Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-05-11
England Looks to the Republican
PARTY.

Although the presidential election
is seven months off, the British press
is already beginning to call attention
to it. 1t is hardly necessary to say that
| it views the election from purely
English standpoint. The party and
the candidate whose success promises
| to best promote English interests are
England's favorites. Mckinley is that
candidate and the Republican party
| the party of Lincoln and Blaine-oyer
whose defeats the London Times and
! the rest of the British press once re-
joiced, is now the party on which Eng
land bases her hopes. Bryan is no
more a favorite with her today than
James G. Blaine was fourteen years
ago.
The man who will probably be the
candidate of the Democratic party IN
fthe coming presidential campaign is
| like James G. Blaine, an American in
the true sense of the word. As an
American he believes in government
by the people and therefore, if elected
president of the United States, he
would not, like the present occupant
of the White House, remain passive
spectator While two republics are bat
thing for their existence. His open
and avowed sympathy with the Boer
cause pledges him in advance to use
the influence attaching to the office
OF president in behalf of the South
African republics. England has not
failed to take notice of the attitude he
has assumed toward the Boer question
and has growled out her disapproval
through the press. His election to the
presidency would be for her bitter
pill because it would break up the
secret alliance which exists between
! the White House and Downing street
and which has borne fruits in the
shape of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty
and in the scarcely disguised hostility
OF the Washington government toward
two sister republics which had righ'
to count on the sympathy of the great
est republic in the world.
| 1t is not matter of surprise. then
that England does not wish to see Will
liam Jennings Bryan in the Whit.
House. William Mckinley has shown
himself too willing "a tool of hers 70
her to desire change. The Londor
Daily Mail reflects English opinion il
respect to the coming presidential
election when it says:
4 Bryan and his lieutenants, Altgeld
Jones and Company, are resolved t,
put an Intervention plank in the plat
4 form Of the Democratic party.
| ut is certain that during the com
ing presidential campaign many bite
things for party purposes will be salt
against this country. 1t will be T.
the interest Of Democratic ora tors t.
magnify every rnmor against US ant
| to hold us up to Scorn and contemp
of their countrymen, but we have NJ
need to fear their talk"
4 From this it will be seen that Re
4 publican victory next November is de
sired in England because it will meal
that SO far as the government a
Washington is concerned, England vii
have free hand in South Africa. S
long as Mckinley is in the Whit
House she will feel certain that notE
] ing will be done officially to give c,
preston to the sympathy the oyel
whelming majority of Americans fee
in the Beers who are risking all i
defense of the self-same principle
| that are embodied in our Declaratio
of Independence. Irish World.