Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-31
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
How the SackviIle Dismissal "a Treated
by Some Prominent Newspapers.

by Some Prominent Newspapers.
The New York HsraM thinks the dismissal Of
Lord Sackville should have been made quietly
and without bluster; that the President should
have quietly asked the British government to
send him another minister in place Of Lord
Sackville, but that ''under Mr.. Bayard's advice,
Mr.. Bayard's Encouragement, and Mr..
Bayard's scolding the British minister to the
reporters, the President has been made ridicu-
lous, and Lord Salisbury has, by mere silence,
gained the advantage for his government" II
urges the President to get . new Secretary of
State without delay.
The New York Timss considers that the Presi-
dents action has been taken with due dignity
and after waiting reasonable length Of time
for the British government to recall Lord Sack
vile, which 1t failed to do It adds: 1.-THE in
cident is ended in q manner altogether credit
able to the Administration at Washington and
with the least possible harm. There is only
one way IN which it Is likely now to have any
effect upon votes, and that 10 through the con-
tempt that it must excite for the party which
has attempted to use it and in ali probability
put up" the whole scheme for campaign ef-
feet, which was defeated by premature ex-
posure."
The New York World: sTn view Of what has
occurred it would have been better il the Pres
ident had taken this action as soon as he learned
that the British minister had gone out of his
way to give advice upon politics to an Ameri-
can citizen still claiming in q traitorous man.
ner, to owe allegiance to the British govern
ment."
The New York Tribune thinks the Presiden,
should have acted promptly, and not taken ten
days to find out that something had been done.
1t adds that the revelation Of the English
minister's feeling and belief is the important
point Nothing that can now be done will OBJ
(taffIn0 nad az M Ard Inc hat
his maladroit letter does harm does not change
the facts nor cause the people to forget them.
he was awkward enough to let the cat out Of
the bag, and it cannot be caught and concealed
again by waiting ten days to estimate the dam
age, and finally telling him to 90 home. Too
late, Mr.. President, too late"
The New York Sun says that Mr.. Cleveland
has reasserted the great commandment OF
Mind your own business" and future English
ministers to this country will probably stick to
The Philadelphia Times thinks that the Pres
ident's order for the dismissal of Lord Sackville
rs complete and satisfying assertion of true
American dignity"
The Philadelphia Press believes the Prssi-
dent should have acted with more promptness,
and that he has sacrificed both the dignity of
the Government and political advantage by a
weeks liberation of a foreign minister's unpar-
donable interference in domestic politics. 1t
adds that Ito be slow to wrath is not virtue
when 1T manifestly is the result Of dizziness Of
perception"
The Albany Argus Of which Col. Lamont is
part owner, says: There is no nonsense about
the Government, as the British minister at
Washington has found to his cost He per-
mitted himself, willingly enough, it seems, to
be made tool of by the republican national
committee for the purpose of injuring Presi-
dent Cleveland, and he has suffered the penalty
OF his unwarrantable interference in our do
nestle affairs. The most expressive word in
our language is the American word git and it
Is only pity that Secretary Bayard was obliged
to disguise it in diplomatic terms. 1t would
have fitted the situation admirably, and would
have spared unnecessary explanations"
The Boston GLOBE says that the British min
ister's letter to the fictitious Murchison con
tanned insulting imputations of bad faith on
the part of President Cleveland and our Gov
eminent in regard to the conduct of the Cana
dian fisheries dispute. This summary dismiss
sal OF her representative after full and patient
investigation Of the facts may enrage England,
but she will not go to war about it and no
British will brighten this Government or people
as long as Grover Cleveland remains in COM
mand"
The Boston Journal believes that this act of
the President does not in the least diminish
the significance of the Sackville letter and con-
tinues: The mischief was done when Lord
Sackvile thus exposed the insincerity of Cleve-
land and expressed-as a representative of
Great Britain-confidence in his frendliness.
Nothing that can be done now, certainly moth
ing that the President can do, can diminish the
injury wrought by the letter. display of
temper because the hypocrisy is found out is
at once futile and puerile."