Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-07-28

| are controlled very much by the same
| impulses as they are in America. From
the little that Mr.. Croker saw, he is OF
the opinion that there Is just as much
corruption in London as there is in any
American city.
''The only difference" said Mr.. Gro
ker, lis that the newspapers here dare
not speak OF any corruption if it exist
ed. | am inclined to believe that if
| the newspapers had the license that the
American papers possess and had as
enterprising reporters as our American
newspapers have, there would be just
as much scandal as is stirred up in the
American cities.
i notice that the daily papers have
contained a great many advertisements
or detective agencies where they ask
employment TO discover bribery and re-
peatlng in connection with elections.
1t would certainly seem that if bribery
ana repeating were unknown here
these detectives would not spend mon
ey as they do in advertising in the Lon
| don papers.
But, 1t seems to me that politics ard
worked more cleverly in London than
at nome. | think that political organ
lzatlon here is much more thorough
and great deal more money is spent
on 1t. The campaign literature is not
| only more prolific than with us, but, il
| some cases, 1t is much more clever.
! Inc caricatures and cartoons that are
| distributed must represent a great out
lay OF money. AS the English papers
do not go in for this line as ours do, Is
Is necessary, | suppose, for each candi-
date to establish
HIS OWN LITERARY BUREAU.
Many of the New York newspapers
Islander our country by trying to make
IL appear that we are more corrupt re-
garding the use of our elective fran
chise than any other country. The
newspapers l think do this simply be-
cause there is no law to confine them
TO accuracy of statement, and then 1t
sells the paper. Here the press is
afraid to speak out even if il was in
clined to.
1 was reading, the other day. where
Dill had been introduced in Parlia-
ment which would make it unlawful
Tor any newspaper to criticise a candi-
date during his campaign. If this bill
becomes law a corrupt man would
run for Office and still no newspaper
man could call attention to the fact.
The Mugwumps in the United States
are always pointing to England as such
! model to the detriment of the Ameri-
can character But the Americans are
not half as bad as their own press make
them out. If the American newspapers
criticised the methods employed in
English elections as much as the Eng
lish papers criticise our methods. I
thlnk we would benefit by comparison.
1 wish particularly to be under
stood as not criticising the English
elections as not being honestly conduct
ed because there may be cases of brib-
cry. 1t would be just as great an in
| justice for me to do so as for people IN
claim that Tammany Hall is corrunt
because some follower of it may have
been convicted of political corruption
Inc point that l particularly desire
10 make is to repeat that a large mart
OF the American papers make our conn
Try out TO be a great deal worse than III
IS, and do it a great injustice in the
eyes Of the rest of the world"
William Waldorf Astor is a. most
punctual man in his habits. He puts
IN an appearance at the Savoy Hotel
barber shop every morning he comes
| TO London. He arrives there at .
quarter past eleven and is almost as
! punctual as clOckwork. A number NJ
Americans living at the Savoy fire.
quentIy make wagers as to whether or
not Mr.. Astor will vary five minutes
IN his time Of arrival. Those who
wager that he will be five minutes LATE
usually lose. By the people connected
with the Savoy Mr.. Aston is regarded
as the most wonderful man and thew
frequently point him out to the guests
at the hotel as 'the richest man in the
world" Wv
That John Burns, the labor candi-
date who has just been returned IN
Parllament is a shrewd politician IS
positively proven by the experiences
that reporter for the Associated Press
had in Burns district on election dav.
On account of the interest taken in
America in Burns, the reporter was
sent to his district to write something
descriptive Of his campaign. Burns
lieutenants were soon informed nv their
chief that the association which SIM
plies news to the leading American
papers had sent a representative IN
write up the election" They eagerly
circulated the report all over the dis
trict.
This shows" they said. chat the
eyes of the world are on John Burns.
He's as we'll known in America as in
Battersea, and we have a right to feel
proud Of him." The Hon. Timothy J.
campbell, of New York would not dis
play greater political sagacity.
MARY ANDERSON
NOW Mrs. navarro, will soon have her
biography ready and in the hands of
the printer. Mrs. Navarro is never
seen at any Of the London theatres now.
Her former manager, Henry e. Abbey.
said recently that she had not been in
side a theatre since her marriage and
probably would not go to one again.
The elections and hot weather have
given the final coup de gracye to the
atrical affairs for the season. With the
exception of two theatres. with a pos
sible third, paying audiences have been
at premium. The houses referred to
are the Lyceum, Haymarket and Adel-
phia All other temples of the drama
have been compelled to close their
doors or be content with diminished
business and in consequence the unem-
ployed Thespians pacing the Strand
might form a comparison with those of
Union Square after the Fourth of July
sent audiences to the watering places.
The prevalent rumor that Sir Henry
Irving would on his coming American
tour, include Australia in his itinerary,