Helena weekly herald., 1889-04-04
GOOD APPOINTMENTS
So Says Henry Watterson, Of Our Minis
ters to Foreign Courts.
THE APPOINTMENTS.
Democratic Endorsement Of President
HarrisOn's Work.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March 27.-Regarding
President Harrison's diplomatic appoint
ments Mr. WatteIson will say in to-mor-
rows Courier Journal:
There is no denying that the Admins
tration is getting in some very astute
political and party work in its appoint
ments to Office. With the exceptions ssot
Wanamaker and Tanner, Mr.. Harrison,
whilst selecting active and orthodox Re-
publicans of the most pronounced de-
scription, has shocked no popular or moral
sensibility, but has rather impressed the
country with the idea that he is clear
headed, well-intentioned man, working for
the best with great intelligence within his
own party lines. The batch of nomina.
tions sent to the Senate yesterday COM
pletes the list of foreign places of import
ance to be filled, and though containing
some surprises it will on the whole give
pretty general satisfaction.
The nomination of Robert Lincoln as
Minister to England is at once a surprise
and a ten stroke. Taken in connection
with the selection of Fred Grant for
Vienna, it conveys an appeal to the young
Republicanism of the period which cannot
fail to have it's effect. Both these sons of
illustrious sires are American gentlemen
without reproach and fully qualified per-
sonally and officially to represent the coun-
try handsomely and adequately in the Old
World.
In bringing the journalism of his'party to
the front and stimulating that important
branch of party service, the President
shows both wisdom and sagacity.
No better minister to France could be
found in any walk of life than Whitelaw
Reid, and no filter consul general to Lon
don than John C. New.
Now we have Murat Halstead to Ger
many and Thorndyke Rice to. Russia Mr..
Rice is editor of the North american Re-
uieao man of many accomplishments and
large fortune, whose knowledge of Euro
pean life and affairs is very great, and it has
not been obtained by the sacrifice of his
Americanism.
The selection of Mr.. Halstead for Berlin
is particularly happy one. He is already
we'll known to Germans. In the Franco
German war he was companion and guest
of Won Moltke and met the great Chaucel
lor familiarly and often, and will be no
stranger to the court to which he is accred-
tied.
He is personally both handsome and
brilliant man, and will appear nowhere
without distinction.
The rest of the appointments are all in
the same line, particularly that OF Patrick
Egan, which at this moment must be very
gratifying to the Irish on both sides of the
water. 1t costs us nothing TO say these
things The contest between the Demo
cratic and Republican parties for years
hence will turn upon the irreconciliable
antagonisms of opinion. In the meantime
it is of interest to all men to have the busi
ness of the country, particularly our repre-
sentation abroad, in the hands OF goo1
men. as it can never be to the interest of
any party to raise false personal issues or
deny politically that measure of justice
which socially no one would think OF with
holding.
All the appointments we have named are
individually excellent and from purely
partisan standpoint made with admirable
discernment and keen foresight.
- LONDON, March 28.-The dispatch an
nouncing that President Harrison had
nominated Robert T. Lincoln as American
Minister to England was read at a dinner
given last evening by Earl Cowper. Wis.,
count Cranborne, son of Lord Salisbury,
was a guest, and upon hearing the news,
he Immediately hurried to Arlington street
to report the impaired information to his
father. The Prime Minister said that the
nomination was a pleasant surprise for
him.