Session #78 · 1943–45

Speech #780103706

Without objection. it Is so ordered. The extract Is as follows: SEC. 428. In 1888. Lord Sackville. the British Minister at Washington. received a letter purporting to come from a naturalized citiizen of English birth. named Murchison. asking for advice as to the wayhe. and many other individuals in his position. should vote in the pending election of the President. The writer said they.believed the Republican candidate to be a hightariff man and an enemy to British interests. while Mr. Clevelands policy had been favorable and. friendly toward England. To his letter Lord Sackville at once replied that "any political party which openly favored the mother country at the present moment would lose popularity. and that the party in power was fully aware of the fact". that with respect to the "questions with Canada. which have been unfortunately reopened since the rejection of the (fisheries) treaty by the Republican majority in the Senate. and by the Presidents message alluded to (by the writer of the letter). allowance must be made for the political situation as regarded the Presidential election." and he enclosed an extract from a newspaper in which electors were distinctly advised to vote for Mr.
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