Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-10-26
The Daily InteIligencer.
LANCASTER, OCTOBER 50. ISIS.
The YictImlzsd Minister.

s Lord Sackville West, our British envoy,
declares that he would not like to have
anything to do with politics in this coun'
try, whose tricks very naturally he does
not like, since he has just been made the
victim of a particularly dirty one. A
letter came to him from California, pur-
porting to be from a naturalized English
3 o., doubling as to which presidential
candidate he should vote for; declaring
that Cleveland and Harrison were pretty
evenly matched; that Cleveland's foreign
policy had been all right until he
tireatened retaliation on Canada; and
would not the British minister, who
knew all about it, please say
whether the president would really do
the horrid things he threatened ? The in.
formation was applied for privately and
conidentially" and would be held cen.
tirely secret" but it would enable the
writer and number whom he could sd-
wise to vote intelligently at the election.
Lord Sackville West not having read
Of the tricks that are vain and the Chi.
nese devices Of evil persons upon the
Pacific coast, thought that he had gen.
uine appeal for information, and that any
thing written would be treated as conf
DENTAL as promised, and be told his cor
respondent all he knew, which did not
happen to be much; lie could not tell
what Cleveland would do as to Canada,
but he thought he would manifest spirit
OF conciliation in. dealing with the ques.
tion involved in his message.
Last night Brother Blaine made a
speech in New York and devoted the
major part Of it to denunciation of
Cleveland and the British minister ON
account of this correspondence. With a
true Yankee instinct, he declared that a
letter could not be understood properly
unless in connection with that to which
It was an answer and he proceeded to
read what the British fellow in California
said about Cleveland's devotion to Eng
land ard hostility to Ireland which
sentiments Brother Blaine then trans.
ferred to the British minister and then
fastened upon Cleveland the charge that
he was anti-Irish and pro English, as
proved by the opinion of the British
minister and the English Californian.
But the British minister's hint that tie
Republican Senate was dealing in foxy
way with the question, Blaine's thinks
was just horribly false and silly which
ID no strange contrast to the full corfi
dence he gives the Britisher's opinion
about Cleveland.
1t is clear, upon the face of hi
letter, that the English Californian
is a Yankee Republican. But Brotbe
Blaine, being one Of the unscrup
ul0us kind of politicians himself, was no
thereby deferred from using the lettei
which it drew from the British minister
and he and his party are entitled to al
the aid and comfort they can get from it
They need it badly enough, dear knows
30 nearly in extremity are they. MI
Blaine is really to be pitied in this can
paign, being under obligation to speak /
different sections of the country and witt
out topic that he could treat alik
everywhere, until we struck thi
one at the heel of the hunt. 1t
always safe to swear at England
aud Mr.. Blaine evidently thinks tina
the British minister's opinion that th
presidents would deal in q concilator
manner with Canada will deprive Cley,
land of votes. 1t would not be likely I
do SO, even if the opinion was we
founded, as a conciliatory policy is not
bad policy to charge against govern
msnt but, as Secretary Bayard say
Lord Sackville West has no better way (
forming an opinion of the presidents il
tention than any other citizen has; an
not, in fact, so good, since ne, as fo
eigner, is not in the current of feeling
the country, and does not know wha
public sentiment demands.