New-York tribune., 1881-07-19
PRICE FOUR CENTS.
HOW ENGLAND GOT THE NEWS.

A BUSY SEASON AT TIE AMERICAN LEGATION
lfRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT THE rRIBuSEl
LONDON, July THE dispatches 10 the London
papers respecting the tragedy at Washington have
neeh very full, those TO The Daily NeWs and The
STANDARD hlling many columns Oh Monday: the other
papers contenting themselves with less voluminous
narratives. Never before has the London press
SHOWN SO much interest in any American event. or
'P'n' 20 much moneyin procuring accounts by cable
]" 'he accounts have been. for the most part very
gooa accounts The dispatch TO The DoiIy
'"' VI MONDAY was very lGcid ard COM
nn - piece OF writing. six columns in length.
ihat supplied 20 The Standard which. we
hear, has lately set mp a burea, in Ne,vYorl, was
less remarkable for literary mesit and has been fol-
io"ea DIV others remarkable for passaqes which
might with advantage have been omitted. II tho
correspondent of The Standard is an Englisl,nan IL
may be regretted that he should think this a good
moment to paint in such black coloTs picture of
American political life If he be an American his
'co deserves condemnation without reserve No
censnTe can he too strong for a man who takes
Ioreish pay for rcvilng his own country The
h'ghsh public is full OF respectful sympathy for
lS cousins across the water The stand I'd correspon
deit encourages this feeling by depicting what he
cdls condition of political rotteuness that is an
pailIng' And he thus
Civil Service Reform is wild dream, in ,,esonoo
moIaizes public life here and paralyzes the healthy
has al "a
level oi a game Of cards in which bofh silcs nlav
with marked pack, and consider il no aislonor To
cheat. ~
We shall owe The Standard little thanks for i;s
enterprise If it Is going TO give publicity to whole
sale he's npon the people and Government # the
United States. Such things, OF course are copied
There are people, dare say who think them spicy.
lbey are read at time when interest IN American
ahalrs rs keen beyond precedent. They are how
ever Wholly Inconsistent with the opinions which
lie at the root OF the general feeling in England and
the opinions expressed editorially in the paper
wtlch prints this insulting ana calu,snious nara
graph. Ot course they do mischief | hone the
mischief Is lessened by indignation AZ tie cruel ont
rage upon the President who lies low under the
aSsaSsins bullet. For the President Is chief of n
party as we'll of the Nation and IL is he who is
hkened by this writer to a bacxlog and card
sharper. / don't think We should endure many
allusions of that sort very patiently.
The dispatches TO The Tclegdph ike all The dis
patches, are of interest, but suspicion of parti-
san purpose could be entertained in such a case /
should say they were conceived in Mr. Conklinp's
interest They do certainly appear to proceed from
somebody who has close relations with the
journal which has of late been Mr. Conlxling's
New-lork organ. hope my conjecture NAV give
offence 10 no 1t is pure conjecture | have
notion who the author of these telegra,ns is Of
these. Of any of the other teeyralns on winch
comment save one. Whoever n may be he does
heat the COnkilng drum very loudly indeed in the
ear OF the small shopkeoper who is supposed 10 be
the most valued integer in the constituency
of this particular jounal Perhaps l am
wrong in atributlng this partiality the supposed
author of The supposed kilograms in The Das TeIe-
graph. He has talent for silence il must be no.
tlced. On Monday, when The Ddiy Noes had its six
columns and The Standard its five columns and even
Iho Times two columns, the special dispatches TO
! me Do"y Telegraph and lis shopkeepers amounted
| in all To one-ei ghth Of one column. On Tuesday
however. it made up for its previous want of en-
ergy; publishing bad caricature of President Gar
field as il had The week before published one Of the
brighton murderer. Lefrov,i and picture of the
WhiIe House. 1t published also a column and
a half of what purported to Le dispatches
from its correspondents in Ncw-Yorl: a part
Of which bore close resemblance 70 parts
of the kilograms in its contemporaries of the
day before only much watered and padded; so
much SO that the Conklingsm which seems 70 be
the earnaIk of cenGinenesS III their account quite
chohed and Stihed. But the C1nk'inr reappears
here to-day and this morning. Ne now learn that
the political excitement arising ouf OF tl,e charges
brought by the Administration press j. snbs:d;ng and
that there Is reaction in favor OF Arihur and Conk
ling more especially as an examination Of the
assassin shows that his sympathics have always
been with Conllings opponents" He opposed
Grant, il appears. in the Chicago Convention. and
has sought Office from President Garfield A. an
enemy of Conking. This again is highly interesting
and novel intelligence. What surprises rs is that
10 story of the same appears in the other Lon
don papers.
The Telegraph correspondent remarks that the pub-
lished declarations of Mr. Conkling and of General
Grant, both showing the utmost deteStation of tho
crime and the warmest sympathy with the Presi-
dent, have produced a gratifying effect. He does
not say who il is who has been gratiled Now Mr.
Conklng's statement or what pnrports 10 be
snch, has been teegraphed here. IL has not been
thought worth while 10 telegraph General Grants
But Mr.. Conllings has unhappily been mutilated of
those expressions of warm sympathy vi h the Presi-
dent which produced gratifying am eject on The
Telegraph correspondent in New-lork In their
absence. Mr.. Conkling's declaration has had
here an effect the reverse OF gratifying All
that was sent To us nearly all. was n panegvric
by Mr.. ConAling on Nlr. Arthur. We are it is true
allowed TO know that, in Mr.. Conklings opinion no
language can oyerstate the enornty of the deed of
Guiteau But we hear in the same breath that
there is occasion for public apprehension OF cx-
element" Why 7 Because The Nice-lresident
in the Of death. instantly succeeds the Govern
ment continuing as if no change had occurred :"
And then follows the panegyric on Mr. Arthur
coupled with denunciation of those who distrust
him, as unspeakably wicked and trea-
sonable" and with the expression of Mr.. conk-
bngs opinion that assassination whether
by pistol or newspapers. will be STAMPED ont by the
American people with righteous and indignant ac-
cord" The reference 10 assassination by news
papers-a crime which Mr. Conkling is perhaps the
first jurst to define-is further elucidated 10y the
incidental observation that feroc0us and atrocious
faisehood has attempted to bewider the public