Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-01
VIEWS OF POLITICIANS
Probable Effect of Vests Let
 ter and His Dismissal.
BOTH SIDES EXPECT TO BENEFIT.

Futile Attempts of Reporters to Get Sec
 retary Bayard's Letter to Lord Sackvilie.
 Curiosity as to His Future Movements.
 What the Politicians Have to Say.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-Secretary Bayard was busily engaged at the state department and declined to be interviewed any further about the Lord Sackville affair.
 He positively refuses to give out the letter sent to the British minister.
 At the state department matters seem to be running along smoothly and without any excitement, and the incident has apparently ended, for the present at least Nothing has yet been heard from Minister Phelps regard ing the attitude view that the British gov ernment may take of the affair, and Lord Sackville again positively but courteously refused to be interviewed or to make public a copy of the letter received from Secretary Bayard.
 There was naturally much speculation to the probable course of Lord Sackville, the British minister, in the present embarrassing state of affairs It was thought the move most agreeable to him would be immediate departure from Washington but a gentle man ill a position to know said yesterday afternoon that he did not think Lord Sack vile would be in any hurry to leave here He said: II have not seen the minister my self but a friend of mine who talked with him was told that he did not contemplate an immediate departures l don't think it at all probable Lord Sackville will leave here be- fore election"
 The etiquette of diplomacy prevents Lord Sackville from furnishing a copy of Secre- tary Bayard's letter for publication. If per mission is granted by the British foreign office it is understood that Lord Sackville is quite willing, personally, to hand the press the text of the communication
 A representative of the United Press saw Lord Sackville at the legation. He said that at the present time nothing could be said He could not say even that anything would be said
 It is safe to predict, however, that just as soon as the elaborate cablegranls which have been sent to Lord Salisbury are responded to Lord Sackville will make a statement for publication, that he may clear himself from what he thinks are aspersions cast upon him by Secretary Bayard in his communica- tion to the president.
 The atmosphere of the legation suggests re straint and strong desire to say something to disperse the gloomy fog under which it rests.
 MT. Belmont, chairman of the house com mittee on foreign affairs, who was in Wash ington, asked his views on the Sackville incident. He thought Secretary Bayard's statement to the president left little more to be said. But" he added, II sincerely trust this will be the last time that our relations with other governments will be made issues in presidential canvass. No political party ought to be blind to the injury which must thus result to the position of the United States abroad. The interests of the United States are greater and more important than those of any party"
 Representative Woodburn, of Nevada, whose attack on the administration as being 1 in sympathy with England was probably the most savage made in the long tariff debate, said, in referring to the Sackville trouble: ''Lord Sackville merely voiced the senti- ments of. the British government and the people. He had no business to do so and has been punished for it, but that does not affect 1 the fact that the British do desire Mr. Cleve- lands reelection. I do not see why Minister Vests letter should have caused any surprise except at his being so indiscreet to write it Y [ The Star says; ''The action of the president in summarily notifying Lord Sackville thai he would no longer be recognized as the Eng fish minister here is a source of hearty exuI tation among Democrats. The presidenti party friends maintain that he has turned the affair to great political account, and that | his notice to the British minister makes suE the support of the ish-Americans.