Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-03-22
ITS FALL IMMINENT.
THE a,Ausrosr M,sIsrRy IN DANCE,
Premoniti 1ns Going 10 show That tho Lib.
eral Administration Has Lost the
Public Confidence


eral Administration Has Lost the
Public Confidence.
A dissolution Of the Gladstone ministry
Is at hand. 1t may be announced at any
moment that Gladstone has made an
appeal to the country. His working
majority OF eighty or ninety has dwiuiled
to an uncertain figure. His party is
rackcd with factions, his cabinet is divided
against itself. Ailing in mind and body,
the premier remains in the retirement Of
his country house, anxious to lay aside the
burdens Of Office.
1t is an open secret that there is n
cabinet split on tho Egyptian policy of
Gladstone. The Earl of Derby, colonial
secretary, aud Lord Selborne, lord high
chancellor, are opposed to fighting.
Gladstone recalled his Midlothian speech
when speaking of the Afghans, he said:
ut is disgraceful that nation whom we
call savages should, in defense of their
native land, offer their naked bodies TO
the arms of European science, and be
killed by the hundred thousand for doing
with rude, ignorant courage what were
for them. duties OF patriotism.
How, having denounced the massacres
Of Cabul and Candahar, could he, Glad
stone, sanction the massacres of Teb and
Tamanieb ? His colleagues overbore him.
They could not risk issJlution. Each
had pet massacre for the coming session.
Chamberlain, the president Of the board OF
trade, was posing as the guardian angel of
mariners. Sir William Harcourt, homo
secretary Of state, was busy with "Turtle
led Doors of the city," The rest were
pushing the reform bill which they hoped
would increase their strength at the next
election. SO Gladstone consented to sum.
mon the doctor and lie abed until Genera !
Graham's work was done and the butchers
bill came in from Suakim.
Unhappily, certain Radicals were more
scrupulous. Few parliamentary scenes
have been more exciting than the midnight
charge which Lsbouchere, Richard and
Cowen led against the authors of the
"Soudan massacres. Lord Randolph
Churchill, scenting the battle from afar,
FASTENED to Join them with his Fourth
Party. Then came Parnell with his
handful of Irish guerrilas. The Conser
yatiyes marched slowly behind under the
leadership OF Sir Stafford Northcote.
a Cri,i. st.mmed
The ministers were hastily summoned
from Downing street, where they had been
anxOusly feeling Gladstone's pulse and
mixing his medicines. Cabs whirled over
London a. o'clock in the morning to
recall absent Liberals. The government
was finally saved by an absurdly small
majority. 1T was really a famous victory"
said Labouchere, smiling. 'lt was a very
dirty trick" growled Sir William Har.
court.
The incident has startled the govern
men;. They can no longer hold together
the forces which supported them on the
vote Of censure. Their Egyptian bluuders
have caused Radicals, who protested
against presenting Lord Salisbury with a
blank political check, to place their entire
bank account at his disposal From this
alliance the ministers may suffer defeat on
the first trivial occasion which arises
Their only safety lies in dissolution.