The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-10-31
PRESS COMMENT.
Editorials which are True to Polit-
fcAl Rias.

feal Bias.
NEW YORK. Oct. S0.-The Sua will
say editoriallv of Lord SackviIles re-
call: Ii Mr.. Cleveland has erred in
his treatment of this annoying Incl
dent, il has been on the side OF over
deliberatlon. and yet it may be thought
that the humiliation of the British
government IS greater since it failed TO
take advantage of the loop-hole of es-
cape offered it by Mr.. Cleveland, and
its minister is not recalled by it, but
warned to quit by the government to
which he is accredited. Mr.. Cleveland
has reasserted the commandment of
mind your own business, and future
English ministers TO this country will
probably stick to it.
The Times viii say: The incident
has ended in a manner altogether
creditable TO the administration at
Washington, and with the least posi-
bic harm. There is only one way in
which it is likely now to have any ef-
feet upon voters, and that is through
the contempt it must excite for the
party which in all probability put up
the whole scheme fer campaign
effect. There is nothing more to be
deprecated in our politics than the as
sumption that there are classes of vo-
ters whose action is TO be determined
by appeals to prejudices founded on
national distinctions that have no le-
gitimate connection with our own af-
fairs.
TOO LATE.
The Tribune will say: A prompt re-
buke by the administration the instant
Lord Sackville was discovered med
ding in our election might have cansed
the people in their salts
faction with such maintenance of
executive dignity to overlook the fact
that the British minister was election
eering in Cleveland's interest because
he knew it was that of Great Britain.
The president waited too long. He
did not discover anything wrong in
the matter till the uproar in the
country showed that the exposure
was hurting him. Then he got mad.
The minister goes in disgrace. His
electioneering message remains be-
hind, and that cannot be recalled.
BAYARp SHOULD GO. TOO.
The Herald says: The dignity and
self-respect of the country and Mr..
Cleveland's own dignity required that
il so unpleasant a thing were to be
done it should be done quietly, de-
Gently and without buster. This
country is too great to bluster. Give
Mr.. Bayard his passports to
Delaware, Mr. Cleveland. You
can not afford to have such
an incompetent and hystericky per-
son as your adviser. If you retain
kim he will before you know it make
you ridiculous in the face OF the whole
world. Or il you must keep him don t
take his advice on any subject except
terrapin.
SAN Francisco, Oct. 30.-The Exam
iaer tDem. will say. The president
has taken the manly, Straightforward
course. This is always natural To
him. The agreeable and polite thing
to do would have been to make show
of indignant and energetic action un-
til after election and then gradually to
let the matter fall out of sight; but
Mr.. Cleveland is not an adept in tricks
of this kind. A thing that Is serious
enough to demand a pretense for act
ing is serious enough in his ewes to
demand this action.
THE LETTER NOT RECALLED.
The Chronicle tRep.) will say that
Lord sackyille simply wrote personal
letter to correspondent at Pomona,
in this state, expressing sentiments
the truth of which he thought could
be naturally drawn from the observa-
tons of n man in his surroundings.
Sackville must go, but he leaves the
letter behind him, and his exit does
not alter the truth single particle.