The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-06
Neither Party WAL be Able 20
nun the Government w,sh.
out the Others Aid.
u Does Look Now as if Parneli
win Hold the balance of
Power over All.
= Fearful Ride or che Brooklyn
Bridge-Reds ON Raid
Church Inter dtcted.
OUR GABLE LETTER.


| hONDON, DtCcInDeT0 OIL nc political
situation is one of .perplexity to all
British politicians. Thcliberals close
the week with tie, with the tories
and Parnellites, combined There are,
however, enough constituencies yet TO
vote to make the whole issue one of
uncertainty, and q glar ce at the his
tory of the campaign will make the
reason of this plain. When Mr..
Gladstone was defeated In the par
liamentsry vote In which the
bome-rulers withdrew their strength
from him, he knew his absentee s,
added TO the votes he tailed, would
be more than sufficient to overcome
the entire allied opposition. He was
Disguised with his whole relationship
TO the Irish party, and, confident In
his strength, resigned the power in
order to regain 1t on new founda-
ton, wherever he shonld be indie
pendent of the Irish members. lie
desired to have at his back British
majority, so that whatever he might
do for Ireland, should be accepted rs
concession. and not as an extortion.
He felt entirely able to accomplish
this result. lie had enfrauchised
100000 voters and had redistributed
the boundaries of the CONSTITUENCIES,
and felt certain that his party would
gain largely from these measures.
When the campaign opened, how
ever, the rsdical leaders went of con
their own hook aud tried to secure
an alliance with the home-rulers, with
whom they believed thoy could Sc
cure the government for themselves.
While engaged in this effort, the rad
icals committed themselves to several
very advanced principles, which were
popular throughout ireland and Scot
land, and 10 the English rural pro-
vinces containing the bulk of the
newly enfranchised voters. Chief
among these was disestablishment.
The Parnellites, however, distrusted
the radicals and courted an alliance
with the tories, who wore then in the
| first flush of power and stronger with
the people than now. The home-rul-
ers accordingly fiirted with the radi-
calls in order to obtain better terms
from the conservatives. The latter
iiually agreed to the Irish terms. and
the Parnell.Salisbury compact was
announced.
BY this time Gladstone had become
thoroughly aroused, and by main
force he compelled the radicals to re
turn to their allegiance to the liberia
party: but they had so generally and
thoroughly pledged themselves tC
disestablishment that their running
with the "grand old mans" followers
scared away from him large numbers
of the moderate liberals, who wen
over TO the tories to save the
church. The accessious were Sc
numerous that the conservative
threw aside all other issues, and il
this attitude they received so much
encouragement they felt certain o
success without the Irish help; so
after this had been turned over e
them by manifesto from Parnell
the conservatives repudiated IL ant
posed as pure and unalloyed Englisl
party.
In the meantime, Mr.. G. adstone, b,
almost superhuman efforts, had sue
ceeded in dwarfng the Importance o
the disestablishment issue, by local
izing II in Scotland where II is popu
lar with the majority,and throwing II
out from the campaign altogether IN
England, where IL is unpopular with
the majority. BY this achievement
he stopped the religious stamped,
from his ranks and brought oacl
thousands of the deserters. The vot
Ing large saS towns aSM 0 fEe ,iS !
erals gradually drew togethe
and the tory party, LEFT
without distinct issue, as gradual,
dwindled The Parnellites have
stood together to man, aud while
they, in all cases, voted against lib
erals aud in favor of tories in dis
tricts where no nationalist candidat,
was running, they have practically
parted company with the tories. A
the time of this writing the liberal
have elected 313 candidates; the con
servatives, 243. and the Parnellites
20. Thus, while Gladstone has sew
enty majority over the tories, they
and the home-rulers tie him. Neve
before in England was there q politi
= cal situation Just like this. There ar,
l four distinct and distinctive parties
but the radicals and liberals are nom
inally united and so arc the torie
q and home-rulers. The latter allianc
: is unnatural and unreliable while In
-
\ former, although unreliable is unnat
|, uIal.
The radicals claim the credit of th
, liberals among new voters. The col
n servatives are in helpless minorit
without the solid Parnell vote an
v would be helpless with 1t against II
; radical and liberal vote combines
On the other hand the Parnellit,
could always depend upon lars
radical vote on any parliamentaI
= measure in the interest of Irelan,
/ II is plain, that If the tories shoul
& retain power they could never be ce
10 tain of their ability to pass al
is measure, even with the Irish vote, al
could never be sure of commandiI
d that. Such a government would sill
ply be impotent and ridiculous.