Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-11-17
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mat and the Election Stirs Up the Brit

mat and Hs EIection Stirs Up the British
Press.
London special to the Omaha Bee:
All the Sunday papers, more or less,
pay attention to the eve of presiden-
tial election. The subject matter arises
from the Sackville incident and the
great conservative meeting Saturday
night. At this meeting there were sew
eral speeches and rafting letter from
Lord Randolph Churchill The leading
orator said: parliament ON Tuesday
must pay attention to the insult Presi-
dent Cleveland has paid England. In
order to win Irish support the United
States government has stopped to an act
of gross vulgarity and barbarous inso-
lence to her majestys ambassador,
which placed it beyond the pale of civ
ilized politics for the low and paltry
purpose of catching the Irish vote. The
president of the United States has
turned her majesty's ambassador out of
doors with rs little ceremony as a pub
lican elects drunken pot-boy. What
L wish You to mark about that incident
is that in America the short, plain way
so get the Irish vote was to assume
foaming hatred towards England and to
load England with insults"
Inasmuch as the Sunday Observer 10
to church day what the Times is to week
day readers in cost and influence, / Sc
lect its editorials as perfect echo of the
general sentiments of the English pub
lie on the presidential question. 1t thus
begins its leader: ''It is Just as well, per
haps, in the interest of Anglo-American
annuity that next Tuesday determines
the presidential contest. Between now
and then there is scarcely time to de-
velop fresh occasion for twisting the
tail of the British lion with view to
propitiating the Irish vote. Once the
quadriennial saturnalia of the profes.
sional politician are over the common
sense of the American native is sure to
assert itself, and all the sooner, perhaps,
because of the sorry spectacle which its
first magistrate has presented within
the last few days"
After reviewing the Sackville incident
the Observer continues: "There is moth.
ing that pleases the American public
better than for secretary of state to
take down Britisher peg or two, and,
paradoxical rs it may seem, the feeling
is not uncomplimentary to us. There is
,tAAO hhtAOl 1OL NLOSt OllulOu Tile AlutIl-
Jean cares straw as compared with that
iof the mother country. Ii this be
sentiment we ought to know nothing
iabout, the Americans have themselves
ito blame, as any Englishman who has
jenjoyed the unbounded hospitality OF
Iour cousins on the other side of the At
tlantic can testify. But there is nothing
that an American hates worse than for
ibis country to be put in the wrong with
Jus. 1t matters not whether through
iofiicial zeal or stupidity or more inter.
,ested motives"
The editorial in respect to English in.
iterests in the presidential contest re.
marks: IF there was anything of mo.
ment in the words Lord Sackville used
it would be the implication that the
American democratic party favored Eng.
land more than the republican party did.
As matter of fact this country has
nothing to choose between them. From
PRESIDENT Buchanan's time to that OF
President Cleveland our foreign office
has had to do with a United States gov.
eminent drawn exclusively from the re-
publican party, and barring tie episodes
connected with the war Of the secession
and the Fenian raids on Canada, we have
had netting whatever to complain OF.
During this long republican ascendancy
our relations with the United States
were most amicable, and even as regards
the fisheries question it was settled for
the time being in the most friendly way
by the Washington treaty of 1871, nor
must it be forgotten that it was Presi-
dent Arthur, republican of republic
cans, who first suggested in his presiden-
tial message the formation of an interna-
tional commission to determine the
rights and wrongs of the fisheries mat
ter. The evidence of an open mind
which the Cleveland administration
manifested during the negotiations
identified with Mr.. Chamberlain indi-
Gated rather the fair-mindedness of the
American nation than the policy of
political party. 1t is in that light GER
tainly that we in this country accept it.
Nor is there anything to show that
Americans, whether they choose Mr..
Cleveland for their next president or
Mr.. Harrison, mean to depart from the
common sense course which they have
pursued during such time as we have
indicated. The idea of the British gov
eminent seeking to take mp party side
in American domestic politics is so alb
surd as to make us incredulous of the
whole accusation. 1t cannot be too dis
tinctly understood that whether the
democrats or republicans triumph at
next Tuesdays election, we in this
country shall still expect that the Amer
lean nation will deal with foreign mat
tiers as people and not as faction"
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