Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1893, Page 17

CLEVELAND HELPERS. Entertaining Gossip About the Mem- bers of the New Cabinet. MEN TO HAVE PORTFOLIOS. ate Mr. Carlisle's Peculiarities and Strong One Who Knows Him Intimately— Roke Smibh at His Georgia Home—Mr. Herbert's Qualifications, —- MAD NEVER METMR. Carlisle until I came to Washmgton, in the last days of the Forty- seventh Congress, Mr. Keifer was then| Speaker, but at the election in 1882 the | democrats bad carried | the House and Mr. Car- | liple was opposing Mr. Randall for the speak- } of the next} Texme to Mr. | terson’s chara ership H Carlisle with one of Mr. \ teristic letters of introduction, which read: “This is my friend. He will not only repre- sent the Covrier Journal in Washington, but he will be a» weil my persoual repreventative. Treat him as you would me.” Mr. Carlisle was elected easily over Randail for Speaker, Dut it was at least two rears before I could say Iknew the man. I fo n exceedingly hard man to b nted with, I studied him close his first term as Speaker and came to the conclusion at the end of the term that he was a cold man end I almost despaired of ever being well acquainted with him. I never dreamed that I could be ©n intimate terms with him or any one of | ‘nme to be bis nature. then that he could be any one. andas a Kk ni he has y that I mean to very few friends licit confidence. i generous man 2 once your All who bave bis imply that 1 Who enjoy his But Mr. Carlisle is a kind and loyal to his friend ix your friend always friendship know this to be DIFFIctLT 7 He is one of have ever met in pul of the F of Speaker, fiden conne AINTED WITH. ious men that I In the beginning his second term ¢ offered me an official and con- My duties were, as I understood . to keep myself posted | on what was going on in the House, inside and | outside, note what the leading newspapers of GET Acge el ninth Congre the co at legislation, and | all. sms made upon the House organization. In connection with this I bad some little clerical duties to perform, | but not enough to consume any material por- tion of my time. During the next two years I got to know Mr. Carlisle better than'I ever | expected and he was not as severe a man as I had rated him. In many respects he is the quickest man to see a point and cliuch it of ny man Tever knew. Every day a dozen or more members would flock into his room before the House met, appealing for recogmition in order to get their b e dealt nd dis- | we recognition, | want to pass Patch. A member would ask “What fort” he would osk. my bill.” “Where is your bil ‘Here it is, producing the bill. Mr. Carlisle would glance Over it, tuke it ail in in a mii Dack either saying, “I can't recognize you to Pass this Lill” or “You will have to come in Your regular turn—there are about twenty ap- | Plications for recognition and I cannot recog- | nize more than one-third of them this session,” and the member would depart satisfled or otherwise, as the case might be. TWENTY PAGES. Che Evening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, PRESIDENT ‘CLEVELAND AND HIS CABINET. from Kentucky yet. or whether you intend to?” Mr. Carlisle fairly glaced at the correspondent, saying: “I will make no statement whatever. Lam making no @tatements to any one.” By that time the elevator had reached the Senate floor and we both got out. As we walked away T said: “Mr. you treated that man pretty. badly. ‘I intended ”T said, a nice man.” ‘No, he ain'ta nice man. He is the same man that two or three years ago misrepresented me outrageously.” I said: “You must be mistaken in your man.” He replied: “No, I am not. ‘That is ——, is it not?” “No,” I said, “that is not ——." naming who the correspondent was, ¢ man you speak of has been dead a yeai ‘Well, 1 am sorry then. He looks like me and tell him F thoaght he was some ono else.” About a week ago he came to me with a paper and pointing toa paragraph, said: “Now, who sent that out?” took the paper and read the paragraph. It was a stray dispatch from an unreliable quarter stating, that Mr. Carlisle bad fully made up his mind what to do when he became Secretary of the Treasury, NOT A TIMID MAN. and would immediately issue bonds, and. it The public impression that Mr. Carlisle is a | necessary. an extra session would be called in timid man is altogether a mistaken one. He is | April. *‘Now.” said Mr. Carlisle, “is that not | # man of strong will and extraordinary nerve power when emergency requires. While | Speaker I have seen him tried on several occa- | sions when it took a man of great moral cour- age to meet the requirements. An instance o} this kind can be cited during his iast term as Bpeaker. A strong and extraordinary pressure was brought to bear apon him from his own | side of the House to recognize some member to offer bill repealing the tobacco tas. Mr. | Carlisle was besieged by members individually | and in groups for three or four days demand- | iug recognition for the purpose alluded to. | He firmly refused all their urgent pleas and demands. Finally a petition was circulated in the House signed by # majority of the whole | House earnestly requesting that he allow the | repeal bill to be brought in; and one morning I found bis room filled with a clamorous crowd of members urciag him to accede to the wishes of a majority of the House. Nearly all of the republicans bad signed the petition and | Many of the democrats. ‘Then it was that Mr. Carlisle found that it was a condition and not | @ theory which coufrouted him. and his nerve | and will power came to the front. As I remem- | ber, be answered them as follows: ““Gentle- men, you bave presented a petition here re- questing me to do something that { cannot | Conscientiousiy do because it is against my ir a | earnestness anice thing tosend out when I have never | id anything of the kind to anv man in the world. You will oblige me if you have it cor- ected. I can't imagine for the life of me how uch an incredible story could be sent out.” BIS RECREATIONS, While Mr. Carlisle is a great brain worker end bas a capacity to get through a large | amount of mental labor which is exhausting as well to the physical body. yet he is fond of pleasure and recreation. Wis chief recreation 1s a small game of draw poker—a sort of family game at his residence one or two evenings during the week. with a few invited friends. ‘The ante is only five cents and the limit but twenty-five cents. He always plays in bad luck. I think. quits the came four times out of five loser. The fives and deuces seem to have a great fondness for his hand. One rarely deals without giving Lim the deuce or a five and he never fails to call the attention