Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01

try. American women are thought to be |
very queer in many ways, when tried
by the conventional standards of other
countries. Nothing could be queercr |
than Daisy Miller to Mrs. General pre-
cscly pouring prunes and prisms from
her proper mouth. Nothing, also, would
seem to he quecrer to the typical respec-
table British matron tuan many of the
excellent American champions of the |
rights of their own sex.
But while that matron would look
aghast upon one of her own sex making
a stump-speech, and would doubtless
murmur, GLOW painfully Americana
the Easy Chair recently pointed out that
nothing could seem to an American lady
more extraordinary than the spectacle of
the wife of Il candidate for Congress
driving with election flags and ribbons
from house to house soliciting votes for
her husband. Yet this was the queer
spectacle offered by the wife of Lord
Randolph Churchill in the early summer,
and the fact that she was an American
made no difference. She would certainly
not have done the same thing here, and
doubtless she shares the feeling of re-
pulsion with which so many American
ladies regard the assertion of the right
of doing what she did. Lady Churchill
was stumping for her husband. 1t WIS
not queer" in England, and it shows
that the brow of the respectable British
matrun should not be lifted ut the "fe
male champion of her sex" in America,
because She is plainly a British survival,
like the local phrase or word.
The same interesting fact is illustrated
in other ways. John Bull at his London
club. like young Bull Calf at his club in
New York. is shocked by the VulgaritY
and "blackguardiSm' of American poll
tics. 1t strikes him as very undignitied,
and he signs to think lit is so transat-
lantic." l. it: l. it peculiarly -Amcri-
can: Not at all: il i only Il survival of
the dear mother country. TO one who
recalls IIogarth. and remembers Grants
| Random RccollectionS of the House of
| Commons. and Disracli'S and Bulwcr's
and Dickens stories. and who has dipped
Il little into English political and party
history. nothing is more queer than that
John Bull should think vulgarty and
blaclguardiSm and worse. in an electoral
campaign. to he so American and queer.
The other evening. in an ordinary cleo
ton campaign. such aS that which is Just
ended in England, poor Lord Lornc, the
Queens son-in-law. was asssailed with
such uproar, and even with eggs. so flu
riously. that he escaped from the platform
and ran. dripping, through Il heavy rain
to the railroad station. and shook the
mud of the town from off his feet. Now
a. the conduct of the wife of Lore
Churchill. upon which this Chair passe,
no Judgment. however familiar and ac
ccptable in England. would have beer
thought >uperlatively queer in the UnitcC
States. so the VitupcratiVc VigOr of Eng
lish political speaking is unparalcle,
here. and a. proceeding from Il realm il
which election vulgarity is thought to b,
50 American. it is undcniably queer.
The appearance of a high dignitary o
the Episcopal church upon the part,
stump ON this side of the water would b.
an extraordinary and almost an unprece
dented event. But that. if he appeared
such an ccclesiastic should speak of al
Il, ,1 Ia
George Anthony DcniSon. of Taunton
in England. recently spoke of Mr.. Glad
stone. is incredible. The reverend gen
tleman said: II have known Mr.. Glad
stone forty-tive years, but | would no
trust him with brass farthng.' Tn
Wings nightly before sleeping expires
the hope that something will happen t
Mr.. Gladstone before morning." Can W
figure Bishop Littlcjohn, or Bishop G
Assistant Bishop Potter. or Bishop Dc
ane, or Bishop Huntington, or Bsho
Coke. all of them New York eccles ias tic
either speaking upon the stump at all, {
under any conceivable circumstances tall
ing in that strain of any opponent?
is certainly very queer, and we sig
deeply to thing how English it is.
Professor Tyndall also took part in IL
late Parliamentary campaign, so far
to write letter declining to stand for
seat. In the letter referring to events
the Soudan, he too said of NJ. Ola,
stone: If there be a day of retributio
for the misdeeds of men, would NJ
willingly accompany to the iudgmen
seat the unpurged spirits of those WI
were responsible for the bloodshed in IL
Soudan. 1t was damning and damn
BILE business from beginning to end. Y,
the man who is answerable beyond Il
Others for this waste of blood, who SCI
Gordon to the wilds and there abandone
him to death and mutilation, now dare
to talk to the people of Midlothian as
no fleck rested upon his workmanship