Arizona republican., 1905-03-27
PHOENIX, ARIz., MARCH 27. 1905.
John Hay.

Hay drawing to close
 Walter WeIlman, in a dispatch to the Chicago Record Herald, says the question was most anxicusly discussed in Washington on receipt of the news that the secretary of state had em- parked for Europe in condition oor- dering on physical collapse MT We'll man says members of the cabinet state tbev would not besurprised if MT. Hay resigns his post at an early day, nor would they be surprised, If he returns from this voyage freshned and rein vigorated, disposed to yield to the presidents earnest request that he stay at his post Everything depends on the success he meets with in his search for health.
 "It is well known that President Roosevelt views with anything but composure the danger that he may lose the services of the man who has won his place, in the estimation of all the world outside the United States and in the opinion of a vast majority of thinking Americans, as the foremost diplomatist or international statesman of his time" writes MT. Wellman, who also says Secretary Taft will look after the important phases of Mir Hays work in the state department in addition to his own duties in the war department and that the understand ing is that if MT. Hay retires from of- fee MT. Taft is to be his successor.
 The correspondents at Washington of many American newspapers are better informed than the editors of those papers, and of the correspond ents. MT. WeIIman is. by many, con sidered easily first. What he writes is not only interesting but authoritative. Of Secretary Hay he says further;
 MT. Hay is doubtless weary mar. There are moments when hlS Wearl- ness shows itself in the half-serious, half-witty outbursts as to the useless ness of a man like himself, with a taste for travel and books. and means to do as he likes, slaving away for the government and quarreling with a senate that will never sec that any thing he has done is done rightly. It is not surprising that Mir. Hay is tired. He has now been secretary or state longer than any other man ever he4d that office. For six years and half he has carried the burden and 1t has not always been light one During most of this time circumstances have so ordered it that he has been in line nF states. only the life of one man stand ing between him and that greater re- sponsibility. If Mckinley had died seven months earlier Mir. Hay would Have become president. The secretary has never been unmindful of the re- sponsibility which the fates thus thrust upon him. He always dreaded the pos sibility that he might become presi- dent At the same time he felt it his dtlty to govern himself according tc the decree of chance and the laws oi his country. Hence he was carefu nearly always to remain in Washing ton while the president was away or trips. It was impossible for him, witt his ideas of duty, to make foreigr voyage till after the country should SC cure a constitutional vice president.
 MT Hay is not only known the world over as the greatest diplomats of his day, as the man who without tho backing of vast armies and of grea navies and precluded by the traditions and principles of his country iron using force or the possibility of fore as a weapon in playing his game, stil ffas achieved results with which tn work of no other living diplomatis can be compared, but he is one of th most admired and best loved men 1T the official life of our capital. Whel he became secretary of state there wa d prejudice against him. He was look ed upon at an Anglo-maniac, as al aristocrat In point of fact he is on of the most democratic of men. Hi door is always open to those who hay any legitimate right to enter it. It easier to see the secretary of stat than many of the subordinate official of his own and other departments. H is Companiable, hospitable, sympathet ic. fond of stories almost as his forme master Abraham Lincoln was, an telling them almost as well. Throug 1t all there runs a vein of refnemen and culture and in every circumstanc he maintains a dignity unmistakabl but neither obtrusive nor stiff. Tn people of the Unted States have a last come to know Mir. Hay for wha he is and for what he has done. and is the judgment of the present write and of others who had exceptional op portunities to test public opinion tha in the campaign of last year his popu 1arity and the confidence people of a classes had in him, was the larges factor next to the personality of Pres ident Roosevelt himself. in producin aTrNr-f tfrc