Show Iii KEEP HiS TEMPER j London Spectator Gives Good l Advice to John Bull TALK AMERICAN ELECTION t Pivot of tho Battle of the Ballots in the United States it Declares Will be tho Relation of Uncle Sam and Great Britain Bryan and His Followers Fol-lowers Will Pass Resolutions Calling Call-ing on Government to InterveneR Intervene-R Not Likely to Defend British S S l I London April U Copyright 1000 I by toe Associated PrCssfh < unsatisfactory I unsatis-factory turn that has recently marked I i tho campaign against the Boers la resulting re-sulting in aslonlahtng and sweeping I criticisms by tho English papers of their own army methods When Duller struck snags In Natal when Gen I Mclhuen and Gen Galnciu made tor rlblc mistakes and before the British arms had secured any progress a i i I somewhat similar wave swept over tho J i press But then it wus directed at In j dlvlduals and chIefly confined to laP la-P ers which were wlJllnS to condescend I to slang one or several Generals Now names ate not mentioned hut there is widespread deeplyrooted conviction con-viction that the method of selection of British army officers Is altogether wrong About this conviction there Is no bitterness nor Is it based upon coji elusions rapidly arrived oT Ojir ofll l eels says the conservative comnidn sciifcc Outlook are as brave as lions hut as a rule they are stupid CROWED TOO SOON 3 Tho premature selfcoiiBratulatlon I over the occupation of Blocmfonteln has had a reaction somewhat similar I to that which followed the first vie j lories In Natal As tim Saturday Review I Re-view says Too soon did we congratulate congrat-ulate onniclves on the possession of I Blocmfonteln and too little did we realize that the possession of such a capital does not imply much It then I proceeds to Instance tho capture of i Philadelphia by the British In the war I for Independence showing its uselessness useless-ness and eventual evacuation I UNITED STATES POLITICS r Not ai little Interest Is beginning Lobe Lo-be taken in England in politics the j I United States Admiral Deweys candidacy I can-didacy is regarded rather more humorously I hu-morously than In any other light thp I i populailly of the Admiral havlrig never I been qultu understood In England nor J I his achievements thbroughly apprecl ated by tho naval or lay circles whoso attention has always been more confined con-fined to our naval operations In the West Indies than in Manila MUST KEEP TEMPER I The Spectator which so often voices Government opinion has a lengthy and Important editorial on relations in the immediate future between America and Great Britain during which It says in part The British leople will have to keep l their tempers for tho next few months when they consider American affairs affairsPIVOT OF ELECTION By rather an odd series of circumstances circum-stances It happens that the pivot of the next election will be the relations of the United States and Great Britain and of course in the frenzy of the campaign cam-paign very hard things will be said Mr Bryan and his supporteis will perhaps per-haps pass resolutions In the Democratic Demo-cratic convention calling upon the Government Gov-ernment to intervene strongly In behalf of President Kruger who either by instinct or craftiness always appeals to them through the literature which they know best the Old Testament We shall have a ahoer of hard words from their side and may be even difficult diffi-cult and perplexed argument to maintain main-tain through t Lord Pauncefote WILL NOT BE DEFENDED And too we shall rot be strenuously strenu-ously defended Jjy the Republicans President McKInley will persist In hIs policy and carry his party with him but still he Is the American candidate for the Presidency and dannot bear with the second trm at stake to lose u note Mr McKInley therefore and the Republican leaders will do nothing to show themselves friends of Great Britain They will utter no plain protest pro-test against the chorus of Ignorant l probation pro-bation and will view with J dismay any appearance on this side of any hearty wish for Republican victory We must however possestfour souls in patience pa-tience and receive American censure with that dogged stolidity with which we receive censure frOnt the remainder of the world WHEN CAMPAIGN ENDS The electoral campaign will come to an end and with it most of tho attacks upon Great Britain The better opinion opin-ion in the United States including we believe a majority of the population Is uport the whole friendly to us and fully coiulnccd tmtt all the world ocr British and American Interests are the same Neither nation desires anything except lo trade t In peace Of one thing we may be sure the Americans will not rarlcaturc the Queen In the Hercest of their electoral battles they will respect the nged lady who forty years ago urns on their side In the Civil war and who Is now the only monarch in Europe who watches thilr prosperity with ungrudging pleasure pleas-ure and lthout the Idea that their growth wealth and influence Is a menace to the world Tills article voices better than anything any-thing Hint has recently appeared the tone of the continont toward America held by British Government ofllclals and by those who are seriously interested inter-ested In tho relations of the two countries coun-tries The statement that the Senate will not ratify the HayPauncefote convention conven-tion this year has created little comment com-ment Thnsowhojnolntfiln that Eng Irind had given uornethln for nothing S In the NIcun KiW OKrc jiont express pleasure and hope that ltwlll never be nUilled whljc 1iose rlio istipportejl the convention ftccopt the postponement of ifcllon as the mot advisable step in vfcwr of the political conditions in the United State The Saturday Review My Whether Wheth-er McKinley attitude regarding South Africa will remain equally correct depend de-pend entirely not In hd cnttmenlij toward nil but upon the success of I Lord 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