New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-02

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esting as the Gladstone campaign in Midlothian,
suppose must be content to keep aloof from it, to
listen to the echoes of it from afar and to treat it
as only one incident in contest which spreads all
over the country, and which abounds in incidents
of significance. all of which, or many of which. are
| entitled to attention.
Yesterdays speech is reported fully in the London
! papers, and reported fairly well. But the London
papers themselves are so swamped with election
news from every quarter that they can no longer
afford space for any description of the scenes amid
| which Mr.. Gladstone has resumed the contest for
| Midlothian; and the Scotch papers of this morning
will not be here till tonight Yet perhaps two facts
will mark for you sufficiently the exceptional ini-
| portance which attaches to this single struggle
both in Scotland and in tho country at large.
The first is the mere fact that Mr. Gladstone is
ported verbatim. The Times which loses no
| opportunity to assal him, does not ven
| ture to withhold from him the unwilling
tribute involved in the full report of his
| speeches. With drOl simplicity which amounts
| to confession of extreme annoyance, the writer
who devoes leading article to the subject, COM
plans OF the necessity of giving such o report.
What is this but an admission that people will read
Mr.. Gladstone, and that The Umess editor, by no
means Over-quck TO perceive the inevitable. knows
that they will read him elsewhere if not in the coll
umns of that journal The Times made the same
Complaint anu tnc same concession IN November
and then. now. did its best its worst 10 bettle
and disparaGe and deride by its comments the ad-
| dresses which it was compelled to publish. The
second fact is simply that tickets for the Edinburgh
meeting to hear Mr. Gladstone were competed for
by the thrifty Scot at prices ranging from thirty TO
fifty dollars each.
third may be added and the third is nothing
less than another triumphal progrcss--to use the
too hackneyed phrase-ncrthward. The triumph
began III London ltSelf-n that metropolis where
Mr.. GladstOnc's unpOpularity is n by-wCrtl--a Tory
by-word and society by-word, but still so fire.
quently dwelt on ami so anGuidly denied that it
easily becomes provcrbial. He spoke last week in
MarylebOne, which is one Of tho metropolitan cleo
tOral districts and his uupOpularty on this occasion
so great that thousands of poOpc who
ilOckcd TO hear him had TO be shut ont Of the
hall, which filed two hours before the
time appointed for hearing this unpopular
orator. Then also. the most hostile papers had to
report him. On Tuesday morning he set out for the
North. The hour was 10 o'clock in the morning.
By the station at Kings Cross besct by people
whose numbers, as the hour drew near. had to lie
computed by thousands all of them. doubt,
eager TO prove moro how unpopular Mr.. Glad |
stone is. Their hostility took the form of cheers
and enthusiastic acclamations, with much ucon- |
venient crOwdng upon the object of their dislike
and a great interference with the orderly con- |
duct of the ordinary duties of the station. |
These tumultuous persons carried their annos- |
ity far as to offer bouquet to Mrs. |
Gladstone and demand a speech from her |
husband They would hardly allow Lord |
and Lady Rosebery. who were Mr.. Gladstonos trav-
elling companions. TO make their way to the train.
When Mr.. Gladstone remarked that he knew this
expression Of feeling was no meie personal scnti-
ment the crowd appauded the observation. looked |
to sec Tie Times draw from this incident u fresh
proof of popular dislike. 1t would have been easy
enough to suppress tho fact that they cheered
equally the next sentence to the effect that they
sympathised with his object that he gUng-as
lie said with proud cOntdence-tO gain q victory.
and that lie expected 10 be supported with zeal
such as to make Scotland pattern to all the rest of
the United Kingdom.
In it's rush along the length OF the island the train
which bore Nr Gladstone and his fortunes stopped
at some of the most considerable towns in tue
KingdOm-at GrantlIam, at York, at Newcastle,
and at Bcrwick-up0n-Twecd.A At each of them mul-
titudes had gathered as they gathered in November
at the places on the road from Liverpool to Edin-
burgh. At each of them Mr. Gladstone spoke
briefly. If you look through these brief addresses
you will find they constitute sort of table of
tents of the elaborate speeches to be delivered
in Midlothian itself; always, however, with an apt
sentence or two for the particular place where he
biographical touch as at Newcastle, where tlat
typical Jingo-Libcral. or Llbcral-JingO-I really
don't know which is the proper tcrm-Alr
Cowen, is again u Liberal candidate. Mr.
COwen has lately been saying hard things Of his
former leader; which did not prevent his former
leader from commenting him cordially to the united
support of the Newcastle Liberals. Among other
forms of expressing his disaDprobation, Mr. Cowcn
said that the late Earl Russell had left Mr.. Glad
stone under his political macdictiOn. 1t is true
enough that Lord RUSSELL in fit of ill-health and
political ll-tcmp,r, put on record his momeutary
with Mr. Gadstone's views of foreign
policy. The qucrulOns old man muttercd something
toward the close of his life about Mr.. GladstOne's
measures having tended to convert England into "a
cotton IanufactOry. lie Tepcnted of it later.
g wish TO tell YOU" said Mr. Gladstone
lt York, "that four days before tie death
Of Earl Russell my wife and saw
that illustnOus man and received from him an af-
farewell. At that time he said to me
spontaneously Il wish yOu in tne Govern
ncnt'" As Lord Russelps son has also como for
ward to say that his father had been misrcmc-
sented. Mr.. Cowen is by this time, let hope,
aware that lie has made a mistake which he will
Lave many opportunities, before the canvass is over
Of Tectlfying.
OF tue reception of Mr.. Gladstone in Edinburgh, ,
will quote what The Scotsodn says: " Great as |
was the assembage which greeted him in Novcm
Der last the spectacle of last night was if possible
even more imposing AZ the expression of peoples
good will" OF the speech made last night
can quote nothing. The report of it fills
i've columns. 1t is as fresh, as vigorous varied
Us full Of interest if he had not already made
dozen speeches to almost the same audience. II is
in fact, absolutely the audience. for as be-
tore there journal Of Importance in any part of
he Kingdom which does not print the speech IN
FULL What will most impress the country in it is