Arizona republican., 1911-11-03

had emigrated from Carrickfergus
 County Down. James k. Polk was
 the descendant of Ulster Scots ron
 County Londonderry, who came to
 Maryland about 1890. James Bu-
 chanan was the grandson of Ulster
 Scottish parents who came to Penn-
 sylvania in 17S3 from County Done
 gal. Andrew Johnson was the grand
 son of an Ulster Scot who settled flrst in Pennsylvania and then removed to 1 North Carolina about l'oo. general Ulysses $. Grant was, on his mother
 side. a descendant of Ulster scots who
 settled in Pennsylvania about l'6S. Rutherford B. Hayes was the descend-
 ant of George Hayes, who emigrated from Scotland to America about IesO.
 Chester Alan Arthur was the grand son of Gavin Macarthur. of Bally- mena. County Antrim. stephen GroVer 1 Cleveland was, on his mother slde, an Ulster Scot Benjamin Harrison, 1 among the greatest of recent presi- dents came of one of the families most conspicuous in America for high public service through success
 siye generations. He was, on his fa- ther's side. of Cavalier origin, the
 grandson of a president, and great
 grandson of a signer of the declara ton of independence; on the mothers
 side a descendant of an Ulster Scot
 named Mcdowell. William Mckinley
 was of Ulster Scottish descent Theo-
 dore Roosevelt, on the fathers side,
 is of Dutch origin; on the mothers
 side is a descendant of Alexander
 Bulloch. the Scottish first governor of
 the state of Georgia Of the twenty
 five men whose names fill the shining
 roll of the American presidency, near
 ly one-half chose secretaries Of the
 treasury of Scottish descent, and near
 lv one-third chose secretaries of state
 of the same blood. In the treasury,
 besides the great figure of Alexander
 Hamilton. we recall such men as
 Louis McLane (One of my own non
 bred predecessors at this post, While
 his son was my immediate predeces
 sor in France). Thomas Ewing, one of the foremost lawyers of the country;
 Thomas Corwin, the nearest rival of Henry Clay as a popular orator; James Guthrie, and that noble pair chosen by Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase of Ohio. and Hugh McCulloch of Indi ana Nor in this brief reference to Scottish service to the treasury should it be forgotten that when Robert Mor- ris undertook to raise money for the starving army during the revolution, one third of the total number came ,a nf Sons of St Patrick. in Philadelphia. 1 In the state department no names shine brighter than the Scottish ones, ! from Edward Livingston and John C. | Calhoun to James G. Blaine, John Hay l and P C. Knox.
 Of the new men who came upon the | stage in the second quarter of the re- | publics existence. three were by com | mon consent pre- eminent Daniel | Webster. whose ancestor. Thomas Web | ster, came to New Hampshire in 1886; | one was Ulster Scottish, John C. Cal houn, whose grandfather, James Cal hOun, emigrated from Donegal to in 1733; and the third, Henry Clay, has been claimed as Ul- ster Scottish by some writers appar- 4ntly on the presumptive evidence of birth in Virginia in a region peopled )y many Ulster Scots, and in circum- stances like theirs.
 In all the historic achievements of Scotland is there any more remarka- Dle than this conquest of leadership n a new land by men half a century | behind other and strong races in en- ering upon the scene?
 Still, like the rest of the world. you will have to take the bitter with the iweet. These ScOtchmen beyond the Atlantic were not always a credit to 'ou. Aside from the leadership they displayed, Scotland can prize no lau- els from the record of Captain Kidd. he pirate, or of her sons from Harris 'urg, Penn, who in 1763 inaugurated ynch law in America, or of Callendar, he professional libeller and black nailer who began yellow journalism in he United States and took pay for consistently labelling, first George Washington. then Alexander Hamilton, hen John Adams, and finally Thomas efferson. It was of him that one of he most graphic of our recent his Drians, McMaster, wrote: As desti- ute of principle as of money, his tal- nts, which were not despicable, were yer up for sale. The question with i'm was never what he wrote, but
 nat he was to be paid for writing" With all our advances in civilization, erhaps that breed has not yet en-
 rely died out on either side of the
 tlantic.
 In America ScOtchmen have not of ( en figured as leaders of lost causes: Ut both the president and the vice resident of the Southern Confederacy, Davis and John c. Brecken- C dge, were of that blood Another f ader in cause that seemed lost, but I lded first in an independent nation il IId then in the peaceful annexati.'a ( } the United States of the largest f ate In it. was Sam Houston, presi- { ant of the republic of Texas, and Y rst representative of the state of 4 exas in the United States senate. In f lr Civil war among many leaders on ( le union side of Scottish descent, the fl