The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-11
AMER1cAN NEWS IN RUSSIA.
Taughable Blunders About the Presidential
Election and Life in New York.

Laughable Blunders About the Presidential
Election and Life in New York.
st PETERSBURG Correspondence, Nov 10.
The newspapers of this city and Moscow have
devoted a good deal of space to the late presl'
dental canvass in the United States. Those
who have carefully perused all the dispatches
and letters sent here from New York, Wash
ington and San Francisco have been kept very
well posted on all the political issues OF the
great American Republic. The Novoe Nremla,
the Vedomosti and the Novosti of this capital,
faithfully followed the campaign beginning
with the nomination of the candidates for Presl.
dent They gave in full the platforms of all
the parties and biographies of all the candl-
dates. including Belva Lockwood and st. John.
Regularly every week, they publish long
American letttrs, reporting in detail the
progress of the campaign. The Sun, and some
other American papers are largely quoted here
And yet within a few days have been led to
suspect that, with few exceptions, the Russians
actually know nothing about America.
Recently the Novoe Vremia. the newsiest OF
Russian papers, which has been printing correct
kilograms on the election returns, said;
According to the latest news from New York con
corning the coming election of President of the
United States which is to be held March 4, 1889,
victory win be the side of the Democratic candi.
date Mr.. Cleveland, who had received 2 10 electoral
votes against 1872 votes for Mr.. Blaine. With Is
votes the required majority Mr.. Cleveland can
be considered the next President of the
Union provided, however, that during the four
shall not happen some event which might force the
Democrats to put up another candidate. In 1877 the
Democratic candidate, who had been elected by ma
jority of three votes. vas counted out In America
where political campaigns conducted by ali means
legal and Illegal everything is possible aud IN view OF
the tragic end of Lincoln and GARFIELD Mr. cleveland
must observe caution until the fourth day of March
When called attention to the glarng errors
of this, reporter for the Novoe Vremia said:
THE proprietor of our journal finds it neces-
sary to employ an American correspondent who
the members of the editorial staff are not bound
to study those letters, and so they mix things
up"
But the other papers have committed still
worse bltlnderS. The European Messenger, of
this city, Nov. -, said, editorially:
The chances of General Cleveland are nearly all
gone, his partisans have gone over to Mr.. Blaine
who is making grand triumphal march all over the
country, bling greeted everywhere, not only rs q
favorite candidate, but also as savior OF his
country.
The Moscow vedomosti spoke of Blaine, Cleve-
land, Butler, and Belva Lockwood as dangerous
demagogues. 1t said only few kind words OF
st, John, as 1.-The candidate of the party uphold
ing the protective tariff"
The Nedomosti also informs us that the peo-
pie of the city of New York are day and night
trembling for their lives and property, for
somewhere in First street there is a revolu
tionary cosmopolitan beer saloon. in which
red-hoL comlnunistic speeches are delivered as
frequently as glasses of beer are emptied; and
that but for the well-drilled and armed militia,
which keeps an eye on that terrible place, the
residents of New York would migrate in a
body. and the beautiful Manhattan island
would look as desolate and barren as it did in
the time Of Hendrick Hudson. 1t is not clear,
however, where the New Workers could safely
settle, for according to the VedQmosti, guerilla
war is continuously going on all over the United
States now laborers are crushing their foes, and
now capitalists. aided by soldiers, are drowning
the rioters in their own blood ...s>
A Russian TEA merchant who is interested in
Brazilian coffee said to me yesterday:
"Ihave heard something about the elections
in the United States. Say they going to
dethrone the Emperor Dom Pedro'