The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1895, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 2§, 1895. et ——————————————————————————— R B e e STANFORD PIONEERS, Their Class-Day Exer- cises Carried Out With Eclat. MANY VISITORS PRESENT Festivities Occupy Most of the Morning, Afternoon and Evening. TOUCHING ADDRESSES MADE. Professor Jordan’s High Tribute to the Material of the Gradu- ating Class. ORD UM Y, Car., May 27.—Hundreds of guests from all parts of the State visited the campus to-day to attend the cl exercises of the Pioneers. Morni afternc nd evening was an un- broken round of festivity; “Pinafo the morning, class-day exercises in the afternoon and grand ball in the eveni Each event was attended with unprece- dented success. Seven hundred people crowded into the gymnasium, temporarily transformed into a theater, to hear one of the best amateur performances ever produced, as the critics were unqualified in their praise of the stu- dent talent and of the high-grade work of which they proved themselves capable. The cast, trained by H. D. Connick, 97, is | Lere given: Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B., First Lord George D. Stratton '95 : Corcoran, commanding H. Pi H. Kennedy '95 rley Baker '95 E. Simmons ‘95 .P. F. Abbot ‘98 s mate..Guy Cochran '08 Joseph tain's danghter... Miss Willis '85 Hebe, Sir Joseph's con Miss Main '98 Little Buttercup, 8 bum deye, able seaman. Bill Bobstay, boatswal Tom Bowling, boa Midshipmit ser, ..Master Bushnell .Chester Thomas 97 , sailors, marines, etc. Lord's sisters, cousins and aunts—NM '96; Miss Burke, '95; Miss n, '98; Miss Williams, '97; Miss Herrick, '95; Miss 0" > '98; Miss Amesbur; Miss Chapman, '95; Miss Kittredge, '9' Miss Bauter, '98: Miss Meade, '96; tmuller, '95; Miss Yirst 1. Hamilton, '95; 97; Mr. Baldwin, *96; Mr. McIntosh, Young, '97; Mr. Simmons, '95; Mr. Ab- '98; Mr. Cochran, '96; Mr. Stratton, '95; Mr. Cram Mr. Flemming, '88; Mr. Durham, '98; Mr. Condit, *95. During the intermission three excellent specialties were introduced and took the audience by storm. Walter Mackintosh, '67, danced “La Carmencita” dressed in the university cardinal, the effect being heightened by the vari-colored calcium light. Clark Hetherington, 95, gave a re- markable exhibition of club-swinging. The interior lights were turned off and the per- former used illuminated clubs, blue and cardinal, the effect being produced by a clever arrangement of electric lights in the end of the clubs. Shirley Bakerand Char- lie Field sang a duet, the words composed by Field and set to the music of one of the “‘Pinafore” duets. Field impersonated Josephine. The performance was ludi- crous in the extreme. Field made a hit second only to that of his own well-known female imperscnation as Calliope Cardi- nale. The local hits introduced by the pa; pants elicited uproarious applause from the audience. A The proceeds of the entertainment, which were about $300, are for the Hildebrand Library. The entire enterprise was under the energetic management of M. L. An- fenger, '96, and H., D. Cormick, '97. The spreading oak tree, standing mid- way beiween Encina and Roble halls, is one of the landmarks of the campers, Two years ago, with characteristic enter- prise, the pioneer class gave its own name to the tree, dedicated it with due cere- monies and ever since and ever hereafter it will be known as the’950ak. Therefore, it seemed fitting that the closing events of the pioneers’ career should cluster about this old monarch. At 2:30 this afternoon the entire university community assem- bled at the tree and participated in an elaborate ceremony. The full orchestra attended, accompanied by the “Pinafore” chorus in toto, making the musical num- bers of the programme prominent features. In all there were ten numbers. First, music by the orchestra. Then followed the first annual sophomore cane presentation— anew custom at Stanford, though old in most institutions—which proved to be one of the prettiest events of the day. Chester A. Thomas, president of '97, presented the cane to the incoming sophomores, which was received by Otis B. Wright, vice- president of the class, in the absence of Frank D. Allen, president. In his presenta- tion speech the donor said: Mr. Vice-President of Class of '98, Ladies and Gentlemen—I have the honor to present to the new sophomores the eymbol of the class which ‘we have just left behind, the sophomore cane, As proteges of the precedent makers, the pio- neers, it has been our good fortune to estab- lish, to & certain extent, precedents in our own right. The canc presented to-day bears the first silver ring, with the names of 97 and '98 engraved upon it. There is room on the stick for twenty-five bandsin all. The wood of which the cane is made was taken from the limb cut from that stately landmark, the Palo Alto tree. Itisto be held by each class in trust for the succeed- ing classes, as & symbol of sophomore