5 MAY 1900, Page 3

Whatever may be thought of Admiral Dewey as a politician

or a candidate, no British reader can fail to be touched by the generous words he lately used to a delegation of Canadians at Chicago. "We are," said Admiral Dewey, "of the same blood with but slight difference between us, and the one man who stood at my back during the trying days at Manila was an Englishman. But for his support and the moral courage he inspired I do not know what would have happened. I refer to Sir Edward Seymour." Admiral Seymour was only requiting the Americans for their aid on the historic occasion when Commodore Tattnall prefaced his "official visit" to the English Admiral on the Peiho in 1859 with the words, "Blood is thicker than water."