Show COL DAN LAMONT The following pen picture of Col Dan Lamontthe Presidents private Secretary is from the New York World and gives anew a-new view of this remarkable man I have heard here from informed a high and well political source a new view of the relations between the President and his Private Secretary that is a different view from the one current in Washington In Washington it is believed that the Presi dent confides in Lamont more than in one else but it is not generally known any that he has more actual influence with the Presi dent than anyone and that he has more to do today with the shaping of the policy of the Cabinet administration than any members of the It was further said that when Lamont asked by the President to go to Washington was the latter replied that he could not afford to to go Washington on account of the small salary paid To this the President replied that this need not part them and for him to help himself that was needed to his salary for all This was a very cenerous offer but it is said here that President Cleveland has met every outside offer to tempt his political mascot away from him by the Colonels allowance an increase of However that may be it is clear from the I evidence of the friends of both Cleveland and Ttnmnnt linto 4n4 t u + v 40 mut me union between the two men is as close as it is remarkable Every man whom I have seen here who has had any experience in looking after in places Washington says that he discovered be fore he left Washington that Lamont was real premier of the Administration or As sistant President No list of appointments made out bv even Mr Manning in this State could go without first being submitted Colonel Lamont to It is said here that it I was this influ ence of the great private bottom secretary that was at the last spring of some feeling between + the m President and his Secretarv nf fl I treasury This feeling never amounted to J anything serious but it is hardly to be posed that sup I any of the cabinet officers of looked their with indifference upon the spectacle have r suggestions private being revised by the secretary The President has duced the re position of his cabinet officers the chief whois the private to secretary The secret of Colonel Lamonts with the influence President lies largely in his hon esty and loyalty He is the the Administration only member of family who is heart soul for Mr and Cleveland else He has no as against anyone personal f ing those C ambitions rival ose of his chief Hn ia i anM4 served vtiouicUlJ TO ity for work secretive He and is in untiring in his capac word the Presidents every sense of the right hand More than that the Colonel looks ially after the espec keeps their interests mugwumps It is he who is constantly in view and I always on the alert to with the Administration keep them in line Surrounded as Cleveland is by the biLious and the am wondered at that indifferent he it is not to be rests so much slightfigured private upon his and Clevelands appreciation secretary His loyalty of the most make up one heard about interesting the Administration stories I have ever |