dignity, Ninety-seven takes this occasion to thank the class of '95 for their welcome in the beginning and for their kind assistance and advice dur- ing the two years we have been under their care. To-day seesthe end of all hostility be- tween '97 and '98 with the presentation of this emblem of sophomore standing. Ninety-seven welcomes '98 1o the place leftvacant in the name of our alma. mater and in the interest of g00d fellowship, ‘With equal grace and composure a slen- der, red-cheeked boy stepped forward and received the cane with the following re- marks: Mr. President of Class '97, ladies and gentle- men: Inthe absenceof the president of 98 it is my duty and privilege as vice-president to receive this cane which youso pleasantly offer, Ninety-elght congratulates Ninety-seven for its enterprise in presenting this evidence of good fellowship and thus establishing for the future a praiseworthy precedent. We are glad to join with you in this ceremonial and be the first class to receive the symbol you have pro- vided. Itisan emblem of dignity which we are supposed to gain at the completion of our first year in the university. It will be the am- bition of the class of '98 to be worthy custo- dians of this symbolic cane and to wear our new honors as becomingly as the class of '97 has done. In behalf of the class of '98 Iaccept this token of your good feeling and trust that in the same spirit it mey be handed over to '99. President Jordan was received with warm applause as he slepped forward to address the assembly. He spoke briefly and ear- nestly, in that characteristic manner which always marks him when he talks personally to the students. Said he: I would rather be president of Stanford Uni- versity than be an emperor, because no em- peror wes ever surrounded by such a body of men and women as constitute the class of '95. These pioneers are near to my heart; nearer than any class that ever went before or that thall come after. I feel this way toward them because we together started this institution and have been inseparable. I love them for their strength and ability. When I came to California 1 felt some doubt as to the qual- ity of the Western product, but they have ex- hibited a Jegree of originality which I never found before. As coworkers with me I have derived stimulus and encouragement from you. I have always felt that nothing was worth doing if you didn’t approve of it; and when T had the approval of one I felt that I had the approval of all, because all had such good judgment. The speaker personally referred to dif- ferent members of the class, and spoke feelingly of his deep regard for them. “Every recollection is pleasant. And as vou go hence I bid you farewell, trusting that each one will in his own home be the president of a Stanford university,” were his concluding words. The class history is always an indispen- sable part of class-day exercises. Usually such effusions are trite; but on this occa- sion there was something to be said, and the historian, Shirley Baker, said it and said it well. In part he spoke as follows: And now that it is all over, although there is a certain relaxation of knowing we have passed, I'll venture to say there is much more sadness than joy connected with leaving the old place. Qur feelings for the university are very hard to snalyze. Every time the uni- versity is attacked and lied about our patriot- ism and enthusiasm mount accordingly higher. Idon’tthinkany of us will ever forget the impressive scene in Mrs. Stanford’s drawing- room, last Saturday afternoon, when she ad- dressed the class. The knowledge of her noble work and of the trials which she has gone through to accomplish all this ought to make us faithful to the very last. Every college man worthy of the name is loyal to his alma mater. Circumstances hav- ing given us addea reasons for fidelity, the unswerving loyalty of Mrs. Stanford, the trust in us and faithful work of Dr. Jordan for us should inspire every one of us with the strong- est patriotism. We leave these walls with little fear for the university while it has such watch- ers at the helm. We can haye no prouder boast than that we have been in a sense coworkers with them. We leave with the desire to be ac- counted its strong lovers; its readiest allies in the days to come. Wedeave with the hope that our alumniship shall b, in the best sense of the word, an amplified continuance of these four years’ history of the pioneer. The next number on the programme was Chariey Field’s popular verse, “The Days of '91,” set to music and sung by the en- tire assembly with orchestra accompani- ment. The words are: Dear chums of mine, do you recall, ‘When college had begun, The gladness of that glorions fall, And how we spent the “mon”? The days of cheer, the days of beer, The days of '91. We'll sing once more the days of yore, The days of '91. Dear maids of mine, do you recall ‘When first my heart you won, There were 1o