TOWN EDDITION. Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1888. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 258, 1 November 1888, Page 2

TOWN EDDITION. Nelson Evening Mail. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1888. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

In view of Iho near approach of this election, which is to tike place on Tuesday next, tho telegram r. osr.fty reoeivtd to the effect that President Ch-veland bad requested the removal of Sir Lionel Sackville Weet, the British Minister at Washington, necause ho bad unguardedly expressed an opinion favorablo to bis (Mr Cleveland's) oat didatare possesses a peculiar eignificai cc. The English papers io bund by the latt mail ooutßin comments upon the Preeideat's uuseage to Congress upon the r jeotiou of the C»n dian Fisheries Treaty, and in one of these we find the lemark that "one of the most t- lling arguments against Mr Clevelai-d and the Democratic patty ia thai they ore phyingr the English game iv the United Btat.es." Proof that this Uso is supplied by th» action of -he President with regard to the English Minister, which shows that ho thinks that any display of friendliness on the part of the'represon'ativeof the English Govirua ent is calculated to seriously affect Ma chanoo of re-electiod. That President Cleveland was iccitfd. to send down bis "retaliatory " message to Congreeß as a Biquel to the rtjeotion of the Fisheries Treaty by the Republican parly in the Senate by a similar moive j that he thought it necessary to enter into a competiiion with Mr Blame, the moving spirit of the Republican party, ia unfriebdlinjes towards England, with a view to the votes that will turn the scale at he election, ib clearly poin:ed out by "The Timee" in its ißsue cf the 25 h August, an extract from which will ba r*ad with interest ab the present time:— "Nothing " (*ays ihht paper) "that Far y leaders in tho Uni-.td S^tes may do on the eva of a Presidential election ought to exoiie astonishment. Mild curiosity is rather the attitude of mind with which President Cleveland's message to Congress upon the rejection of the Fishery Treaty will be r ceived in this county arid in Canada. Until the Republican party in tho gjnote procured t v *c ..jsction of tho Treaty, nothing could b? n.ora powerful than the appeals of Domocr;itio ladders n.nd j -uruDle to seize the i-rpor uuity at settling a great ititcrnatio i&l question ty nniioibk comproaiisa. Tie tdvtr c v->t» was rnadthe ocoac-ion for a torrent of lamen ation over tho selfidhnees of tbo party which had sacriQcod the Tre'itf t > tkctioneering endi. Prtsid<nfc Cleveland, however, «.a it tarns out, hnd sometbing bftt/r thanidl-jl-imenta-lions in atore. Accepting unreservedly tie vote of the Senate, ho has completely 'di-hed' the Republican par. y by pronouncing for retaliation niora thorough and suvrre than the pi-rtizuns of Mi Blame or General Harrison had even ventured or thought it necessary to suggest. Hitherto retaliation, bs proposed ly tho Republicans, has b: en limi ed to the exclusion of Canadian fisbing vessels from Maine p^rts. Bat these reprisals are jos enough for Presiieut Cleveland, who asks for power to |U. an end to tbe privilege now tnjoyid by Can.dian3 of transporting goods in bond across the Ameri'-an territory. If. is a mns erly move, and the Presi lent may fairly bo oongratula ed upon the udroitncßS with whicb ho hop taken tho wind out of the sal's of hia o: por.en s. Wo uiny, per hap?, regar.l this cc ?i oai.cessiou to the complaint, wtich lately appeared in on influrnti 1 Dsniociatio organ that tho Democratic mauagova were giving tbe cause away by their fl«bby conduct of the campaign. Naturally enough some ditconteno was felt thr,ti theie hud boon nothing to show pa the Democratic side to equal the magnificeat demonetra'tions in honor of Mr Blaiue. The reproftch, moreover, of being too friendly to Great Britain and Cmida dii President Clevelaud a good deal of barm. Mr Blcine could apeak of him as the English candidate, aud point with pride to his own exceptional attitude towards this country upon the Irish question, the tariff, Rnd tie Cauadian fisheries. By hia