The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-10-04
OUR CABLE LETTER.
Political and Sc sse, ,s Gossip From tn,

Old world.
LONDON, October 3-The tories are
not yet ready to begin in the cam
paign for supremacy in the next par
Lament. Their government has
therefore decided to postpone disso-
luton until the 9TH of December
The reason given for this action Is
that the difficulties growing out of
the enormous registration under the
enlargement of franchise require ex-
tended time for adjudication and ad-
justment. The campaign when II
does open will be the fiercest and
most thoroughly contested ever
fought In Great Britain as every voter
in the country will be reached and in
terested. Those now possessing the
franchise are badly muddled, for the
Churchill tories are counting the Ir-
ish home-rule vote, while the radicals
are clamoring for the maintenance of
the empires integrity.
The two millions of men enfran-
chised by Mr.. Gladstone, as rule,
belong TO a class inferior in intelli-
gence to any who have heretofore
have had voice in British
affairs. They have never, as o
rule, had any interest in public
questions and never had occasion to
learn anything at all about politics.
WHEN THE UNITED STATES
enfranchised the blacks, hardly $780,
900 voters were added to the list, and
when they began to vote thoy were
influenced by q sentiment which
was p ractically unanimous among
them and which was, for time at
least, intelligent, viz: gratitude. But
England has as suddenly added near
ly three times as many voters to her
suffrage list, and the addition GER
tainly contains large mass of ig-
norance. While gratitude to the lib
eral party, for the franchise may
sway many of these new voters, Il
would be folly to calculate ON It as a
feeling which win prevail with any
large portion. The old voters
are pretty well on the old lines
and the issues will be tried by the
new ballots. Even now, two months
before dissolution, there are 1,126
candidates already in the field con-
testing for the 800 seats belonging 10
England in the house of commons
Nearly every seat Is being contested
and there are many instances in which
several candidates are contcsting the
same constituency. In this latter re-
| speci, however, the liberals are al
present worse divided than the tories
The latter are under much better
party discipline, aud their part,
agents are bending their energies to
prevent party split.
THE PARNELLITES REMAIN UNITED
and independent of any alliances. II
is admitted, even by liberal newspa-
pers. that If Mr.. Parnell succeeds IN
making bargain with the tories Ia
stand with him on a common plat
form the liberal majority will stand
In danger of disappearing altogether
Practically, the whole number OF
new voters In Britain have no decided
political learning. They viii be lib
eral or tory according to the influence
brought to bear on them. The result
of the coming election will have !
stupendous effect On the destiny OF
England. IL may even decide whether
the English trade policy shall b,
free or protective; whether chnrcl
and state shall be divorced or remain
united; whether unification or disin
, tegration of the empire shall ensue
whether Great Britain shall continue
to interfere In foreign affairs and re
main among the first powers or holt
aloof and fall back into the seconi
rank, and IL may decide even whethe
aristocracy In England shall continue
, and whether the throne shall remain
All these are now liy
questions and 1t does appear 4
be an extraordinary thing that tn
parliament, which may DO calle'
upon to decide some If not all thes
momentous issues will take Its ten
per from the chance way In while
the majority of two millions of uned
ucated voters may cast their frs
ballots.
London managers Of Atlantic CT
BILE companies In the present poo
4 will meet In this city next week.
' Is positively stated that the object
the meeting Is TO arrange for
REDUCTION OF CABLE TARIFFS
between England and the Unite