The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-05
LONDON
Comment of British Editors on the
Republican Victory.


LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE election in the
United States caused much interest here,
and is being discussed IN the clubs and by
the newspapers.
The Star remarks: 1--WE in England have
great reason to rejoice at the overwhelming
defeat of the attack upon a gold standard.
Great evils may be I'm store. but no high
tariff { infict a 1.-THE Of the ruin which
Bryan victory would have entailed. There
will be an Immediate Improvement Of bust
ness for the election of Mckinley, or rath-
er, the defeat of Bryan, will restore conf
dence in the financial honesty and stability
of the United States. The common sense
of the American people has saved The re-
public from worse than civil or foreign
war"
risen magnificently to a great position. 1t
is the uprising of almost a united nation.
ana the silver craze has been effectually
scotched.. if it is not killed. Let Mckinley
throw his protection overheard and cut
away from the heartless plutocrats who
have for years past made the Republican
party 9. Manufacturers annex and he will
be acclaimed from one end Of the Republic
TO the other"
the election of Mckinley a great scare
VanisheS for the moment. But while the
perils OF free silver. are avoided for the
present the perils of protection and cap
italism in their more extreme forms re-
main to be encountered. Putting out of
sight the results to this country which
must follow a fresh access of McKinleyism
no one who is friendly to the United States
can view the prospect without alarm. If
cial corporations is not abated there must
be a growth of Populism and an aggrava,
ton of i'll feeling which will. when the next
struggle comes. threaten more dangerous
consequences"
Continuing. the Westminster Gazette
says: THE brokers found themselves over
Wholmpd the first thing fhi9 morning wit N
orders from American dealers to buy in
their behalf. Such an enormous amount of
business has not been done In the course
Of so brief a period since the. days of the
mining boom. and it is not only from the
United States and spectators here that the
demand for Americans came. A very large
business, indeed, was done in the securi-
ties in foreign markets, and especially
Paris and Brussels"
column editorial article headed, "A Lane
Slide" says: THE decision is accepted
BEING S1ihn un empbat;c sSnseh nc n the TINS cre county of ,S Ss
American elect1@i. 1t implies that the
Democracy. when confronted with issues
vital to its future. will rally TO the reality
and repudiate the came. Between .Altgeld
and Bryan they succeeded i'm pulverizine
their cause until dust is substantial in com
parison."
The Globe syas: Had the polling run
close argument would have been afforded
socialism planks in their platform. but In
the face of the fgnominious rejection OF
these revolutionary principles by the Amer
lean electoral. the managers of that party
can scarcely keep alive an agitation which
has ended so diSastrousiy From an outside
standpoint, the most satisfactory outcome
of the battle is the crushing blow It strikes
at the cause of confscation all the world
over. and the event clearly proves that The
average American elector declines TO asso-
ciate himself directly or indirectly with
the appropriation of property owners by
confiscation."
The Evening Standard makes this state
ment: Although Mckinley is the cham
pion of the financial policy designed to
close the ports of he United States to
British goods, there can he no doubt that
his defeat Of the free-silver candidate is a
matter of satisfaction in this country"