Show I I Honorable Richard nas as a Democratic Presidential 1 WI J j I V n may be the hot ho t outcome of ot the move 9 meat t In favor fa or of ot nom mating ex former at nt attorney atE E I 51 torney general ral and fleet secretary of ot slate lato slaten n Wellard Olney Olne as the Democratic candidate lanell I for fOl the presidency It ItIn ItI ItIs In Is I agreed on oft all 1111 sides aides that Mr Mv Ir Olney 1 himself has hns nut not made any efforts to toward 4 ward wallI Hint that end He lie may bellove as OR tho the late Inte Thomas II It I teeth Heed onen on said eald of ot his own prospective nomination that they might do and probably will U but ut lit at all nil events he hi linn has not lIot declared I As AI n a noted once sold I of ot him Olney never put I ut up nIl any tiny light ald s to tog jet get et u n shoo a hook for tor or he heIs it u e Is fit f l not ilOt that kind pd k lid of ot a n man manHorn Horn Born r Sept Set IB 15 1816 Mr tr f Olney Iney Is now d In hie year rear anti and Is rather nt beyond the tho age nrc limit an nn unwritten law has lias prescribed lre us as that which no preal presidential t candidate shall exceed The oldest of our presidents W H IL horn Harri Harrison I r G I son lon was tuns Just this ago age when whon Inaugurated inaugurated rated nn cj Buchanan tens eIx Jut but i Mr Olney Oln 1 It If elected would In 1803 1905 bo be bolit boIn bed d t In lit hit his ym yens However the K gentleman under consideration has n a ar r record for tot age that his health and up lip bell belie having always taken tin the lest Jut of or care gre of at and lived a n alife lift life lit conducive to longevity lIy No objection against Mr Olney Olne ran can nn be bo found on the score More of ot age and ami his hili hisa II a record r Is li a 11 clean and commendable ono one Pr Ia from start atari to finish He Ile had the good It P fortune to be lit born of at poor but honest to 10 parents Parente and In n the Iho country having h first se seen Hn n the light In trio the little town lown of at Oxford Mass bias As All a t descendent of ot Thomas Thomal Olney the aret t 1 of the name I s a It f In America a who did n t route mine over ocr In Inthe Inthe ind rv the but u fL few Cew yearn later lil d M if 4 und anti settled at nt Salem Jn Mass Mais In 18 he hc can cun trace his lineage hick back to a sturdy English ancestry The first t Olney In Inthis Inthis this county country was of ot an nn Independent In turn and 1111 1 becoming attached to the fag fa ta famous moue Roger Williams accompanied that worthy when he hI was banished hanl from tram the state slate for hi his hili opinions shared with him hint his hll martyrdom and also Rl o as ne assisted II t 1 In the founding of ot Providence Plantation In Island Inland One of ot his Ills descendants Richard Olney removed from providence to tu the town of ot Oxford Worcester county Muse Mas In 1819 1810 where his hll eldest son lon Wilson Olney Din became active In the Ihl of o a woolen t goods and In the th B mat management a of ot a n hunk Here re eldest son th the subject d of at this title sketch wn was born exactly MO tOO years after his first Ameri American can an ancestor settled nt at and here he Il his hI youth The rho house houle lit m which he hit was born still mill stands s In hr Ox Oxford ford forti a II square old fashioned dwelling once owned on d by his Ills grandfather As AI the oldest of ot three sons eons Richard set the pare pace for Cor his younger brothers and lilt It was wal a good one too loo for he was always first t In hU his class claM at fit school chool and foremost In III healthy hearty exercise o Ills fa ta fathers tag means Jn were IHO limited but the eider Olney decided to give his hili sons IOn a good education whether he accumulated R 1 wealth or not and so 10 sent to 10 Leicester academy whence he lie went to university where when he h was wan grad graduated graduated rad with high honors In 1856 1866 After Atter taking train ills his degree at Harvard LAW LaIT school In 1868 ISM he hc was admitted to the Suffolk bar and Ami entered the of or Judge F Thomas with whom who he hI was WAI associated many years yearn and anti whose daughter he ht married In 1841 Almost Almol from the first he lie made mude a ape specialty II dally of wills willi and the laws larva of corpora thins In both hoth of ot which subjects he 11 U is a II recognized authority Ills His cli of ot G z 7 N Ira s A AHON 1 a of ofer er I 1 e HON nON RICHARD RICHAED OLNEY OF STATE perception and soundness of or Intellect aided by his hll profound ledge of lit the iho law and ami his truly trul judicial of at mind mink says lAYS a prominent nt