New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-09
CLEVELAND THROWN OVER.
uruQaeIp AS A FRAUD BY HIS FORMER
ALLIES IN ENGLAND.
kHyY SAT- HIS pxyxAT SERVES HIM RIGHT FOB
xs xlsxaAsLx CoURsE-THEY NOW THINK
INK LACKING In COURTESY, TASTE AND
COMMON HoNxsTY-LEARNING A FEW
THINGS ABOUT HARRISON AND THE
nEpuBLIcAN PARlY-BERArING
THEIR MISLEADING COR
RESPONDENTS
fnYoAnLB 10 TIE TRIBUNE.


London, Nov s.-Scant indeed, is the cere-
mouv with which Mr. Cleveand's British friends
throw him over after his defeat They are not
content to drop him as an ally who has served
his turn they turn upon him and rend him. The
very journals which did their best to excuse him
for djsmissing Lord Sackville, holding Mr. Bayard'
or the Irish, or the party managers, or anybody
else responsible now let loose their wrath on MT
Cleveland himself rs the real author OF what they
think an affront to England. We cannot
saws "The Times" profess particularly to regret
an event which may be regarded as the appropriate
penalty for discreditablc subservience to the mean
est influences in American politics and cuipaoie
NEGLECT of the decencies of international inter-
course There is no worse form OF poiltlcai cor
ruption than the attempt to traffic in popular
ignorance prejudice and passion by the sacrihce
of principle consistency and good manners.
SThe Standard. is not less severe, saying:
sOf all the people in the world we have the least
reason to be grateful to Mr.. Cleveland. who has
twice in the course of a twelvemonth acted TO-
ward rs with q conspicuous want of courtesy, good
taste. and we must add, common honesty. MT
Cleveland is of those who would play false and
Get would rightly win" "The Daily Telegraph,
verbose as usual, remarks that Mr.. Cleveland has
shown us within the last few days that rather
than run an infinitesmal risk Of compromising his
chances of election, he prepared not only 10
visit what was at worst mere Official lndlscreuoh
with punishment almost brutally in excess OF the
offence. but also, and at the same time, 70 ADMIN
lister diplomatic buffet, so to speak, to friendly
and kindred Nation, which, of itself or by lts
Goyernment, bad certainly done nothing to merit
the affront, ut may be said,' declares The
Morning POST that Mr.. Cleveland deliberately
endeavored to outbid the opposite party IN snow
of hostility to England for electioneerlng purposes.
He proved himself just ready as his most violent
opponents to fout England
Most Of the leading Provincial papers have
seen turn the same somersault Ihelr cehsur0
upon Mr. Cleveland is as sharp as their eulogles
for months past have been lavish. need not
quote them but I will quote " The Manchester
Guardian" as an honorable exception to the rest.
That powerful journal had been misled as al
English journals had been mised, by the contlnual
confident predictions of Cleveland correspondents
In America but it does not avenge ltsen or lts
disappointment on the President nor make hasue
TO burn the idol it has adored 1T stllI peIcVes
that his excellent record. his honesty, his repu-
tation for doing the right thing at the right time
entitled him to the steadily growing good will and
even admiration of the best minds in America"
"The Daily News" too deserves credit for at
least a negative attitude TO Mr. Cleveland. 1t
forsnot abuse him; il pcrceivcs though too late,
that il has been deceived, and administers a dec
orous but public rebule to its New-lork cor
respondent. I'VE have been confidently assured
says this unlucky journal, that the Republican
party was forever broken up and scattered The
nomination of General Harrison was spoken OF as
in itself almost recognition of probable defeat
and all the political forecasts which have been
sent across the Atlantic until very lately have
treated Mr.. Cleveland's election for second term
as O foregone conclusion In the bitterness oil It's
lust resentment toward the author Of illusions now
aispellcd The Daily News will not even accept
his explanations of unexpected defeat, but COM
ments thus: "Our New-York correspondent says
that New-York Democrats sacrificed Mr.. Cleve-
land in order to save the city and State candidates
This is of course. a New-Yor< view of the Demo
cratic catastrophe But those who look on from
h distance may take wider survey of the heid
Of conflict and not improbably come to more
just conclusion
This is country in which nothing succeeds
like success, and General Harrison as a success
ful candidate receives very different treatment
from General Harrison as a candidate whose de-
feat was expected, hoped and prayed for The
Tines has discovered that he is not OF obscure
origin had no share in the scandals and intrigues
of former Administrations showed some military
Ibility had an important influence in his own State,
Ind may if he can keep clear of the bossesaid IN re-
storing the reputation of his party. 1t does not
seem to to this sapient sheet that the party
which has just proved itself majority OF the
American people is in no particular need of having
It's reputation restored; no, nor of being patron
lied by The Times" its colleagues.
Neither the leading nor the following journals
of Great Britain have any adequate notion OF the
real magnitude Of the victory won on tuesday
Few of them are willing to admit TO themselves or
10 their re: aer@ that more in the history OF
the civilized world British Free Trade has been
rejected by Nation which prefers the American
Idea for America The issue was deliberately
obscured," cries the great Free Trade organ oy
the exigcnce of political wire-pullers' Ihe
English do not perceive that wire-pulers IN the
English interest tried to obscure it and failed
They are too welded TO their Free Trade fetish 70
doubt that sooner or later we shall say Mumbo'
to their Jumbo"
"Tbe Daily News" in search Of plausible ex-
cuse for defeat, even brings out the Bloody Shirt
once more and waves it languidiy about. 1t sees
q Solid North and Solid South facing each other.
H. grows pathetic over the Mugwumps They
have never come to much" cries this writer, with
q sudden CLEAN of sense. Then he adds sadly,
reluctantly, truthfully: The Tribune speaks OF
the election as a great Protectionist victory, and
probably it has this meaning in New-fora itself
Our correspondent says"-this is one more buffet
for him" that the question of tariff reform had
little TO do with the result but in the rest of the
country it was at least one of the points on which
the voting turned Mr. Clcvcland's defeat is
sore disappointment TO tariff rcformcrs.'
Yes my detected friend, it is; and to none more
than to the English, who fanced it their business
to reform the American tariff and elect an Ameri-
can President u. W. ..
ITALIAN EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.
Rome Nov s.-In the Chamber OF Deputies to-day.
sfgnor Unijaro questioned the Government regarding
Tia conditions under which emigration 70 America was