The New York correspondent of the Daily News has tele-
graphed to London part of a lecture delivered by Mr. Lowell —apparently on Saturday, but the date is not given—on behalf of the "Independents," the section of the Republicans which, by voting with the Democrats, secured Mr. Cleveland's election. It is an assault on modern democracy in America for producing only small men. Mr. Lowell believes that the "boss system "—that is, the system of local party organisa- tions each governed by a "boss" who manages the wire- pulling—is dwarfing all American politics. The " bosses " are base, and they will admit no one who will not obey their rules and echo their opinions. They make the doors so small, that only little men and crouching men can enter. That Mr. Lowell considers fatal, for "though an adequate amount of small change will give us the equivalent of any piece of money," what aggregate of small men will amount to one great one P—a frightfully anti-democratic sentiment. Mr. Lowell believes that old parties are never reformed from within, and therefore desires the formation of a party outside the two great factions which shall resolve to live for ends less material than the production of prosperity statistics. His peroration, which was a singularly noble one, will be found elsewhere ; and all Unionists must wish Mr. Lowell success, if only because of the spiritual relation between their party and his own. We have our "bosses," too, here ; and once the Irish Question is over, the first business of Unionists will be to crush them.
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