Show Partisan unfairness Is most common com-mon but sometimes It takes on a look of meanness which is most contcmpll blp A case In point Is supplied by the Philadelphia Record It insists that the magnificent handling of tho Chinese Chi-nese business by the State department during the past forty days has been due to the Chinese Minister to this country Mr Wu TingFang No doubt Mr Wu has trusted the Administration Administra-tion and has helped all he could but what had he to do In stating the position posi-tion of this Government In the famous dispatch demanding that communication communica-tion be had with Minister Conger or with the terse and stern notices to China Chi-na that no adjustment could be thought of until the legations were made safe or in refusing LI Hung Changs insistence in-sistence that if an advance was begun toward Peking the result would be the destruction of the foreigners Suppose I had been Richard Olney In place of Hay would not the incisiveness and the splendid Americanism of the State department be n theme for eulogy In every Democratic sheet between the seas How petty then Is lie spirit that would steal from a public man his Just laurels and how much more petty Is i It when the question IB one upon which the statesmanship of the United States will bo estimated In for I busi eign capitals In this Chinese ness the United States has led the Old World from the first and It baa been < an American not n Chinese lead I |