Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-20
HAYTONS LETTER.
The Three-C ornered Political Fight
Between Gladstone, Sails
bury and Parnel,
The Great Power That Governs the
English Turf and Gives Racing
Rules TO the World.
The Grand Old Man Draws on his Imax,.
nation for Froe-rrado Arguments
statistics Against Him.
special Correspondence Of Tho Gazette.


ELECTION SCENEs IN FtRET STREET.
LONDON, Dec. SIT Is one of the first
bright days Of December. The time n
between | and 2. The day is Tuesday
The scene Is Fleet street. We are nj tbe
height Of the elections. "wait for the
county Vote the Liberals had said. bay-
Ing been deserted by the burourhs. The
counties are polling. They are in the
midst of It. AZ the offices OF the Daily
Telegraph, the Standard, the Chronicle.
Daily News, the polls are exhibited I'm the
windows, The results are not displayed
on the lavish scale adopted In American
cities. But they are readable and tho
news passes from mouth TO mouth. Tho
vehicular traffic for the moment
Is stopped by the crowd. There
is no moving either way 1
sit opposite to the Telegraph In hanson.
Cheers and groans alternate as the dis
patches are written mp. The crowd is
evidently Conservative and YOU can hear
its approving shouts travel along the
street as the news of the Tory victories
becomes known. The election of ls74 ex-
cited London, but not as the fight of 1855
is doing London usually takes things
calmly If not cynically; but the triple
light of Salisbury, Gladstone and pamen
has aroused the great town INTO enthusl-
asm. ! say the triple 1ght advisedly aud
leave out Chamberlain altogether. He Is
not In it with the three leading men, lie
has handicapped himself with theories
and discounted his fortune with political
dreams. He was somebody when the fight
began but to-day he is nobody-except
at Birmingham. This is not my opinion
only, IL Is the opinion of this mighty
crowd of London workmen aud clerks.
This Is their dinner hour There are
crow DIS before the Fleet street offices on
"Derby Day." but not this kind of crowd.
The Derby Day men are an anxious crowd
in different sense to this. The one Is
n ces,ary, the other patriotic.
lhis is a manly lookyou-in-
the.faCe crowd, with an eve
to the glory of the country; the other is Il
betting crowd, with its eye on dollars.
Judge that the great majority of these
mcu have voted for Conservatives The
cheers for Tory successes are tremendous
The Liberal gains are received with faint
applause mingled with laughter "lts Il
great day for the Tories to-day anyhow, ~
says one man TO another Ms they lean
against my hanson, "the 1000, 600 new
electors don't seem TO believe much IN
the three acres and The cow "Tell yer
what II is, mate" says the other, "there's
too much Internal talk OF change on the
Liberal side; we wants rest II trade is to
improve, less government and more bust
ness is what we wants" "Yes,n said
the third, "and bit OF honesty 4"
"HnwY" asks this first man. "Why, less
talk about things as is impossible and
more doing OF things as are. All this
| bosh of Chamberlain is only party bosh--
he don't mean it "And you think the
Tories dor" saws another bystander inter-
negatively. "Wi yer see, they promise
so much less, they don't run wild, and |
think they are suaightern They were
just beginning discussion on free trade
when my cab moved and at ga foot pace
wormed It's way into the Strand