St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-07
VAN ALIENS RESIGNATION.
1t is z question whether the countr,
doesn't lose more than Mr.. Van Aleu-
PittSburg Post.

1t is aquestiOn whether the country
doesn't lose more than Mr.. Van Aleu-
| Pittsburg Post.
President Cleveland evidently forget
to secure the advice and consent or Mr..
Van Alen.-Washngton Star.
1t was sorry mess, but we are glad
the incident is closed. Now let.us have
an ambassador to Italy who will be
above suspicion. = Philadelphia In
quirer.
I The entire incident has been lament
able, but nothing in it has been so dis
hearteniIig to men of upright minds as
the tone of the president adopts in his
letter to Mr.. Van Alen.-New York
World.
Be it said for Mr.. Van Allen that he
does not complain. He asserts his self
| respect. lie refuses the honor. which
certainly would have been no honor TO
| him in the eyes OF his cOuntrymcn,
feeling as they did.-lndianapolis
News.
ifThose who read the letter and pass
upon it without partisan bias will feel.
! as does the president, that persistence
| IN the decllnation means serious loss
| 10 the public service, aud will regret
The action taken by Mr.. Van Aleu-
Detroit Free Press.
iJMr. Van Allen is a gentleman of unex-
ceptional character, and deserved only
| respect and sympathy when assaulted
| with coarse personal abuse by Mr..
Cieveland'S own supporters after the
extraordinary transactions first became
known--New York Tribune.
The correspondence serves to further
accentuate the fact that President Cleve-
land knows more about the real fitness
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critics who animadyert upon his APP
pointmeHtS from an entirely superficial
staDdpoint.-Wa Washington News.
Graceful and self-sacrifcing as was
his act OF withdrawal, not less consid-
crate was the time chosen for it. His
letter OF resignation is in. itself proof
that the president made no mistake in
appointing him nor the senate in con-
iirming hinl.-Philadelphi Record.
Mr.. Van Aliens experience may prove
TO have served his party even more than
his check. 1t IS rebnke to the cant
and hypocrisy that, failing to diScrimi-
nate between the corrupt and the4egiti-
mate. have assumed to piously denounce
all political contributions as contrary to
clean politics. -LouiSyille Courler-Jour-
nal.
BY resigning he saves the country
from disgrace abroad. For this all
thanks. 1t is his first act as an Am erican.
We congratulate him. But his resig-
nation does not relieve President Cleve-
land from the disgrace which attends
dlsgraceful transaction, disgraccfully
| completed Philadelphia Press.
SO Ambassador j. j. Van Allen will
not go to Rome, after all. 1t took him
some time to reach conclusion which
the rest OF the American people reached
long bef0re-that, under the circum.
stances surrounding his appointment,
he could not accept the position, even
had he been htted for such an important
diplomatic post Baltimore American.
We leave Mr.. Van Aliens communi-
cations to speak for him. IL would be
cruel to add to his modification by
pointing out the weakness and incon-
| SlStency OF some of his assertions, and
we trust that he will long continue to
adorn that social stratum of which he
has been an Interesting and entirely
harmless feature.-New York Press
Credit, however, must be given to Mr.
Van Allen for his sense of the eternal
fitness of things. 1t does not enlarge
his caliber that he has shrunk from
public criticism. but evidently there is
a strain of sensitiveneSs in his compost
ton which prevented him from accept
! ing the place.-Chicago Tribune.
But he (Van Alen) felt, as a gentle
man must. that he could not rightly rep
resent the country after all this abuse
had been heaped upon him. His honor
was more valuable than the office. And.
having received the commission, he re-
turns it to the president in very dig
niiied letter, which ought to make those
who have been pursuing HIM ashamed
of themselves; if they are capable of
shame Philadelphia Times.