81. ,ha,,1t - az, ...S. ..-..
,nent that President Harrison was the
greatest president we ever knew. He more
Immediately tnterfered In the state de-
partment than any other president. He
was elbowing and got Blaine's hearty dis
like. Blaine was full of IDEAS. They were
brilliant and led him to revise his ex-
both bold and timid, and, therefore,, saw
the reverse side of his w propositions.
Hence he feared our market nations
would shut US out, and bore away to reel
procity. He was succeeded by John w.
Foster, a mar by no means DISTINGUISHED.
not of lofty. mark, but very assiduous,
very smart one of he underlings who
seized every opportunity and made money
by practising international law. But the
ablest man in law diplomacy was an as
s%istant secretary. John Bassett Moore Of
the state of Delaware. brought by Bayard
to the department. He Is still a young
NAV NAV y 9 prof fee maa IN s, eo5am ha HE s9hl, daEs
and writings on public questions for the
state department. He overlooked Day of
the treaty of Paris. Mr.. Day was re-
garded as the presidents personal and
law counselor in the state department.
mild, modest and a little constrained.
1T is suspected that Gresham got into
"; Foster. While Gresham was in the
cabinet of Arthur he lodged in Fosters
house in Washington.
Gresham was very much disliked In the
department. He had apparently no conf
dcnce In himself, and, therefore,, none in
u others, He could swear Ike an army team
ster. Serenity of soul he knew nothing of
AS a judge he was arbitrary. Roscoe
Conkling got a fee OF $4,000 i'll the More
nave an influence with Gresham. Afte1
Gresham died Mr.. Olney made the de,
partment wholesome.
John Sherman ought never to have
been put in the state department. He ha6
a citizen mind, was neither a fljbustel
nor an eNpansiontst, and pinned for his old
seat in the senate. think Blaine wa,
gOlney our most solid one.
John Hay Is a delightfully."- civii7and I'm.
Injurious man and beloved. but his lont
residence at, the European courts. Paris
The Hague, Austria, Spain, England, !!
thought to have extended his amiable m.
ture to the ministers and their families ii
those countries. He thinks fraternaliy O.
them as old friends. Hence, he does no
please the lingo element nor yet his vote
consulting superiors. He is as pure a mai
as ever lived and Of the finest kind q
cultivation, but these questions and times
crate upon his experience and mcguire
ments., Among presidents, Mr.. clcvelant
Olney had but n brief chance under him
Bayard ives a silt and Gresham II fcroc
ity. Anybody who knew them could un
enemies; 1t was like flint striking steel
Harrison's late hostility to President Nc
kinley's policy has been perhaps wei
we're Gresham's state department pur
poses. Extremes there touched"