lights in Roble Hall, But, oh, such loads of fun? The days of dark, the days of spark, The days of '81. We'll sing once more the days of yore, The days of *91. Dear Major Pros, do you recall The night, at set of sun, We met, when each had made his haul Where vineyards and pathways run? The days of scrapes, the days of grapes, The days of '91? We'll sing once more the days of yore, The days of '91. Dear college, now good-by for all The four years’ thread is spun, And yet the follies we recall ‘We would not bave undone; Those days when youth came seeking truth The days of '91. We'll sing once more the days of yore, The days of '91. Dr. George E. Howard represented the pioneer faculty on the programme. His able remarks commanded the utmost at- tention throughout. He said: “The closing of the Pioneer’s history is a great event; great in its signifi- cance to all concerned in the found- ing and building up of this univer- sity. Do we appreciate the tremendous significance of the founding of a great in- stitution? The University of Paris for 800 years molded the thought of Europe. There is greater honor and significance in founding a university than in building many a State, because the influence of such a university as this is eternal and always for the good and right. ‘Where shall millions be employed to bet- ter advantage? The interest shall accrue for unbroken ages. ““The teacher’s calling has a high sanc- tion. He stands for social right- eousness and intellectual rectitude. In the moment when I entered upon my active work in the classroom the possibilities of the future flashed before me in a second,and I was almost over- whelmed. ‘When this trust wasimposed upon our president he realized the significance thereof when he contemplated the possi- bilities of nineteenth century culture, and the duty of putting aside the old, the idle and the traditional, and in outlining the policy of the future and selecting co- laborers to assist him. ¥, “There is no special merit in being first among the students or faculty, but it was a great privilege. What have we done with it? Have we nurtured liberty of thought? Have we realized proper ideals of culture? What type of character have we developed? Are they men of great- ness and strength; of thoroughness and modesty? Would that every one of you might be like Chaucer’s knight—gentle in spirit, but a lion on the eve of action. “Your work of the future will fall under three ciasses. It may be material. You may be employed in developing the 1na- terial resources of the country. Or it may be social; the possibilities of work in this field should fill you with zealous enthu- siasm, Or it may be intellectual. Learna lesson from the Old World, and avoid being too much engrossed in material things. Cultivate leisure. Combine labor and leisure and your lives will be productive of their utmost capacity.” John F. Sneehan Jr., one of the popular leaders of the class throughout its career, assumed the task of drawing up '95's “‘Last will and testament.” His witand humor, wrought into legal phrases and technical terminology, were entertaining in the extreme. His hits were ali local. The event of the afternoon followed—the unveiling of the handsome brass plate af- fixed to thetree. It is an elegant design in brass, and contains a cavity in which will be placed the class roll, class history, class minutes and class picture. The plate bears the simple words: “Dedicated to '95—the Pioneer class,” James T. Sanford, vresident of the class, cut the cardinal rib- bons and released the silken cardinal veil, accompanying the act with a few appro- priate remarks. George Toombs, presi- dent of ’96, delivered the Tesponse: This tree, 95 8 cept, and shall hold it as & rememberance of our old-time rivalsand at the same time our very best friends, Aslong as Stanford shall exist, I do not be- lieve that there will ever be two other classes whose members will have o strong .a regard for each otheras do the members of ’95 and ’96. And after we are gone, we who have known ’95 best, this old oak will keep the name of 95 green, and its shade will always welcome the returning pioneer. The students of Stanfora will always think kindly of the *95's,whose places can never quite be filled vy any incoming class. We who have Dbeen here with you, '95, shall miss your famil- iar faces, and we are sorry to have you leave us, but your college deys have drawn to a close, and we bid you farewell with best wishes for the future. The programme concluded with a college song dear to every student’s heart—*‘Hail, Stanford, Hail"—composed and set to music by Professor and Mrs. A. W. Smith. Where the rolling foothills rise Up toward mountains higher, Where at eve the Coast Range lies, In the sunset fire, Flushing deep and paling; Here we raise our voices hailing Thee our Alma Mater, RBEFRAIN. From the foothills to the bay It shall ring; As we sing It shall ring and float