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Show Miscellany Wrecked Diplomatic Service. Tho diplomatic sorvico of tho nation has been shot to pieces, The long tenure of the Republican party brought it to pass that the experienced men of tho service were for the most part .Republicans. .Repub-licans. No wholesale removal of officials was possible, on this account, without Borious inipairmonr. of cfficicncj, 3'et in uo department o-J! the government have political dobts been paid with such abandou as in the department of state. Experionco has been flouted. Our .foreign .for-eign rolations for a year havo been just ono entanglement alter another, a long aeries of blunders, vaiu efforts to revo-lutiouizo revo-lutiouizo tho diplomatic customs of tho world, visiouary schemos and all sorts of wildcat propositions. .Robert Lansing is probabfo as good a Democrat as the president was able to find to succeed John Bassott Mooro, who found ono year of grape-juico diplomacy di-plomacy all that" ho could stand. Cono Johnson, who is named as solicitor for the stato dopartmont, probably knows as much about tho duties of the office as Joseph W. Folk, whom ho succeeds. Ho has hoon a loyal supporter of Bryau-ism Bryau-ism in Texas and has acquired somo notoriety no-toriety in other BtatoB through tho gen-tlo gen-tlo ridicule to which the leading Texas newspapers havo subjected him for many years. He is a lawyer of ability, it is said, who has practiced in the United States courts,, and it is not improbable im-probable that ho is acquainted with the history of nations and can namo offhand tho great powers of tho world, with their capitals, and perhaps discover whore international laws mav be consulted. con-sulted. Philadelphia Public ledger. |