Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-01
BEECgER INTERVIEWED
Tay Eminent Preacher Describes In
pressiOns Of England 10 a
London Reporter.
He Talks About American Politi on The
irish influence in Large
Cities

elias the man any DAFT ~, This, Rev. l
Henry Ward Beecher says, IL a new term
which has come into vogue in America |
among the agents OF cele brites--the mid.
dlemen who make the Arrangements for
bringing lecturers before the public--the
managers" as they cell themselves.
TIE new term means 'sw.ll the man draw
au audieDce2n In this sense Mr. Beecher
naturally has the reputation with his ex-
perlerced manager of q man who has any
amount Of tdraftr Iie win draw. Lin
conversation, also, Mr.. Beecher Is man
of draft, an6 does not object TO publicity
being given TO some Of his remarks il the
condition, hereby complied WITH
| he observed, ttet they are an
nCunced as ''draynn from him by
questions Mr.. Beeoher's reference to our
political situation, however, hardly needs
TO be guarded by such an explanation;
Cor even If everybody did not want to
recognize that IL is not possible for Wis
itors TO England at this moment to avoid
Z allusion to our internal politics, 1t would
be admitted that Mr.. Beecher's remarks,
here reproduced, are carefully kept within
every limit which sound discretion and
good taste could prescribe.
"A comparison of past and present eX-
perience In England leads Mr. Beecher to
some interesting observations on English
as compared with American elections.
"When | was here before, you know"
said the pastor of Brooklyn church, 81
came out of storm and tornado on our
side. That storm is all gone there now,
but come to find it here in England
about your own affairs. But on the
. i ttbnla tho Inn1iah a1arttnuu hoxta haav "a =.
more quiet externally than / had been
led to expect they would be.
have ridden down your streets during the
voting time, and, although | saw activity
enough, l saw nothing that equaled the
intense excitement that exists in our own
country at our presidential election. Our
evenings there are great times during an
election. The clubs and the various
wards Of the city, and even the people OF
different occupations, organize process
2 sions with bands of music, and banners,
and notices, and all manner OF emblems
The city at night is one of wild hubbub
1t Is all good-natured, though. Almost
never any fighting There were monster
professions preceding the election OF
Cleveland such as never were seen in
New York hefOre-procession extending
three or four miles, professions which
could not pass any given point under
three or four hours; and yet, as far as
know, three never was an arrest or any oc
casiOn for one. Yes, see you have haC
some distu Dances reported in to
days papers, but under
stand how exceptional these are
!. and | am agreeaby surprised at the
tranquility and apparent orderlines'
with which you are passing through thes
exciting times"
Mr. Beecher has attended one politlca
meeting in this country. He stsid IL
6 Liverpool a day longer then he intended
in order to be present at Mr.. Gladstone
! meeting there. at was full OF novelty T.
me-" he explained, "and full of the great
est interest. | was there simply as
spectator watching English huma
nature, aud also much absorbed In MI
Gladstone's eloquence. The meeting,
have heard, was exceptionally enthusi
], astic. 1t differed from our America
meetings, perhaps, in there being
e little more violence of excitement an
a more continuous noise of applause Gu
e New England audiences are more re
served With your people there is sor
of exterior stolidity-I won't say that
undemonstrativenes is the word; bu
when you do let fly think you atone TO
j. all the reserve before. You make TIRE
mendous row.
- "There is one thing" said Mr.. Beechel
entering upon kind of neutral survey {
n the political battle now raging here
p 'there is one thing that the English ca
hardly understand in the situation of
: man like myself. All the men that are
= conflict now, swinging their war-clut
and hitting each other on the head, are
! Oh IN,
canvas. We read them, and we read {
them, and we are profoundly intereste
In them. They are, in n sense, ideal cha
> .acter to us over there, and we hold thel
in the greatest reverence and respec
" Mr.. Gladstone is in that way like men a
- ready gone-like Pitt and Fox. We hay
= not seen HIM. We have read his book
, and seen him gradually unfolding froi
the earlier and hyper-ecclesiastical col
JItlon in which he was, aud like tn
~ swelling of the vine In summer time, wit
90 additional clusters constantly coming on
OF In widening aud outstripping life, and s
On he stands out like another man. An
40 now, whenI come here aud find Mr. Brig
he dealing blows at Mr.. Gladstone and M
BET Gladstone pelting letters at M
he Bright, IL seems to me
Ne though 1t must have been
nj comedy got up for the occasion, To fin
to these persons, who all seemed TO us b
40 IIngs in the air, as it were, doing Just
q other folks do-well, it is a strange i'll
he sion that It produces. In English polite
no one In my position must follow some
OF 1.-THE leaders; but the men we have bee
~ accustomed to follow have got the
.ge hands in each others hair. We stand o.
-, That perplexes us. II the America
~ standpoint were taken, the question
Tissue would be as simple as @, b.
~ when we come over here there are q
& tails rather than principles separatir
these great men, aud on these details "
- ,age not informed. While, therefore,
The first instance our whole thougl
wouldeo with Gladstone, yet when '
. oo.ne.to read the other men we say
ourselves, q do not see exactly how IN
,e ear bennett and then we are puszle
But it Is on the detail aud mot on the gel
Grad scheme at all 1t is the working
MO abape TO suit institutions that a
. ready exist, or TO the changes that II
n supsosed VIII follow. All these thihe
- are herd to understand unless man hs
lived mere dor months and made minH'
study CT the subject"
r. MI Beecher has little % say a. presci
ON other aspects of EnglaGd as compare
with those which were presented TO nj
- on his last glst, because ne has as y
Il I -4,ntnraH ahpnad Vie laC pee