Show AT ST JAMES Thr appointment of Mr Phelps as our Minister to England has caused a great 0 deal of talk and some discontent among s both parties and yet Secretary Bayard has selected him after a long acquaintance acquaint-ance with all the leading men in both parties and has paid him the distinguished distin-guished compliment of saying he thought Mr Phelps a more competent man for I Secretary of State than himself while a Minister Lowell feels that in his succes I sor the nation will be honored And the I interests of American citizens fully protected t I pro-tected That Mr Lowell has represented I us at St James with grace and ability all readily admit and his prudence last summer j I sum-mer in relation to the arrest of suspects who claimed the protection of the flag j was such as to command the gratitude of j all Americans and the respect of Englishmen i j i English-men That Mr Low ll was termed an English dude and much berated by a I large class a class who always berate respectability re-spectability and moderation was but additional evidence that his course had heron proper and such as to obtain the on Bought without bluster and with I oiit irritation Mr Walsh and Mr Lowell have restored our good nr ig European courts and that J1 jis will continue our fair fanx none will doubt The chief objec jections to Mr Phelps have been that he has donr no particular service for the pirYHl 1 at his State Vermont is not ami POSM 11 ly never will be Demo crane These ire two strange reasons why 1 h I ol It i < be selected and especially espe-cially lit r is remembered that all through u iiblic life President Cleveland has bcin 1 preeminently a reform man and tiLt it was on his known sincerity in all his reforin measures both as Mayor of Buff 10 and as Governor of New York that he WI nominated as the Democratic candidate for President and as a reformer he was elected Vas it to the workers the ward politicians and the party bosses that he owed his election elec-tion Rather was it not to the men who I first of all thought that government was instituted for the benefit of all citizens and the country at large than to those who thought that the party was the country coun-try and that all who did not adhere too to-o the party were enemies of the country It may be that in i the convention which L nominated Mr Cleveland there were to Democrats who thought as Flannigan had said in the Republican convention of four years before What are we here for if not for the offices If any such were there they very prudently kept silent The old war cry that to the victor belong the spoils if raised in political battle today would lead the party that took it for a watchword to defeat de-feat The other cry which has been heard so much of late that the men for cabinet positions must come from different differ-ent parts and represent different sections with different interests is equally bad This cry is brought to bear against Mr Phelps but without any effect Does ito it-o in any way militate against Mr Phelps fitness for the post of minister to the Court of St James that he is a way down easter and not a way out wester It seems I to be forgotten that the appointments are made to represent us abroad as one nation and with one interest as to foreign affairs and are not based upon the balance bal-ance of power between the General Government Gov-ernment and the different States and what powers are delegated to theGeneral Government and what rights are reserved to the States to the or people This new theory of appointments seems based upon a new theory of government that as to foreign powers and foreign affairs we area I are-a federation and as to internal and domestic do-mestic affairs we are a single government govern-ment and strongly centralized The reverse of this is the fact and in losing sight of it we lose sight I of the American idea of government But the most puerile objection of all is that Mr Phelps at heart is not with the masses Is it because he does not go out to a sand lot and harangue a large crowd for hours that he is not with the masses at heart Or is it because he may not accept all the theories of Mr Henry George in regard to land Surely no man was ever more deeply interested in those who were far beneath the masses those who were prohibited by harsh and cruel laws from becoming of the masses the negroes than Wendell Phillips and after all no one was more of an aristocratic nature in social relations re-lations than Phillips yet it would be a bold man who would dare assert that Phillips heart did not beat as warmly i I for the slaves as did Garrisons or John Browns The wrongs of the negroes I fired Phillips with an ardor and enthusi i asm that win givemm an enduring fame and a name among the heroes of human rights Then again it is urged against Mr Phelps that being a man of learning and of urbane manners he will become if he is not already one an Englishman at heart being even now half an aristocrat aristo-crat Because Mr Parnell is an aristocrat and a man who in his social relations is almost as exclusive as the Queen does not unfit him I to be the leader of the Nationalists Na-tionalists and the champion of Irelands O wrongs Such objections are dasnagogic in their nature but it is gratifying to see them become less each day and eventually event-ually they will pass away it is i to be hoped i They are objections which come from theories that in America there are those who love monarchy more than republicanism and that they are becoming becom-ing a danger to our institutions If there 1 i be such they are too insignificant in number num-ber and influence to be noticed 4 0 ii l t < J1 < |