la law journal rave gave him peculiar advantage In lit leading lead leadIng leadIng Ing his clients to la a l safe end and sure eure po position II lie He had hall taken laken no prominent t part In politics polities save having haIng d u a year oar ir in iii tin the legislature In It t and when hen In InI I I I hi h accepted the Ih po of attorney ney rte general In President second cabinet all 1111 his brother members of oC the Suffolk her bar were greatly cur sur surprised as all he had always alo shrunk from I holding public In tat tact so pro i was his aversion to publicity I I that notwithstanding he was wall then one I of ot the foremost lawyers In the country and In receipt of ot an Income comparable I with that of ot the national executive himself the thc newspapers of ot his own city At nt the time hardly horelly knew him anti had great grent In getting his hla portrait President Cleveland had hll become ac nc acquainted with him In n a 1 professional way however und ani was tens greatly Im Impressed impressed pressed pre Be with the superior mental quail qualities ties tics of ot the tho successful Boston nos ton lawyer laar whom whoa he not only admired but later on stood In awe n wc of ot It Is averred as a n mar man martI more mure unyielding than thon tI i athan himself u 1 Ian he 10 I hail had taken n a position he believed to be he right Mr Ir Olney Olne had a II sum summer nor cottage nt at Falmouth only fifteen n miles from the line presidents Gray Om Gables l and It as n the society of ot their section was as Oil lim ilia limited Iced as OR It was exclusive the thc Hoston law lawyer lawyer yer yel and tho the Duffalo lIoner were thrown together a II t great Brent I deal dealOn dealOn enl enlOn On the death of at Walter Q Gresham Mr Ir Olney was WAil appointed secretary of state and took the oath of at June 10 1895 1805 It H was stated nt lit the tho time that It had hall l icon Iun cun a foregone conclusion that Olney should succeed Judge Gresham In the position made maele vacant by his deot anti that In file fact I the president hall hail no other choice That Mr Ir Olney filled pled It to the presidents president satisfaction and carried forward thc rho energetic pulley pull poll policy cy ey c that had hae been outlined by hy his la ln lamented predecessor Is us admitted by h nil All nillie He lie hall had become heran to rather r unpopular with some public men mon on account a of his somewhat brusque manner of ot receiving politicians on the hunt for far positions when ho hI was attorney general but buthe buthe buthe he was waR on ou the other hand loud always popular will 1111 his friends who admired his unaffected air nil of at frankness his wit and his lite brilliant powers of ot conversa conversation lion tion As 9 a host hOlt he was uno a and lint Is III tine line and his charming wife aided him greatly In entertaining during their stay sla In iii Washington The greatest triumph of ot Mr diplomatic enrco It out doubt was WIlS won while he ho vt its toll secretary of or state nod and In connection with the settlement 11 of at the Ven zu jn bourd 1 y ettl It H Is III wild sold thud rn Hn IM Garr 1 titan of Judge fr ham Mr lr u i rj ts costing nl ui r t i r a U m aft ne hg n Ill the helm In III r fir v i a 1 it ja J lie he certainly and t mil In S1 I All tr torney torne gen i ii Mi k nn in Iny i t been In tu n s t tit ati n snit Ji It r Gr fry ham over ocr ih tI V 11 n i a f t It m wn informed II as 1 tui tut tu when he h sun w u asps t i 1 o r j e of nr MK tm In II v t ru studied it il ill n U tl iI a I I n ti 1 n u I L j M ti 0 t tit Its Ita it Widest Ide l 1 l a i n r the latter r ml t 11 h I m In question I thu I ii n I Jr i r s a acu l cu cUllon alon il a JI as IJ I sp came to 10 this II fini f tm i y J m to h I in JIT ur mv s n il as e of ot se it I tin lacy o or of ably abl belt Jell r i r in p t 11 u I i II t than thon any fin otti r i i ul lilI ear tun rt I try tr He lie II 11 I o bi Ji c v n s fact the thc same lam i n a nt nUal eft cf I t fidelity and Ind in Inn Inh or of ri roe fa charnel M I K as a ls l which he r s v to au t rma r t iII profession mid and a paired tin Ih rz 11 which he hr N Is t today Personally i r Mr bIr 0 t r weighing shout about 2 No HI tI x and well s F sec i up lb H 11 l t III b t O Practices x r rand I p anti and by hy they 1 n Ill I jt self In iii ol r 7 pk In hue has not at al lint SIT gins KI I s a e tI bring rs r to t the t lIt tV y t I h he U IS iS among anong frit Is ani u IS a 8 yi uhe I Itil lied upon In UH u t y v nr i g Jt leaving pULl I l h rr K rt iG e of Un law In do I Hit Hithe x i he has hall a beautiful r ent n t avenue J MARTIN AnTI JE t |