Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-09
RICHARD OLNEY,
NOTED DEMOCRAT
COUNTRY, DEAD
Secretary of State in the
Second Cleveland Admin
istration, Passes Away
After a Long Illness.

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Boston, April 9.-Richard Olney, Sec
retary of state during the Cleveland
administration, died at his home, 56
Fenway, late last night, it was learned
today. He had been i'll for some
months.
Richard Olney served successfully
as attorney general and secretary OF
state during the administration of
President Cleveland, and although at
the head of the state department for
the short period of one year and nine
months only, he won reputation as
statesman of commanding ability and
force. His greatest triumph was his
successful insistence upon arbitration
of the boundary dispute between
Great Britain and Venezuela.
Imperturbably disregarding the
warnings that rigid maintenance of
the Monroe Doctrine might plunge the
| United States into war with Great
Britain, President Cleveland and Sec
retary Olney carried out their own
| ideas of diplomacy. In his famous
message sent through Ambassador
| Bayard to Lord Salisbury, British sec
retary of state for foreign affairs, Mr.
/ Olney promising the inalienable right
| of the United States to intervene in
questions affecting the territorial in
tegrity of the South American coun-
tries, said in part:
RIGHTS OF SOUTH AMERICA.
Great Britain both admits that
there is no controversy and that arbi-
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adjustment. But while up to that
point her attitude leaves nothing to
be desired it's practical effect is COM
pletely nullified by her insistence
that the submission shall cover but a
part of the controversy; that as
condition of arbitrating her right to
part of the disputed territory, the re-
mainder shall be turned over to her.
| Upon what principle-except her fee
bleness as a nation--is Venezuela to
be denied the right of having the
claim heard and passed upon by an
impartial tribunal? 1t is so, because
! l will It to be so,' seems to be the
only justification Great Britain Offers"
Although Lord Salisbury at first re-
fused to submit to the American de-
mand, upon further representations he
ItCeutu IIOui aibiluhC anu tA6iSSo
to the arbitration of the entire dispute.
Mr.. Oney's firmness previously had
become familiar to the American pub
lie through his action in the great Chi
cago railroad strike and subsequent
riots, when as attorney general he up
held the right and duty of the gov
eminent to employ troops to crush the
disorder.
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attitude indicated his hostility to la
Dor unions, Mr. Olney, in a special
brief filed in a federal court in Penn
sylvania in the case of a railroad train
mems strike on the Reading railroad,
only five months after the end of
the Chicago strike, upheld the right of
labor to organize and urged that all
labor troubles should be arbitrated.
NATIVE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Mr.. Olney was born in oxford,
Mass, in 1885. His father was a
textile manufacturer and banker. In
the years following his graduation
from the Harvard law school in 1858.
Mr.. Olney won high distinction in his
profession and became an authority on
matters of probate. trust and corpor-
alton law His sole appearance in pub
lie office before going to Washington
was in 1875, when he served one term
in the Massachusetts house of repre-
sentatives.
When. in 1904. he permitted the pre-
sentation of his name ut the Demo-
cratic national convention as a candi-
date for the presidential nomination,
he received 3S votes, including the
solid support of the Massachusetts
delegation. President Wilson urged
him to accept appointment as ambas-
sador to Great Britain and later Of
fered him the position of governor of
the federal reserve board, but in each
instance Mr.. Omey declined.
His public utterances always COM
manded thoughtful attention and at
tracted widespread comment. Long
after his retirement from his com
paratively brief career in public office.
Mr.. Olneys counsels were eagerly
sought by members OF the Democratic
iparty