Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-04
AT ST. JAMES.


Minister TO England has caused a great
deal of talk and some discomfort among
both parties; and yet Secretary Bayard
has selected him after a long acquaint-
ance with all the leading men in both
parties and has paid him the distin-
guished compliment of saying he thought
Mr.. Phelps a more competent man for
Secretary of State than himself, while
Minister Lowell feels that in his success
sor the nation will be honored and the
interests of American citizens fully pro-
tected. That Mr.. Lowell has represented
us at st. James with grace and ability all
readily admit, and his prudence last sum-
mer in relation to the arrest of suspects"
who claimed the protection of the flag
was such as to command the gratitude of
all Americans and the respect of English
men. That Mr.. Lowell was termed an
English dude and much berated by
large class, class who always berate re-
spectability and moderation, was but
additional evidence that his course had
been proper and such as TO obtain the
en- sought without bluster and with
out irritation. Mr.. Walsh and Mr..
Lowell have restored our good
ne ing European courts, and that
NJ Phelps will continue our fair
tame none VIII doubt. The chief obiec-
jections to Mr.. Phelps have been that he
has done no particular service for the
parry, stnd lat his State, Vermont, is
not and possibly never will be Demo
cratic. These IRE two. strange reasons
why b. sho"lo not be selected, and espe-
cially Vhsl r is remembered that
all through Ais rublic life President
Cleveland has been pre-eminently a
reform man, and thar it was on his known
sincerity in all his reform measures, both
as Mayor OF Buffalo and as Governor of
New York, that he was nominated as the
Democratic candidate for President, and
as a reformer he was elected. Was it to
the workers, the ward politicians and
the party bosses that he owed his cleo
ton? Rather was it not to the men who
first of all thought that government was
Instituted for the benefit OF all citizens
and the country at large than to those
who thought that the party was the coun-
try, and that all who did not adhere to
the party were enemies of the country?
1t may be that in the convention which
nominated Mr.. Cleveland there were
Democrats who thought as Flanagan had
said in the Republican convention of four
years before: "What are we here for if
not for the ofices?" If any such were
there, they very prudently kept
silent. The old war cry that to
the victor belong the spoils if raised
in political battle to-day would lead the
party that took it for watchworG to de- /
feat. The other cry, which has been +
heard SO much of late, that the men for
cabinet positions must come from differ
ent parts and represent different sections
with different interests is equally bad.
This cry is brought to bear against Mr..
Phelps, but without any effect. Does it
in any way initiate against Mr.. Phelps
fitness for the post of minister to the
Court of st. James that he is
| "way down easter" and not
| "way out western 1t seems
o be forgotten that the appointments
ire made to represent us abroad as one
lation and with one interest as to foreign
Itfairs, and are not based upon the bal
nee of power between the General Gov
rnment and the different States, and
What powers are delegated to theNGeneral
government and what rights are reserved
the States or to the people. This new
heory OF appointments seems based upon
new theory of government, that as to
'reign powers and foreign affairs we are
federation and as to internal and do ,
nestle affairs we are single govern
lent and strongly centralized. The ,
eyerse of this is the fact, and ,
losing sight of il we lose sight ,
the American idea of government. :
ut the most puerile objection of all is
nat Mr.. Phelps at heart is not with the q
asses. Is it because he does not 90 out !;
sand lot and harangue large crowd =,
r hours that he is not with the masses q
heart? Or is it because he NAV not 4
cept all the theories of Mr.. Henry q,
Gorge in regard to land? Surely no "
an was ever more deeply interested in II
ose who We're far beneath the masses. ~,
ose who were prohibited by harsh and "
uel laws from becoming of the IN
asses, the negroes, than Wendell q,
lillips; and after all no one was 6,
ore of an aristocratic nature in social re- .,
lions than Phillips; yet it would be a .,
Id man who would dare assert that
lillips heart did not beat as warmly
, the slaves as did Garison's or John
owns. The wrongs of the negroes II
ed Phillips with an ardor and enthusi
N that will give him an enduring fame
d a name among the heroes of human ii,
hts. Then again it is urged against na
:. Phelps that, being man of learning 81
OF urbane manners, he will become. he
he is not already one, an Englishman
heart, being even now half an aristo-
It. Because Mr.. Parnell is an aristocrat nj
d man who in his social relations is sp
most as exclusive as the Queen, does nn no
unfit him to be the leader of the Ma in
nalists and the champion of Ireland's OF
ongs. Such objections ora dA,.,oo,o,.;o CO