awa; Halil, Stanford, hall! ‘Hail, Stanford, hail ! Tender vistas ever new Through the arches meet the eyes, ‘Where the red roofs rim the blue Of the sun-steeped skies, Flecked with cloudlets sailing. Here we raise our voices, hailing Thee our Alma Mater. ‘When the moonlight bathed arcade Stands in evening calms; When the light wind, half afraid, ‘Whispers in the palms; Far off swelling, failing, Student voices glad are hailing Thee our Alma Mater. And the volume of music and song that rolled up from the throng of bright, happy faces seemed indeed to ‘ring from the footkills to the bay.” The social event of the week took place to-night in the gymnasium. All vestiges of the “Pinafore’’ and its attendant para- phernalia had been hastily removed, and the great hall transformed into a brilliant ballroom. The decorations were evergreen, cardinal and gray—cardinal for the uni- versity, gray for the class. Music was fur- nished by Ritzau of San Francisco. Twenty-two numbers were on the pro- gramme. Guests were present from all parts of the State, and to them and to all others the pioneer s demonstrated its ability as an entertaine George D. Strat- ton, chairman of the committee, deserves the praise of making the affair an unpre- cedented social event. The festivities of the week reach their climax to-morrow night--the promenade in the quadrangle. The great aggregation of buildings are being elaborated, dec- orated and illuminated for the occasion. MR, GRESHAN IS DEAD Continued from First Page. The father died when Walter was a boy of two years. A quiet but resolute man, of force of racter and great bravery, Gresham the senior was chosen Sheriff of his county at a time when there were many turbulent elements to control. A man having wickedly beaten and seriously injured a schoolteacher, a cripple, a writ for the of- fender’s arrest was issued and placed in the Sheriff’s hands. The man had his friends, and these friends warned the Sheriff away. But that was not the stuff of which the official was made, and he at- tempted the arrest, alone and fearless. He was set upon by the friends of the offender and cut and shot to death while perform- ing his duty. This untimely death of the father left the boys to till the farm and keep the fam- ily as they grew up, and the future Judge and Cabinet officer did his full share. In summer he worked on the farm and in winter attended the district school. The farm was in the limestone and red clay belt down there, within a few miles of the Ohio River, and what it lacked in fertility the widow and her sons had to make up with toil and economy. Till he was 18 young Gresham worked hard with his hands, habitually rising before daylight, winter and summer, after the manner of hard-working farm folk. His mother was anxious to give him an education, and managed to send him one year to the sem- inary at Corydon. Then he was employed by the County Auditor at Corydon in the capacity of deputy at the munificent sal- ary of $8 a month and board. He earned it all, saved his money, and with his hoardings paid his expenses for a year at the State University at Bloomington. His funds then becoming exhausted again, It once more hecame necessary for him to return to work. At Bloomington he had boarded with a Rev. Mr. Goodwin, pastor of a Christian or Campbellite church, and this good man thought it a shame that young Gresham should leave school before completing his course, and begged him to remain, offering to trust to the youngster’s success and honesty in the future for his payment. But the boy thought he would rather pay as he went along, and he returned to Corydon and found work in the office of the County Clerk at §1 a day. He did most of the work, too. At the same time he read law. His tutor was an old lawyer from Ohio, a strong, courageous, Giddings-like man from the Western Reserve, and a most bit- ter opponent of slavery. To him Gresham recited every day for more than two years, Doubtless Porter had some influence upon the views and mental babits of his pupil, but Gresham had learned to abhor slavery while yet a boy. Theold Yankee merely helped to confirm the convictions which had come to the young man, a descendant of slave-owners years before. Corydon was and is the capital of Harri- son County, which lies in the middle southern extremity of Indiana, half incir- cled by the Ohio River, which just there makes a great detour into Kentucky and gives the Indiana county a river frontage of more thanixty miles. In the dead of night slaves often escaped their keepers and, crossing the river, sought safety in flight to the North. After them came the “‘mgger-chasers,” with their hounds and guns and long oaths and brutal suspicion of all the inhabitants. It happened on several occasions that Gresham asa bov saw these captors taking their victims back to slavery. Their inhumanity had its nat- ural effect upon him. He was horrified. He was set thinking. The thoughtfulness of the growing