The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-11-16
WILSON'S DIPLOMATIC TRoU-
BLES,

matte appointments. speaking gener
ally, though, OF course. there have
been notable exceptions, as for in
stance in the Cuban and Swiss posts
where Gonzales and Stovall, respec
lively. are ornaments to the service
and splendid Illustrators Of Ameri-
canism in the countries TO which they
are accredited. 1t was a long time
before Mr. Wilson could find exactly
the right man to send TO London, and
he had to put up with the declna
tions Of DR.. Eliot, of Harvard and
Richard Olncy, OF CleyeIand's cabinet,
before he found in Walter Page a fine
type of envoy to our English cousins.
Yet, scarcely was Mr. Page OFF for his
post when Senator Bacors discovered
in some of his writings things that
he said would have moved him to OPP
pose confirmation OF the nomination
if he had known of them in time. Mr..
Pare, however, has got along admir-
ably and seems to be making friends
Tor himself and his country right
along. The other Page-Thomas Mel
son has taken up his ambassadoriai
duties at Rome beautifully, and there
has been no difficulty over him,
though, for while, some oyer-zealous
Organizes wanted him put aside be-
cause he approved the spirited reply
Flood of Virginia administered to the
NChraskan in the Democratic nation
II convention at Baltimore. There
was a fair sized row over the appoint
ment of Mr. Peniield to Austria, it be
Ing said by some Of the censorious
that his contributions to the Demo
cratic campaign fund. constituted his
principal Recommendation to recognl-
ton. There had been a precedent for
that sort of thing with respeet-and
not much respect, either-to the Aus
trian post, for Mr. Penheld's predeces-
sor, Dick Kerens, of Missouri, got
his ambassadorial honors, it has been
said In much the same way For the
Greek mission the redoubtable George
Fred Williams has been selected, nom
mated, confirmed and commissioned
but it Is whispered at Washington
chat the place was offered simultane'
ously to II Massachusetts college pro
lessor George Fred seems to have
got in his acceptance first, having had
some experience In ways political and
in The importance OF prompt accept
ance OF nominations, too infrequentlV
rendered. Now has come the sorry
business about the Russian appoint
mcnt, which seems to have come out
all right save for Il letter forged on
Senator james Hamilton Lewis. MIR,
pindell said to be the Original Evil
son man has been exonerated Of
any failure or fault and il to have the
post at st. Petersburg, and If he
wants to give it up at the end Of a
year and go back to publishing q
newspaper, with the honor of having
been titular ambassador to hand
down to his children, It viii be al
right and agreeable to Washington
And some difficulty about the French
place is said to be looming up. Mr.
McCombs has not been able to make
up his mind whether or not he wanted
the appointment. which was offered
him in due and proper form. II has
been kept waiting on the shelf unit
he could determine about it, with the
acceptance by France Of his nomina
ton as wholly agreeable tackled ON it
1t is believed that Mr.. McCombs, whI
! has Just been so fortunate as to vii
/ a wife, Is disposed TO take the place
/ but il is whispered that the Frencs
government has lost its enthusiasm
over him and has lntimated that on,
/ who holds the post OF ambassador K
] France so lightly as MIR. McCombs ha;
held II should not be appointed. Their,
/ is probably no more TO that than there
was to the charges of years bar
eain of the Russian post to Mir. Pin
deli. but the story viii go the rounds
and be added TO the record of diplo
matte ombarrassments that have nc
cumulated about the, Wilson admins
tation, Some people will be meal
and smart enough TO say that NO bet
ter results could have been oNpecto,
In n department presided over hy