The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-03-24

.Ss.83 VOLUME x.
bis own medicine. A Tory Goyernmen
with the present Parnell 10 fight them VII
across the table, would have secumbed aom
+ time ago. Gladstone would be just In hi
5 element fighting policy like that 10
which he Is responsible In Egypt 4 Th
trouble with the Tories is that they have
divided leadership, and a weak one a
that. Tho Marquis OF Salisbury Is not :,
bad debater, but he Is hopelessly shut III
IN the House Of Lords where good speak
ing can accomplish nothing. Sir Stafford
Northcote, an estimable man personally. h
an old granny In politics-too mild; 10,
cautious, too peaceable, too much given L
shaping his tactics with view 10 obtaihini
the good will Of the party In power. Whett
the Liberal Miniatry falls, 1t will cestainl,
not be Northcote who killed 1t. Thi;
executioner Ia more likely to bt
that dashing, brilliant, eyer.,eady
resourceful, and rather unscrupulout
youngstatesman, Lord Randolph Churchill
he, It appears now, Is the "comipg man. u
among the Conservatives. Northcote must
90. He is old and stereotyped, he repre-.
aentB the Toryism of the drawing room,
Churchill that Of the Music Hsll-lhe sap..
tag Of the party-and that element in the
near future will take the lead. The posi-
ton OF this young Aro.eater has undergone
q complete change since Parliament!
At the close OF last session he was looked
upon as almost as great q foe 10 bis own
party as to the other. One Of Northcote's
last public acts at that TINA was to con.
'emptuousiy slt down upon him. But evil
IDENTIFY there has been a reconciliation be-
tween the two. They pull together now.
lhe younger has put himself In training
ior q Cabinet ofli:e, and he will ge. one.
Northcote foresaes the inevitable aud
makes the best oil 1t. Churchill /. in many
respects reproduction Of D'sRsli. Possi-
ply as great a career may be before him.
s.l q "a BATTLE OF RADlcALlsM. Ei.
This impending change 10 the Tory
leadership will render necessary some re.
adjustment Of positions on the Liberal
side. Gladstone'a work is nearly dons.
With the death Of the present Parliament,
England's foremost statesman will proba.
bly, step down and out. Upon whom then,
will his mantle iall?. The Marquis oI II II.
tington Is supposed to haye claim on the
successorship and will perhaps assume the
leadership! But he will not long retain It,
lie cones otthe Whig stock and Is entire.
y too slow:going Tor the present times. :, 4
Radical Toryism must be- not; be q Radical
Liberalism: S.The, Radical In tluence .is AL
ready very strong, both In the party and
In the Cabinet In the near future that
influence must increase. R forms do NOT
90 backward5sa aud the progress Of the past
makes 1t certain that events will advance
still more rapidly hereafter. L! IL not too
much to expect that within ten or fifteen
years rsdicalism will have completely
swallowed up Liberalism. and from this
point oil view 1t becomes apparent at once
that the man who will permanently sue.
coed Gladstone is Joseph Chamberlain,
Thus, in all probability, the great Parlia.
mentary conflicts OF the future will be be.
tween two men who are Just nov
winning their .spurs-two men who will
be we'll matched In cnurag, aud suiacity.
however they may differ in other respects.
chamberlain will represent progress and
the people; Churchill obstruction, aris.oc.
racy, jingoism, and the old condition Of
things generally. In this conflict Churchill
must ioally 60 TO the wall, for England is
absolutely certain by and by to wheel into
line with the better features OF our own svs.
tenn OF government. l do not say that she
will renounce monarchy. But she will
certainly reform 1t, and the House Of
Lords will share the same fate. Then the
people will rule, and Parliament be, not the
bare laced fraud on popular representation
that it ia at present, but body Of legislators
correctly relsc:ing and honestly carrying
out the sentiments Of the country. 81 !,
ga THE GOOD TIMES COMING. .!5. +
!, An earnest OF this good time coming has
juat been given in the formation Of Rovsl
Commission to inquire into tho houainS:ot
the working classes-not 80 much, how.
ever, in the fact that such Il commission
has been appointed, as in the diverse
character and station OF the individuals
composing it. Tory and Liberal, Prince
and lab'rer, chutchman and diasenter.
Catholic Cardinal and Protestant Bishop
ait down together on this commiesion a.
pointed by the Q leen) and Sir Charles
Dixie. the arch ldical, preside1 over them
all. Dixie first came into prominence by
his opposition to grants OF money Parlia.
ment was asked to make to the r ,yal fam.
ily: Broadhurat, NJ P. for Sheffield, who
joatle, the Prince Of Wales at the meetinQs
Of this committee, is bricklayer, Is well
as q Radical. 1T the @ ,een bad only
thought to pat Lsbouchers aud Btadlaugh
on the commission, the thing would have
been quite complete But it is god enough
as It II, and our bope ia that this leveling ex.
pertinent, made ia such good cause, may
prove satisfactory to both Sovereign and
subjscts. .z-5-7 u. I. !