Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-31
MORE SUPPORT.

One of the most satisfactory and fitting
nominations that President Cleveland has
made. was that of Mr.. Phelps, of Yer
mont, to be Minister to the Court of st.
James. Such being the case it was but
natural and to be expected that the jour
nal which "hold the foremost place
among newspapers for a thousand miles
in either direction should give the Ad-
ministration Earnest praise" for making
such nomination If did, and here is
what it had to say:
What tce did sag tCdS that IL might look
STRANGE TO Northern radicals to see the author
of the BigelO1v Papers ousted from office to
GiUe place TO man like Phelps. And we
gave our reasons. Itwas because, late in the
war of the Rebellion, in the autumn of 1864,
this man had not only abused Mr.. Lincoln,
but had insulted the region in which he HIM
self was born and the soldiers who had died
and were dying for the Union, by declaring
that native-born men could not be obtained
to fight. and that the object of the
war was only on the part of the
North to steal the slaves of the South
and make the female slaves mistresses.
We hare not said at before, bit ace 1UiU nOaU,
that the appointment Of such q man to dtty
office Ia the gift Of the United States as a
direct insult TO euei'g soldier acho fought an
the cause Of The Union, and to ecery man
and iUonldn 10ho Sympdthized aCith those
lUhO fought. This writer objects to
what we said last summer about
Mr.. Cleveland, and talks about our
shameful attacks, not only on President
Cleveland's intellect, but as to his moral
character and wants to know if the Tribune
ever offered an apology. Hardly. We gave
our ideas of his intellect fairly, according to
data supplied. We made no attack upon
his moral character, but simply published
what was charged; what Mr.. Cleveland
never denied, what his nearest friends ad-
mitted to be true. The lCriter Is impressed
1Cith the Nea0 Jersey speech Of Mr. CIereldnd.
That is all right; we do not object; but we
should be sorry to think that there is any
town of twenty thousand people in the
United States that does not contain a man
who can equal it, for there is not a sentence
an at ADORE DlediOcTity.
But this was not all it had to say in
commendation of Mr.. Phelps. On the
4th OF March it paid him this distin-
guished compliment:
AL the eUideHce goes to ShOlU that the ser
riceS Of Phelps, to either party or country,
hare been eri. He is one Of those polished
intellectual men 1gho has not been, IN heart.
dOlUn among the masses of has party or
country for gears. and the reason lVtich has
come for his appointment is that he did not
ask for the place.
No graver charge could be brought
against man than this, for what, in a
republican form OF government, can be
more destructive of freedom and the
rights of man, an American man, than
that Minister to one of the first Courts
should be polished, intellectual man?
What "true Americans" desire is to see
man of the General Choke type, nom
mated to such places, for such a
man has sterling worth, and it is his
pride that he has neither intellect nor
polish. Such a man could enter the
Queens drawing room, and in few mo-
ments destroy all the furniture and car
pets by eXpectorating tobacco juice, and
show the Queen and the Ambassadors of
emperorS and kings that he was a free
born, unintellectual, unpublished Ameri-
can, in fact the very antipodes of what
Mr.. Phelps is. Now, every "true Ameri-
can" hangs his head in shame when he
thinks that such a man as Mr.. Phelps
the country at the Court of st.
James when there are so many men who,
in heart, are right down among the
masses OF the people and are without
and are without those ter
rible stains upon their character-intel-
lect and polish. General Logan would
partly answer, only he has employment.