Show Promotion of Two Members of the Philippine Commission Commissioner er Plums That Th t Fall to 10 Uncle Sams Efficient Servants IU rw recent retirement of General Luke J lk E EWright EWright Wright from Irom the KOV IOV go gow w of 01 I the tho Philippines Ph I I nell has hu been lIeen followed hy by hl hie appointment to tc the mission and the promotion of DC Vice Governor Henry Clay lay Me tic to Dm the va a coney Both mun have em among mho tho curious races brought in sin unexpectedly and no au 0 do closely ely y Into Inlo relationship v Ith the American people Doth of 01 them Ilium lilt have hae made malle excellent record records Under which have hewn bean be n especially trying and In spite of 01 a great lack tack of ot educative r lye tive precedent they hano succeeded In producing results which h are ar highly to 10 themselves and to 10 the American people General Wright hid hlll been governor general of the Philippines ilus wince since b cern ber 1901 IDOL H tic Governor Gen Orn Gentral I oral eral William II JI raft jolt when the th laUer latter became bec secretary of ot war In President cabinet In place pInel of 01 Root lie Ile went first n t to the tho In 1900 a se n a member of ot the second commission and a It year later Inter ho was appointed vice governor It was wai nt lit the time that civil government was waR h established In tho the Islands mid and General 3 Wright had a great deal to do with put tint the th new scheme In his Rood good running order erder Governor Taft Talt Willi obliged oblige tn to be absent from the Islands during much of r his hll term and sod Wright filled his hi place with perfect satisfaction to nit all con concerned Until the Hie present time the American representative In Japan hall hua been heen to 10 he hll content with the lI title und and salary alary ulAr of 01 n a minister plenipotentiary y The rapid evolution I of tho thin Island Inland empire em empire I pire especially Its itA t phenomenal I cm e during the hut last decad entitles It tn to 1 n be reckoned us n p nation of 0 the Mr I si clans class Thus It la III that General Wright become the first full fledged Amen Ameri can As All governor general of the llie Philippines his hit Hilary lalar has hall been per p r annum Ills Ilia appointment to Urn the mission will entail a finan financial cial etal sacrifice the thu pay of an all ambassador only Unit a 1 century ago Japan betrayed no II that would horn warranted the most moot mo t clairvoyant statesman In America In predicting hi her r sm rise to world power Her Iler ports portH were closed to 10 thin tho ships of ot all countries f and she line was w ue practically n rt book hook to ull oh the na nation nation tion dons of or limo tho earth An n accident the tho shipwreck of or some ome American Bailors on an her shores was tho the be of or tho time transformation Gain Coon Commodore Perry Perr who was Willi w aa ted with the million pf of securing an In entrance to this thin hermit n peaceable If It possible l ble forcible If it succeeded In making a treaty of ot friendship and com cam commerce commerce merce That woe was In 1854 lS 4 and four lour years yearn earl later IH revere ports were opened to foreign und and trade In 1860 the Iambus famous Japanese e embassy to the th United und mind to the tho courts coutts of 01 Eu Iu rope ropo op opened open d thin the eyes of these theRe exclusive orientals and anti time the III process s has hns been on rn ever er since Ince Thin entering diplomatic wedge driven hy by the Americans American was Willi Introduced with luch tuch kill and ond purpose that It was Willi not not long before foreign representation had an on foothold In the islands Inlands 1 land Through ull all the formative tive changes change which have brought thin Iho coun cOlin country country try to lu Its present condition diplomacy has not suffered any practical bacon Incon Inconvenience un On the tune contrary It has lias more morn than once happened that the foreign legations have been of great service In Inthe Inthe the time adjustment of ot Intel internal nal differences difference It Itis IK is especially lit tit that America first to 10 penetrate Japanese and model for tor the little nation that has dune dime such Huch wonders bo be represented by b an of or highest diplomatic rank Lu Luke luk f K I 1 Wright Is fa a I native of Stem Mem Memphis phi Tenn fenn born In 1817 Ills His father Judge Archibald A l Wright wan w an at emi eminent eminent nent jurist well 1 known and and highly es esteemed esteemed esteemed teemed In to Tennessee In antebellum v fu 1 by ye ids a yr i k a aft ft I Ii Is II Ia p i s a v I LUKE E WRIGHT HENRY CLAY IDE days Luke was too young to partie pale actively In thus the III civil war but his only brother Eldridge a 1 captain In the Ih Confederate service lost his hili life at the haute battle of or Shiloh Luke uke wax was 09 educated at atthe atthe the tho Mississippi State Slate university and was wall admitted to tho the bar bur In his native city In III 1878 he hn was very active In the tho work vork of relief relict during durin the yellow ellow fever epidemic He lie was wai attorney general of his hI for right eight years and und owes ow hit his title of ot general gentral to that tad fact never nevor hav tiny having ing hll been heln a n military man of ot any degree Three of 01 hilt hl nona Hon however were In Inthe Inthe Inthe the punish H war Mrs Wright was a II daughter of ot the famous Admiral Ra Ibe phaul Semmes of the Confederate navy The general was appointed Il en on the thu Philippine commission by hy President who admired him greatly General Wright Is la n II typical southern southerner er fr with the soft drawl In his speech tho the simple genial manner the tho all fin em I bracing hospitality and the th reverence for lor women and aria for tor his status as a 11 gentleman gen gentleman en that are arc so characteristic of or the themen themen themen I men of at his habitat Ho Ito Is a n laughter promoter and ond as II fond lond of ot fun tun AS s Secre Seere Secretary lacy tary Tuft Taft which Is saying a 11 good deal r Ills His humor humour Is ls of time the quaint and perva pervasive she sive kind khal and It made him very popular In ha the Philippines Ills IUs frankness and I unmistakable sincerity of 01 purpose din dis disarmed I armed those n who had mado made up ar II then their r minds to 10 show bitterness against his rule tulo and he leaves Manila with the sat of ot Knowing that ha lie will bi be b missed ml e Henry Clay Ide General successor as liS chief executive of at the Philippines went to Manila ai ac a n a mem mein ber of the lon In 1900 and th the following year was made inada secretary for lor finance and Justice a position demand domand Ing the exercise of 01 great ability an and n t good 1001 Judgment Ho Ha Is a native of ot Ver mont moot born at Barnot In 1844 Hs lie w VI VIan was i an honor man at Dartmouth In 1866 and ano became principal of at nil mt academy at St Johnsbury Ide studied law white w hll in III thin position and was teas wa soon eoon admitted to practice and aiM In a short time line had built up the largest arest legal business In the county count lIe He soon entered enter d the political fl loll neld ia and served e rv d several terms term In the state legislature In 1891 he was appointed on the part of the tinted States to act In conjunction with commissioner from Irom Great Britain and Germany In th the Ille settlement of the land troubles In fn Sa Samoa Samoa Samoa moa His services were rue so 80 highly ap appreciated predated by the time governments Inter Interested ested that upon the Initiative of Get Ger Germany many he was appointed chief Justice for tor the Island with a II salary of IKO per PH annum In he n 1900 when President McKinley realizing the tha Importance of 01 securing tried men mon for lor the position was wu deciding as to tho the membership of tho mho Philippine commission ht he h chose rho Mr Ide r linen that time lime th the Vermont man hn hR hoe served his hit government moat acceptably though falling failing health will compel him hint to return to the states In the near ear fu tu future ture tue Mr Mn Ida Ide Is a widower and he hIS baa lias three daughters EVAN C MITCHELL |