The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-10-28
In A SORE PLIGHT
The English Flag at the
Democratic Masthead.


W. It8lAC rp0kS III 08k14tIkfc 3yeQuE
rink tonight TO an audience of 1000
people. In the course Of his speech
he reverted to the British ministers
letter, and said: From the begin
ming OF the campaign it has been OBJ
vious that England was taking an ex-
traordinary interest in the election Of
Mr.. Cleveland. The London papers,
which at firstspoke With extraordinary
frankness. finding it was embar
rnssing their friends on this
side OF the ocean, subdued their tone
and TIE Democratic papers had actually
began TO assert that British aristocracy
were in fact taking sides with the Re
publican party, when at just this stage
of the game out comes the letter of the
British minister, and now what do the
Democrats do2 They want to deny
the letter altogether. but Lord Sack
vile is q frank and honorable man,
and came out squarely and said he
had written the letter. They say he is
fraud, william, forger, and Republi-
can in disguise, and in fact there never
was such man.
WHAT IF 1T WAS 4 DEcoY?
But in the name of common sense
what has that to do with the British
minister's letter? Suppose they prove
the letter to have been gotten up by a
Republican as decoy and for political
effect; that does not affect in any way
the letter of the British minister. That
letter from California would never
hurt the Democratic party or the
British minister II the latter had not
answered it. ICheers.l Possibly this
-. A.x.a kaax, titan for
/ know nothing about it whatever, but
the whole point of the matter is that
it calls from SackviIle the true views
and sentiments of England upon this
contest, and we may dismiss the other
question altogether from our minds as
to what it was that may have called it
out.
THURMAN ILL-ISFoRMED.
But there is something more, and
this is why / introduced the subject.
see Mr.. Thurman, in a speech yester-
day, seems for the first time to have
heard something OF the letter and con-
siders il Republican plot and inti-
mates that it was first brought out by
me in my address in Detroit. / left
Detroit last Monday and l came to
Buffalo and there heard of the
letter for the first time.
discredited 1t. Next, however, saw
the whole letter and also an interview
with Mr.. Bayard. rather regretting the
letter. ! must say, but apparently not
questioning q word of 1t. Next morn
ing came to New York and there
read ganother interview with Bayard,
and after l had been in New York
day | spoke in Madison Square Gar
den, after the whole press OF New
York had fully discussed the subject
of the letter.
"But now Mr.. Thurman says he dis
covers--and, of course, the whole
world stands still when Mr.. Thurman
SAYS he discovers--a remarkable COIN
cidence OF that letter and my speech
to the Irish Republicans of New York
city, and Mr.. Thurman quotes some
thing which he thinks is very funny
from Samuel Weller. Now the only
thing in any way remarkable about
Mr.. Thurman's humor is the attempt
by Mr.. Thurman to be humorous.
WARNED IN TINE.
"Well, gentlemen, it bothers them a
good deal, but the serious side of it is
the serious warning it gives to the peo-
pie of the United States of the deep
and profound interest the British ma
ton takes in this election. Gentlemen,
we have the largest market In the
world and the most varied. We
made that great home mar
ket, while the great ambition of
England is that the tariff by which we
did this should be broken down, and
that in great part it may be made her
market. The question to be decided
in this election Is whether we shall
maintain this market for our own
people, or by a reduction of the tariff
invite the products of other countries
to come in and take away largely the
right and privilege of the American
producer to manufacture for the
markets of America.
HARRISON A WORTHY CANDIDATE.
Il do not intend to say a word per-
sonally of Mr.. Cleveland. have
spoken of his public acts very freely,
but OF Mr.. Harrison / can and will
speak. There has been lately an at
tempt on the part of the Democrats to
call him the grandson of his grand
father. A man is after all to be judged
by what he is himself. Benjamin
Harrison went into the practice OF law
poor man and wrought his way
up against obstacles with so much
perseverance and industry that he
stands at the head OF the bar in In
diana to-day. He conducted himself
with conspicuous gallantry on the field
of battle. winning the praise OF that
great soldier, whose praise was itself a
title to greatest honor, U. S. Grant.
He has shown himself statesman in
the senate of the United States, and
shown himself a wise candidate.
This is the man himself, and
Il say among his opponents
there is no man who would not be
proud of such an ancestry as Gen.
Harrison's, but his best claim Is his
own merit, and while honoring Gen.
Harrison for himself, | say there Is
no man living possessed of proper feel
ing and worthy to be called man