President Harrison is travelling in the South so luxuriously that
the newspapers are offended, and talk of a "Royal pro- gress," and the decay of Republican simplicity. As he pays his own bills, there is little reason in the criticisms; but they may in the West interfere with his chance of a second term. He is anxious for a renomination, and intends, it is said, to fight the battle as a man heartily devoted to the McKinley Tariff, which is not strongly supported by his rival in his own party, Mr. Blaine. Mr. Harrison, however, like Mr. Blaine, favours Reciprocity; and at Galveston, in Texas, he delivered a speech in which he advocated treaties of commerce with all the American Republics. Brazil had already signed one, and he was able to say that she would not long be left in her "lone- someness." We have commented elsewhere on a speech which ,if carefully read, shows that the Republican Party looks forward to the hegemony of the Union throughout the two Americas. The commerce of "this hemisphere," intimates the President, is "naturally ours," not only for geographical reasons, but because all America is without a Sing,—a curious little out- burst of political feeling. As the largest English trade is with a Republic, and the largest American trade with a Monarchy, the evidence of facts does not support the President.
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