Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-24

chlcsso Tribune; Now. Mr.. pnyard. will
you be good2 "
Chicago Record; The "ccnsure" q Mfr.
Bayard seems 10 be OF the kind that Is
administered during a campaign by one
stump speaker TO another.
Globe Democrats onenses OF the pavard
class are bad sense and bad manners. De
catur'e sentiment Is better: "Our country
: may she always be in the right.
but our country, right or wrongi"
Buffalo Express; The resolution consuming
Ambassador Bayard passed yesterday. re-
ceiving six democratic and ia republican
votes. In any other country than the United
states this would be equivalent to a recall
Of the ambassador. Any other man than
Bayard would regard Il as a call for his resig-
nation.
New York World: The house decided to
censure Mr.. Bayard by pretty nearly a party
vote. The matter has no very great i'm
portance. Mr.. Bayard's utterances which
are complained OF showed a want of tact and
discretion In a diplomatic officer Of the gov
eminent, but they involved no ofrense OF
sufficient gravity to Justify the waste Of
time which has occurred In the house over
them. 1t is well that the incident is ended.
indianapolis News: Really we cannot
think that Mr.. Bayard's action was worthy
OF so much attention, or OF formal condemna-
ton by congress. Mr.. Bayard has served his
country long and faithfully, and has always
been a man Of large and patriotic views. We
have no idea that the resolution of congress
will hurt him in tho estimation OF his coun-
trymeh as much as it does congress. We
sincerely trust that neither he nor the ad-
ministration will take any notice of 1t.
Chicago Post: Mr.. Bayard's error would
have been reprehended with quite as much
force and with less color Of partianship had
the house contented itself with a general
declaration of the rule to be observed and
left the ambassador to apply 1t, with the i'm
piled c%ensure, to his own casa A prece-
dent could have been established without ex-
pressly naming Mr.. Bayard. The discussion
from the outset has not been marked with
much tact or dignity. Congressman have de-
veloped a deplorable passion for washing
solled official linen in the most public place
and manner.
st. Louis Republic: What action Mr..
Bayard is likely to take in view of this
exhibition Of partisan and personal malice
is not known. The resolutions, however.
cannot injure him. They can and will in
jure the country. The English habit of
casting slurs at our public men, cur rail
splitting presidents so common a few
years ago, was justly resented, not only
because of the high mental and moral cali
Der of these men, but because the sneers
were a reflection on the people by whom
they were elected. No such slurs could be
so offensive as the action which congress
decided upon.
Chicago Journal: Neither the president
nor Mr.. Bayard will be disposed to recog-
nize officially the resolutions Of censure
passed by the house upon the latter, but 1t is
safe to bet that. our ambassador to Great
Britain will never do it again. He must
find ouch an expression of condemnation
anything but pleasant, and regret the poor
Judgment that suffered him as the repre-
Of the whole country to exploit
his partisan opinions before a foreign audi
ence that received him in that character
alone. A man of much inferior education
and breeding, of far less refinement Of man.
ners, but with the ordinary equipment Of
sense, would never have been guilty
of such ineXcusable folly.