of the players to the fact with the exclamation: ‘Here's that dence,” or ‘Here's that tive again. I get it every time.” But all the same he enters into the spirit of the game with as much s he does in solving a great ques- tion in political economy, and from these | poker party meetings he derives a great deal of keen enjoyment and much needed recrea- Principles and. against policy upon which f | tion. CC elected 5; er. This petition is signed } aga - mostly by pose ices members, f am not | THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. ing to allow the repudlican side of the | louse to shape my policy, which is the demo- eratic policy of the country at the present time. nor sball I be forced by the republicans Attayta, March 2—Mr. Hoke Smith to change my position upon this or any | other question. When Iwan viected Sueaez | newcomer in national politics, He has never $2 was fully understood by those who Soy = | held @ political office even in his own state, Interesting Information About Mr. Hoke Smith and His Characteristics. me that I was opposed to the repeal of the | tobacco tax. Notiing has occurred since to | ehange my opinion upon this question. I shali uot recognize any gentieman to offer a| Dill to repeal this tax. But | will do this much: | If ® majority of the democratic side of the | Honse will ask me to change my policy and the | Policy of the party, I will carefully consider their request” The petitioners withdrew } very much crestfallen. As the door closed | Bpon them Mr. Carlisle walked up aud lown | the floor several times and ssid: “This tobacco tax ball not be repeaicd us long as] can pre-| vent it, unless some custom house taxes equal } in smount go withit I will resign my i- tion first.” — ONLY LITTLE THINo# DistoRE UNL. On matters of great pith and moment Mr. Carlisie is always cool and equal to the occ: sion. Big things disturb him but little. It is the small things that come up ia life which ennoy him. When Speaker he had but little | patronage to bestow outside of two or three clerks and a messenger. It was made his duty to pam® two men to manipulate the elevator. ‘The naming of these men 1 think caused Mr. | Curtisie more real annoyance than did his en- tire duties of Speaker. He ba: ap- plicants and the wives and mothers and sisters end couse and aunts of all them flocking to the ne their men in the place. He was about a week waking up bis mind on account of the pressure—each one of the appli- | cants having sack a gool case. This was ared letter week in the life of the Speaker. Toward | the close he came into his room one morning at bbe usual hour (10 o'clock) after ruauing the gauntlet of a dozen or more besceching women, slammed the door and said: “I wish that elevator would sink. I never could what they waut with an elevator in this House anyhow.” It may be that Mr. Carlisle has got- ten over the annoyances of office seekers since then, for he had « great dea. of experience during the term of Mr. Cieveland and with the list tw. onths. If he bas m however, be wiil have « circus when be takes cherge of the treasury. There is not the slightest doubt among those who know Mr. Carlisie best that be will success‘ully manage the great fi cia) department of the government. The beauty of the man is that nis great intellectuality is en- turely absorbed upon the que-tions will encounter as Secretary of the T HE WAS KEEN DISCERNMENT And can sce through big knotty questions 90. quickly and easily that it will be of the Grestest advantage. Other men not so splen- didly equipped in that respect would worry eat the mind and body on the same identical questions without reaching a clear understand- | ing. Mr. Carlisle bax great respect for news- paper men. if they quote bim correctly, but it always gives him a conniption fit if he Saas himself misrepresented in a newspaper upon a of importance. and he has a remark- able memory in not forgetting the correspon- dens or the newspaper containiag the miarep- resentation. Asan instauce of thix, afew weeks I was conver=:ng with bim at the Capitol aul to | ‘of s sudden he stuppéd ‘eliing me some- ‘thing to remark: “Now, there's that newspaper man. Let's go away from here.” We walked the elevator, but the new-paper gent followed closely Is. ad as wi fmto the elevator stepped in also. Then he ssid: “Mr. Carlsle, wou't you wke a state- went whether you have resigned your seat | Heapacurs promptly cured | Brome-seizer. ‘Trial votile. 10c. Georgia. But he is no unknown quantity in pub- lie affairs in the south, AN his life he bas been too busy with private affairs to week honors at the hands of the people. A strong natural taste for politics carried him into state cam- paigns by the time he reached his majority, and at twenty-six he was a prominent figure in the campaign which put httle Alexander H, Stephens in the gubernatorial chair. Mr. Smith is not Georgian by birth, but came to that state from North Carolina in 1873 when he was eighteen years old. He had taught school a year or two and read law before he chapged his residence. In selecting his future home he displayed that foresight which has always stood him so well in the years that have elapsed since. Atlanta was then just emerging from the chrysalis of a country town. | Everything aud everybody was new to the place. Strangera were grasping the trade and the professions, Atlanta had many of the elements of @ wesern town. Brains, euergy and force of character counted for everything. Lhese young So ith had. They came to him by inheritance, his father being a descendant of the Puritans und hie mother a daughter of the famous Hoke family of North Carolina, ‘The pew secretary was named for his unc’ the distinguished Gen. Michael Hoke, of the confederate arms. YOUNG LAWYER. Mr. Smith was admitted to te bar the first Year of Bis residence in Atlanta. He was only 18 then. Practice came slowly at first, but in time the young attorney won the confidence of the people and he improved every advantage. He was a uardstudent and grounded himself thoroughly in law. During the early years of his practice he lived simply and his appearance was of the rugged order. He was content to live modestly. "It is related of him that some of his assoctates were chafting him oue day be- | Cause he did uot patronize a fashionable tailor. Mr. Smith replied that the day would come When they would hear of him, He was am- bitious to make headway in his profession. He cultivated the acquaintance of the people and be soon knew more citizens personaily than any other mauiu the city. He entered the secret orders and attracted attention there by. his ready speech and acti He has a strik- ing «ppearance and wouid attract attention