Show I 1 SECRETARY WISDOMS DEATH I 1 I 1 A i I 1 11 in the death of secretary windom rk 1 I 1 we are confront edby an event of 0 much i 1 1 N 1 greater significance than the asre garedo del 11 I 1 partake of a high a official oTi cial As a I 1 financier he be ranked among the ablest I 1 r in the world and his 1119 experience and I 1 11 I 1 training train lne were thorough without the I 1 berie benefits fits of a classic 1 or collegiate collesi ate or 1 4 I 1 it I 1 I 1 even of a thorough e location education ho be I 1 J I 1 1 was a remarkably well I 1 i I 1 I 1 informal int ormel man and had the rare bacul t I 1 j I 1 ty of penetrating analyzing and holding onto on to a subject with tha the greatest Krei I 1 ia i ease hewn sixty tear of asse comparatively young yet and hid had 1 I been batore the tha public nearly half hall of 1 that hia ilia first recognized i prominence when a member of oon con I 1 gress from minnesota during and f 1 shortly after the war then as a united states senator Se 1 1 then as secretary of the I 1 I 1 k treasury in Pre president eident garfielda Gar fielde fields cabinet I 1 T I 1 I 1 0 after which he went out of pub ia i bijj lie lic life until called back by president harrison Harr to hie his old portfolio the I 1 t I 1 latter beliel upon him greatly receiving I 1 I 1 i t i and actina upon bis his I 1 W I 1 ti tion sand recommendations implicit I 1 I 1 11 hilll I 1 ly ilia personal integrity waa was beyond 11 suspicion and hia his private life was k t moat most exemplary I 1 I 1 11 the foregoing contains pretty much I 1 11 A I 1 i 1 all of good that can be eaid said of the del t I 1 ceased publicist and the remainder I 1 II 11 i ji 1 ie is more or less lelaa a matter of opinion 1 i ie ile waa was not at all in sympathy with i 1 the west in matters matter of finance and I 1 I 1 ways and means generally although I 1 practically a western man himself I 1 I 1 i and because of that the majority of I 1 ia the supporters support eis in the 1 1 1 3 farther west considered 1 i they were ait i 11 1 i 1 debut out from the start and have I 1 fl I 1 I 1 been more or lorleee less arrayed against I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 the tile president and his advisers on t i I 1 the matters referred to all along it I 1 i 1 was the windom policy adopted and 1 1 I 1 II 11 i ii 11 II 11 carried forward by the president that 1 brought forth the brilliant dashing I 1 I 1 I 1 q I 1 ii and all but irresistible assault of senator I 1 I 1 I 1 wolcott of colorado upon the I 1 I 1 T i 1 hi 1 d I 1 4 I 1 3 I 1 if I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 I 1 L I 1 I 1 I 1 11 R 1 10 administration daring the first session of the present congress and perhaps to that policy more than to anything elcedo the dam democrats owe their deliverance from the force bill causing as it did to a kraal great extent at least the alliance between the democrats and the strong silver senators of the west mr aft winsome Win dome doms views and policy regarding the treatment of silver were much too contracted to suit either the great agricultural or the mining districts of the country they were as a rule in almost perfect harmony with those of the bankers and brokers of wall wail street whose determination to keep silver in the place to which it was consigned more through their agency than that of any other class of 0 people peo plein inthe the count country ryas as merchandise baa always been so determined as to be at times even desperate with a goldate secretary of the treasury sary sury however and a goldiae president to bostain sustain him flanked generally by about half of congress the wall street t contingent felt comparatively easy and it is safe to eay say that they have never enjoyed greater repose than since the advent of the present at administration dinini mr windom act fact one of their number and while we can not look upon his decease as otherwise than a calamity a borrowing sorrowing one to family and friends whose fiction will elicit licit sympathy from all sources it is nevertheless true that those who look upon the sad event as the re removal boval moval of the greatest obstruction in the way of free coinage and therefore not as an unmixed borrow are overwhelmingly in the majority in this pirt atthe country |