The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-22
REV. ]. C. FLETCIER'S LETTER.
Premature lifcatiOn-English, CAS- She
Is Writ and Spoke" in Italy.

headers like to be, the morning of Nov. o.
1854, in a city of half a million and not have
single comforting word of certainty about the
election-have no Journal with forty eight
roosters all growing in row-no spread eagle
screaming 'Sha!:e," and shreking the majority
for Blaine-no crisp one-line editorials saying
''Well jolfy," There's gwyine to be meetin'
here to night" etc. etc, etc. Well, that is just
teh condition poor American mortals are in
here in Naples If Cleveland had depended on the
journals of England, France and Italy for his
election, the whole thing was a dead certainty
three months ago England's views are free
trade and it thinks that the chameleonlike
Democratic party represents free trade, there
fore. it shouted from I.andsend to John OGroats
'hooray for Cleveandn The French journals
have mixed motives and these are all negative
i. e., the "Opportunist' (the party in power and
the Panama canal people, do not want Blaine
because they are afraid that he will not allow
American interests in China to be crushed with
out a protest, and that he will not allow France
to buy and control the Isthmus of Panama.
and thus control the aqueous link (if the express
sion is not contradictory between the Atlantic
and Pacific. The Radical French journals
are against Blaine because they do not
want President in the United States
the representative of party called 'Repub-
lican," which does not sympathise with the So
cialistic, comunistic and other destructive ten.
denotes of the radical portion of the so-called
French Republicans The conservative French
journals, on general principles do not want
Blaine for they believe that only in one way can
leader be chosen that is by the grace of
God" ETC., etc, and if he is chosen by the peo-
pie, whether it be Blaine or Cleveland it is all
the same to them, for they consd that ruler
thus elected is by the grace of the evil. There
fore, for all these reasons, the French people, if
you should judge by their journals, cry "Vive
Monsieur Clevelandm The French demi-monde
papers, may say, are not political, but they all
go in for Cleveland because they believe the
adherents of Mr.. Blaine have prosecuted 'Mon-
sieur Cleveland because he was practicing the
mode of life of the great majority of male
Frenchmen, that is, eschewing holy matrimony
and taking a mistress. There has appeared
nothing SO indicative of the low state of social
morals in Paris as the sympathy felt for Cleve-
land, because meddlesome clergymen and
Puritan people with old fashioned Bible notions
of morality made fuss about Clevelands rela-
they called her The Italian journals have not
once cried out for Cleveland, against the Re
publican party. The whole nation, minus the
former States of the Pope 1.-THE only government
that ever recognized Jeff Davis) and which gov
eminent was not then in united Italy, was with
us, from the Alps to Sicily, during contest
to maintain United States, while Italians were
trying to form a united Italy Therefore, the
opinions the merits Of the two candidates
for President, and the prophecies anent the
same, are mere echoes of the French and En-
glish papers. No italian paper that L know of
has direct cabegrams from the United States,
except those connected with commerce;
hence here 1 am, this morning, feeling
awfully that | can not know how great has been
the majority for Blaine
Nevertheless, I am going to 'jollify," and to
this end will give your readers something to
make them gently smile after their insides and
faces are all used up with shouting and with
laughing for the two weeks that will intervene
between to day and the time this letter will be
published. Besides ! wish to make my Demo
cratic friends for doubt not some are your
readers have some other thought than those
doleful ones connected with the recent election.
know, at least, that you have one Democratic
reader and that is Judge Rand, His Democracy
is an enigma to me, for he was born in Vermont;
but as there are occasional, white black birds,
exceptions to all rules. the Judge, ard poor gen
ial, and once gifted John G. SAKE are exceptions.
Then, to cause smiles, | am going to-day to
give you ''Eenglis as she is writ in Italy, and
what give you is literal fact, for Ihave the doc
uments before ME containing this original Zen
glis" There are educated Italians who speak
English as well as do, and as linguists they far
surpass the French; but there is an English Ian
guage both spoken and written in Italy which
is original, amusing, and sometimes side split
ting and that is the language used by ''couriers'
and "cicerones' (guides), and which sometimes
takes printed form, when these aforesaid cicer-
ones, ETC., are employed by hote, keepers and
shop-keepers twho don't spoke Eenglis) to
write an advertisement for them. Mark Twain
in his 'Innocents Abroad" in his account of
Ferguson in the famous scene Of Which is the
Bust aud which is the Pedestal" has not exag-
gerated one iota in regard to 'Eenglis as she is
spoke" by the ordinary courier, but 1 wish to
leave OUT any specimens Of the how she is
spoke and give you only til ose of how she is
writ The first instance is that of an adver-
tsement by the propretors Of tine Hotel Metro
pole frst-rate, quiet house, moderate sized
where DR.. Lee Munhall stopped, when in Naples.
The proprietors of this hotel occupied a smaller
establishment, formerly called the Strangers
Hotel, before going to their present house. and it
is of this house which they speak in their most
costly and beautifully engraved circular. I hope
your compositors will set this up. spelling, pune
tuation, idiom and all exactly as I copy it. for
have most conscientiously made this transcript
Here it is:
Sir: Allow to recall to your kind remembrance
and beg the honor to inform you the opening Of
HOTEL METRoPOLE
Formerly ancient house Hotel Strangersl
That will take place the first of next month
We devoted all the Summer Season at grand
works of Establishment aud modern Improvement and
we have nterey refurnished with the most eegants
and confortables furniturs.
The Hotel is situated in the exceptional and delight.