The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-07-12
Commercial Gazette.l

in the British Empire, and one of the
most characteristic Americans living,
though that is not his newspaper rep
utation.
He gives in5the New York Tribune
of Saturday condensation of the ex-
pressions Of the sentiments Of the
British people as appears in the press
daily and weekly, and the work that
he has done is very curious, interest
ing and instructive.
The great fact is that the British
newspapers are almost unanimously
against Harrison and Morton, and in
favor of Cleveland and Thurman.
They look upon Cleveland as the
"boss," and are deeply impressed with
the wisdom of helping his policy,
which is, to make Of the United States
a larger Ireland for the exclusive ben
eft Of British manufacturers and
commerce. The British press is in a
word in favor Of giving us the Irish
end of British free trade, and Cleve-
land is praised and urged as the expo
nent Of that benefcence. We quote
from Mr.. Smalley as follows:
"The Times articles on American
subjects are sometimes friendly; not
often remarkable for knowledge. It is,
of course, strongly in favor of Mr..
Cleveland, whom from time to
time it extols as the free trade cham
pion in America. General Harrison
is now sneered at as, comparatively
speaking, an unknown man, who owes
his nomination to the dilatory and
tortuous tactics of Mr.. Blaine and his
supporters. Mr.. Cleveland, says this
journal, has the advantage of possess
sion, and also of creditable record.
Should General Harrison be elected,
Mr.. Blaine may still hope to secure
Office and dominate his policy Then
comes a paragraph on Mr.. Blaine
which summarizes the scandals Of his
least scrupulous enemies: He has
overreached himself, astute as he is, in
an attempt to control from Edinburgh
the underground maneuvers at Chi
cago.' General Harrison is tarred
with the same brush, for Mr.. Blaine,
we are told, has been beaten with his
own weapons. AS Mr.. Blaine is,
concludes the Times, mo friend to
this country, we can afford to regard
his defeat with very considerable
equanimity.'
''The Daily Telegraph is more a
commercial expression than anything
else, but it has, next after the Stan
dard, the largest circulation in Lon
don, and often deals with serious po-
litical subjects. General Harrison, to
this shopkeepers' organ, is a respecta-
BILE mediocrity. His great advantage
as candidate is that he is not Mr..
Blaine, a man who knows no twinge
Of conscience, and shrinks from no
dodge or trick. Mr.. Cleveland, of
course, represents to this intelligent
observer resolution Of the best men
on both sides to purify and reform
the National Administration and sew
er the civil service from the taint of
party conflicts. The Democrats, in
its opinion, are not as good free trad
ers as they might be, but it believes
that the cause of free imports is more
or less connected with the success of
the Democratic party. A eulogy on
Mr.. Cleveland is followed by some of
the familiar ecstacies about the stain
less character of General Lee and the
fascinating figure of General Stone
wall Jackson.
''The leading Tory journal, the
Standard, does not think the Chicago
Convention worth talking about. The
leading Gladstonian organ would have
done we'll to come to the same conclu-
sion, but must be babbling. English
Liberals, says the Daily News, can
hardly be expected to sympathize with
a Convention programme which clings
to protection and condemns the friend
ly submission of the fisheries dispute
to arbitration as pusillanimous.' The
Republican platform, Of course, con-
tains no such condemnation, but it is
idle to expect. tie Daily News to be
accurate. 'By&ansequence,' continues
our candid friend, English Liberals
are unable to wish we'll to General
Harrison's candidature;' but he SYM
pathizes with the Convention in it's
complete victory over Mr.. Blaine's ap-
parently unscrupulous tactics.
"The financial organs are at one
with the organs of politics. General
says the Financial News,
is respectable nonentity, whose
makes the reelection of
Mr.. Cleveland practically certain.
Mr.. Clevelsnd has, it seems, approved
himself to the British financial mind
as AN able, upright, fearless and inde-
pendent official, and his reelection
will do much to strengthen the cause
Of civil service reform throughout the
Union There is nothing to show
that this Is meant as Joke.
"Outside the metropolis, the Con-
vention is discussed by most of the
great papers in different parts of the
Kinndnn, Tha Midlands hauo on,