Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-09-29
King of the Dudes.
Mr.. CIeveIand's New Ambassador {,
Italy.

Mr.. CIeveIand's New Ambassador to
Italy.
That strong Democratic paper, the New
York World, gives Cleveland's newly ap-
pointed ambassador to Italy, J. j. Van
Allen of England and Rhode Island, a
sound lambasting, and other administrative
organs, like the Springfield Republican and
the Providence journal, greet him with
ridicule. Van Allen is king of the dudes.
The World quotes him as saying that
"America is not fit place for ladies and
gentlemen to live in" Van Allen married
Emily Astor, much against the wishes of
her family, and gained his position in
fashionable society through this alliance.
He contributed $4,000 to the Democratic
fund in the last campaign and the World
openly charges that his appointment to
Italy was bought in this way. 1t says:
THAT he paid cash there is no doubt, No other
reason exists for an appointment. He has done
nothing in politics, nothing in any direction that
would make him otherwise than contemplate in
the eyes of self-respecting working Americans.
He comes to Newport for a short time in the sum
mer. The rest of the time he lives in England.
Last year, with an eye to making his bought ap-
pcintment plausible, he had himself elected presi-
dent, II you please, of the Newport Democratic
club
1T will interest Americans to learn what sort
of bargain they got when they traded the post
! of American ambassador to Italy for j. j. Van
Allen and S50,0O0 Van Allen is short and rather
fat He prides himself on his resemblance TO the
Prince of Wales. There is a resemblance. 1t
would not please the prince TO say America,
with the aid of Angomania, has produced in Van
Allen a man who looks less like prince than the
Prince of Wales
"He wears a single eyeglass with heavy string
attached BV sDpCial advice he kent this of
sight when he went to interview the president
his appointment He entertans few convictions
except those which refer to clothes. horses and
Scotch whisky. His sole intellectual conviction is
the one already quoted that America is not fit
place for ladies and gentlemen to live in This
conviction he expresses frequently. He owns
twenty pairs of breeches for hunting, and this
lie spite the fact that Shetland pony could buck
him off with gentle shrug.
Van Aliens pretentious place at Newport
is enclosed with high wall TO keep out
the eyes of the common herd, and even the
gates are closely covered lest some vulgar
eye should peek through between the bars.
1t is amusing, or would be if it were not
disgusting, to see the Mugwump papers,
who are bound to worship Mr.. Cleveland
whether or no, allude to the way in which
he has been "deceived'' into making this
appointment. If it had been Republican
president that made such an appointment,
columns of denunciation would have been
heaped on his head by these same papers,
and the accusation would have been that
it was Doodle that was ruling and running
the country. We should have been told
the presidents election was bought with
money by the moneyed interests and now,
in fulflment of corrupt prediction bar
gains, the goods were being delivered to
the men who had provided the corruption
fund. How is it in the Rhode Island case?