Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-14
REQUIRING

Kansas City Times dem.): The resolu.
tons Of impeachment or ccnsure OF Mr.. Bay
ard are as full OF folly as they are OF spleen.
when did free speech become = crime In this
country and when did an ambassador forfeit
his rights as q citizen?
Washington star lind. rep): Representa-
tive Barrett OF Massachusetts Is a little bit
early with his resolution for the impeachment
Of Ambassador Bayard. The fact. however,
that he once represented a newspaper In this
city may account for a certain enthusiasm
In scoring a scoop"
Indianapolis Journal rep): That Ambassa-
dor Bayard's slurring speeches about Ameri-
can politics aud policies were highly improper
and unpatriotic there can be no doubt. No
public man in the United States nor any
newspaper dare defend their utterance by an
American representative in a foreign coun-
try.
Chicago Times-Herald Qnd. rep): The
country Will not approve impeachment pro-
csedings. The less we have Of Impeachment
the better. But the country would approve
direct action by President Cleveland in the
form of censure of Ambassador Bayard, IL
not in peremptory recall of that indiscreet
and reckless agent of the United States.
Chicago Chronicle (dem): Mr.. Bayard's
speech was truthful. manly, courageous,
timely, even necessary. He might have
escaped what a London journal calls an in
discretion by Withholding from his address
any mention of a conspicuous menace to
individual freedom, but had he done so he
would have been false TO true manhood.
Buffalo Express Tep): Let those who criti-
else 1t the resolution) consider this question
What would have been the probable course of
the English government II the British am
bassador to the United States had gone about
this country making speeches attacking his
own country's customs policy? Would he
have been allowed to remain at his post and
his offense have been passed unnoticed?
st. Louis Republic (dem): In trying to
impeach Minister Bayard for telling the
truth in forcible English, the republicans
will only succeed in making him stronger
with the people. He merely expressed what
the people Of the United States put in more
effective form through the use Of the ballot
when congressman were elected charged
with the duty of repeating the Mckinley law.
st, Paul Globe (dem): But If the parti-
sans should be silly enough to insist upon
placing a martyrs crown on the head of
Ambassador Bayard. it would be the greatest
piece OF political good fortune that has ever
happened to him.. There is honor and profit
in being gibbeted because you have protested
against the infamies that the principle of
protection introduces in our public affairs
and tends to impress upon private character.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat (rep): Still,
impeachment and trial before the senate
which 1t would bring is a penalty which
would be out of all proportion to the culpa-
bility of the offender in this case. There is
a chance that the constitutional prohibition
against "cruel and unusual punishment
might be invoked here. The house was wise
in striking out the impeachment part of the
resolution. A simple vote of censure would
be enough in this case.
Chicago Tribune (rep): But the gross impro-
priety Of Mr.. Bayard's remarks should be
censured by the house and rebuked officially.
Since neither the president nor the secretary
of state has seen fit to do so congress should.
1t appears that among the rules laid down
by Mr.. Bayard, when secretary of state, for
the guidance Of American ministers abroad
was one to the effect that public speeches
should be avoided. The same man, now am
bassador, has been the most persistent and
worst violator of his own rule.