anywhere. His physique is sturdy and he looks a leader of men. “His associates naturally acce,ted his leadership and at the age of | twenty-one Hoke Smith was regarded as one of the coming men of the rapidly growing city. WIS FIRST MARKED success at the bar was in conducting a damage suit for large sum, the plaintiff having been injured im another state. The case involved some in- tricate questions of law and the bar of two stat tched it with interest. Mr. Smith wou it over dist:uguished counsel representing the fendant corporation. His fee in this suit e hun a start and the victory brought bim a rush of patronage. It really made him. He won case after case and the older Inwyers saw young Smith cutting into their practice, but there was uo help for it. Litizgants the counsel of the atiorney who sermed invincible before jaries. At the age of 25 be had @ prac- tice which paid him = income and was second to none at the Atlanta bar. Aud all this had come within two years, A lawyer's repatation is confined in a great ———————————— Cure DouNG HEADscaNs promptly cured Bromo-Seltzer. Tria: outtle, ne measure by the four walla of the court room, wnd outside his profession the future Secretary of the Interior was unknown to the people of | Georgia, About 1832 the question of aban- doniug the two-thirds rule for nominations } came up in the democratic state convention, of which Mr. Smith was a member. He cham- pioned the change and took a leading part in the debate, He was opposed by some of the ablest men and most influential politicians in the state, but he carried his point and the rule was changed, Only in the local campaigns did he figure for the next few years, He devoted himscif to his profession and accumulated property at a rapid rate. His investinents were mostly in real estate and today he is @ large holder of ond bend | #86 $0u would go to him and apologize for | valuable city property which he bought when nd ha Hl it was unimproved. His own home, which is in the middle of « ‘valuable block ‘on a fashionable street, he bought long before the city had grown to it, Everything that be has touched as an invest- meut has increased in value and his reputation asa shrewd busivess man rivals that of the most successful in commercial lines, AS A NEWSPAPER MAS, Four or five years ago he bought the control- ling interest in a struggling eveniug paper. From that day he was more in touch with the people of the state. The Farmers’ Alliance movement started in Georgia and spread | pidiy. It threatened to swallow the demo- erutic party. There were two elements, Col. Livingston, now a member of Congress trom the head of the alliance and th eseut governer, Northen, was an influentinb ! pr Fender moug the farmers. Mr. Smith fought the alliance with more vigor, many thought, than discretion. A boycott’ was declared against his paper, but he did not weaken, Then the campaign for the United States Senate came on. Gen. John B. Gordon was the most prominent candidate. Mr. Smith's younger brother had married a daughter of feu. Gordon, Mr. Smith took charge of Gen. Gordon's canv. he displayed fine ability asa manager. This brought him more prom nently forward than any previous event of his career. Last year the third party and the aggressive pfight against Cleveland were both sprang on | Georgia at the same time. The Atianta Consti- | tution, the leading daily paper in the south, | advocated Senator Hill. Mr. Smith, through the Journal, set up Mr. Cleveland. A long | aud hard fought campaign wus conducted, Indeed, it was the most stubborn fight against Mr. Cleveland outside of New York. Ail Georgia was The democrats divided and the farmers kept going off into the new party. One morning it was announced that air, Cleveland would pass through Atlanta on his way from Joo Jefferson's Louisiana home tothe north, Hoke Smith suggested an ova- tion. When the train rolled in tie streets were thronged. The train was hel minutes to allow the distinguished tra speak, an opportunity which be was not slow to avail himsolf of. ‘The ring politicians were against Cleveland, but that demonstration was convincing. Hoke Siaith took on new vigor, | and from that time Georgia was stirred in every nook and corner. He organized the Cleveland men in each county. When the state convention came, Hoke Smith ran it, He had the strength to override precedent if he chose and send a sol:d delega- tion for Cleveland to Chicago. ‘Ihe delegation went divided, with Statth leading the Clevelaud forces. Mr. Smith was in the private confer- ences with Mr. Whitney, Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Cleveland’s closest friends, He made s strong impression ou them. His manner is intense. and he has asledge-Lummer way of Presenting his views, The Warwicks saw in | this younz. smooth-faced mau from Georgia a | shrewd and safe counselor, DEFEATED THE THIRD PARTY. No one rejoiced more at the nominations of the coavention than Hoke Smith. He came howe and worked night and day for Mr, Cleve- land. He rendered valuable service in the campaign against the third party and helped it todefeat. On the day followiny Mr. Cleveland's election Atianta went wild and Hoke smith led the jubtlee celebration with ooyish glee. He anda large crowd surrounded the Con- | stitation office, Mr. Smith carried off Capt Howell and arm (and arm they marched | through the street followed by ten thousand men and boys. The State said that Hoke Smith hed won a seat in the cabinet. He w: credited with the handsome majorities in the neighboring states which ke had stumped, too. When Mr. Smith returned from’ New York | after accepting the post of Secretary of the In- | terior, his fellow-citizens met him ‘at the de- pot and gave him an ovation, It was the first | time an office m the cabinet had been conier- | red on an Atlautian and ail the people accepted it as a special bouor aud overwbsimed Mr. Smith with enthusiastic congratulations, PERSONAL, APPEARANCE, Hoke Smith is six feet tall and has # broad, heavy frame. His fine head is splendidly poised on a neck which suggests uncommon pertinacity and vitality. As matter of fact, the new Secretary of the Interior has remark- able capacity for work. He is untiring and | rushes business through. though not with un- due haste. In his profession he always pre- his cases thoroughly and isa master of ‘the facts before he goes into the court room. His associates at the bar know that they can | never surprise him with newly'discovered evi- dence, and are always in fear that he will develop something material which has escaped them. ‘Mr. Smith’ afew the country roads leadit it The rider's habits are astrogular te | clockwork. and it is said that the housewives