man developed and rounded into a deep conviction that which 2 child’s protest against cruelty had planted. He became an Abolitionist. Beginning the practice of law with Judge Thomas E. Blaughter he met with good success. The Republican party’s first cam- paign in 1856 found him in his law office, a young man of 23. He became a Republi- can, Not ambitious for political honors but full of the idea that the slave power must be checked, he took the stump for Fremont. Of five men in that county who espoused the anti-slavery cause he was one, his law tutor was another, and his late law partner, Judge Slaughter, was an- other. ’F):ey carried ‘t%e fl:gt home :Z ::e people in the school houses and at meet- [ ings at the country crgssroads and tav- erns. A vast majority of the people there were Southern-bred people, upholders of slavery, and they were by no means cheer- ful listeners to this new doctrine. Speak- ingto a friend of that campaign, some months ago, Judge Gresham said: ‘““The people did not treat us very well. They were ugly about it. They threatened us with vengeance, and they were nota people whose threats were to be laughed at. But our little party was dead in earnest and we kept up the fight, and at the election Fremont received more votes in our county than he got in the remain- ing counties of our Congressional District and in the Evansville district, the one ad- joining us on the west, combined.” In 1860 the Republicans ot Harrison County nominated for the Legislature & man who refused to make the seemingly hopeless race against 700 Democratic ma- jority. The committee put yeung Gres- ham's name in his place, against the lat- ter’s wishes. But, being thus drawn into the fight, he made the run, gave the oppo- sition another taste of his quality as a cam- paiguer, and won. At the special session of the Legislature he was made chairman of the Military Committee, and spent much of his time in framing and pushing through what was known as the Indiana legion law, a law which soon afterward en- abled Governor Morton to send Hoosier troops to the front with a rapidity which challenged the amazement and admiration of the Nation. Of course, a young man like Gresham could not keep out of the service. Before his election to the Legislature things Iooked ugly on the border, where the Ken- tuckians were full of swagger, and Gres- ham had organized and drilled a company of home guards. These guards at the end of the regular session of the Legislature he took into the service with him, entering the Thirty-eighth Indiana with rank of captain, and being soon after chosen lieu- tenant-colonel. His regiment was one of the four with which General Sherman moved from Louisville against Buckner, who was moving down the line of the Louisville and Nashville road. In De- cember, 1861, he was made colonel of the Fifty-third Indiana Regiment, and ordered to report to General Grant at Sav- annah, just below Pittsburg Landing. He was put in command of the post there, where were important stores, and saw Grant early in the morning of the day the battle of hiloh began and knows how un- truthful was the story of Grant’s intoxica- tion on that occasion. Colonel Gresham was with his army through the siege of Corinth and did such good service before Vicksburg that soon after the surrender he was promoted to be brigadier-general. As commander of the district of Natchez he had a great deal of trouble with cotton thieves and was glad to get out and join Sherman on the Meridian campaign. His command was afterward transferred north and ordered to join Sherman on his cam- | paign to the sea. Itjwas late in the evening of July 20, 1864, before Atlanta, that General Gresham was disabled. When Hood attacked the Army of the Cumberland in what was known as the battle of Peach Tree Creek, McPherson pressed forward with the left of the Army of the Tennessee, including Gresham’s fourth division of the Seventeenth Corps. Gresham and Blair were on the extreme left and next to the Fifteenth Corps, under Logan. These two corps had moved for- ward from Decatur, six miles from At- lanta, driving the enemy before them. The fourth division was in front, and had sev- eral times succeeded in driving the enemy from his position. At last the Confeder- ates made a stand on a ridge favorable®| to defense, this ridge being somewhat higher than cne running parallel to it, within easy infantry range, which was occupied by the Fed- eral General Gresham’s orders were to dislodge the enemy from the position he had teken, and before ordering the ad- vance he pressed forward to personally view the depression between the two ridges in order to satisfy himself that the character of the ground was such that he could afford to order the charge. While at the front, amid heavy firing, a minie ball struck his left leg just below the knee, shattering the bone. He was immediately sent home, Mrs. Gresham meeting him en route, and for twelve months