The Clifton clarion., 1888-08-15
THE BRITISH EDITOR.
He Instructs His Readers About
 American Politics.

He Instructs His Readers About
 American Politics.
 A person does not need to be very old to remember the time when English journals displayed lamentable ignorance of American topics. Even the great newspapers of London made the most absurd mistakes about American affairs. This has been greatly changed of late years, and the leading papers of Great Britain are becoming well posted on current events in the United States. They have shown an especially intelligent grasp of political matters during the last few weeks. As an exam pie we append an editorial from The London Daily Universe which is fair sample of the clear and able discussion of the situation found in the English press:
 "The news is received this morn- ing of the nomination for the presidency by the Democrats of Mir. Harrison. This places him in opposition to General Cleveland, nominated by the Republicans at Buffalo, Ohio. It is understood that a crisis IS imminent and that General Hays, the incumbent of the office, will retire to his farm in Boston.
 "It seems that two other men have also been nominated as sub stitutes, in case the regular nomi- nees should be killed during the campaign, which will be carried on with vigor. On the Republi- can ticket it is Professor Morton of Alaska, but at present living in Florida, though it is said that he claims to be a resident of the great agricultural state of Phila- delphia. On the Democratic ticket is Dr. Thurman, a distinguished Italian born near Rome in the early part of 1883. He at present conducts-a gymnasium in the city of Kentucky and has a large per sonal following, who refer to him affectionately as the old Roman.
 '1t is predicted that these nom- inatlons will call out a full vote. MT. Harrison will mako a thor ough canvass, speaking at Massa- chusetts, Pennsylvania, Lake Erie, Mammoth Cave and Oshkosh. He we will then come east and ad- dress the people of San Francisco. General Cleveland, who is espec- ially strong with the soldier vote, having a brilliant army record, gained by the gallant capture of a large number of Confederate flags, will speak at Dismal Swamp, Montreal and other places. An opposition paper mentions an ad- dress which he will deliver later in the season at a place called Salt River, but we know nothing of it. Mir. Harrison favors free trade and strong prohibitory duty on all exports. General Cleveland's enemies charge him with trying to influence votes by favoring a pension for every man who was in the war. Mir. Harri- son has been in the legislature of New Orleans, and in 1878 was Mayor of Oregon. Much talk is heard about the bloody shirt, dead issues, the red bandana Ia new variety recently propogated in Dakota), grangers, war taxes, barl's, blanks, dark-colored horses, the solid South, carpet baggers, the Electorial University, etc, none of which is very clear at this distance, but which our correspon- dent is Investigating. The old Mugwump party, founded by Noah Webster of Tennessee, is said to have joined with the Greenback party, the Know-noth- ing party, and the Federalist par ty, and if such is the case and it puts forward a candidate it will complicate matters still further. This party would control the un- divided Chinese vote.
 1.-The report that Mir. Blaine had declared his intention of desert ing the mugwump party is shown to be premature by special tele- gram published on our fifth page" IN. Y. Tribune.