Po erage and West Peachtree streets many of the arts of the orator. ble friend and trusted adviser. sented them in their arbitrations and he always year to go in the cabinet. He sell his interest in his news ceived fine offers for his stoc ri fine collection of miscellaneous works, and summer ington to reside until next fall, health is precarious and the daughter ing of spending tke next few months with her. | | eler to had [etary tastes and talent Mr. Smith’s style of speaking in public is vigorous and impressive. He studied elocv- tion under a professional teacher and has His voice has great power and would come as near filling the main building at the Columbian exposition as any one voice could, is in close touch with the working people. The labor organizations consider him a valua- He has repre- wins their approval in his management of their side. Among them he is referred to familiarly as “Uncle Hoke.” He gives up « law practice worth $30,000 a probably er, having re- ‘Ten years ago Mr. Smith married Miss Cobb, a daughter of Gen. Thos. R. R. Cobb. The Smith home on West Peachtree street is a large, at- tractive-looking house, surrounded by broad, well-kept lawns, ly farnished Within the house is luxu- id the library is filled witha Mrs, Smith will probably spend the ‘ing Georgia and not go to Waste ler mother’s think- Wexpox. THE NEW NAVY. Col. Herbert, the Man Who Will Endeavor to Continue Its Growth Mostoomeny, Aua., March 2.—A robust fig- ure, a little stronger in all its symmetrical pro- portions than the average, keenly observant blue eyes that light a ruddy,geniai countenance, With light brown mustache and beard, and above all the address and presence of a man in the full prime of life of that high quality that is inseparable from the best birthright, breed- ing an ‘ociation. the quality that exempli- fies dignity and gentility. These things sug- est the outward type of man that Hilary A. Herbert of Alabama fits. Col. Herbert was a young lawyer at Greenville, a typical southern town ina fertile cotton country, south of the capital of the state and the first capital of the confederacy when the civil war began. He enlisted in the eighth Alabama infantry, qne of the first regiments to goto the front in Vir- ginia, Entering asa lieutenant he rose steadily to be colonel of his regiment. It was one of the famous regiments of the Army of Northern Virginia, and participated in nearly every one of the severest and most celebrated battles of the struggies of that army, whove infantry an English historian has described as incompara- ble in the history of the world. Col. Herbert and the eighth regiment fought it out to the end. never losing their colors until the last banner was furled at Appomattox. Mr. Her- bert was a major at the Sunday's battle of Seven Pines, when he was so terribly wounded in the left arm that he searcely ever after bad any use of it. ing to be taken out. When e joined his regiment, which bad been commanded by Gov. John An- thony Winston of Alabama, who had resigned on account of sickness, and became its colonel. Col. Herbert was again wounded in the awful battle of Muy 6 in the Wilderness, but his Vigorous vitality soon restored him to duty, and he stayed with the falling fortunes of his people until they sadly turned their backs upon the scenes of their conquest and overwhelming to take up the duties of good citizenship which their old chief commander. Gen, Lee, had en: joined upon them that fateful April day in 1865. None went more manfully to retrieve a broken fortune and to help rebuild a deaolated country than Hilury A. Herbert, CONSERVATIVE AND PRUDENT. Asked as to his character as a commander, one of his regiment, Capt. Wm. Bird of Bir- mingham, said to the writer recently: “While always a disciplinarian, Col, Herbert was, as he has ‘been in civil life. conservative and always prndent in action as weil ag in speech,” It was not in his nature to be a martinet, He only wanted his men to dotbeir duty. There was. never either danger or berdship too great for him to share with them; in fact, be led them in what most tried their mettle and endurance, and when off duty be was literally one of the boys, xs genially democratic in his manners as the most easy-going soul among thém.” Among the most grateful recognitions of his present advancement must be the teleyrams of con. gratulation which have gone to him from his surviving comradessin-arms, Another of his old regiment eald: “And he's just the kind of man who would be willing to suffer all and more than he did ‘or the confed- ey to see the American navy flourish as the finest in the world.” A DEVOTED FRIEND. One of Col, Herbert's best characteristics has been the devotion “of his friendships throughout years of change and vicissitude, A signal instance of it is in the fact that the pres- ent clerk of the committee on naval affairs at Washington, Mr. Joseph Baumer, who served in that capacity with Col. Herbert in the Forty-ninth und Fiftieth Congresses, was with him inthe Army of Northern Virginia. Mr. Baumer enlisted as @ drummer boy. thirteen years old, and served to the end, putting aside the drumsticks for a rifle wit so effective pur- pose that only extreme youth kept bim from Accepting promotion he bad won aud which een proffered him, His fidelity to duty ttracted Col. Herbert and a lasting friendship nd association resulted, Resuming the practice of law, for which he had been trained at the University of Vircinia by Prof. Minor. Col. Herbert soon got business und reputation which made him an envial name at the bur and throughout the state. AS A MAN OF LETTERS, Col. Herbert has been a man of letters as well as actions. He has been often importaned to write for the press and for magazines and has always consented when it was in a public cause. Conspicnously effective for this purt pose of good may be mentioned his concise his‘ory of the navy written Representative Wm. L. Wi tioual democratic part best literary efforta w: bama Bar Association on “The Supreme Court in Politics,” published in 1883. ‘Why the South is Solid” was a volume edited by him with chapters from a number of leading southern statesmen on the subject It was published Just at the time when the south, to use n phrase popular after the end of the earpet bag regime, ‘was “‘disenthralled” and united against any- thing and everything mengeing white rule. Recently Co!, Herbert wrote an article on‘ Ala- bama in Federal Politics” as a chapter in « book on Alabama now in press, All that Col, Herbert has written evinces a facility of pleas- ing expression that belongs only to men of lit- His committee re~ ports have been models of good taste and in- structiveness and give assurance of better and One of Col. Herbert’ n address to the Ala- | richer traits of his ability in the future. There are many who sav that much of the credit accorded to Mr. Whitney. Mr. Cleveland's first Secretary of the Navy. was evolved from Col. Herbert's industrioas and efficient ebairman- ship of the noval affairs committee and these people predict his will be the best _administra- ion the Navy Department has ever no a ANOTHER HEAVY WEIGHT. Something Ahont Richard Olney, the New Attorney General. Bostox. March 2.