suadea change of frout, the Preßident holds himoelf out ns the advocate of something highly admired by American voters— a spirited foreign policy. But while President Cleveland's dexterously annexes all the. honor and giory which in America is tEßJci.atod with testing: the lion's tail, h(« has managed bo tfaat> hia opponents oau be Baddled with all the o3ium of bis proposed reprisal*. " (The metaphor used herein a lit l.i improvai upon by ao American correspondent in referring to f< -The Times" ar icle. lies puts it thus s— "To uea the f.rgon of an Amerrcan game at cards, not wholly unknown, I believe, in Moyfair, the Pregident hna ' peen ' the Republican Senatora on this matf er of twisting the lion's toil and ' gone them one better.' ") To continue our extract :—'* Other matters of which we know nothing, may have entered into the cotnpesition of the Message. Bui the above is probably tho explanation iv the main of whai, if we did not know something of Amerioan politics, might appear » very unfriendly act and a breach of good f aioh on the part of the President.' 1 That there is an adverse feeling which is readily kindled among certain classes of American voters whenever a proposed mm* sure or doctrine ia thought to be adv* n tageous to Britten interests is unctuestionablp, and advantage i=) being largely taken of this by the Republican party, who $ra using it us a lever t) oust President Cleveland from office. In tho firat place England ia supposed, probably oorree ly (JO, to be exceedingly desirous to ee<» a freetrade policy introducedinto tbe United Statea, fttd i»-t Deoomber tbe President bnt down to Congress a tm saagn which was distinctly in favor of at least a lirge reduction iv tbe import dut-cs on many raw materials a*d nrifples of daily consumption. This hac since been empha- | s sed by the introduction of a Reduced Tariff Bill, by Mr Mile, a T>c mccratio Senator. In fldditioa to the u?ual argurr.euta an to the pet ncy of the doefcriue cf Profcrction in koopiDg mills a f work and niau-t' inin^f wag.', the Republicans have beea argfoin^ with much fervid ora'.ory fcbafc tho pro'eo ive duties ought to be maintained because tiny are distasteful to England, Then ag«in tl.ero is the Irish vote to ba iLflueuced, aurl the mere fr.ct tbas Preßidont Clevtlar.d is supposed to enfc:r'ain a friendly feeling towards England is being gleverly tnrued to account to secure support for his pppoueut, General HarrisoD. The Nsw York correspondent of " The Times'' gives an amusing instanoa of tho way in wbioh th'B p.Hrticulftr l?ver is hoit-g worked : — " Among cho eloc« tioneering dodges rccetfclj reacr o I to in the City of New Y.rk, w'oero thn ilopul'lioiiis ara making shrewd efforts to det&ch tho Irish vofc9 from the Democracy, baa been the circulation of o card, which baa boon banded out by thousands to all the dock laborers and others among the working classe?, who aro so largely Insb. This card ia entitled " Regular Democratic Nominations,' and has upon it in brilii :nt red tho British flag, surmounted by a crown. Then follows ;— Fob President Gbover Cleveland op New YoBKe Grover Cleveland has done more to advance the career of free trade than any Prime Minister of England has ever done. — London Spectator. Fob Vici'JPBBSiriENT AIiUBN G. THUBMAN 07 Ohio. The only time England can use an Irishnan is when he emigrates to America and rotes for free trade, — London Times. The fact that the journals referred to may never have used the expressions which, nre

quoted from them hp/J not at all bothered the ingenious inventors of this shrewd election , device, which in some copies, with impartiality, I refers the same quotations to the London ;. Daily Neivs and the Saturday Revieiv. " \ The little insight which we have given into ' i some of the many influences that are at work '■ in connection with the Presidential campaign : will possibly tend to create some interest in . the great political event that is to come off in . America next Tuesday, and which may possibly have an important bearing upon the future relations between Great Britain and that wonderful nation which has sprung up with suoh marvellous rapidity in the far West.