THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:']
8112,--I think that the enclosed extract from a letter recently written by en Englishman temporarily resident in the United States to a friend in Yorkshire may Le of interest at the present time :— " You will see in the newspapers some heated references to American interference with our blockade arrangements. Pay no heed to them. A Presidential election is in full blast, and toadying for votes is no new thing on either side of the Atlantic. One ounce of fact is worth a ton of political bombast. Here is the ounce : about a fortnight ago Mrs. T. and I were guests in a charming country house up the Hudson, an estate which would rank high even in Yorkshire. Our hosts and eight other people at the dinner-table were wholly of German extraction, while some Bad actually been born and reared beyond the Rhine ; yet, without exception, they were whole-heartedly on our side. The incident was so remarkable that attention was called to it, and we all agreed that it was literally typical of conditions in this country. Mrs. T. and I recently went to Kentucky, which, being in the Middle-West is reputedly pro- German. Cincinnati, which lies just across the Ohio, is notoriously so. Yet we never received a contrary word or cross look, although my wife waves the British flag on all occasions."
—I am, Sir, &o., G. A. M.
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