he was confined to his house, nine months of that time being spent in the in- teresting pastime of lying flat on his back, with splints on his leg. Of course General Gresham’s military ‘career was now at an end, but not his days of fighting. In the autumn of 1865 he resumed the practice of law at New Albany with General John M. Butler, but, as be- fore, the Republicans would not let him alone. That was Speaker Kerr's district, ard, though Democratic by a very large majority, the Republicans made desperate efforts to capture it. They put up Gresham in 1866, and though Kerr was given the certificate, it is a fact known to all who are familiar with the inner political history of Indiana that Gresham was fairly elected in a district which at the previous election had given a Democratic majority of 4000. This has been admitted by many of Kerr’s friends. Before the next Congressional election the district was made more than ever Democratic by the addition of two strong Democratic counties. Gresham ran again in 1868, but was beaten. In 1869 he was appointed by General Grant to a United States district judgeship. Some erroneous statements having been made at one time or another concerning this appointment, it will be proper here to give the facts. Before his election to the Presidency General Grant told Gresham to get his things in shape, as he might be called on. A few days before the inauguration he received a letter from General Rawlins in- forming him that General Grant had de- cided to appoint him to the collectorship of the port of New Orleans. To this Gresham replied, declining the proffered place. A few days after the inauguration he received a letter from the President himself, asking him, as a personal favor, to go to New Orleans; that the office there needed a thorough reformation, and that he believed Gresham was the man to do it. To this Gresham replied that if the Presi- dent put the matter in that shape he could not well decline, but in a day or two he followed this letter with a telegram de- clining. Shortly afterward a friend of Gresham'’s an Indiana lawyer, wanted to be District Attorney, and asked Gresham to go to ‘Washington to see the President in his be- half. Gresham did so,and was bluntly told by Grant that his friend could not bave the place. “That is all settled,” said the President. “Rawlins and I were talking of this mat- ter a few days ago, and we decided on a man. Your name will go to the Senate this afternoon.” “But I cannot take this place,” said the astonished Gresham. “Iam here for an- other man, and I can’t afford to zo back to Indiana with the commission myself. I won’t do it.” General Gresham had rather queer luck with Federal offices. It seems that he was always helping some friend to a place, and Grant was all along determined to appoint Gresham himself. In a few months the district judgship became vacant. Gi gave his name and influence to a lawyer friend. He signed this friend’s papers, and the candidate went to Wgshington to press his chances. While he was there Gresham received a telegram informing him of his own nomination. He at once telegraphed his friend, and the unsuccess- ful aspirant wired Gresham to accept by all means. Thus he ascended the Federal bench, and for twelve years, it is said, so ably decided the many cases coming be- fore him that not one of his decisions was ever reversed by the Supreme Court. His subsequent career is well known. His call to the Cabinet of PresidentArthur was as much a surprise to him as his ele- vation to the bench had been, and in his administration of the postoffice he was wise, active and strong. He made a model administrative officer, and, in war as well as in peace, on the stump, in the field, on the bench, in the Cabinet, has shown him- self, in his quiet way, to be a man of un- usual capacity and ability. He never yet scored a failure, and the Arthur adminis- tration left no better legacy to the people than the man whom the President in the closing days of his term selected to fill the place of the venerable and retiring Judge Drummond. Judge Gresham married, in 1858, Miss Matilda McGrain, the daughter of a farmer living near Corydon. They have a son and daughter, both grown. Near the close of Arthur’s term, on the death of Secretary Folger, he was ap- pointed Secretary ot the Treasury, a posi- tion he held until October, 1834. President Arthur, who had taken him from the bench, had the satisfaction of restorimg him to the bench at the close of his service by appointing him to succeed Judge Drum- mond. GRESHAM AS PREMIER. He Had to Contend With Unusually In- tricate and Delicate Diplomatic Questions. In 1888 General Gresham was made a prominent candidate for the Republican nomination for the Presidency at the Chi- cago convention. His liberal views on the tariff created against him the antagonism of the extreme protectionists at Chicago. Judge Gresham openly dissented from the McKinley