The Arizona champion., 1889-04-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.

came in victorious at last. It ap- peared that New York confidently concluded to distribute the main offices among her valorous patriots, and to put the other positions on the shelf for rainy day, The poll ticians regarded the appointment of Senator Eyarts to the English mis. sion as certain, and it is still prob able that if he had asked for it, it might have been given him. The same people had fixed upon William Walter Phelps for first class mis- sion, and that he did not get it is not Willie's fault, The truth is that the President knows that Willie is not so vitally important a factor in American politics as he himself has fondly imagiped,
 The selection of Robert T. Ian coln for the English mission is re- garded in Washington as an excel. lent choice, though the nomination is great surprise, In the first place it was not supposed that Mir. Lincoln wanted the appointment, and in the second place, he was not classed among the Americans rich enough to afford the honor of spend ing vast sums yearly from private funds to support such a brilliant social position. Exactly what sort of Minister he will make should not be hard to determine in the light of his record as Secretary of War. In that position hs firmly resisted every effort of the regular Army officers to plunge their arms into the Treasury any further than their elbows. No other Secretary in the last score of years has attempted to do that. He also evinced calm disregard for the cheap clamor oi small factions. The appointment thus appears satisfactory.
 However Mir. Lincoln's appoint ment may strike the Irish interest ed in the cause of Home Rule--- and it would appear that it should impress them favorably-it goes without saying that the selection will be popular in the rural neigh borhoods, where new men are slow. ly learned of and old names are re luctantly parted with. To these people, the people who do the vot- ing, the sending of Robert Lincoln to England revives only generous recoilections of the magnificent American liberator. Abraham Lin, coln's son must be thorough going American. aAa aa.AA
 Murat Halstead is one of the dozen American Journalists whose names are known to the people at large. With Mir. Reid's ap pointment, this nomination com. pletes strong representation oi newspapers in the diplomatic ser, vice. At present our relations with Germany are in fair way tc settlement, but it is cheering tc know that military looking man, with an immense power for dis distributing sanguinary ink over large aras of paper, will be right there to jealously guard our honor by the year, or the number of words When the Republic was great deal younger she often flew in the face of the proverb as to choosing young men for action and old men for counsel. After long time she has done so again in sending Allen Thorndike Rice to Russia. Mr Rice is distinctively an aggressive young man, with healthy mind, a fine literary training following upon singularly thorough education, and an indomitable courage. When he took possession of the North American Review few years ago, he was less than twenty-five years of age, and the stock of the maga. zine was practically worth less. than twenty-five cents. Today it is the most fortunate of the high class monthlies. ~
 I. was expected that opposition to Mir. Rice's confirmation might be very strong among Democrats who believe him to be the author of the Arthur Richmond letters. which so