The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-06-17
GENERAL REJOICING
Among the Queens Advisers
Over Gladst0ne's Downfall.
BULLDOZING

IRISH BULLDOZING G.
Claimed by Them to Have Been the
Principal Cause Of the
Premier's Defeat.
LONDON, June lathe Queen, it is said,
is delighted over Gladstone's downfall, and
the Parnellites, who accomplished his over
throw, are apparently going to encounter
the hardest times they ever had. Marquis
Salisbury, everybody begins to see, lacks
confidence. He has been bold, but never
far-sighted as q leader of the opposition,
but the very moment the Gladstone Minis
try resigned, Marquis Salisbury became
supplicant for public help, and vowed he
would not take power unless the Liberals
''gave his Government show Gladstone
never asked .'show" from anybody. The
Queen could not conceal her satisfaction
over the change in politics. She never liked
Gladstone. He was too superior to eti-
quette.
HE COULD NOT FLATTER,
and was impatient as state servant to
the throne. Her Majesty was so pleased
over the prospect of again having Tory
and an aristocrat at the head OF affairs
that she telegraphed her acceptance OF
Gladstone's resignation, and by wire sum
moned the Marquis of Salisbury to Bal
moral, to assume the trust of forming a
new Government 1t is understood the
Marquis OF Salisbury will refrain from the
work of forming new Cabinet until he has
held a conference with all the Conservative
leaders. Singular as it may appear to
foreigners the chief political interest OF the
British just now does not seem to be in
the constitution OF the new Ministry, but
secondly in the Irish policy OF the Conserva-
Give Government. Parnell certainly must
have the measure of
HIS AMBITION NEARLY FILLED
when he has succeeded in making the af=
fairs of Ireland the most important subject
Of British interest after the English foreign
affairs. When the Irish members on Mon
day night threw their votes with the Tories
and wrought the ruin of the Ministry that
gave Ireland disestablishment and the land
act, they jumped upon their seats and
hurrahed. They might easily have felt GER
tain that the Tories, lifted into power by
Irish help, would at once "Parnellize" the
Government, but the Tories having re-
covered from their first excitement, appear
to attribute Gladstone's, defeat not to his
harshness towards Ireland, but to the loss
of Liberal votes, driven from him by dis
gust at his
"sUBMISsION TO IRISH BULLDOZING.
Now, this disgusted Liberal vote" is far
larger than the Home Rule vote. The
Toris know this. They are wise in their
day and generation. They are playing for
the larger vote, and the Irish are seemingly
going to get 'left." The conservative party
is largely controlled by the prevalent opin-
ion Of the Tory clubs. The Carlton and
other leading Tory clubs all favor the the
ory advocated by Earl Spencer, the Irish
Viceroy, that there is an absolute neces-
sity for continuance of the coercion pol
icy in Ireland. On this point the Tories
and the majority Of the Liberals will agree
and on it they may combine against the
Radicals and Parnellites. If they do the
Home Rulers will be in such q pitiable mi
nority that their voice will count for nothing
in Parliament, and long lease of life may
be secured to the present mode OF English
rule in Ireland. 1t is not believed Marquis
the Gladstone Ministers in forming his pol
icy toward Ireland. His plan will be to
SPLIT THE LIBERAL PARTY
completely by proposing measure OF CO.
operation, based on Earl Spencers reports
"a measure the same as Marquis Harting-
ton; Gladstone's War Minister, and a ma
jority of Gladstone's Cabinet insisted on
continuing in spite Of the opposition Of Sir
Charles Deike, Joseph Chamberlain ana MIR,
Trevelyan. Such a line of Irish policy
would be almost certain to lead at least to
temporary coalition between the moder-
ate Liberals and Tories and against the
Radicals and Parnellites, and give the new
Government a tremendous majority. 1t
would be hard to guess what would become
of the Irish home rule under Government
whose very start was based on its deter
mination to
MAINTAIN COERCION IN IRELAND.
Sir Stafford Northcote, the Tory leader
in the Commons has already been in con-
sultation with the Irish executive officials
concerning the real status OF affairs in Ire
land, and it is understood that nearly every
one OF these personages has stated thai no
English Government could afford to be
responsible for the government OF Ireland
during the coming Winter without the con-
tinuance of the Crimes Act. Sir Stafford
can easily acquire testimony that will boil
ster up his intentions toward Ireland. Lord
Randolph Churchill, it may be safely stated,
is the only one of the men likely to form
the Conservative Cabinet who is at all prob
able to advocate the abolition OF coercion.
His influence will be far less with his party
when it is in power than it appeared to be
when he was an opposition leader in the
Commons. kilograms from Balmoral indi-
- 4Lo% 1yhin
place between the Queen and Marquis Sal
isbury her Majesty has shown that she is
concerned most as to what will be
THE FOREIGN POLICY.
of her Government. In court circles there
over the fall of the Liberal Government.
Gladstone, the court officials now admit,
was never in harmony with the Queen on
any subject and her Majesty and the Pre-
| mier disagreed bitterly in all their discus
| sions about England's foreign policy. Glad
stone. it is said, readily consulted the
Queen or informed her of the designs OF his
! Government In we'll informed circles it is
| thought the Queen strongly favors re-
newal of the Soudan campaign; the reten'
ton OF Egypt; the settlement OF the Anglo
Russian dispute onsthe basis OF the Gran
ville-DeGiers agreement; a renewal OF the
"ASAA
| Turkey and no special cultivation OF an
entente with France. A policy embracing
ALL THESE PRINCIPLES
has all along been approved by all the per
manent officials in the British foreign office,
amongst whom the Gladstone regime had
! become intensely disliked. Gladstone's s
| intimation of a determination to retire
| from public life has for the present utterly
disorganized the lustral arrangement for
the coming electoral struggle. Desperate
| efforts have been made to secure from him
a number OF engagements to make cam
paign speeches during the ensuing election
| The only engagement admitted by Glad
stone is one for Midlothian. In letter
declining request for a speech elsewhere,
| the Premier states that he has
GIVEN VERBAL PROMISE
| to his political agents in Midlothian that
he will not retire without addressing that
| (his presently constituency. The Liberal
| election agents generally report great diff
! Guilty in obtaining candidates to contest
! seats on Liberal platform. Radical can
didates are, however, reported plentiful.
The Birmingham Liberal caucus has
adopted in it's programme for the campaign
the proposals formulated by the recent
Miners Parliamentary Conference. The
PROPOSALS call for q reformation OF the