The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, June 17, 1913, Page 3, Image 3
W. E. GONZALES NAMED ffTJi
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APPOINTED M1N1STKK TO CUBA South^C
regimenl
To Servo United States Government Cuba.
in Country For Which His _ Captal
A *.> .? Februarj
Father Fought. Shiver.
Washington Special to Columbia ,l?0crt
State, June 14.?The nomination of ,wr
Capt. William E. Gonzales of Colum- , r f e q ,
bia to be envoy extraordinary and ^ !
minister plenipotentiary to Cuba, Captal
sent to the senate yesterday by , ose
President Wilson, has been expected
here for some time, although it was . , .
not definitely known until Thursday _ ? \
night that it would be made public sales, )v
> Just now.
JBj'' When the news that this appoint- 11,1(1 r Vs]
* meat had been made became current struggle!
, A1 A ., , _ , Rotufoan
iwuuuu iii? senate me general opin
ion expressed wus that because of ^ as ('?'?
Captain Gonzales' special fitness for koutli C
the position, in addition to his cease- ('a 'n
less work for the Democratic party "eauregi
during his entire lifetime, the Pros- 0,')er B*
ident had made an excellent selec- Greensbt
tion. It is one, as seen here, that is ^as. n*aI
most especially fitting in every way. **3Jtiedg
It was the logical thing, it was point- ^ illiam
cd out, for Captain Gonzales to be- r ^
come the representative of the Uni- ^?.aTn
ted States in the country for which ,
his distinguished father fought and jor Cuba
bled many years ago, and for which ln? OT\e '
he himself volunteered in the Span- *ho aec
ish-American war. The fact that [he j?
this honor came to him entirely un- ban "a?
solicited shows the. high regard in n'
which he is held by the President, ?f tbt8 1
observers said. commani
Those who know of the valiant ?|en.era .
deeds of the elder Gonzales and of J1/'81 Ca1
his undying love for the Cuban cause J^1? Inde
believe that President Wilson could Cardenai
not have possibly made a better se- ex?'ed ar
lection for this high and honorable sentence
position. th? sPai
In choosing Captain Gonzales to F
go to Cuba, the President has named
a Democrat of the highest type. Cuba,
It is men of this stamp that the Wil- Gonzales
son administration requires to make envoy <
it a complete success. plenipoti
Those who were fortunate enough States, ii
to be with Captain Gonzales at the world, ci
Baltimore convention and to know tion. T1
what was going on inside party lines Haban
saw a fighter all the way through. one of t
He stood at the guns when it looked world, h
as if Wilson might lose the nomina- Eight
tion and when the convention stam- steamshi
peded for Champ Clark on that to Haba
memorable night last June when shrippini
Democracy was choosing her stand- so's and
ard bearer, he never faltered. As that of
ballot after ballot seemed to indi- port exo
cate almost certainly the turning of The e
the tide towards the Clark forces? year 191
in the heat of the battle Captain More
Gonzales was there. Quietly and have mo
unobtrusively he was there, helping seven ye
to shape the country's future policy, ropeans,
and when the Clark stampede had are aboil
worn itself out and the tide again Stati
began to turn, but this time Wil- The p
son's way, the Carolinian was still shown b
there fighting for the man who is per cent
now President. When the smoke of i Kroes.
hnttln hoH nurnv on/1 \A711o/\n I CTPH t f'f
was declared the nominee, Captain in any c
Gonzales quietly went about his and Texs
way, and only those who had been as in Sc
with him during those eventful days Cuba's
when convention hall was all ex- rank of
citement were able to realize the in- with the
fluence which he wielded in behalf and Ohh
of Woodrow Wilson?now President Cuba, th
Wilson. legation
Secretary Bryan of the state de- legation,
partment made the follownig vol- absence
untary statement regarding the ap- cer of th
pointment yesterday afternoon: major o
"Mr. Gonzales is a man splendid- tache. 1
ly qualified for the position for I gress to
which he has been appointed. He is I represen
of Cuban ancestry and would there-| provisioi
fore go with a feeling of deep and America!
sincere friendship for the people. annual r
"He was ji soldier in the war of The U
Cuban independence, as was his sular re
father in the earlier movements for only its
independence. and Par
"Mr. Gonzales has long been iden- consul g
tifide with journalism in his state with tl
end is a progressive of long stand- Hamburj
ing. No better selection could possibly
have been made."
