Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-06-27

and there would undoubtedly be fewer
breaks among diplomats if the gentle
men selected tor these important posts
had some training iii advance. 1t is
pointed out that in foreign nations
diplomacy is profession, and that no
one ever heard of the manufacturer
of pig iron or chemicals being lifted
bodily to such position as Ambassa-
dor, as was the case week or more
ago in the appointment of the new
representative from this country to
the Capital of France. At first view
It might seem to be quite as important
to train diplomatic representatives as
admirals an generals who after all are
great factors in shaping the destiny of
our country, as exemplifIed at Vera
Cruz and Iampico. But the United
States. has Numbered along for many
years upder the diplomatic spoils sys-
TEN. In most of our experiences in
Mexico the best diplomacy was produc.
ed by our charge d affaires, Nelson
O. Shaughnessy, who applied his long
experience IN a manner so much more
sensibly than did the diplomats, that
his country were not slow to asknow-
ledge the debt of gratitude which they
owed him. If young men know that a
real career was possible they would
take up diplomacy as a profession,
and instead of selecting millionaires
and political generals, the United
States could skim the cream of Ameri-
can schools in selecting future ambass-
adors.
Post Mortem for the Old Guard.
An enterprising newspaper man from
Washington who has known all the
politicians since Washington fought
with Braddock, has been resurrsctlng
a few Of them for the columns of his
newspaper. and from the labyrinth of
Broadway he has spun his yarn to the
effect that one of the former chiefs uf
Republican councils, ex-senator Muir
ray Crane, is busy making Crane pap
per up in Massachusetts, and he is
therefore missing among the pussy
foot" politicians who are assembling
on Manhattan for the pupose of get
ting back to the old Republican
method of doing things"
John Hays Hammond has also been
rediscovered and to his credit it is said
that he is doing his usual top-notch
stunts in mining engineering instead
of wasting his endeavors grovelling at
the feet of royalty. and making him
self somewhat of a nuisance as was
the case during the Taft admlnistra-
ton.
When Franz Hitchcock was Postmas-
ter General, Senators and Representa-
tives and other sorts of dignitaries,
we're accustomed to ask what has be-
come of him." because he was the
most inaccessible of all members OF the
Taft Cabinet. The question has been
repeated many thousands of times since
the fourth of March, 1918, but IT de-
velops taat- Hitchcock, obeying the
"call of the wlld," has been in Arizo-
ma, attempting to pick up few gold
dollars, which some people declare
grow on trees in the ''baby state. i"
There was time when Cortelyou was
the wonder of the Republic, ne and
Loeb, who shOne like satellites with
private secretary to the President"
as the handle to their names. are in
big business" IN New York, the for
mer as President of the gas company,
and tie latter as one of the nigh muck
a-mucks of the House of Guggenheim.
BY the same authority it is related
that former Senator Dick of Ohio is
busy with his law practice, and is not
butting into the Senatorial contest out
IN the Buckeye State. where the Re.
publican mourners in the amen corner
are all hoping for the return of Foraker
as United States Senator.