Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1909 — BACON TO SUCCEED WHITE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BACON TO SUCCEED WHITE

Paris Hears Ex-Secretary of State Is to Be Ambassador. Paris, June B.—Private advices received here* from Washington state that Robert Bacon, ex-secretary of state, has accepted the ambassadorship

to France and that he will succeed Henry White at the end of the year. According to these, advices, Bacon when he was first offered the post declined to accept it, preferring that White should be retained, but, finding that President Taft had-resolved in any' event to replace finally agreed to accept.

ROBERT BACON.