Show THE SEDGWICK CASE We have given space to the long description des-cription of the alleged doings of Envoy Sedgwick in the City of Mexico only to give our readers a chance to see both sides of the caseand judge for themselves We cannot refrain from calling attention to the fact that the statements therein made are secondhanded none of them coming from men who themselves saw the things they describe The mean part of the whole affair is the hue and cry raised about Sedgwicks drinking at the entertainments in his honor by a crowd of men who would all do the same under the same circumstances and the dragging drag-ging of the matter to national notice not for any harm it could do Sedgwick but I only to cast odium on Secretary Bayard and the Administration who never had and have not now any other record of Sedgwick than that of a gentleman learned in international law If ome mean contemptible fellow should go to Washington during the Republican regime re-gime or even now when Congress is in session and spy out the private actions of the high priests of the Republican party and publish them to the world what a showing he could make If some fellow did this the vials of wrath of each of the papers that have scored Sedgwick would be poured out on his head and he would be classed as all that was mean and despicable and yet he would hurt none but the men exposed In this case the man sought to be pilloried is not the object of the meanness but the Administration Adminis-tration that sent him there and men who under Republican rule enjoyed certain soft snaps in Mexico which they lost on the acession of the Democratic party to power have caught up a private party of which Sedgwick was a member and sought to put odium on the Democratic Demo-cratic Administration by exposing what he did do and adding to it much that he did not do If Sedgwick in the face of his denial and that of the high officials who dealt with him could be proven guilty of the lowlived acts accredited to him every Democrat in the land would cry out for his instant dismissal but as they know from a long experience how mean bitter and vindictive are the out runners of the Republican party in their search after campaign material they with all other good men will await the arrival home of Sedgwick and then insist in-sist on a clearing of his name from the odium sought to be thrown on him or swift banishment from the party and its employ The right of a hearing is given to Chinamen but the Republican press glo ating over a scandal would deny this right to a leading light of the American bar solely because he is employed by the Dem ocrats |