In making (he announcement of FOItTY
the appointment at the White
House, the President wished it un- since Ci
derstood through Secretary Tumulty
that he had the utmost confidence
in the perfect ability of Captain ( olumbh
Gonzales to represent the United v'illia
States in the position to which he |l0nii,is,t?
has just been named with the greatest
degree of success. The high per- fj,,jstor
sonal regard in which Captain Gon- ....I'lir. ?
vuloa la hal/1
... ... ....... .... w.v> . .^^....^..1 .r. g0? (V
shown in the selection. invested
The nomination will go through m,.nt wp
the regular channel during the next ., .. .
few days. It will then be confirmed, ?^0 (
and after arranging the necessary ?r.*(je e(
red tape at the state department in- ,, ,
cident to his removal from the Uni- uollli.
ted States, Captain Gonzales will be ^<Mice Oi
prepared to represent this country . , ,
in one pt the highest and mt,.->t im- ^Jav '- ^
portant foreign posts in which any ' <'p|1|s's
man could be named. f , '
This is the first time in over half . li^tln
a century that a ministry of the first (^( ' polf>
rank has been conferred on a South
Carolinian. son of t
(1820-18
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF FOlt 1? YEARS L. Orr I
Francis
Itefore 1003 Captain Gonzales Was *V,IS ''PI"
.... - ed his p
News Editor of Tlie State. ton's ik
William Elliott Gonzales, editor- names of
in-chief of The State, who was Fri- Middletoi
day nominated by the President to out the
be minister to Cuba, has had edl- of his p:
torinl direction of The State for ten diplomat
years, having succeeded in that rela- Gen. An*
tlon his brother, the late N. G Gon- lution, w
zales. Captain Gonzales was news ber of tl
editor of The State for some years eral asse
preceding li>03. lie is 4 7 years old. Kress, a
Horn in Charleston and educated of South
at King's Mountain Military School, few Sout
Yorkville, and the Citadel (the Mili- past een
tary Academy of South Carolina.) portance
in Charleston. Captain Gonzales en- cal ment
tered journalism as Columbia cor- the Ency
respondent of The Charleston News I,. Orr. a
and Courier, serving in that capacity of Virgin
from 1884 to 1888 lie was private war, for
secretary to John Peter Richardson ntntn w
governor of Houth Carolina, for two member
years, and fdnc< then has been Intl- time bo
mutely id' 11 if ? ? with th< develop- house of
ment of Tie stati Ln - g the member
Spaninh-An.f r,<; war n? rst was Rove
adjutant itie ndependeiit t at- der the
THE LANCASTER NEW{
om South Carolina (May 4 was a federal circuit judge and, as
ist 23.) and later (August stated above, died minister to Rus
i, to April 30, 1899) was sia.
of a company in the Second Nomination of Captain Gonzales
aroliua Volunteer Infantry to be minister to Cuba effects a ceri,
which he accompanied to tain balance in respect of the representation
of different portions ol
In Gonzales was married,' South Carolina in diplomatic service
i 2, 1887, to Miss Sura C. Pickens lived at Edgefield and
They have two children, hence was considered to be identiE.
Gonzales Is an editorial fled with the low country. Orr was
n The State, Allda Gonzales from Greenville, and so was creditd.
The family residence is <>d to the Piedmont. Captain Gonlate
street, Columbia. zales, residing at the capital and
In Gonzales is the brother of having done here his life work, may
i E. Gonzales, president, bp said to represent the middle secr
and general manager of tion of the state.
Le Company. Their father, South Carolina in ante-bellum
General Ambrose Jose Gon- times produced some of America'*
as associated with Narciso greatest diplomatists. South Caro
i some of the most gallant |jIla statesmen in fact devoted theii
jierate of the earlier Cuban attention chiefly to diplomacy in tin
5 for liberty, and in the War ,.ariy years of the constitution
the Sections in America Eater their attention was absorbed
nel and chief of artillery for by domestic politics. In 179S
arolina, Georgia and Flori- Thomas Piuckney (minister to Engle
Confederate army, under laml 1792-4, and to Spain, 1794-6,)
ird, Hardee, Pemberton and negotiated with the Madrid governmerals
He surrendered at meat "the most brilliant treatv tin
XT n n.. ' "? *
/iv/, t-.. v,. vjvufiai uuuzaies country had gained since the sign
ried in 1856 to Harriett jng Gf fbe pence." In 179 7 Charles
s Elliott, daughter of Gen. Cotesworth Pinckney, his brother
Elliott of Beaufort, mem- taught France to respect his countrj
longress. General Gonzales by bjg defiance of the demands ol
ative of Matanzas, Cuba, corrupt Directory in his answer
pez he "began the struggle "Not a sixpence, sir!"?later popu.n
independence in 184 8, be- iariZed into "Millions for defence
af the junta of five members but no^ one Cent for tribute!" Waddared
the independence of ^y Thompson served with distinction
id, adopted the present Cu- ag mini8ter in Mexico from $1842
sad organized the first fill- to 1344 Calhoun, as secretary ol
I expedition under Lopez. state in 184 4-5, conducted the dellsxpedltion
he was second in cate negotiations with Mexico and
i, with the rank of brigadier Engiand with skill that promoted
General Gonzales was the t^e advantageous outcome of both
ban wounded in battle for deputes,
pendence of the Island?at
3, May 20, 1850. He was
'd?(,o;40theay.oa,heWha?udsd^ LANE'S NEY POLICY
lish government. FOR ELECTRIC RATES
ACTS ABOUT CUBA .
to which republic Captain Declares Government Wishes to De1
was Friday appointed velop Its Streams for Electrical
extraordinary and minister Purposes For People,
mtiary from the United
s the richest country in the Washington, June 15.?"The
onsidering area and popula- lower the rate charged to consumers
he island is 74 0 miles long, by electric power companies, th<
a, the seat of government, lower will be the tax, which such
he oldest cities of the New power companies must pay to th(
as 300,000 inhabitants. government."
