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Show ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK. The New York Sun is in love with the Honorable Ethan Allen Hitchcock, who has been Secretary of ' . the Interior for eight years. It says: "His work has been free from any form of sensationalism. sen-sationalism. Quietly, faithfully, and without parade or ostentation, he has devoted to his country the best that was in him, ripened judgment, unflinching integrity in-tegrity and tireless diligence." That may all be true. At the same time it is just possible that he has not been a first-class Secretary of the Interior. He is one of that class of men who has seemed to assume that every man who had business busi-ness in the Interior department must of necessity be ;a knave, intent on getting the best of the Government. Govern-ment. His bearing has been haughty, his rulings ' have been impatient. He has never sought to reconcile recon-cile the difficulties between the people and his office, and in the judgment of the whole "West, he has been more of a disappointment in the high office than any other man that has occupied it since the days of Carl Schurz. |