Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-06
THE ENGLISH CANDIDATE.
New York Tribune.

The exhibit Of British opinion on
the political situation In America,
furnished IN our special cable dis
patches to day and yesterday is "A
most Instructive one. Mr.. CleYe.
land was shown TO be the uDani.
mons choice of he English and
Scotch press. OF the many jour
nails quoted in detail by our Lon
don correspondent only one had
anything pleasant to say of Gener-
al Harrison. That was the leading
Parnellite organ published in Dub
lin. With this exception the Brit
ish press, Tory, UnionIst and Lib
eral, united in hostile criticism of
the Republican candidates and
platform, and IN fnlsOme praise of
President Cleveland and the Dem
Ocratic party. Several important
journals supplement their c0ntemp.
tuOus references to General Harri.
son az a "nOnenity" and an obscure
politician with malignant filings at
Mr.. Blaine.
The meaning of this remarkable
demonstration of the English press
is PLAIN. ITO some extent" remarks
Mr.. Chamberlain's Birmingham or.
acIe, "we are directly concerned in
the result of the contest England
has immense interests at stake in
the American election. Her man.
ufactnrers and traders know that
Mr.. Cleveland's reelection will he
a great business stroke for them.
The sympathies OF her capitalists,
industrial classes, legislators and
pnbIcists are enlisted on the Eng
Iish side Of the American contest.
The President and the Solid SOnth
are fighting the battle of English
manufacturers. The logic Of the
message is the logic Of the Golden
tracts. The tendencies of Demo.
cratic legislation are in the direc.
ton OF free trade. England has
every material advantage TO gain
if Mr.. Cleveland be reelected, and
nothing to hope for If the Republl-
cans carry the country. "AbOve
all,p remarks n leading Unlonist
journal with cOmmendable candOr,
"the President has made himself
the propagation Of free trade prln-
ciplcs.p England's sympathies go
where her business interests lie.
For this reason Mr.. Cleveland is
the English candidate, and cham
pions of American Industrial indie.
pendence are lampoOned and reyll-
ed.
Mr.. TennIel told the whole story
in the lnlmitable cartoon represent.
ing Mr.. Cleveland in the act OF in.
PRODUCING Free Trade to Mistress
Columbia, with the playful remark,
"She's English. you know " The
policy Of the message is English to
the core, and consequently Mr..
CleyeIand is accepted with loud ac.
claim by Tories, Liberals and I'm.
iOnists as the ideal candidate. AS
for General Harrison. he stands
only for American ideas and is a
"nOnenity,p a man of no reputation
aud probably wire pulling schem'
er and intriguer like that bold, bad
man, Mr.. Blaine! The English
journals unite in this verdict very
much as they joined in 1861 in APP.
plauding secession and disunion.
SO long as cotton was king and the
Southern oligarchy Of slavehOld-
ers held supreme authority in pOlit.
ical affairs, England was at liberty
to raid the American market. The
Solid South, with its renewal Of the
policy Of free trade, promises the
supremacy OF British manufac.
lures in the United States. Great
Britain again supports the South,
Ireland alone observation-disclosures,
whose manufactures and industries
England has ruthlessly destroyed.