American and 18 European Secretary Lane of the interioi
p companies operate lines department, today announced this
na, and Habana's foreign a? the "heart of the policy adoptee
both in number of ves- as to the disposition of water rights
1 tonnage, is greater than of the government.'*
any other North American Mr. Lane has pending before hin
ppt New York. several applications for rights tc
xports from Cuba for the use the public lands and the waters
0 were worth $150,000,000. of navigable streams for the devolp
than 200,000 immigrants ment of electrical power. He is op
ved into Cuba in the past posed to making use of these waters
ars. Most of them are Eu- as a source of revenue to the gov
Spanish and English. There eminent, but is in favor of requirinf
it 7,000 citizens of the Uni- the fullest use of them for the bene
28 in that republic. fit of the people and has laid dowr
roportion of the races, as five conditions as "an ideal stand
y the latest census is 7 0.3 ard." These conditions are:
white, 29.7 per cent ne- "l?The greater the developmen
In other words, there is a of horse-power, the lower the charg<
proportion of whites than per horse-power to be made on th<
oast state between Virginia part of the government. This is in
is. and almost twice as great tended to secure the full use of th<
?uth Carolina. streams.
3 legation is in the highest "2?The lower the rate to con
legations. It is In the grade sumers the lower the charge on th<
republic of Argentine, Spain nart of the eovernment
la. Besides the minister to "3?No charge whatever for i
tere are a first secretary of period of five or ten years, durinf
and a second secretary of which the power company is findinj
who are in charge in the its market,
of the minister; and an otil- "4?Acceptance as public utility
q American army, a captain, of the state's jurisdiction over inter
r colonel, as military at- state rates and service, and of fed
In a idll pending before Con- era) jurisdiction over interstati
provide homes for American rates and service.
tatives at foreign capitals, "5?Absolute prohibition o
i is made for a home for the combination or monopoly and tlx
a minister at Hnbana, at an right of revocation on the part o
ental of $7,000. the government in the event that i
nited States has a large con- is established to the satisfaction o
presentation in Cuba, and the secretary of the interior or tlx
consuls generals at London courts that such combination hai
is outrank the American been made or that prices have beei
enerai at Habana. lie ranks fixed by agreement with competing
Hose at Liverpool, Berlin, plants."
? and Shanghai.
Point* ot Interest Regarding Mr
YEARS THE INTERVAL Daniels.
The New York Herald in review
irolinian Has Held a Eirst i?g President Wilson's cabinet sin
('lass Post. gled out the secretary of the navy
Mr. Daniels' with the following
1 unique paragraphs:
m E. Gonzales of Coiumxia, He does not smoke, drink, chew
id by the President last or swear.
be envoy extraordinary and He is infatuated with hard work
plenipotentiary to the re- He hasn't much money and does
f Cuba, will be the first not care for it
arolinian in 4 0 years to be He is one of the best liked met
by the Washington govern- in the cabinet
til a ministerial portlfolio of Walk right up and slap him or
order. the back, lie is not warlike, despit<
liplomatic appointment of his belligerent title.
iual to that of minister to There were no silver spoons ir
s been held by a citizen of the Daniels family when Josephui
arolina since James Law- arrived His parents were in a po
r, minister to Russia, died sition to give him a name, and thai
ost in the Russian capital . I urn a n Kd i ?t oil
1873. He is one of the likable, old-fash
tate, by the way, has in dif- Joned, easy going type hut there is
rises had three sons, each no use trying to bluff him. He
gulshed ability, resident in dresses for comfort,
rsburg, as representatives This man looks for the moral sid<
nited States near to the per- of every question and then gets or
he Czar. Henry Middleton that side.
130) was the first and Jas.
he third. The second was
Wilkinson Pickens, who The Itea.son.
>inted in 1858 and request- A ,ittIe Kir! of 7 or 8 st00(l b,.for,
assports in lSGit.. Middle- a cjose^ pate
ime even from amid the A gentleman passed slowly. The
half a dozen other famous jjttle girl turned and said to him:
ns, still shines clear from "Will you please open this gate
mists of the years, because (or Im,9"
itriotism and his skill as a The gentleman did so. Then hf
ist. Pickens, grandson of sai(J j<|n,||v;
Irow Pickens of the llevo- "Why, my child, couldn't you
as at various times a mem- 0p,.n the gate for yourself?"
le lower house of the gen- 4'Hecnuse," said the little girl
mbly, a member of (on- "tbe paint's not dry yet."
state senator and governor And he looked at his hands and
Carolina. He Is one of the believed her
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