The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-13

SEATTLE. MONDAY. JUNE ID
ENGLISH OPINION.

The English press processes to be pleased
with the rejection of Blaine and the re-
nomination of Harrison. 1t is difficult to
gee what difference it makes to Great
Britain whether the winner was Harrison,
Blaine or Mckinley, for if Republican
president is elected the Mckinley tariff is
sure to remain undisturbed, and our for
eign policy in the matter OF reciprocity
and the Bering sea controversy I'M
changed. 1t is easy to understand why
England should pray for Democratic
victory, but it is not the slightest practical
consequence to England, if a Republican
president is elected, whether he be Harri-
son or Blaine, for President Harrison, not
less than Mr.. Blaine, has always been the
advocate of an active aggressive foreign
trade policy. Indeed. in the Chile and
Boring sea negotiations the president was
more peremptory and less disposed to con-
Citation and compromise than Mr.. Blaine.
The London Star iercely attacks Blaine's
protection principles, describes President
Harrison's qualifications by declaring that
lie sis quiet, unassuming old gentleman
of great personal integrity, but without
great abilitv;" then predicts the nomina-
ton of Cleveland by the Democrats, and
concludes by saying: "The sympauhies
of all free traders and liberals should be
with the champion of reform, Grover
Cleveland" There is something ludi-
crous in this estimate Of President Har-
rison as ga quiet, unassuming old gentle
man." President Harrison will not be SO
years until the Goth of August next,
while Lord Salisbury, the head of the
English government is 81, and Sir William
Harcourt, the active leader of the Glad
stonians, is 65. As matter of fact Presi-
dent Harrison is not only younger than
the leaders of the executive government of
Great Britain generally are, but he is
younger than most of our presidents were
when renominated; younger than Wash
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and
Jackson. Of nineteen presidents elected
by the people but six were younger than
President Harrison, who was 55 years of
age when inaugurated in March, 1850.
There is nothing remarkable in the rul-
ing classes in Great Britain expressing
their hate for the Republican party and
their sympathy with the ''free trade'
Democracy. Great Britain cheered for
Calhoun and ''free trade" in the interest
of American slavery long before the war;
it cheered the party of Calhoun, his politi-
cal heirs and assigns, when they rebeled
against the government of the United
States and fired on its flag. During our
civil war the sympathies of the Demo-
cratic party were with that portion of tho
Democratic party that organized rebellion
at the South, threw il kisses and prayed
for its success at the North. The Confeder-
ate loan was largely held in England;
Canada was a safe asylum from which
issued periodically Confederate pirates,
bank robbers and tirebugs. So notorious
was English sympathy with the Demo-
cratic party, North and South, that the
poet, Lowell, n patriot then, who after
ward became an Anglo-maniac, wrote:
You wonder why we're hot. John7
Your mark wux on the guns,
The neutral guns, thet shot, John,
Our brothers an our sons
Great Britain, that cheered Calhoun,
notification and free trade; that cheered
for JEFF Davis. the Southern Confederacy
and free trade" from force of hereditary
habit and present interest cheers today for
Grover Cleveland, the solid South and
s'free trade ("