—Richard Olney. will be an- other of the heavy weights in Cleveland's cab- inet. He was described by one of Boston's {leading journals just after his selection as “slightly below medium stature,” and by an- other as “of good height” As a matter of fact, Mr. Olney is not at all below the medium and he 1s broad-shouldered and heavily built, He can sit between Carlisle and Lamont in the cabinet meetings and help to balance the heavy weights from the Interior and Post Office departments on the other side of the table. In selecting Mr. Olney the President-elect has followed a precedent which he established in choosing a represeutative of New England for his frst cabinet. Mr. Olney is about represents the annual income which Mr. | Olney will resign for the privilege of drawing 82,000 from the government and of working | hard for four years. If the railroads which employ him do not overestimate his worth the next administration is going to get $200,000 worth of work from Mr. Olney for $32,000, but then Unele Sam gets a great deal of talent for very little money. Mr. Olner could have been either the Secre- tary of the Navy or the Attorney General. Me, Cleveland wanted him to be Secretary of the Navy because he believed that that office should be filled by a New England man. Mr, Olney ie not greatly interested in the navy, and he is really interested im the law. Hence he chose e Attorney Generalship. Mr. Clevelaud has bad some difficulty find- ing men to fill cabinet positions. ‘There was & Dumber of Barkises in New England and they are all wondering today how Mr. Olney was persuaded to accept the post of Attorney Gen- ore While Mr. Olney was not a candidate in any sense his name was presented to the Pres- identolect by several of his friends, and as one of these, Sigourney Butler, is related to him, it is not to be supposed that ‘the Attoruey Gen- eral that is to be was in total ignorance of the movement, “He wes willing to accept the &p- pointment to be chief justice of the United States at the time Melville W. Fuller was ap- pao and his name was strongly urged on resident Cleveland then. Mr. Olney is a quict man, whose modesty was well illustrated in his desire to avoid the Publication of his portrait in the newspapers. je had a lively time at first dodging cameras and pencil artists and he was much amused by the ridiculous cuts which were published ia the newspapers over his name. But he finally succumbed to persuasion and exposed his bet- terside to the camera, Mr. Olney hi better side, One of his checks is drawn so that the eye is nearly closed, is peculiarity is accountable for Mr. Uiney's refasal at first to sit for his photograph. But his cor- rect portrait’ is" greatly —_ superior to all of the cuts which were published. Mr. Oiney is no Brewster. His face is not repellant. In fact, it has o rather pleasant expression. He has none of the stiff- ness of manner that distinguished Mr. Endi- cott, His maaner is not cordial and he will impress western people as reserved if not cold. Bat that is only the outward and visible sign of the distinctive sanctity of Commonwealth enue clinging to Mr. Olney. There is no affectation about him. Doubtless the new Attorney General will en- tertain well, though not lavishly. He will be! in strong contrast with Mr. C.eveland’s other Attornéy General, who never wore a dress coat and who lived ina little frame house during his term of office. Mrs. Olney dispenses hospi- ‘beir house in Boston There are no young people i The Olueys have but two children—one of them Mra, George R. Minot of Boston and the other the wife of a gentle- man in Berlin. The Olney home is a big old- fashioned dwelling on Upper Commonwealth avenue. It ia four stories high, the fiat front relieved only by two iron-railed porches, one just above the entrance and the other, much narrower, jutting out from one of the windows. Ou each side of the doorway are columns in colonial style. The summer home of the Olneys is at Falmoath, ,_ Mr. Olney is fond of his club and he delights in dinuer giving. The official hospitality of the new Attorney General is likely to extend | in that direction rather than toward big recep- tions or dancing parties. Mr. Olney basa good constitution and he does not look his age. 58. He takes plenty of exercise and is an ¢ cellent tennis player. He walks a great deal, He-was at one time devoted to horgeback rid- tality most charmingly. is not a gay ot — DELIVERING THE MARCH 4, 1893. orite hobby. He seldom | gets info a political speech without bringmg it up, He is a popular speaker, He is full of fun and tells a good story and he always makes good impression I beard him in only one Joint debate during a campaiga, and that was when he ran agaizst Taft for Congress, Taft was a quiet fellow and the democrats thought that Morton was going to wear him out pretty | wuickly, put I believe that they thought when Sho tmesting was over that he bad ‘act worn bim out so much as they had expected. NOT AVERSE TO A JOKE. “Mr. Morton has a way of addressing himself to the people in his audience that is attractive, butIsaw him taken down one night by an Irishman in a way that was extremely funny to the other peopie who were there. The Irish- | man ast in the front row of the audience. He | was s typical laborer, with a red and white mixed shirt, half wool. Any one would have taken him for a democrat. Morton got on bi favorite topic, the tariff, after a while and ad- dressed himself finally to the man in the front row. “‘And my friend who sits here,’ he seid, | Pointing his finger at the son of Erin. “What | duty do you think he pays on that shirt that he is wearing? My friend, my democratic friend —for I can see by your honest face that you are a good democrat—wiat are you taxed on that sbirt for the benefit of the robber barons? Ninety per cent, my friend! Ninety per cent!” *-The Irishman got up in his place and said: ‘How do you make that out, sorr?) The shirt | cost me only five and 40 cints.” “There was a great laugh at Morton's ex- pense and the effect of huis illustration was en-| tirely lost, Mr. Morton is full of chaff,’ said Mr. Val- entine. ‘When the contest for the senatorship was going on in Nebraska I was gut there tak-| ing a pretty active part in the fight, Morton a good deal. One day after I had} been there a little while he said: ‘When are you going back to Washington, Valentine?” | ‘Tomorrow,’ said I. The next day I met! | him again. ‘How's this,’ he said. ‘I thought | the timeof his entering the army was prac- | sion, while the bs you said you were going back to Washington | today.’ No, I didn’t say today, I said tomorrow,’ I replied, laughing. ‘The next tine I met him he wanted to know again why I was not back in Washington. -You ought to be back there attending to your oficial duties,” he said. | We got to bantering cach other in the lobby of one | Of the hotels finally before a crowd of people | and he said: ‘Look here. Valentine, I'm going to telegraph tie Vice President to call you back to Washington.’ | “Why don't you do it?” I said, “I'd like to| see cll, I will,” he replied. ‘Why don't you do it now?’ I asked. are somo telegraph blanks, erator right here,” “Well, I will,” he said. So be took a tele- graph blank and wrote on it: | “‘Hon Levi P. Morton, Vice President, Wash- ington. D, C. «Task you to call Sergeant-at-Arms Valen- tine back to Washington to attend to his off cial duties, Put patrioti«m above politica. “J, Srzetina Montos “That was about the wording of the mes sage, He handed it to the operator and it went to Washington, When it got here Mr. Morton did not answer it, but inclosed it to me | at Omaha. It got there after I had started | east, But inthe meantime I had a great deal | of fun with Sterling Morton chafing him | about it, I told him that [had come ont on| my private business; but as the Vice President | had ordered mo back, the government wonld | have to pay the expenses of my trip. Then I| told him that I had telegraphed the Vice Pres- | Give it to the op- | WU since he was six years old. | before had any experience in public life, | asas. | known as a newspaper 1NAUGURAL PART THREE. Wilson Shannon Bissell was born in Oneida count! ‘., in 1847, and has lived in Buffaio He graduated at Yale. He then studied law and afterward entered into partnership with Mr. Cleveland. This Partnerslup continued until Cleveland was elected governor of New York. Mr. Bissell then reorganized the firm, and he now leaves a valuable practice to postmaster general. He is regardcd as one of the best corporation lawyers in the state of New York. Aman of fine ability and amiable disposition, he enjove a wide popularity. He is a man of considerable force of character and enjovs the reputation of pos sessing excellent judgment. While he has never itis in the with high honors beheved that he will be a decided success i cabinet. Walter Q. Gresham has but recently been as- focisted with the democratic party, having separated from the republican party to vote for Cleveland on account of the tariff ismne. He is regarded asa man of force and ability and enjoys a most enviable reputation for | integrity of purpose. He is diana, where he was born fifty-nine years ago. He was a poor boy, bis father having died while he was young and he had toearn his education by hard work as well as by diligent study. He began the practice of law while young. He was an active worker for Freemont in He served in the Indiana legislature and has been a candidate for Congress. He was appointed district judge Grant; was both | Postmaster General aud Secretary of Treasury under Arthur, and was appointed by Arthur to the cireuit judgeship. Mr. Herbert of Alabama has had along and honorable career in Congress, ranking high among his colleagues in the House. He is a years old. He served as an officer in the confederate service and was wounded in one arm. He was educated at the University of Virginia and at ticing law in Alabama, where he has lived since early childhood. He was first élected to the —_Forty-fifth Congress and has been re-elected to every succeed- ing Congress until he declined a renomin- ation to the fifty-third. He has, during that time, held a prominent place in the House, and now retires from the chairmanship of the naval affairs committee to become Secretary of the Navy, Besides being popular in Congress, he is highly esteeme 1 in navy circles. Col. Daniel Lamont has long been active in New York politics. His first national promi- nence was when be became Mr. Cleveland's Pyivate secretary and | confidential advisor. He is a man of ability, and has a remarkably keen perceptionof human nature. He was born in Courtland, ew York, in 1852. After graduating from tho Union College he entered politics in a small way, holding @ minor political apoointment in the legislature. He soon attracted the at- tention of Gov. Tilden, and while quite young became one of Tilden’s trusted lien- tenants, In 1875 he became secretary of the New York state committee. Later he became interested in the Albany Argus and was well . He next became Cleveland's private secrotars—first when Cleve- land was governor and then when he was Pres- ident. Of all the men Mr. Cleveland has chosen for his cabinet Mr. Carlisle is most widely known in public tife. He left the United States Senate toenter the cabinet,and be was three times elected Speaker of the Honse, his first election being a victory over Mr.’ Randall at the opening of the Forty-eighth Congress on ADRESS. ing. but he gave that up some years ago. He | is ot unikely fo take it up again fn Washing: | ton if he finds The duties of his office confining. At his summer home in Falmouth be enjort fiy fishing and taking long walks about the country. Mr. Olney is not a reader of law alone. He is a devoted student of general lit. erature and he has one of the fuest private Libraries in Boston. He is also n musician, His voice has been caltivated and he frequently singe in the drawing room, ith all these personal aceomplishments, Mr. Olney should be quite acceptable to social Washington, As to bis legal qualifications for post.they, as I have suggested. areun ques- tioned. Mr. Olnoy. if not the active hend. is ono of the lenders of the bar of New England, His epecialty is corporation law aod in the drawing of docds and wills and contracts he i admitted to have no superior. iGB HE COMES FEOM NEBRASKA. Good Things the Friends and Political Ene- iles of Mr, Morton Say About fim. In the recent campaign for governor of Ne- braska the .republicans lost no opportunity to ‘ay a good word for the democratic nominee— J. Sterling Morton—Mr. Cleveland's choice for Secretary of Agriculture. It was their policy to prevent democrats voting for the populist nominee. Mr. Van Wyck, for governor. But the good opinions thus expressed were not foreign to the real sentiments of the people who uttered them. as Mr. Valentine, the ser- gcant-at-arme of the United States Senate, who was an active agent in the campaign, tee tifles, “Mr, Morton has as many friends personally in the republican party as he has in the dem- ocratic,” said Mr. Valentine, talking with mea few days ago about Mr. Morton's appointment. “He is strong man—one of the strongest named for the cabinet by Mr. Cleveland. He was a prominent figure in the politica of Ne- braska before she was a state, and he has held his place ever since. He is what is known as “free-trade democrat.’ He has been a little too per lar in his views on the tariff for the good of his party. He is straightforward and earnest. He has run’ for governor two or three times. bearing the brunt of the political battle for his party without any hope of suc- cess. I think that this time he had some hope of being elected, You see, Boyd had alij in the time before. But the conditionn. t! ident to send him a 250-word message (collect) | in reply. We gota good deal of fun out of it | altogether, It was ali good natured, Morton likes fun,” MU. MANDERSOX’S HIGH OPINION. Tasked Senator Manderson, the President Pro tempore of the Senate, for an estimate of ‘Mr. Morton and this was his reply: “I can simply say that Ehave known J. Sterling Morton. who is to be the Secretary of Agriculture under the incoming adiinistra- early twenty-five years, He is a man of exceptional ability and with much originality of thought. Althongh I differ with him very radically politically, I have very high respect. for him because of hie manly, and thorough honesty of purpose, has been closely identified with the trans- | i country for nearly forty being | One of the cutliest settlers of the state of | Nebraska. He is o practical agriculturist andj has made his farm not only a pleasant abode, bata place of profit. He is the originator of | ‘Arbor day’ and as the result of his effort tree planting in the west has become a matter of ploasant rivalry and agreeable competition. I think him a valuable member of the proposed new cabinet, and my prediction is that he will take rank as one of the best of those who com- pose it. He is a partisan in the strictest sense of the term, and by reason of his stalwi democracy is we'l fitted to be an adviser of a democratic administration.” Gronor Gnaxtnam Bary, —-coe-—_—__ THE CABINET IN BRIEF. Short Sketches of the Men Who Will Be Mr. Cleveland’s Advisers. Richard Olney is one of the most distin- guished lawyers in Massachasetts and is re- garded as the leader at the bar in Boston. He is president of the barassociation and has prac- tice which brings him an immense income each year. This he sacrificed to enter the cabinet. fe comes of one of the families of which Mas- sachusetts is proud, he holds himself as proud position asthat held by his ancestors, who settled in Salem in 1635, He was born in 1835, graduated from the Brown University in ‘56; graduated from the Harvard law school in '58, and soon won distinction at the bar. He is s man above medium height, of rather striking Sppearance, with e face bearing marks of character. Besides being «great la wyer he it famous Siterman, whichis salient a sufficient axsurance of his am Morton is a New Yorker by bieth, NY, | born the iscue of tariff reform. He has been in politics nearly all nis life, He was in Kentucky fifty-eight years ago. Alter limited advantages of ~ education he became a school teacher, and while teaching studied law. Being @ careful student anda man of fine mind, he advanced rapidly. He served in the state senate while a young man; for four years, until "75, he was jentenant governor of the atcte; was me tial elector in 75 and was first elected te Con- rome in that ros ae loke Smith is a brilliant, ageressive young man who has sprung into prominence suddenly. His championship of Cleveland and: tariff re- form has brought him before the public and placed him in the cabinet before he ever bad &n opportunity to occupy any lesser political Position. He was born at Newton, N.C., thirty- seven years age. He was the son of college professor. from whom he got his ednca- tion." At sixteen he went to and his earlier career there wasasaschool teacher.’ Whilo tenching school he studied lawand afterward went to Atlanta, where be began practice. He soon acquired considerable local prominence as an “anti-railroad” lawyer on account of a number of successful prosecutions of the railroads. During Mr. Cleveland's first term he became Prominent asa Cleveland man and tariff re- former. He owns the Atlanta Journal. oe FIFTY YEARS Aco. When President Polk Was Inaugurated. THE PROCESSION AXD THE FESTIVITIES OF AN OLD-TIME INAUGURATION—PRIMITIVE APPRAB- ANCE OF THE CITY—TAREE INAUGURAL BALLS, Tt was when Washington was indeed a“‘city of magnificent distances,” the Capitol, iz com- parison with tbe present iron pile surmounted by the statue of Freedom, a squatty stracture, when President Polk was inaugurated on’ March 4, 1845. Althongh it was within two years of being a half century ego there are quite a num- ber of our older citizens who have a ‘lively recollection of the day and remember some in- cident. Indeed, there are among us some who’ witnessed the inauguration of President Jack- son. ‘The campsiga preceding the election of Mr. Polk this scton fi sdarea ote Si anh inquire, “Who in thie man Poik, how? BE ee ee between the United States at and Great Britain's possessions furnished for the oat aw eS songs sen” were to be’ heard in rivet bouses and on the streets x 5 ‘Texas was admitted to the Joint reso- | lution of March 2, 1845, and it is be won- dered at that the appearance of the lonestar fiag in become | of In-| qimost as much applause as did the gallant A PINE PROCESSION FOR THOSE DATS. For this period in our history the proceasion wasa fine one, excelling the anticipation: of some who were active in making the arrange- ments, although the entire procession did mot exceed a mile in length. The spectators were not ¢o numerons as to crowd Pennsylvania ave or incommode the military from assembling in front of the city bail (now our court and the political clubs from forming at the Franklin engine house (southwest corner of Pennrylvamiaavenne and} Itshould de remembered that the p nofthe nation was tben about 18,000,000, while that of the Dutrict, then including Alexandria city and county, was about 45.000, the city proper 25,000." nearly a third’ of which was colored. ‘The dwellings, the Inrger por- jtion frames, then ‘numbered only about 5.000.’ The city erca included jmnch vacant space, the houses arranged tn clasters, Within three squares of the Capitol to the eastward were the stalks left by the pre- ceding yield of corn covering the streets not | etopened. Southwest of the Capitol open | fields were on both sides of old the canal, while | near South Capitol street some brick yards Were in operation and not far off the rem: | Young's mill. The groum building were bounded by A stream north and jtouth and ist streets east and west, and on these streets and adjacent thereto were some Qwellings, a number used as boarding houses. Open commons separated what wae known a@ the Navy Yard from the rest of thecity. Penn- | evlvania avenue had nehort time before beem | paved with cobble stone in lieu of the mac- |adamized road, from which the dust would | often be blown in such clouds ax to compel the | closing of stores Very ordinary | mans of them frames, were om thi indeed, the entire avenue f Between Ist a | number of «mall frames, one of them bearing vellow nue at 2d linary woqlen washer.” The Tiber crossed the av street and was epanned by an ord bridge. Ite conrse was throagh the Botanical Gardens, emptying into the canal at 3d street south of Missouri aven: NoW THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS LOOKED. Only the central portion of the Capitol had | then been built and the top of bus | 145 feet in beight—was ched 1 | a step-ladder on the outside, man both eex good weather taking Uhis rather hazardous climb. The grounds were then sur- | rounded by an iron railing of which te now in use on the south side of B street north- I met | ative of South Carolina and is now about sixty | west and the gateways are doing sorvice ad | Arlington. “The court house building was then | only about bait as large [and other corporation the f aldermen an: | council met in the western ing. The treasury buildi rooms now u strocture, with its long colonnade facing 1 street, which is now a part of the present str re, tu | “The President's honse is today much then, save that the grounds have been improved. Lafayette Squai aply an open wooden fence inzlosing it. The other executi | departments occupied two-storied brick build- jings. The present n structure oc- eupied by the Interi partment was not dreamed of. The squares between 7th, th, F and G streets were inclosed by « two-rail fence. There was m small ice house at the southeast corner, owned by Dr.Gunton, and for Years it was known as a pleasure grouud for thi oye of the Northern Liberties. ‘The differen neighborhoods were known as Englich Hill, Foggy Bottom, Frog Town, Nigger Hill, Paddy Magee Town, Mt. Etna, Ac, and these mates were applied to localities now in some of the most fashionable and stylish parts of the city. THE OLD MARKET AND DEPOT. Between 7th and %h streets stood the olf Center market sheds with the Perseverance engine house in the center of 8th street and the sluggish cannl flowed along in Betrect. Tho Baltimore and Obio Kailrond Company thea landed ite passengers just west of the Tiber (24 etreet and Pennsylvania avenue), the building being a three-storied brick, once @ dwelling) surmounted by a bellfrr, from whence the sound of a small bell notified those who were near enough of the time for the de- parture of trains. These ran into sheds ex- tending from the avenue to B street, and there were two daily each way, arriving about 115 &. m.and 7:15 p.m. and leaving at 6a m. 4p. m. Thetime between Washington and timore was about two and m quarter hoars, This was the only rail communication this city then had, but there were a number of lines and the steamers Joe Johnsonand Pheut ran to Alexandria and other river points and the Columbia, Capt. Mitchell, to Norfolk. ‘The principal hotels were Coleman's, now the National, at Pennsylvania avenze and 6th street, whore Mr. Polk stopped prior to the in- anguration: Brown's, now the Metropolitan; United States, on the avenue between 3d and 3 ‘s, Pennsylvania avenge and the Hotel Brunswick; Fuller's, covering but half the space of the present building, and the Europead, afew doore above Fuller's. RAILROAD ENTERPRISE. On the day of the inauguration the Ralti- more and Obio railroad ran three extra traing, making four during the morning, and on thess came the Independent Hlues of Baltimore end the Savage Guards from the factory neat An- napolis Junction. The usual run between the two cities took a little over two hours, but the inaugural address for the Baltimore and other Papers was carried over in one bour and two minutes, beating the record by two minutes. A DAVE MILITARY ARRAY. Gen. John M. McCalla was the chief marshal for the day, and the military was under command of Capt. Mason of the Potomac Dragoons. The salutes for the assembly of troops, marching end on taking the oath were fired by the Columbian Artillery, Capt. Caicb Buckingham. The military portion of the ine was as follows: Fairfax Dragoons, Capt. Wileoxen; Potomac Dragoons, under command of Lieut. Bomford. The Independent Blues, one of the finest com- panies of this section,of Baltimore. led the foot soldiors, under command of Capt. W. H. Watson, | who was afterward colonel of the Maryland regiment, killed in the Mexican war. ‘They bad their bund, under Prof. Deems, then regarded as one of the finest in the country. The Sav- Guards, from Savage Factory, Capt, ‘Wittams, was another visiting company. The local companies im line were the followings | Washington Light Infantry, Lieut. J. P. Mo- Kean, in uniform of dark blue dress cont, light bive pants, tall infantry hat, with silver sun- burst and visorand white drop plume. This was the predecessor of the prosent Washington Light Infantry battalion. Among the few who raded with the Infautry at the time are Mr. Joan T. Given, George H. Plant, W. E- Moreoe, James E. Powers and M. French. National Biues under command of Capt. F. | A. Tacker, uniform of dark blue richly trimmed |and drop plume. This company «u! wentiy became the Nationsl Graye ander Gen. P. Bacon, and was the nucleus of the National Guard, Col. James A. Tait. Col, Lem Towers was of the Blues, Grays, and afterward of the infantry. Mechanical Riflemen, Capt. John MeClelland, a handsomely uniformed company. Independent Grays of Georgetown, Liewt Pick: Union Guards, ~~. James L. Cathcart, uniformed in gray with black trimmings, com- posed mostly of members of the Union Fire Cor m pat Morgan Riflemen of Georgetown, James Goddard, « handsomely uniformed com y of Young men. Columbian Riflemen of Alexandria, under command of Capt. M. D. Corse, Gen. Corse of the confederate service. TRE CLUBS ALSO THERE. The civic portion of the ee ee of New York, uni- formed in red shuris, under the command of Capt. Isaiah Rvnders: the Jackson Democratic Association, the Young Hickory Club and other democratic associations, with « smail delegation of soldiers of the revolution i