St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-31
PRESS COMMENT.
What Great Editorial Minds Say
of the Evil and the Remedy.


NEW YORK, Oct. 3O.-The Sun will
tomorrow say editorially:
The administration has informed Lord
Sackville that his room is better than ms
company. The British government had the
opportunity to take him out of the way, but
did not use it. Public sentiment in the
United States could not wait tor the slow
and ceremonious processes of diplomacy.
While LORD Salisbury and Mr.. Phelps were
discussing in the library of Hatfield
house the British minister's escapade,
the American people were getting Impatient
to have the matter brought summary 10 the
conclusion to which from the first il has
been evident that it must come. For what
ever political purposes the Sackville incident
NAV be used, it is consideration, not OF
party tactics but of national pride and self
respect. The Anglo Saxon collaterals across
the water will perhaps get the NOTION INTO
their heads in time that the attitude of this
government in this affair has not sprung
from bluster or buncombe, but from proper
sense of its own dignity. II was not ques-
ton of friendly or unfriendly relations with
Great Britain. 1t was merely the question
of the personal treatment to be accorded TO
an individual Briton who. while in Wash
ingtOn as the guest OF the United States,
saw fit to insult our government in the
grossest manner. If Mr.. Cleveland has erred
IN his treatment of this annoying incident,
il has been on the side of over-deliberation; {;
and yet il may be thought that the humilia-
ton of the British government is greater,
since it failed to take advantage of the
loophole of escape offered it by Mr.. Cleve-
land and its minister is not called by 1t, but
warned to quit by the government to which
he is accredited. Mr.. Cleveland has reas-
serted the great commandment of Mind
your own business" and future English
ministers to this country will probably stick
to it. We wish for Lord Sackville smooth
voyage to old England.
AN ACCEPTABLE FINALE.
The Times will say:
The incident is ended in manner alto
cether creditable to the administration
at Washington a nd with the least possible
harm. There is only one way III which ii is
likely now to have any. effect upon votes.
and that is through the contempt that it must
excite for the party which has attempted
10 use it, and in all probability put up The
whole scheme for campaign effect, which
was defeated by premature exposure.
There is nothing more to be de-
preeated. in our politics than the as
sumption that there are classes of voters
whose action is to be determined by appeals
TO prejudices founded on national distinc-
tions that have no legitimate connection with
our own affairs. The superstition that the
casual expressions of a foreign minister
touching the sensibililies of some class of
our citizens are going to decide their political
action in a contest which involves domestic
interests of the gravest import, and is at once
the national character. A party that en-
deavors to use such means TO affect the result
of an election is utterly unworthy of respect.
BAYARD ROASTED.
The Herald:
The dignity and setf-respect of the coun-
try, and Mr.. Cleveland's own dignity, re-
quired that il so unpleasant thing were to
be done it should be done quietly, decently,
without bluster. This country is too great
to bluster. 1t is strong enough, powerful
enough. to be patient, slow to take offense,
dignifed, and quiet in It's methods of show
ing offense; careful to give none needlessly.
Give Mr.. Bayard his passports TO Delaware,
Mr.. Cleveland. You can't afford to have
such an incompetent and hystericky person
as your advisor. If you retain him he will,
before you know il. make you ridiculous in
the face of the whole world. Or, if you must
keep him. don't take his advice on any SUBJ
ject except terrapin.
WAITED TOO LONG.
New YORK, Oct. 31.-The Tribune
says:
4 prompt rebuke administered the instant
Lord SackYille was discovered meddling in
our election might have caused people i'll
their satisfaction with such maintenance
| of the executive dignity to overlook the fact
| that the British minister was elecuoneering
| in Mr.. Cleveland's interest, because he knew
| it was the Interest of Great Britain. But the
| president waited too long. He did not dis
cover anything wrong in the matter till the
uproar in the country showed that the eX
| posure was hurting him. Then he got mad
The minister goes in disgrace. His election
! eering message remains behind. That can
| not be recalled,