. "Marse Henry" : an autobiography. said: What are youdoing about Winchester? Relying on the Secretary of State, who servedin Congress with him and knows him well. Then he asked: What do you want for Win-chester? I answered: Belgium or Switzerland. He said: I promised Switzerland for a friendof Comings. He brought him over here yesterdayand he is an out-and-out Republican who voted forBlaine, and I shall not appoint him. If you wantthe place for Winchester, Winchester it is. Next day, much to Mr. Bayards surprise, thecommission was made out. Mr. Cleveland had a way of sudden fancies tonew and
. "Marse Henry" : an autobiography. said: What are youdoing about Winchester? Relying on the Secretary of State, who servedin Congress with him and knows him well. Then he asked: What do you want for Win-chester? I answered: Belgium or Switzerland. He said: I promised Switzerland for a friendof Comings. He brought him over here yesterdayand he is an out-and-out Republican who voted forBlaine, and I shall not appoint him. If you wantthe place for Winchester, Winchester it is. Next day, much to Mr. Bayards surprise, thecommission was made out. Mr. Cleveland had a way of sudden fancies tonew and sometimes queer people. Many of his ap-pointments were eccentric and fell like bombshellsupon the Senate, taking the appointees home peo-ple completely by surprise. The recommendation of influential politiciansseemed to have little if any weight with him. There came to Washington from Richmond agentleman by the name of Keiley, backed by theVirginia delegation for a minor consulship. ThePresident at once fell in love with him.[120]. MR. WATTEKSONS LIBRARY AT jtAKSFIELD MARSE HENRY Consul be damned, he said. He is worth morethan that, and named him Am^bassador to Vienna. It turned out that Mrs. Keiley was a Jewess andwould not be received at court. Then he namedhim Ambassador to Italy, when it appeared thatKeiley was an intense Roman Cathohc, who hadmade at least one ultramontane speech, and wouldbe persona non grata at the Quirinal. Then Cleve-land dropped him. Meanwhile poor Keiley hadclosed out bag and baggage at Richmond and wasat his wits end. After much ado the President wasbrought to a realizing sense and a place was foundfor Keiley as consul general and diplomatic agentat Cairo, whither he repaired. At the end of thefour years he came to Paris and one day, crossingthe Place de la Concorde, he was run over by atruck and killed. He des^r-^^ a longer career anda better fate, for he was a man of real capacity. Ill Taken to task by thick and thin Democraticpartisans for my cri
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