Tue result of the preliminary elections which decide the choice of the President of the United States will be received here with a general feeling of regret. Even those Americans whose political spinleas led them to wish well to the Republicans must have had their zeal tempered, by great respect for Mr. Cleveland, and in the moment of victory for their party may wish that the result had been otherwise, Mr. Cleveland has, since his accession to office, won the respect of other countries and has been an upright and moderate Chief Magistrate of the United States. It was the high in which he was held personally, and his undoubted popularity among his own people which probably more than anything else a general anticipation that he would be re-elected. Of course the hack Republican press accused him but to the rest of the arid of all kinds of political wrongdoing, appeared to be a man who anxiously
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