| Show I OUTRE MER Beyond the sea in Englands isle politics are not in the most satisfactory condition and the coming campaign this fall bids fair to exceed in gross personalities i ties the Presidential campaign of last year The Liberals have found it necessary neces-sary to circulate a statement that Sir Charles Dilke denies that his relations with Mrs Crawford were criminal While they may not have been criminal they were certainly very improper and of a most compromising nature The lady herself has withdrawn the confession she made to her husband and now says that her confession was the result of hysteria Sir Charles should profit by her example and lay his conduct to temporary insanity insan-ity Whatever there may be of truth in the scandal certain it is that the name of Sir Charles Dilke has been expunged from the list of speakers for the coming electoral campaign To be compelled to have his name withdrawn from the list of speakers must be a severe I blow to his pride and reputation Had his name remained upon the list and I had he gone to the hustings and addressed ad-dressed the electors he could easily have lived down the odium which now attaches I to iris name but to retire to his villa < h < whether from advice or from choice is to confess the charge and to show weakness weak-ness by retreat English electors will forgive anything but weakness and retreat I re-treat but them never True Sir Charles has written to his constituents denying I i the charges made against him but to have convinced his constituents of the truth of his denial he should have gone among them personally But the entire campaign in England i bids fair to turn as much upon accusations i accusa-tions and counteraccusations of personal immorality as upon the Afghan question or the disaster in the Soudan The present pres-ent campaign will be a rival in scandal and unclean things to the elections in the i I times of pocket boroughs when seats in Parliament were obtained through the the mistresses I influence of court favorites and tresses of great men The days when pocket boroughs might be had by paying homage to court favorites tire gone but the days are not yet gone when seats in Parliament can be lost by doing that which once won them Our English cousins beyond the sea have discovered that Americans are no worse I than themselves and not nearly so bad I as they thought them last year The I locus of a crime has much to do with its enormity I |
