St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-13
The Liberal Party in English Politics
Much Confused and Without Any
Political Program.
Gladstone Declines to Come to tha
Rescue and Politicians Are Ap-
parently Discouraged.
Russia Greatly Increasing Her Coast
Defenses--The Feeling in
British India.
Great Injustice Being Done to Rus
sian Poles by Expulsion From
Germany.
English Politics.


CHICAGO, Sept. 12.-The Times special
London cable says: The Democratic party
In England is much confused 1t is still
without any definite program, and vet some
OF Its principal political leaders have felt
themselves compelled to make party utter
ances. These have 50 far been extremely
contradictory. One result is that
the party's parliamentary candidates are
making all sorts OF pledges, and the Lib
eral campaign just now looks very much
IKE a go-as-you-please race. In Great
Britain alone there are more than 500 Lib
eral candidates in the field. They
comprise Liberals, Wings, Moderaters. and
Radicals and the men forming each class
are gradually getting into record as pledg-
ing themselves to all manner of political
crudities. Unless the party as a whole
soon be placed under some ineligible pro-
gram and bound down to some sem
slble management, it will be rent to
pieces beyond the possibility of
reorganization. The Gladstone members
of the house of commons who are candi-
oates for reelection are appealing to him to
ED the anarchy of formulating policy
which will freeze the cranks out of the
canvass and thus save the party's strength
from being frittered away. 1t has accord
ingly been decided to
HOLD A CONFERENCE
of the recognized leaders of all the factions
in the Liberal party early in October. fol
the purpose Of obtaining some general
understanding. All efforts thus far made
to induce MI. Gladstone to make
pronouncement have failed. He will
not even promise to address the coming
conference. He has. it is true, promised
to write political address this fall to his
Midlothian constituency, but he has fixed
the date for the issue of this letter SO that
it will be some time after the Octoberme
ing. In this letter the ex-premier will
state and explain at length the platform
OF principles he deems best for his party.
In the meantime strong efforts are being
made to bring about a compromise between
the hostile views entertained by the follow
ers of Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain and those
OF the Marquis of Harrington, the former
representing the straight-out radicals
OF the Liberal party and the latter
the Wings. If the Radicals and Wings can
reach common understanding for the
campaign, Mr.. Gladstone it is presumed,
will personally indorse it and add to it
the necessary elements to attract the
majorities of the other factions, and
thus start his party with united front in
THE COMING CONTEST.
1t is even intimated that Mr.. Gladstone
has his program ready now, that he is en-
gagged in the task of training Mr.. Chamber
lain and Lord Harrington up to it, and that
the October conference will simply be a
perfunctory affair for the purpose of allow
ing the hostile leaders an occasion to SUBJ
NIT gracefully,
The Russian government has decided to
transfer the administration of its Black Sea
fleet from Nicolaieff to Sabastadol.
The harbor at the latter place is
being much enlarged, and immense forts
and other works of defense are
being constructed around it's approaches.
The car is also organizing fleet to be
stationed at Patoum, On the east coast of
the Black Sea. This little town is being
| rapidly enlarged, because of its stratigal i'm
portance as the central point of Russian
defense of the east coast Of the Black
Sea. This action of the czar in
now restoring to Sebastapol the military
and naval prestige which it possessed be-
| fore the Crimean war is regarded with
misgivings in certain British Indian quar-
ters. A Russian naval commissioner will
soon be dispatched to examine and report
upon the condition of all the harbors along
the Greek and British coast line.
MANY STIRRING INCIDENTS
attend the expulsion Of the Russian Poles
| IrOln fTuSSld- now Delllg rutnleSSly enforced
under the orders of Prince Bismarck The
police who are engaged in this work of ex-
pulsion recently came across a
well-to-do Polish gentleman named
Zarnayski. He owned much desirable land
in Posen, but lived with his family in
beautiful chateau in France most of the
time, He was ordered to settle up his
affairs and quit Posen. He demurred
and then set up claim to
being a French subject, and succeeded
in having his appeal placed before NJ. De
Freycinet, French minister for foreign af-
fairs. In his appeal Zarnajski established
the fact that he was born i'll Paris and was
a French subject. He had, however, be-
come so identified with the place of
his estate in Posen that the French gov
ernment declined to formally interfere in
the case, and M. De Freycinet contented
himself with informally referring the case
to the German government as one worthy
| of consideration. The result has
been that the Prussian authorities
have notified Zarnajsld that he may retain
his interests in Germany upon condition of
naturaliZing himself as Prussian
subject ard residing on his estates in
Posen. So many terrible injustices have
been perpetrated upon worthy Poles by the
indiscriminate expulsion which has been
carried on against the whole race of Russian
exiles resident in Prussia, that portions
of the German press have at last been
stirred up to protest against this wholesale
business.