The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-09
GLADsToNE,s CREATIONS.
The Meaning of His Vehement Declarations
Proofs of His Universal Popularity.

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The Meaning of His Vehement Declarations
Proofs of His UniEersal Popularity.
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! The first ana greatest fact in the orations of
! Mr.. Gladstone is that there is not going to be a
dissolution in the autumn. That is the meaning
of his Observation-Disclosures that he will not al
low the House of Lords to decide the date of an
appeal to the people. The prospect, then, is of
Gladstone meeting Parliament in February,
1885, and going through aasession as if nothing
in the world had occurred, although their lerd-
ships had in the meantime thrown out the fran
chise hill in the autumn session. The present
Parliament could legally continue until March,
1885, and even according to precedent, it could
go on till the middle of 1886, and it will, there
fore, be seen that the grand old man has still
plenty of time before him in case he means to
stick to office, no matter what the Lords may do.
It is impossible to say, of course, what would be
the action of the Lords in this new contingency.
Few people doubt that Lord Salisbury will sum
mon up courage enough to reject the bill in the
autumn, but it may wen be doubted whether he
will get his shivering followers to enter on a
third campaign
Meantime the Premier has managed TO set
Ireland and Scotland in mild fame. The
speech which has created most attention in Ire
land, and is destiHed to be quoted probably TO
the end of time. is that in which he confessed
that he was so busy in watching the action of
Lord Beaconsfeld in every other quarter of the
globe that he had not had time to make him
self acquainted with the real state of affairs in
Ireland. As Ireland at the time was on the very
verge Of famine, and the great Land League
agitation had already passed its vigorous in
fancy, the obvious Inference has been drawn
alike by Irish National and such fair English
Radical journals as the Pail Mall Gazette, that
when mansso eminent omniscient and we'll
intentiened as Gladstone is hopelessy at sea-
the invinei5le ignorance of England in Irish ar
fairs has received a startling confirmation. Mr.
Healy seized upon the point with his usual
promptitude and astuteness and made it
the text Of a speech denouncing the refusal
of England to grant to constitutional agitation
what she afterward yields to crime and violence
The English Tory journals describe the speech
asinciting to violence while Radical prints de-
clare it, with q sad shake of the head, to be at
least partly true
In Scotland on the other hand, a few kind
words as to the crofters have stirred up fierce
demand for the extension to Scotch tenants of
the Irish land act The proofs of univeral popu-
,larity with which Gladstone has been received
have tempted the journals into fullness of
petty and personal detail that are little novel
in English journalism Here are specimens
During one speech he burst mis- collar, but took
no notice of the accident. He sighed as an ak
was presented to him, and said that it was too
weighty for him and would have to be left to
one of his sons, and he has shaken
hands with multitude of mill girls. Mrs
Gladstone always figures largely on these
occasions, William being partly popular because
he is so ostentatiously q family mani and she ex-
cited great applause atone meeting by mixingin
public the mysterious compound of egg and
alcohol with which the great orator vets his
whistle. Two perfervid Scotchmen have got into
the police court for coming to blows over his
merits, one skeptic describing the great orator,
to the immense delight of Tory journalism as a