Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-18

Mt. i. l. barry OF Chicago, writes to us
as follows:
am Republican, but | cannot see
| Whit HOod our party can derive from
HSslnG such an exalted character and
lhcomprumlSing patriot a Allen g. Thur
! uah,Nllh Hubert .. Thompson, Higgins,
! an khtr ana other heelerS of the Demo
| iauc party. There is not in American pub
L. ne to-day purer man than Mr.. Thur
| nan. Ii both parties contained more of
| 'Hch men the people would be relieved of
! good deal of the mistrust they have for
| he average politician. 1t is to him more
man any other that the country is ndebt-
tu Tor whatever of the peoples rights can
he eNtorted from the Union Pacific rail
road monopoly. No man IN Ohio is better
mated by the coal oil legislature that elect
ed SUMMATION Payne to the United
states senate, and no man is more feared
by the ward heelers of johnny Mclean
and George Hoadley than Mr.. Thurman.
III Is because of his championship of the
people rights and his advocacy of an eX-
9ittd public virtue that he has been sat
doWn upon by the bosses and wire pulers
81 ms own party. 1t were far
better for the Democratic party to have
been defeated with Thurman us Il leader
imam successful with nOndescript who
was so unfamiliar with the affairs of State
as to scarcely know the latitude and long
ltude OF the capital of his country.
Our correspondent quite mistakes the
feeling and attitude of this paper towards
Mr.. thurman. We have often praised
his honesty and independence. Senator
Edmunds and he stood size by side in the
contest with the Pacific railroads, and
both rendered service to the public, in
that and other kindred matters, which
ought not to be lightly forgotten. We
dld not class Mr., Thurman with Thomp-
son and Faulkner as regards character, or
KIND of party service The New York
lold claimed that Mr.. Thurman had a
claim to the English mission, by reason
OF his PARTY services We suggested that
on that score, Higgins, Thompson or
Faulkner might advance Il stronger claim
Mr., Thurman did not carry his State for
the Democrats, Higgins, Thompson and
Faulkner and their brother heelers did
carry their States for Cleveland, and two
o1 them We're pivotal States If the Eng
llsh mission is nothing but reward for
party service, why might not Thompson
anufanlkner have better claims upon it
than Mr.. Thurman That suggestion
ana 1t seems to us, a pertinent oue-is the
mead and front of our offending so far as
Mr.. Thurman is concerned. We concede
that on the score Of honesty and merit
much might be said in favor OF Mr. Thur
man ; on the score of party service, other
Democrats would distance him.
Mr.. Barry proceeds to crticise various
remarks lately attributed to Mr.. Phelps,
In way which seems to us Improbable,
because founded on an erroneous estimate
of Mr.. Phelps and on incorrect reports of
ms utterances. Mr.. Barry must not be
lleVe all he sees in the papers, and cs-
pecially in the alleged cable dispatches OF
some OF the metropolitan papers Mr.
Phelps never said that "England's queen
Is as much our queen as she is queen of
England orHnything equivalent To that.
He never commended the Prince of
Wales, rs our correspondent seems to
suppose he did, a' Il proper model for young
men to copy in conduct and career
no one who knows him can be made to
believe that he ever said anything that
could be tortured into such remark. 1t
Is part of the duty of foreign minister to
make himself fairly acceptable to The PEG
pie to whom he is sent-ii he does not his
influence and usefulness as minister is T,
gone. But the intelligent and influential |
Engllshmen know tOady as soon as any
body, and despise him as thoroughly. An |
American minister cannot make himself |
popular in England by toadying to their .
or catering to their insular |
prejudlces. one element of Mr.. Lowells |
popularity WAS his genuine pride in and !
regard for his own country and its iusitl-
he has been telling his neigh
bOrs lately that he returns as thorough an
American as he went. Mr.. pnelps, SO
tar ~ we can gather, follows in Mr..
Lowell's footsteps in this rs in other ways.
lie was, as We have repeatedly said no
Anglo maniac when he went to Eng
land, and we are very sure he will not be
one when he returns. Meantime, follow
ing one who is conceded to have been
successful and creditable rep
resentatiVe of the county at the Court of
St. James he 50 conducts himself that he
does not suffer by comparison with his
predecessors. This is saying II good deal
for him. But there is no reason to sup
pose that this would or could have been