law, and in 1892, after the nomination of Mr. Cleveland by the Democrats, he, once Republican, renounced his allegiance to the Republican party and advocated Mr. Cleveland’s elec- tion. After Mr. Cleveland was elected, in February, 1893, he summoned Judge Gre- sham to Lakewood, N. J., where, after a consultation, he tendered him the position of Premier of the Cabinet he was forming. Judge Gresham accepted the trust on March 7. As Secretary of State in the present ad- ministration Mr. Gresham has had to deal with perhaps more vexatious, intricate and delicate diplomatic affairs than has fallen to the share of most Secretaries of State. From his long judicial experi- ence he was disposed to view every ques- tion from the standpoint of exact and equal justice, and the first consideration with him was absolute fairness. If his own country occupied a false position in the matter he thought it was his duty to set it right, even at a sacrifice of material interests, as it might appear at the time. Such a course was certain to subject him to public criticism and he fully realized this in advance, but was in no respect de- terred from doing what he thought was right. This brought him face to face with the great question of the hour at that time, the annexation of Hawaii. He had decided views on this matter, even before he came into the Cabinet, and it was upon his rec- ommendation that President Cleveland performed almost his first official action by withdrawing from the Senate, in which it was pending, the annexation treaty ne- gotiated by Secretary Foster. Then Mr. Blount was sent to the islands to make an original investigation, and upon his report the Secretary made his now cele- brated recommendation that the Queen be restored, inasmuch as she had been de- posed by the action of the officers of the United States. ‘When Congress finally made known ts views, the Secretary accepted them for his government, but it cannot be discovered that he ever changed his views as original- ly annonnced, as to the justice of the action he had proposed. ‘While he was deep in the Hawaiian ne- gotiations, Secretary Gresham was obliged to suddenly give immediate attention to the Bering Sea seal fisheries. The arbitra- tion arranged by his predecessor was in full swing. Here was another matter with which he was not in har- mony. He did not believe that the arbitration would be successful in the object aimed at by the United States— namely, the protection of the seals—but regardfess of the outcome he was forced to bring the British Government to a renewal of the modus vivendi or quick action to carry out the award when it was an- nounced, in order to guard against the annihilation of the seals. The British were unwilling to do the first of these things, and it was only by an exhibition of all the strength of his character and pur- pose that he succeeded in hurrying through the British Parliament an act to give effect to the arbitration, and then securing ' the adoption of regu- lations to keep off the poachers. By a clause in the Wilson tariff act Congress had swept in a line all the carefully con- structed reciprocity treaties negotiated by the preceding administration. This caused great anger among the nations with which the United States had such treaties, and the storm fell upon Secretary Gresham’s head. Immediately there was a talk of re- taliation and tariff wars, and in some cases this was realized to a certain extent. Mr. Gresham’s task was to placate the European powers, and how skillfully he did so the printed correspondence tells. He fairly amazed the Germans and Austrians, used as they were to the various ways of diplomacy, by frankly admitting that they were right in claiming a re- mission of the differential duties upon beet sugars; that justice seemed to require this remis- sion, and he would do all that could be done to make reparation, 2 promise which he faithfully endeavored to redeem to the last, and thereby strengthened his own hands in the vexatious negotiations look- ing to the removal of the unjust and oner- ous restrictions placed upon importation ‘of American cattle and meats. Another legacy from his predecessor which Mr. Gresham found very little to his liking was the necessity for caring for the Samoan king, held imprisoned on the Sun- day Island by the Germans. He wanted to repudiate the whole arrangement by which the United States assumed a part of the tri-partite protectorate over Samoa, and be worked hard to this end, and finally succeeded in inducing President Cleveland to recommend to Congress that the United States withdraw from all further partici- pation in Samoan affairs. Then, in the constructive side of diplom- acy, Mr. Gresham had much to his credit. He did all that a foreign officer could do properly to prevent the atrocities of the Japanese war, lost no opportunity at any when peace was restored it was through the good offices of the American Min- isters in China