The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-11-09
Lord sackv,lle Was spubbed.
MRS. CLEVELAND Is eAID TO HAVE DE-
cLiNEp TO NorrcE HIS UNFoRrU-
NATE DAUGHTERS.

There are many things TO indicate
that the position of Lord Sackville at
Washington has been irksome to him
for long time, and that he has been
far from satisfied with the icy form
ality with which he has everywhere
been received almost since he came to
this country. lie Is strange man,
with two idiosyncrasies that peculiarly
unfit him for anything approaching
popularity in this country. One is the
exalted notion of the Importance of
family and title and the other a lati-
tudinarian disregard of the conven-
tionalities, especially those of the fam
lily life, that in this country. without
an aristocracy to set vicious example,
are 30 pure and strong.
The present complication is really a
social as well as a political one, and il
will possibly be found in 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 involv-
ed in several of the changes that have
taken place before in Lord Sackville's
diplomatic life. Shortly after his ap-
pearance in Washington when it be-
came known that his eldest daughter
was coming over and would preside at
his house, official society was stagger
ed by the discovery that the young
ladies were daughters of different
mothers and that Minister West had
never been legally married. This re-
preventative of the Queen with utter
independence of the ordinary conven.
tionalities while accepting and educat
ing these daughters, born in the differ
ent countries where he had represented
Her Majesty's government, had de-
clined to recognize their mothers. As
a result official society in Washington
deliberated whether it could recognize
either Minister West 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 ro further. At
the reception which Minister West
gave soon after his arrival Mrs. Hayes
es consented to stand bv the side of
Mrs West. Yet not then nor since
has Minister West, or any member of
his household. received. from any of
the ladies of the successive Cabinets
any such social place as was accorded,
to Lady Thornton while
there. Mrs. Garfield studiously ig-
nored 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 oc-
caaion of much gossip at the capital.
With the advent Of Mrs. Cleveland
in the White House the social status
Of Minister West and the Misses West
in official circles completely and Who'll
" collapsed. She refused, peremptor-
lily and uucompromisingly, to have
ANYTHING to do with any of them So
cially. This was gall and wormwood
to Lord Sackville. and it is undoulted-
" owing to this circumstance more
than to anything else thEt .he Misses
West take their departure for Europe
In this view of the case Lord Sack
ville's letter assumes the nature of
Parthian shot.--Philadelphia Times.