The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-11-02
A DEMOCRATIC BuRcHARD.

THE great sensation of the political
campaign just now is the discovery of q
Democratic "Burchard" in the person
of Lord Sackville West, the English
minister at Washington. This elegant
gentleman has written letter in reply
to inquiries from an Englishman as to
how he should vote in this election,
which fully exposes the alliance between
the present administration and the
English government. No doubt is left
as to the genuiness ofthis letter in which
without cavil or denial the British min
lister to this country comes to the front
in the advocacy of Cleveland's re-elec-
ton, doing SO on the ground that his
policy is pro-Anglican. He interprets the
threat to retaliate on Canada as a mere
buncombe, made to influence the cleo
ton, and not in accordance with Growers
honest convictions and settled policy.
When it comes right down to practical
affairs the president and his party are
the hope of England, and not the senate
and its party.
The man who brought out Minister
Vests candid statements is E. Murchi-
son, a naturalized American citizen of
English birth, who wrote to Minister
l.WsqA asking for advice in the matter of
vot1 in the next election. He wrote as
one anxious to vote In such way as SO
best serve the interests of England. He
expresses some alarm at Mr.. Cleve-
lands position on the fisheries question,
but SAYS:
Nj. Cleveland's administration has
been 80 favorable and friendly toward
England, so kind in not enforcing the
retaliatory act passed by congress, so
sound on the free trade question and so
hostile,to the dynamite school of Ireland
that Englishmen by the hundreds-yes,
by the thousands-have become natu-
| rallied for the express purpose Of help
| ing to elect him over again. The one
above all other American politicians
they consider their own and their coun-
try's best friend.
| Mr.. Murchison assures his correspon-
dent that if the Presidents present pol
icy is only temporary he and thousands
of other naturlized Englishmen will vote
for Cleveland "and thus do England a
service"
He then explains that the two parties
are very evenly matched and that few
votes either way will decide the cleo
ton an adds:
Mr.. Harrison is high tariff man, q
believer on the American side of all
questions and undoubtedly an enemy to
British interests generally.
AS you are at the fountain head oil
knowledge on the question, and know
whether Mr.. Cleveland's present policy
is temporarily only, and whether he
will as soon as he secures another tern
of four years in the presidency, suspend
it for one of friendship and free trade,
apply to you privately and confidential
ly for information.
The following is a copy of the letter
which Minister Sackville- West wrote il
answer to the above:
Private-Sir: am in receipt of YOU
letter of the 4th INST, and beg to say
that ] fully appreciate the difficulty il
which you find yourself in casting YOU
vote. You are probably aware that any
political party which openly favored the
mother country at the present moment
would lose popularity, and that The
party in power is fully aware of this fact
The party, however, is, believe, still
DESTROYS of retaining friendly relations
with Great Britain, and is still DESTROYS
of settling all questions with Canada
which have been unfortunately re
opened since the rejection of the treaty
, by the Republican majority in the sen
ate and by the Presidents message, t.
which you allude. All allowances mus
therefore be made for the political situa
ton as regards the presidential election
thus created. 1t is, however, impossi
BILE to predict the course which Presi
dent Cleveland may pursue In the mat