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Show ENGLISH INTERESTED IN FILIBUSTER CASE Believers In Democracy Hopeful That U. S. Will Not Permit Small Taction Tac-tion to Iominate. LONDON", March 10. English believers believ-ers in democratic Government are keenly keen-ly anxious that America should show her resolve not to be paralyzed by a faction playing into the hands of her enemies. One of the preat lessons which enlightened Europeans hope wiM he derived from this war is the absolute abso-lute superiority of popular over any other form of government, and they look to America, as the great exemplar of deriiocratic institutions, to make it plain that at the moment of a supreme' crisis only national interest shall rule rind reaction and anti-patriotism shall bo overwhelmed by the exercise of the popular will. Curiously enough, the effect of the proceedings of the eleven refractory senators on the position in the Russian duma, where pro-German influence is also struggling for the mastery, is a matter for genuine apprehension here. If the Russians see that in the greatest great-est republic in the world it is possible for a few disloyal politicians to thwart the popular will and expose their eountrv eoun-trv to its enemies, their belief in representative repre-sentative government mav well receive a serious shock and the "dark forces" get a corresponding accession of strength. It is reported hero that Insh extremists ex-tremists in the United States are concerned con-cerned in the attempt to shackle the president's actions in this supreme crisis. |