and Japan, act- ing under Mr. Gresham’s instruc- tions, that the peace negotiations were initiated. All this was done in a manner that made clear to the world that the United States was acting absolutely without self-interest and from motives of humanity, notwithstanding the tempta- tions held out by some of the great Euro- pean powers to act jointly with them from less worthy motives than might have brought a self return. And while he was doing this Secretary Gresham was also using his good offices to prevent a war between Mexico and Guate- mala, both full of fighting and difficult of restraint, and in this he succeeded com- pletely, although he was obliged to use very strong representations to do so. ‘While the amount of money involved was insignificant in the case of the claims of the United States citizens against Venezuela, Secretary Gresham managed through a joint commission to secure a judicial enunciation of a doctrine that is of the greatest importance to the civilized world, namely, that the Government of that country is responsible for the abuse or ill treatment, for financial redress of foreigners, committed by insurgents. But the Americanism of the Secretary was shown in its brightest light in three incidenty that occurred during his admin- istration, and the fact that in two of the three he had to contend with great powers indicates that he made no distinction when the time came to claim rights for his own country. The first of these cases, while attracting little attention at the time, was really of great importance, for it amounted to a de- claration to Europe that the United States would not permit private claims to be col- lected from American republics where our citizens had pecuniary interests. This was the case at San Domingo, when the French warship, which had come there to enforce the collection of a private claim, was with- drawn after a very strong hint from Secre- tary Gresham, conveyed through Embas- sador Eustis, that the United States would regard such a course as an unfriendly manifestation. Again in Bluefields, when the British marines occupied the bluffs they were promptly withdrawn when Secretary Gresham called upon Great Britain for an explanation of their landing and securing a disclaimer of any wrong purpose. And again, when the Spanish Govern- ment undertook to stop an American steamer by a cannon shot, Mr. Gresham called for and secured a very prompt apology. Almost the last official act done before he fell mortally ill was to open corre- spondence with France intended to secure justice for ex-United States Consul Waller, whom he believed to have been ill treated by the summary French court-martial in Madagascar and in whose interest he noti- fied Embassador Eustis to interfere. The Secretary was a hard worker. He was thorough in all things and insisted upon reading up every aspectof a case which came before him. This involved long hours in study and it is now clear that Secretary Gresham was bronght to his last illness by the great exertions he was obliged to put forth to discharge his official duties to his own satisfaction. During his career on the bench Judge Gresham heard and decided many note- worthy cases. His greatest decision was in the Wabash case, when he went be- neath technicalities and placed all the lines of the system under a receiver, thus giving Jay Gould a direct blow. Mr. Gresham was devoted to his wifeand children. This side of his life the public knew nothing of, but it furnishes the best key to his nature and character. Santa Rosa’s Memorial Day Programme. SANTA ROSA, Cir., May 27.—Santa Rosa will observe Memorial day in an ap- propriate manner. Exercises under the auspices of Ellsworth Post, G. A. R., will be beld in the City Gardens in the fore- noon. The programme arranged will be as follows: Musie, Park’s band; music, quartet; address by the president of the day, A. D. Laughlin; invocation, Rev. B. F. Sargent; roll of dead, C. L. Barnhardt; recitation, D. E. McKinley; requiem, quar- tet; recitation, “Lincoln’s Speech at Get- tysburg,” R. F. Crawford; recitation, Bes- sie French; music, band; oratian, Judge Buckles of Sclano County; music, quartet; benediction, Chaplain Sargent. . | Dangerous Condition of a Sausalitan. SAN RAFAEL, CaL., May 27.—Charles Scott, a Sausalito blacksmith, was found in a critical condition by Marshal Creek of Sausalito, and was thoughtto be out of his mind. He was brought to San Rafael and put in the hands of Sheriff Harrison to be examined by the board of Insanity Com- missioners to-morrow. It is thought by many of his friends that his condition was brought about by heavy drinking. The Doctor Said “I had consumption and that it was incur- able. A friend recommended Hood’s Sar- saparilla and T took one bottle. Tt helped so that I continued tak- Hood’s advise every invalid to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. . 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