The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-20
GLADSTONE.
His Latest Manifesto Gives
Good Satisfaction.
THE TURF TALK OF SATURDAY.
The Counterfeiting Case-vacated
Their Houses-Rain and Wreck
miscellaneous.
Gladstone.

LONDON, September 19.-Gladstonei
manifesto, the most delphic utterance
he eyer made. has proven the most sue
cessful of his life. The document was
secretly issued to his political colleagues
as early as last Monday, It's first per
cepsible effect was the palpable re
approachment between Mr.. Joseph
| Chamberlain's and Mr. Clad
stones utteranees. Mr.. Chamberlain S
Radical campaign tour included Glas
gov. where, no doubt. it was enter
timed that he would repent his pro.
nounced independence, but the orator
spoke in Glasgow after ne had perused
the manifesto, and his speech displayed
the practical abandonment of his indie
pendent Radicalism, and the adoption
of the policy of opportunism, and so il
has been with Lord Harrington and Sir
VIM. Vernon Harcourt. They have
also indicated complete submission
to Gladstone, and have become oppor-
tuuists. There are tive explanations
of these remarkable submissions. 1t
was pretty generally thought that Glad
stone was tired OF public life, and had
decided to remain out of it. He was i'm
plored to reconsider this determination,
and assume the management of the
present campaign for his party. Sue
cess i'll this campaign was essential to
continue the existence OF the Lib
eral party, as party, and .abso-
lutte unity was the requisite of
slcccess. Mr.. Gladstone demand
ed submission as the price OF his
leadership. 1t is, of course, possible to
suppose that Chamberlain, Harrington
and Harcourt consented to drop their
differences out of a pure desire to
accomplish the success of their party.
as whole, and to obtain this result
pay Mr.. Gladstone's price. But no
doubt can be entertained that each of
those three men have been ambitious
to succeed the "Grand old man"
in the leadership. Circumstances have
demonstrated that the party will at
present accept no leader but him. and
that without him the restoration to
power is impossible. The supposition
that MT. dfavlst QUO las consented 10
lead his party back to power and de-
termined, after its lodgment there, to
retire permanently. would afford the
most reasonable explanation of the con-
! duct of the three submissive leaders, for
| in this case they would be playing for
a stake worth while. In this latter
event the leadership to attain would
be that of the united party, adhesive
with power; thing immensely differ
ent from factional success. Many
things go to show that the latter suppo.
sition is the correct explanation of the
turn affairs have taken in opening the
sentences of his manifesto Gladstone
uses the following significant state
ment: ut will not be possible for me to
repeat in the new Parliament the laborS
of the previous session."
This is everywhere accepted as dis
tinct assertion by Mr.. Gladstone that he
intends, if victorious in this campaign
to confine himself to the work of form
ing the ministry, and after remaining
in Office long enough to assure the sue
cessful working OF his established gov
ernmental machinery, to retire per
manently to private life.