The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-10-10
THE ENGLISH LIBERAL LEADER.
"THE MOST POWERFUL MAN oUT OF
POWER IN THE WORLD GLAD
STONES MANIFESTO UNITEs
THE LIBERAL PARTY.


utterance he ever made, has proven
the most successful pamphleting of
his life. The document was secretly
issued to his political colleagues as
early as Monday last Its first per-
ceptible effect was the palpable re-
approachment between Joseph Cham
berlain, Lord Harrington and Sir
William Vernon Harcourt, the three
most powerful leaders next to the
eX-premicr himself in the liberal
party. All three are ambitious men,
and they had been pulling apart.
Each was taking large following
along. The radicals were going
along with Chamberlain, the wings
with Harrington, and Harcourt was
endeavoring to hold the moderates
together.
The liberal party was being
RENT TO PIECES.
The manifesto put stop to the
ripping and diverging triumvirate at
once, and set to work to replace the
stitches that with each effort came
closer together. To-day, week
only having elapsed, the liberal party
in Great Britain at least is a unit.
Chamberlain may be said to be
the most rebellous leader in the
whole liberal party. Before Glad
stones .utterance Chamberlain's
radical campaign tour included Glas-
gov, where, no doubt he was enter
tanned that he would repeat his pro-
nounced independence, but the ora
tor spoke in Glasgow after he had
perused the manifesto, and his
speech displayed practical aban-
donment of
HIS INDEPENDENT RADICALIsM
and the adoption of policy of oppor-
tunism, and so it has been with Lord
Harrington and Sir VIM. Vernon
Harcourt. They have also indicated
the complete submission to Glad
stone and have become opportunists.
There are two explanations of these
remarkable submissions. No one
doubts that if these three leaders
had been permitted to pursue the
courses they had mapped out for
themselves, the liberal party would
have been dismembered. 1t was
pretty generally thought that Glad
stone was tired of public life, and
had decided to remain out of it. He
was implored to reconsider this de-
termination and assume the manage
ment of the present campaign, for
his party success in this campaign
was essential to the continued exis-
tence of the liberal party as party,
and absolute unity was requisite to
success. Gladstone demanded SUBJ
mission as the price of his leader
ship. 1t is, of course, possible to
suppose that Chamberlain, Harting-
ton and Harcourt consented to drop
their differences out of pure desire
to accomplish the success of the
party as whole to oblige, and by
this result pay Gladstone's price,
but no doubt can be entertained that
each of these three men has been
ambitious to succeed the "grand old
man" in party leadership.
Circumstances have demonstrated
that the party will at present accept
NO LEADER BUT HIM,
and that without him restoration to
power is impossible. The suppose
ton that Gladstone has consented to
lead his party back to power, and is
determined, after its lodgemen,
there, to retire permanently, would
offer the most reasonable explanation
of the conduct of the three SUBJ
missive leaders, for in this case they
would be playing for stake worth
while. In this latter event the
leadership to attain would be that of
a united party with power. The
thing is immensely different from a
fractional success. Many things 90
to show that the latter supposition
is the correct explanation of the
turn affairs have taken. In one of
the opening sentences of his mani
festo Gladstone uses the
FOLLOWING SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT :
SIT will not be possible for me to
repeat in the new parliament the
labors of previous sessions.
This is everywhere accepted as {
distinct observation by Gladstone
that he intends, if victorious in lhi:
campaign, to confne himself TO the
work of forming ministry, and
after remaining in the Office Ions
enough to assure the successful
working of his re-established govern
mental machinery, to retire perma
nently to private life.
1t is everywhere apparent tina
the premier has secured the mar
vellous and instantaneous restora