The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1888-12-06
TaK sAcKvfLLE fEtIDENf AND TIE
PRESIDENCY.

THE AACkNALLE INCIDENN AND ThE
PRESIDENCY.
Liverpool Courier.
The discreditAble Sackville incl
deaf has effected Its purpose and, in
conjunction with the other devices
20 which the Republican party has
had recourse, has secured the Presi-
dency for General Harrison. Were
English national vanity ss tender
aud vIndietive ~ that Of the people
Of the United States, we might re-
Ioisse In this defeat OF q man who, ~
revealed by the correspondence
published on Tuesday, has insulted
the dignity of the Crown by dismiss
ing its Minister In 80 wantOn aud uB-
iustifiable n manner.
From what has passed between Mr..
Phelps and Lord Salisbury u IL
evident that General Cleveland aud
Mr.. BayaFd were doubtful at first
whether the Murchison letter alone
would justify them I'm taking ANY
step, and they therefore based their
demand for Lord Sackville's recall
upon some alleged and probably
imaginary remarks made or sup
posed to have been made by the
british Minister tO an enterprislng
New York reporter. Campaigning
exigeneies, however, forced them "a
have recourse to an extreme step,
and they at once abandoned theiI
first ground of complaint, and with.
out AffOrding any time for d.
plonIatIc inquiry or explanation
they sent Lord SRckyille his pass.
port and practically turned him out
Of the country. The whole business
4. =. ~.
series Of election manWuyres on one
side and the other, the British
Minister being deliberately
victimised, first by the Republican,
and then hy the Democrats, In order
To attract tn their respective candI-
dates the vote Of those who hate
England more than they love either
party In the United States, and "a
. whose good will the shortest aud
surest road was in twisting the
British lions tail.
Engllshmen, however, being less
"hysteTicky" than United states
politicians, and looking more To tho
general ends Of policy than Ia the
excitement Of the mumpnt, will
regret that n President who was on
the whole con the side of the
angels" and whose efforts has been
directed in the main to the purifica.
ton of the tone of public life in the
United States aud to the support OF
sound economic principles, should
be displaced Ia favor OF man whose
accession Ia OffiIe signifies n return
to all that IL most vicious in the
political system Of his nation. MOI
is the fact that General Harrison IL II
Republican, pledged to the main
tenance Of high tariff and 10 anti
British measures Of every kind, the
worst feature about him. 4 greater
evil yet IL that there IL only too
much reason to fear that he will he
u mere figurehead to the ship Of
which that very questionable person
Mr.. Blaine will he the s:eersman.
Mr.. Blaine has made no secret of
his violet animOsity to this country,
of his active sympathy with the in
famous Irish american gang, and Of
his desire to embarrass aud hunt
late the British Empire I'm every
possible way. The accession 81
General Harrison will not merely
shut out all Of reforming the
prePOsternus and oppressive tariff Of
the United States, but will also
render more difficult. IL not absolute
ly impossible, an amirable adjust
ment Of the differences in relation To
the fisheries aud other Canadian
questions which have given rise 10
so many disputes between the
mother country and her tnO-arroyant
eldest duAughtsr. The final con-
firmatiOn Of the Results Of the presI-
dental election will be looked for
ward to with much anxiety. for
upon u may depend in very large
measure the future relations be-
tween this country aud the United
States.