Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-07-16
lands POPULAR MAN
Chicago Judge Who is At.
tracing Attention Comes
from Il Well Known
Family.

""olli JpHn ~. Rockefeller WAS
examined yesterday. is onl,
I 40 years old. Ills father was wound
cd in the battle of kencsaw Mountain
hence his name. According to I'll,
usual story told of how he came IA
bera this historic cornomcn. he was
born on the day of the battle. hut
as Il matter of fact he did not see
the light until nearly two years after
the civil War had ended.
Judge Lands is picturesque in an
pcarancc and manner He was a i6y
forever To Washington during his
residence here MS private secretary
To Walter q. Gresham. from 1899
judge Gresham had commanded tn,
regiment i'm which Judge I.andis fl
Their served. and there had always
been warm friendship between
Gresham ami the I.andis family When
Judge Gresham was leaving for Wash
lhStoh To become secretary OF state
in the cabinet OF Il democratic prosi
dent. ana asked young Lands to 10
Wit hhim ms private secretary. Ian
us turned Democratic and accepted
He had practiscd law i'm Chicago
INT clients were few. and the chance
of an official experience in tho mn
''Nii - 'hBA'sAi MiH AOO dllllllK 10 re
sist. The state department woke mn
when Lands came. His manner was
new his style OF address original and
his seeming profundity was intcrmixed
with Il humorous way that left IN,
unintated II doubt as TO whether the
young man was n joker or Il person
of great depth.
There was much important worl
1h tait.
Lands was there The Cleveland moi
icy TO put back Queen Liliuokainn,
on the Hawaiian throne was under
taken: the Behring Sea arbitration
was on; the Venezuelan bounIar,
controversy with England was con
ccievd and the Allianaca affair occur.
red.
Many people have forgotten the Al
lianca affair probably, but IL was .
stirring question ut the time Tho
Allianca. an American passenger YES
sci was ovcrhanled b ya Spanish gun
boat ontsidc the thrcc-milo limit o,
Cuban jurisdiction and searched on
suspic,o no fbcing loaded with mum
tons of war for the Cuban Insurgents
Tho gunboat fired shots To make the
Allinnca heavc To. When the news
got TO this country there was n great
hubbul and strong sentiment dcvel
oped in favor of demanding an npOl
ogy from Spain
1t was said about that time that
Lands came near running" the State
Department Secretary Gresham was
too i'll TO come to the department. and
President Cleveland had gone down
the Potomac on n duck.hunting cx
petition. Mr.. Cleveland had failed
to leave his address and there was no
wireless telesraphy. Meanwhile the
country cried out for action in the
Allianca case. Edwin H. Uhl OF,
Michigan was acting secretary Of
State. lie was all at sea rs To wha,
To do but finally yielding to the pop
ular cry of is there an American in
the State Department." he wrote n
telegram TO iIannis Taylor. the Unit
ed States minister at Madrid in
stucting Mr.. TAYLOR to demand an
apology of the Spanish government
And. in accordance with the custom
he signed it: "uhl Acting"
BY the nearest accident the mr.
waite secretary. Lands saw the tele
gram before ii was sent He took
the responsibility of withdrawing il
from the departments telegraph op
orator and hurried with it to MIR
Gresham. Under Lands advice Mr.
Gresham scratched out "Uhl. Acting
and signed his own anne a few dag
later the telegram got into the news
papers with Mr.. Gresham's name at
tached an dthc dying secretary OF
State was praised from one end oil
the country to the other
According to lands view, the re
sponsibility was Gresham's and TO Ii m
belonged the credit When President
Cleveland returned home and learned
what had occurred he was furious
He declined to sanction the demand
for while as If he would haul Ian
dis oevr the Goals
There were news leaked in the
State Department in that stirring per
iod. which disturbed MIR. Cleveland
The important information that Min
lister Willis ut Honollu had been in
strlcted to put the crown on LiluO
kalani's head again reached the news
papers before Mr. Willis received his
instructions and the news that the adj
ministratiOn had demanded the recall
OF Lorrin NJ. Thurston the Hawaiian
minister in Washington, was printed
prcmaturcly.
When the newspapers got hold OF
the Thurston incident. Mr.. Cleveland
decided to do something. He made
| inquiry and found out that Lands was
a frequent visitor at the local press
club. This excited his suspicion and
he told Secretary Gresham that Lands
would have to go Mr. Gresham re-
sponded that lands was innocent and
that If Lands was dismissed Mr..
Cleveland would have to find new
secretary OF state. Mr. Cleveland
would not have it that way and both
Gresham aud Lands. remained AS
matter Of fact Lands was entirely
innocent Of any connection with the