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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.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cai.., May
27.— Hundreds of guests from a.ll parts of the
State visited the campus to-day to attend
the class-day exercises of the Pioneers.
Morning, afternoon and evening was an un
broken round of festivity; "Pinafore" in
the morning, class-day exercises in the
afternoon and grand ball in the evening.
Each event was attended with unprece
dented success.
Seveo 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 11. D. Connick, "97, is
here given:
Admiral Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. 8., First Lord
of the Admiralty George D. Stratton '95
Captain Corcoran, commanding 11. M.5. Pina
fore M. H. Kennedy '95
Ralph Knrkstrnw, able seaman.. Shirley r.uker '95
Dick DM&ej«,abte seaman S. E. Simmons '95
Bill liobstuy, boatswain I.V. Abbot '98
Tom Bowling, boatswain's mate.. Guy Coehraa '96
Josephine, the captain's daughter... Miss Willis '95
Hebe, Sir Joseph's cousin Mlfla Main '98
Little Buttercup, a bumboat woman
Miss A lice Cowan '97
M idshi pmite Master BushneU
Bl rgeant of marines Chester Thonias '97
Slsteo, cousins, aunts, sailors, marines, etc.
l-'irst Ixml's sisters, cousins and aunts— Miss
Kash,'9S; Miss Willis, '66; Miss Burke, '9s; Miss
Brim, '95; Miss Main, '98; Miss Williams, 97;
Miss Cald'.vell, '95: Miss Herrick, '95: Miss O'Far
rell. '98; Miss Fennel, '98; Miss Amcsbury, '97;
Miss Chapman, '95; Miss Klttredge, '97; Miss
Stlnson, '95: Miss Bauter, '98: Miss Muade, '96;
Miss Bhoemalrw, "98; Miss Stadtmuller, '95; Miss
McK.nne, "98; Miss Cory, '95.
Sailors and marines— Mr. Southerlar.d, '95; Mr.
Knowles, '90; Mr. Gates, '96; Mr. Omm, '95; Mr.
Johnston, 'P8: Mr. Wigle, '96: Mr. Sloan, '96: Mr.
Kennedy, '9S; Mr. Baker, '9s; Mr. Hamilton, '9s;
Mr. Fan, '97; Mr. Baldwin, '96; Mr. Mclniosh,
'97; Mr. Young, 97: Mr. Simmons, '9s; Mr. Ab
bot. '98: Mr. Cochran, '96; Mr. Stratton, '95; Mr.
Cram. '96; Mr. Flemmlng, '98; Mr. Durham, '98;
Mr. Condit, '95.
During the intermission three excellent
specialties were introduced and took the
audience by storm. Walter Mackintosh,
"ft", 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 Baker and Char
lie Field sang a duet, the words composed
by Field and eet 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 impersonation as Calliope Cardi
uale. The local hils introduced by the
participants elicited uproarious applause
from the audience. •
The proceeds of the entertainment, which
were about $300, are for the Hildebrand
Library. The entire enterprise was under
the energetic management of 11. L. An
fenger, '96, and H. D. Cormick, '97.
The spreading oak tree, standing mid
way between 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 '95 oak. 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
rirst annual sophomore cane presentation —
a new 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— l have the honor to present to the
new sophomores the symbol 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 a certain extent, precedents in our own
right. The cane presented to-day bears the
first silver ring, with the names of
'97 and '98 engraved upon it. There
is room on the Btick Tor twenty-fire
bands in all. The wood of which the cane is
made was taken from the limb cut from that
6tately landmark, the Palo Alto tree. It is to
be held by each class in trust for the succeed
ing classes, as ft symbol of sophomore dignity.
Kiaety-seven takes this ocen.-iou 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 gees the end of all hostility be
tween '97 and '98 with the presentation of this
emblem of sophomore standing. Ninety-seven
welcomes '98 to the place left vacant in the
came of our alma mater and in the interest of
good 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: In the absence of the president of '9B it
is my duty and privilege as vice-president to
receive this cane which you 60 pleasantly offer.
Ninety-eight congratulates Ninety-seven for
its enterprise in presenting this evidenot of
good fellowship and thus establishing for the
future a praiseworthy precedent. We are glad
to join with you in tliis ceremonial and be the
first class to receive the symbol you have pro
vided. It is an 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
riew honors as becomingly as tho class of '!)7
has done.
In behalf of the ciass of '98 I accept this
token of your good feeling and trust that in
the same spirit it may be handed over to '99.
President Jordan was received with warm
applause as he stepped 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 was 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
shall come after. 1 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 I felt some doubt as to the qual
ity of the Western product, but they have ex
hibited a legree 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 I 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 re«ard for them.
"Every recollection is pleasant. And as
you 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. Our reelings for the university are
very hard to analyze. Every time the uni
versity is attacked and lied about our patriot
ism and enthusiasm mount accordingly
higher. I don't think any 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 la?t.
Every college man worthy of the name is
loyal to his alma mater. Circumstances hav
ing given us added 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 have no prouder boast
than that we have been in a sense coworkers
with them. Wo leave with the desire to be ac
counted its strong lovers; its readiest allies in
the days to come. We ieave with the hope that
our alumniship shall be, 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
Charley 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 yon recall,
When college had begun,
The gladness of that glorious fall,
And how we spent the "mon"?
The days of cheer, the days of beer,
The days of '91.
We'll siug once more the days of yore,
The daye of '91.
Dear maids of mine, do yon recall
When first my heart you won,
There were no lights !n Koble Hall,
But, oh, such loads of fun?
The days of dark, the days of spark,
The days of '91.
