The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-02
SACKVILLE SOCIALLY.
&c tting Even with Mrs. Cleveland for
Stumbling His Daughter.
trnnl the PhiLndelllhin 4 INES.

&c tting Even with Mrs. Cleveland for
Snubbing His Daughter.
From the Philadelphia lines.
There are many things to indicate that
the position of Lord Sackville at Washing
ton has been irksome to him for long time,
and that he has been far from satisfied with
the icy formality with which he has every
where been received almost since he came
to this country. He is strange man, with
two idiosyncrasies that peculiarly unfit
him for anything approaching popularity in
this country. One Is an exalted notion of
the Importance of family and title, and the
other latitudlnarian disregard of the
conventionaliteS, especially those of the
family life, that IN this country, without al
arlstocracy to set a vicious example, are SO
pure and strong.
In family connection he has a peculiar
interest to Phiadelphians, as the present
head of the DE La Wares, from whom the
river and bay take their names. When he
came to this country, instead of taking one
OF the New York steamers, he came on one
OF the National line in order to sail up the
bay to which his ancestors gave his name
century and half ago. All vino met Lord
Sachvllle, then Sir Lionel SackvilleW 1T,
Oh that occasion were impressed with his
hauteur. his narrowness and his generally
unpleasant British pecuharities.
The present complication is really social
as well as political one, and it will possibly
be found iii the end that the social aspect of
the relation of Lord Sackville and his
family with the President and members of
the cabinet and their wives may have led
up to this climax. 1t is curious also that
social questions have been involved in sew
erai of Tue changes that have taken place
before III Lord oackville's diplomatic life.
Shortly after his appearance in Washing
ton, wnen 1t became known that his eldes-
daughter was coming over and would pre-
side at his he use, official society was stag
gered by the discovery that the young
ladies were daughters of different mothers,
and that Minister West had never been
legally married. This representative OF the
queen, with utter Independence of the Or
ulnary cCnventionaliJlcS, while accepting
and educating THESE daughters, born IN the
different countries where he had represented
her ma jeSty's government, had declined to
recognize their mothers. AS result
Official society in Washington deIiberated
whether 1T could recognize either Minis
ter " est or the young ladies who, through
no fault OF their own, he had placed in this
position.
The conclusion arrived at appears to have
been to tolerate them and accept them
Officially but no further At the re-
ception which Minister West gave soon
after his arrived Mrs. Hayes Consented to
stand by the side of Miss West. Yet not
then nor since has Minister West or any
member of MS household received from any
of the ladies' of the successive cabinets any
such SOCIAL place as was accorded, for in
STAGE, to Lady Thornton while there
Mrs. Garfield studiousiy ignored them.
President Arthur, being a widower, was
very friendly disposed, and his attentions
to Miss West were at one time SO marked
as to be the occasion of much gossip at the
capital
With the advent of Mrs. Cleveland in
the white house the SOC status of Minister
WesC and the Misses West in official circles
completely and wholly collapsed. She re-
fused, peremptorily and uncompromis-
ingly, to have anything to do with them
socially. This was gall and wormwood to
Lord Sackville, and it is undoubtedly to
this circumstance that is owing more than
anything else the departure of the Misses
West for Europe. In this view of the case
Lord Sackvilles letter assumes the nature
of Parthan shot.