AMERICAN POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 12 September 1911, Page 7

AMERICAN POLITICS.

Judging from a message from the \'cw Pork correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” the recent deplorable scene in the House of Commons was received with less surprise in the United States than in the Dominions The epithets hurled at Mr, Asquith shocked those accustomed to the decencies of English public life,’ but they wore mild compared to some of the things that arc said by public! men of public men in America. Washington, according to tiie correspondent, considered “Traitor” and other names a trifle warm for Westminster, “but tliev were as salt compared with mustard” when placed against the words Mid terms in use amongst men prominent in American politics, for instance, Mr. Cay nor, Mayor of New York has a quarrel with President Lowell, of Harvard University. Mr. Gavnor is an ex-Judge of the Supreme Court, but that and his present position did not prevent him commenting an a statement by Mr. Lowell’s score(arv with: “I ‘can’t make out what that puppy means.” _ Mr. Woodrow Wilson, Governor of New Jersey, and President of Princeton University, was publicly attacked in an outrageous manner by a Democratic boss the other dav. Mr. Wilson is a very able and cultured man of blameless qfa and may bo the next Democratic candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Ho and the ‘boss quarrelled over patronage, and the latter became so dictatorial, that Mr. Wilson had to show him the door, in revenge, the “boss” rose in a restaurant one evening, and addressed the diners thus: “Let me propose a toast to his Excellency the Governor oi the groat State of New Jersey, 1 the Com-mander-in-Chiof of the New Jersey Militia, an ingrate, also a bar. 1 moan Woodrow Wilson. I repeat, in--nato and liar.” Confusion followed, but nobody ventured to thiow Dplauoy out of the place, as he deserved, stron" accusations and counter-accu-sations being tolerated by long usage. Even so mild a than as Mr. 1 aft, who is regarded as A model of judicial decorum, in sending a message to the Pmmte, in which he defended Alaskan officials, branded the charges against them as emanating from “malevolent scandal-mongers,’' who I 'show vonqm'j