Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-25
THEY ARE HARD HIT.

There is very rong reason why the
New Yolk San wants Secretary Bayard to
ask for the recall Of British Minister West.
There is powerful reason for the white
heat of the San Francisco Eranliner and its
frenzied demand FOR Lord SacSvllle Vests
immediate recall.
Lord Sackgille West is the British Min
lister at Washington. Iu answer to cor
respondent at Pomona, Cal, he wrote a
letter that admits Of no doubt that be
desires mis- correspondent to vote for Mr..
Cleveland. But Minister Yves. is a shrewd
man, and while be tells his Pomona cor
respondent that Mr.. Clevelard's bluster
about retaliation, and his threateninss
against Canada are all CANNON, he reminds
his correspondent with careful particularly
that "any political party which openly
fayors the mother country at the present
moment would lose popularity and the
party in power is fully awarc of this .fact"
This means, clearly, that the Democracy
secretly faVors England and her designs
upon American industries, but desires to
be understood as openly opposed to her
upon the Canadian aad the fisheries ques-
ton. Further on, the Minister says that
the Democratic party is
Still desirous of maintaining friendly relations
with treat Britain, and is still desirous of set
tnng all questions with Canada, which have
been unfortunately reopened since the rejection
OF the treaty by the Republican majority in the
Senate and by the Presidents message. All al
iowanees must therefore be made for tts pola-
zeal situation, as regards the Presidential
election, created. 1t is, however. impossible to
predict the cour.e which President Cleveland
may pursue in the matter of retaliation, should
he be elected, but there is every reason
to believe that he will manifest spirit of con-
clliat1on in dealing with the question involved
in his message.
Clearly, this shrewd and practical Minis
ter, who measures and weighs his words
as the coiner does grains Of gold, means
simply this: "Mr Cleveland has thrown
down the gage in the matter of retaliation
IN the hope that the Republican party will
antagonize him for it, and thus become un-
popular by speaking word in favor of the
mother country, but the Republican psry
has not done this, ana L III blessed ii |
know just what TO think of the situation"
The Examiner wades through three col
umns of telegraphic explanation in a Ia
bored and unhappy interview with Min
lister West, in which the latter struggles
and founders in the effort to show that MS
letter is meaningless, 40 much so that to
write il was an Insult to lis correspondent.
In the same paper there is a sharp cry
by the Examiner echoing the SUMS de-
mand for Minister Vests immediate re-
call
The truth is, the Democracy is hard hit
by this impertinent meddling of the Brit
ish Minister with our political contest.
But he has done no more nor half so much
as the English press and the English peo-
pie are doing. They favored the Democ-
racy when it was the Confederate States OF
America; they aided that organization of
the slaveocracy to fit out cruisers to DESTROY
American commerce; they bought ConfeG-
crate Democratic bonds and gave the slave
holders rebellion all the aid they dared
venture upon.
Their purpose then was to disrupt the
American Republic. Failing iu that, by
commencing rebellion born of the bow
els OF the Democratic party, they now ap-
plaud a more peaceful but scarcely less
dangerous Democratic scheme to unhorse
American industries, PROSTATE Northern
manufactures and production, open up
the American States to commercial raiding
by English cheap labor and give aid to the
Democracy in seating once more in DOM
,afsx, IL Al
aristocracy of defunct and infamous in
stitution. This is the long and the short OF
the matter Lord Sackville West meant
all he wrote, when he said that the Demo
cratic party is well aware that it is unpop-
ular to favor the mother country and so il
is, and lovers of an inseparable Union of
sovereign States know why this is true.