Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-01-31
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Gladstone has issued an add ress to his
constituents at Greenwich, asking for re-
election and announcing that the Queen /
has been pleased to accept the advice of
her ministers to dissolve the present
Parliament Immediately and summon a
new one to meet on the 9TH of March,
1874. In his address Gladstone gives as
the reason for this measure that since
the defeat of the Government upon the
Irish Higher Education question by the
concurrent efforts of the leader of the
opposition and Catholic prelacv in Ire
land the Government has not been pos
sessed of sufficient authority to carry
out great legislat tive measures. Its ex-
perlence during the recess OF Parliament
has not indicated that any improvem ent
in its disposition was probable. The
chief of the opposition having refused to
accept the Office on the defeat Of the
Government and Cabinet, feeling that
they have not the support which every
minister ought to enjoy, an appeal to
the people is the proper remedy for such
a state of things. The advantage of dis
solution at the present mement ia that
the estimates are SO far advanced that
the Gevernmenti is able to promise a
| surplus of five millions sterling with
which it intends to abolish the income
tax and to relieve local taxation. Among
matters likely to come before Parliament
are the, ,readjustment Of the educational
act, Improvement of@local government,
and of land, game and liquor laws.
| Disraeli, in his address to his constitu-
ents in Birmingham, seeking his re-elec-
ton to Parliament, strongly condemns
the course Of the Government. He
charges Gladstone with having violated
the constitutional law by persisting for
several months in the occupation of
seat to which he was no longer entitled,
and with inaugurating the Ashantee
war without communicating with Par
lament, for which the Premier is Sc
cretly denounced. Disraeli says he can
find nothing definite in Gladstone's adj
dress regarding his policy, except that
he intends to apply large surplus to
the remission of taxation which would
be the course of any Ministry. The
financial measures of relief spoken of
by Gladstone have always been favored
by conservatism. 1t would have been
far better for the country, if within the
last five years the foreign policy of the
Government had been little more en-
ergetic, the extension of household suf-
frage, etc. He says no one has more
strongly opposed the contemplated as
} similation than the Premier.
What the chances are for the Glad
stone Administration, cannot now be
judged. During the recess several cleo
tions have been held to fill vacancies,
and in these scattering fights the bal
ance of advantage has been with the
Conservatives. We do not recall po-
: sition lost by them, and they have made
several Important gains. The most sig.
nificant of these were the elections In
August last of s. c. Alsopp, for Eas
| Staffordshire. in the place of Liberal
and of Mr.. Boord, in Greenwich, fol
the seat of Sir D. Solomons, dead
Greenwich has large constituency, re
turns two members, and one of these il
Mr.. Gladstone. The election of Con
: servative as colleague of the Liberia
r Premier, startled the politicians, ant
s whilsti 1t gave the Conservatives fresi
v courage 1t made the Liberals uncertai,
of the ground on which they stood. TIL,
G question whether the Conservative re
= action is general or merely sporadic vii
: now be decided.