Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1895-10-12
TO GAIN IRISH VOTES
Lord SackvII|e West Says 1t
Caused Murchison Incident.
is FREE IN HIS STRUCTURES
The American People and Our Public
Men Denounced i'll Terms
Most Bitter.

New York, Oct. S.-A special cable
| to the World from London says An eX-
trordinary and in mauy respects the
most unprecedented publica eion by a
British or any other high diplomat has
| been discussed during the past few days
among the foreign representatives to
! the court of ST. James. This is a hand
somely printed pamphlet marked For
Private Circulation only" and entitled
My Mission TO the United States,
1SS1-9," and has just been issued by
Lord Sackville, who as Sir Lionel Sack
| vile West, K. G. G., was the English
minister to Washington for the period
named. 1t will be remembered that
President Cleveland, almost on the eve
Of his Inauguration, sent Lionel West
his passports because of a letter sent to
an alleged Englishman in California,
commenting on the approaching cleo
tion. These pamphlets are Lord Sack
Ville'S defense and explanation, after
several years, of that incident But the
unprecedented part of it, and the part
which has aroused very excited COM
ment, is first, the freedom of his stric-
lures upon the American people and
American public men, and second, his
own expressed indignation that the
British ministry should have accepted
Mr.. Bayard as ambassador to this
country, while as secretary of state of
the United States Mr.. Rayard had wan
tOnly insulted in person its accredited
representative.
The pamphlet contains so pages, 15,-
zoe words and is very limited, not more
than 100 copies having been issued
These have been sent under seal only
to leading foreign diplomats and the
higher English officials and a few per-
sonal friends
Chester A. Arthur was president and
James G. Blaine secretary of state
when Lord Sackvil1e came to New
York in November, 1881. At a recep-
ton given him by the St. Georges So
ciety he says Mr.. Blaine was sent to
greet him by President Arthur and he
made most cordial address of well
come. In it he referred to '.the loyalty
Of the American people, and the adj
lniration for that gracious sovereign.
his royal MISTRESS Lord Sackville
notes also his very cordial reception by
the president himself, but remarks that
while Mr. Blaine was using this con-
ciltatory language he was carrying on a
hostile controversy with her majestys
government respecting the abrogation
of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty"
FEARED THE FENIANS.
He says he entered upon his duties
vi III great solicitude. 81 was we'll
,,P+l l,n r; T cbo !,
contend with in combating the intlu-
ence Of the Fenian organization and
which was so powerful in both houses
of the legislature.'
Lord Sackvlle quotes private letter
he wrote to Lord Granville, then for
eign minister, in April, 1882, in regard to
Apparently request or demand made
by Secretary Frelinghuysen for the i'm
mediate release of certain Irish sus-
poets. In this letter Lord Sackville
distinctly states that Assistant Sec
retary Davis represented to him that
the president felt embarrassed by the
action Of congress in the matter, and
that he, the president, trusted to the
courtesy of her majesty's government
in enabling him to avert it.
He says he told Secretary Davis that
che must remember there was a public
opinion in England as well as a press
neither of which were likely to be con-
WINGED of the necessity of concession
to the United States on this question
simply because congress was terrorized
by the Irish voters" Davis frankly
admitted this and said that the presi-
dent himself appealed to her majesty's S
government in the political case.
PROTECTION ASKED.
Lord Sackville here deliberately
states that Lord Granville, upon the
representations of Lord Spencer, then
lord lieutenant of Ireland and lately in
Lord Roseberry's cabinet, telegraphed
the first assistant secretary of state,
saying that his Lord Sackville's) life
was iii danger and asked for protection.
Secretary Frelinghuysen, he said, de-
clined to take any step officially, but
| sent him to General Sherman. The lat
| ter invited him to a trip in the presi-
dents yacht" All preparations We're
| made in secret and they spent 10 days
| cruising in the James river, after which
.sit was deemed that the excitement
/ caused by the Irish execution had
| abated."
| He says danger again became imnli-
| nent when he was instructed to de-
mand the extradition of Patrick Sher-
| idan for completely in the Phoenix Park
| murders He felt that such a demand
would be hopeless and so reported to
Lord Granville and then the instruc-
| tions were revoked. A presidential elec-
| ton was approaching and Mr.. Blaine
| was likely to be the republican candi-
| date. 1T was at this time that Mr..
| Blaine spoke to me in the most con-
! demnatory tones of the conduct of her
maiestys government in dealing with
the Irish question" he quotes. They
! had created such a hostile feeling in
| the United States that he felt convinc-
ed that if the population was polled
the result would be an almost unani-
| NOUS expression of hatred toward
! England This language clearly indi-
Gated his intention to trade upon this
hostility to England to gain the Irish
| votes for his election.
He notes Mr.. Blain's defeat without
greatly repressed exultation and says
he looked hopefully to the new demo
| cratic administration and Mr.. Bayard
| The latter, he says, deprecated to him
the influence which the Irish party hao
obtained in the constituencies and eX-
pressed himself as determined not tc
| allow his actions to be dictated by it.
THE MURCHISON LETTER.
/ Lord Sackville treats of events prio1
| to Mr.. Cleveland's denomination II
| 1888. It was necessary for him to sho"
himself more anti-English than his cp'
| ponents He then quotes the Murchlsor
letter and his reply which he refers te
1 as "incautious," both of which, to MS
amazement We're published in the New
| York Tribune, the organ of the repup
lican party on October 22, 1888. lie
learned from private sources thap hs
such person as Murchison existed
He was furnished with copy OF the
/ following telegram received by a mem
\ Der of the cabinet from the natloha
i committee in New York:
/ Does the president know that ths
Irish vote is slipping out OF our hahdS
i because Of diplomatic shilly-shallylhs
See Lamont, the presidents secretary