We'll slcg once more the days of yore,
The days of '91.
Dear Major Profs, 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?
Well 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 have undone;
Those days when youth came seeking truth
The days of '91.
We'll sin; 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 was imposed 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 knierut — gentle in
spirit, but a lion on the eve of action.
"Your work of the future wiil fall under
three classes. It may be material. You
may be employed in developing the ma
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. Learn a
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. Sheehan 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 wit and
humor, wrought into legal phrases and
technical terminology, were entertaining
in the extreme. His hits were all local.
The event of the afternoon followed— the
unveiling of the handsome brass plate af
fixed to the tree. 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. Banford,
president of the class, cut the cardinal rib
bons and released the silken cardinal veil,
accompanying the act with a few appro
priate remarks. Qeotgß Toombs, presi
dent of '96, delivered the response:
This tree, which the class of '95 has in
trusted to the care of the class of '90, we ac
cept, and shall hold it as a reinemberance of
our old-time rivals and at the 6ame time our
very best friends.
As long as Stanford shall exist, I do not be
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1895.
lieve that there will ever be two other classes
whose members will have bo strong a regard
for each other as 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 Stanford will always think
kindly of the '93's,whose places can never quite
be filled by any incoming class. We who have
been here with you, '95, shall miss your famil
iar faces, and we are sorry to have you leave
us, but your college days 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 Bange lies,
In the sunset fire,
Flushing deep and paling;
Here we raise our voices hailing
Thee our Alma Mater.
BEFBAIN.
From the foothills to the bay
It shall ring:
As we sing
It shall ring and float Away;
Hail, Stanford, hail !
Hail, Stanford. hail !
Tender vistas ever new \' ; ■• ;.'v
Through the arches meet the eyes,
Where the red roofs rim the blue .
Of the sun-steeped skies,
Flecked with cloudlets (tailing.
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, falling,
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
foothills 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 class demonstrated its \
ability as an entertainer. 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 grcu aggregation
of buildings are being elaborated, dec
orated and illuminated for the occasion.
MR, GRESHAM IS DUD
Continued from First I'agc.
The father died when Walter was a boy of
two years.
A quiet but resolute man, of force of
character 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 oflicer did bis 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 became 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 succors 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-hke 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 habits of his pupil,
but Gresbam had learned to abhor slavery
while yet a boy. The old 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 than fcixty miles. In the dead of
night slaves often escaped their keepers
and, crossing the river, sought Bafety in
flight to the North. After them came the
''nigger-chasers," with their hounds and
guns and lone oaths and brutal suspicion
of all the inhabitants. It happened on
several occasions that Gresham as a boy
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 thoughtfnlness
of tne growing man developed and rounded
into a deep conviction that which a child's
protest against cruelty had planted. He
became an Abolitionist.
Beginning the practice of law with Judge
Thomas E. Slaughter 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. They carried the fight home to the
people in the school houses and at meet
ines at the country crossroads 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
ing to 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 not a
people whose threats were to be laughed
at. But our little party was dead in
earnest and we kept ud the tight, and at
the election Fremont received more votes
in our county than he cot 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 of Harrison
County nominated for the Legislature &
.man who refused to make the seemingly
hopeless race against 700 Democratic ma
jority. The committee put y«ung 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
paigner, and won. At the special session
of the Legislature he w^s 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
looked 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 euards 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 Shiloh 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. Hi 3
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. \Vhen 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 one running parallel
to it, within easy infantry range,
which was occupied by the Fed
erals. General Gresham's orders were
to dislodge the enemy from the position he
had taken, 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,
and, though Democratic by a very large
majority, the Republicans made desperate
efforts to capture it. They put up Gresnam
in 1860, 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 18CS, 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 chape, as he might be called on.
A few days before the inauguration he
received a letter from General Kawlins 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
have 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. "I am here for an
other man, and I can't afford to go 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. Gresham
gave his name and influence to a lawyer
friend. He signed this friend's papers,
and the candidate went to Washington to
press his chances. While he was there
Greshgm 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 President Arthur
was as much a surprise to him as his ele
vation to the bench had been, and in his
administration of the postotfice 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 of the Treasury, a posi
tion he held until October, 1884. 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.
GKESHAM AS PREMIEK,
He Had to Contend With Unusually In
tricate and Delicate Diplomatic
Questions.
In 1888 General Gresham was made a
prominent candidate for the Republican
uomination for the Presidency at the Chi
cago convention. His liberal views on the
tariff created against him the antagonism
of the extreme protectionist 1 ? 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 hia 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.
Plount 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 Its
views, the fcecretary 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
regardless 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, a 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 he 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
stage to bring it to an end, and ultimately
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
incidents 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 Enibas
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 landinir 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 aspect of a case
which came before him. This involved
long hours in study and it is now clear
that Secretary Gresham was brought to
his last illness by the great exertions he
was obliged to put forth to discharge his
official duties to his own satisfaction.
During liis 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 wife and
children. This side ©f his life the public
knew nothing of, but it furnishes the best
key to his nature and character.
Santa JRosa's Memorial Day Programme.
SANTA ROSA, Cal., 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 held in the City Gardens in the fore
noon. The programme arranged will be
as follows: Music, Park's band; music,
quartet; address by the president of the
day, A. D. Lauphlin; 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, Judpe
Buckles of Sclano County; music, quartet;
benediction, Chaplain Sargent.
[Itangeroua Condition of a Sauaalitan.
SAN RAFAEL, Cal., May 27.— Charles
Scott, a Sausalito blacksmith, was found in
a critical condition by Marshal Creek of
Sausalito, and was thought to 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
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The Doctor Said
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