The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-31
THE TWO MINISTER'S.

coming style, saying as little as possible IL
as few words as might be, giving forth
nothing that would be reflection upon his
own people and naught that would cause
the autocrat to whom he was accredited to
feel out of sorts, so to speak. 1t requires a
rare faculty of craftsmanship, cunning and
self-control to get through such an ordeal
satisfactorily and drop no stitches as he
goes along with his knitting, and it is per
haps not saying too much to state that the
well dressed man from New Jersey-he
with the bangs and other attachments-did
not get through with the job in good style.
In plain terms, he painfully stopped over.
Among other things given expression to
by WILLIAM WALTER on the occasion re-
ferred to was the following extraordinary
assertion: This is pleasant and natural
duty for man who remembers the aid
that German soldiers gave to US when we
were fighting to win our national indepen-
dence." 1t is to be hoped that Emperor
WILLIAM was either as ignorant of the his
tory Of the revolutionary struggle, or as
unable to collect his thoughts in an emer-
gency as was our minister to his realm,
such a statement as that. The fact is, al
most any student of even the primary his
tory of our country knows, that the only
aid in national way which the united
colonies received in the fight against Great
Britain was from France, the hereditary
and it may be eternal foe of Germany.
And the situation is made additionally alb
surd from the fact that England hired
nearly all the Germans who were en-
gagged in that struggle for liberty
% 600 Hessians-to fight against US. OF
course this is all settled and past now, but
isn't it somewhat humiliating for man
who claims to be a representative and
typical American to go 50 far to display
his incapability! THE HERALD would fain
believe So
These things in themselves would not be
so conspicuous but for the fact that the
Republican party persists in thrusting its
claims as the organization of great moral
and patriotic ideas before the world.
Everything done by it is per sc homespun,
national and intellectual proceeding. And
in this particular it invariably challenges
comparison with similar proceedings by its
chief opponent, the Democratic party. This
kind Of thing is presumed to be odious, but
let US, for the sake of friendly discussion,
compare for a moment, the calibre and
character OF the men who have recently
and generally been sent abroad by the ad-
ministrations of the two organizations.
We will begin with WILLIAM WALTER
PHELPS predecessor-Hon GEORGE H.
PBNDLEToN, appointed as envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
the court of the Kaiser at Berlin by Presi-
dent CLEVELAND about four years ago.
Being fully aware in advance of the fact
that the opposition press will say that it is
merely question of favoritism, and win
begin by asking if the speech made by Mr..
PENDLEToN when he handed his credentials
to the other, more venerable and more up
right WILLIAM, contained a sentence upon
which a reproach could be hung! In other
words, did the great Ohio statesman com
mence his labors by making an ass of him
self aud his countrymen by implication and
association with lot of forgetful and iniu-
dicious ninny hammers! Scarcely. He
was equal to the occasion in all respects;
without fiattering or fawning upon his i'm
perial majesty, he still conveyed the un.
mistakable impression that there was
naught but friendly feeling between the
two countries so far as ours was concerned,
and hoped that such relations would al
ways continue. And his work in Germany,
from the commencement to the close, was
that of a statesmen filed with love of his
own people and with due regard for the
rights and privileges Of those to whom he
was accredited.
We have all, perhaps, noticed, the differ
ence in department between men who ap
pear at fashionable, sociable or public
neutrality-suspicious. where people are on
their ''best behavior" as it were. Some
are so awkward and ungraceful that even
the little that they know does not avail
them anything, while others are as serene
and as much at home as though they were
mingling with their own families when
there was no company present. OF
course the former condition contains moth
ing essentially criminal or even wrong,
but which Of the two would be most likely
to receive proper recognition and obtain in
dulgent audiences in places where such
things were absolutely necessarily I'm
doubtedly the latter The former would
fail to impress his hearers to begin with,
and his manner of delivery would be a
reflection upon himself and those who sent
him, while he must inevitably, on one or
more occasions, by reason Of his nervous
ness and natural diffidence if not from
other reasons, occasionally give birth to a
IapstGs linoug, or something which on re-
Election he would prefer not to have said.
That is about the way it is as between
PENDLEToN and PHELPs-the Democrat
and the Republican. The former
was and is statesman in all
that the word implies. Apart from
several local positions, he has served three
terms in the House Of Representative, one
in the Senate, was candidate for Vice
President on the ticket with GEORGE B.
and four years later had the
strongest organized following in the Demo
cratic national convention for President |
From the first he has been conspicuous, no
matter in what position he was placed. His |
successor at Berlin has also served several |
terms in the House, but on no occasion or |
at any time has he magniied his calling |
save perhaps once-when he stood out
against the Louisiana frauds being perpe-
trated by the Republican party managed
and controlled locally by PHILIP H. SHERI !