New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-06
NOTES FROM LONDON.
A FRENCH VIEW OF THE AMERICAN PRESk
DENCY-THE DUKE OF ARGYLLS
CUP OF TEA WITH MIR. GLAD
STONE-MR. CLAY-MR.
MAYER.

London June II.
Even in France the contest for the American
|! Presidency has attracted attention. The Figaro
| has an article on it, curious article. mat
paper is as shrewd and we'll informed as any other
in Paris so long as it keeps to the asphalte none
are we'll informed beyond those rather municipel
limits Its leading article of Wednesday is de-
voted 10 the American Presidency, and to q study
of the President, as compared with the President
OF the French Republic; contrasting not the two
men. but the two offices. The writer is Of
opnon that between the Democracics OF France
and of America there is an abyss, and deepest OF
| all between the two Presidents. lie must DO
| presumed to understand something about his own;
| il he understood ours, the comparison might 10
valuable But even ignorance is sometimes valu.
able The President Of the French Republic Is,
we are told, only a machine for signing public
documents-a figurehead Of wood. Still he has
great salary and allowances which enable him TO
live in spendor, to give dinners and festivals ana
| play the sovereign at Nancy. These. II you VIII
take this Writer'S word for it, are his chief Juno
TONS Considering the civilities and assurances
inst exchanged between President Carnot and our
excellent new American Minister, MI Jefferson
| Coolidge, this view seems hard one.
| Not 30 the President OF she United states
lie cannot be splendid because he has only ten
thousand dollars a year; with few hundreds
added for a private secrctary-"and this Is coun-
trv swollen with milliards, which has hardly any
longer a public debt The White House, to he
sure. is superb palace'-how pleased We
ought 10 be to hear it even from foreigner who
certainly has never seen the palace" he extols.
Palace or not, its tenant is hardly at home IN IL
II is as wide open as n mill-a French comparison
and anybody may walk in. Whereas,-let 'he hmeri-
can Republican and Democrat take nofe,-in order
70 see NJ Carnot you must have " a letter OF audi"
orce you cannot knock directly at his door
and be admitted, as you may in Washington. IL
il our Frcnchmans belief that Mr.. Harrison has no
privacy: that all days are levee days. and all
hours OF all days. A Foreign Minister presents
| his credentials accompanied by the secretary OF
State both on foot. They find the Head OF the
Great Republic in iacket,-a sack or sacK-coa' Is
What 10 means" with the simple, goodnatured
air Of bourgeois who neither likes nor prac'lses
etioupttc. Then comes a passage which deserves
quoting in full:
| american society. and the womea much more
than Tho men NAV have acquired certain amount
Of rood breeding and Of refined elegance from ther
contact with Paris. The political world remains
what IL was Its overroatS are more eirRans
and its trousers fall better over the boot: out
think they still expectorate pretty much all over
the place
| Such ia the view of our French friends: an
echo Of Mrs Troope and VI. de Bacourt; or salad
o, both r. would please Mr.. Rudyard kiping.
7 don't know that it need either please or dis
please US II is useful 10 know that such a we"
is held There is no cause Tor surprise III"
rrcncbrnan. like the Chinese, looks upon all the
outcr world as barbarans 1t is only the happy
few who have been TO Paris who have " rubbed on
an tbcmselye;--that is the phrase he uses-a
little Of the Partisan elegance as II it were so
much fresh paint: or varnish, as it is. Overcoats
and trousers The allusion is unucky. All the
good clothes for men in Paris come direct from
| Iondon. stufrs and styles all English. Inc
trus Partisan dude of the period does better still
h. has his apparel made in London by Lonaon
tailor. lie is quite right, but IT hardly makes
n good basis for sneer at American ciothes.
which are, perhaps even better than the clothes OK
| London.
The nroceedlngs at Minneapolis and the candA-
dates are passed in review; Mr.. Blaine first:
Mr. Blaine has passed for statesman OF 81, Sro pa
| views and lofty aims. He wanted America f9r mo
Americans His commercial and economical pol
| lev has been based for years upon dream OF on
immense Zolverein. including both North , aaS
warmth : his influence on his compatrlots was
magnetic influence. The convention at Mime s
apo has none the less PIT ni% asde anu '''e'
! OfMr. Harrison and Of the Harrison family there
is brief biography less inaccurate than is usual
with French papers then follows this:
The candidate chosen by the Republicans
springs, therefore. from family which mas no
| rival lawyer in early youth, ne afterwards oe.
Civil War before he reached his present supreme
dignity he had been Senator for Indiana. ne -
cold stubborn. upright There have neea ABUSES ,Sss
| than favored them. His Presidency has been
| cooress"
| The Democrats are dismissed with scant men-
ton Mr. Cleveland is just named; not Mr. Hill;
the reputation Of this latter gentleman. happily
| for us. seems not to extend so far as Paris Inc
rest of this paper-it is two columns long-ls more
or less historical We are reminded that Louis
| Philippe was n friend Of ours and that Napoleon
| III was not the latter fact we are not hxey
soon TO forget That is why we applauded tne revo-
| luton OF the Fourth September: If not also the
French revcrses. like their OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Bancroft, the welLknown friend OF Prince BIS
marck" No Fenchman ever omts his fling at
Bancroft Victor Hugo led the way; lesser men
NAV follow as much as they like IL will not
hurt Bancroft nor Bancroft's countrymen. The
conclusion of it all is this
! To-day these wounds have healed over and
| the two Governments. French and American.
are most civil to each other on all OCCASIONS II
only the American mrkets Wod treac our ,;,er
ally offer 10 the world the spectacle OF two re-
publican sisters
| The last touch is Characteristic. France Is
| Protcctionist and the United States Pro-
tcctionist each fighting in this war Of tariffs for
its own hand. But France always thinks buSi'
ness may possibly he done on better terms II
YOU throw in little sentiment, fine speech
| like that about the two Republican sisters.
A bait, not leader is the Duke Of Argyle
rather too pungcnt description OF Mr. Gladstone
II is the Dukes way of saying that it is MI
Gladstone with whom the Gadstonians are angling
for voters at the coming election. That election