Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-11-12
The LIBERAL CAMPAIGN.
Mr.. Gladstone Speaks In the City
of Edinburg.
SOME ENGLISH CAMPAIGN LIES
About the Grand Old Gentleman---0ises
tablishnent Not Immediately
Practicable.
GENERAL FOREIGN DISPATCHES.

EDINBURGH, November ll.-Mr. Glad.
stone and wife and Lord Roseberry and
wife to day drove in carriage from Dal-
meny Park through the principal thorough.
fares to the Free Assembly Hall. Crowds
of people lined the reVis. md great enthu.
siasm was manifested at the appearance Of
Mr.. Gladstone. On reaching the hall Mr..
Gladstone fourd it literally packed with
people awaiting TO hear his address. Mr..
Gladstone declared that it was utterly i'm
possible for the next Parliament to deal
with
THE IRISH QUESTION
satisfactorily, unless BY party having q
majority of votes in the House large
enough to enable it TO act Independent Of
the Irish vote. According to all reports
both from Tory and Liberal source" said
Mr.. Gladstone, such party in The COM
ing Parliament can only be the Liberal"
This consideration was more than ordi.
narily important; indeed it was Of the
highest imperial Importance.
CAMPAIGN LIES
Passing to subject less important, Mr.
Gladstone said: Il am reluctantly CON-
PEELED to refer to personal matters. lam
unable 10 understand the reason, but it un
doubtedly has become the fashion among
a portion of the Tories to circulate con-
cerning myself on unfounded assortment
of untruths. This is mode Of warfare
that the Liberals have never INDUCED in,
and believe the bulk of the respectable
Tories disapprove of it. These un-
truths return to me in the shape
of volumnous correspondence daily from
all parts Of the country, aud | ask my
friends to receive all such statements with
resoute incredulity until their promoters
receive assertions. Some Of the untruths
now circulated cay possess q large guam
tity of land in Russia, another accuses me
of telling trees on Sunday, third says
offered to lend Lord Brsburne $4,000
yearly, fourth that asked the Liberal
Parliamentary party last session to vote
against their consoiences. a fifth that
opposed the abolition of fogging in the
army whereas spoke and voteiin its favor.
and sixth that voted against household
suffrage. Such are specimens of the new
est untruths circulated.
PROOF OF THEN. /
Ia order to prove that am not exagger-
atiDg have in my pockets the statements
OF the three Tory candidates, Mtssrs.
Ayres, Sid, bottom and Duncsp. The last
warns bis constituents of the gross inaccu.
raeies of the Radicals He then lyiDgly
accuses me Of opposing the ousehold
franchise, which not only did not oppose,
but engaged in a newspaper wer with
Lord Sherhrooke over the mstter, he op'
posing the extension of suffrage. hope
this exposure will save trouble to those
whose fears the Tories seek to excite.
CHURCH DIsEsTABLISHNGNT.
IL now enter another subieat-the dis
establishment not because 1t is An imme-
dia;e and urgent necessity but in order TO
remove vide spread misappreheDsion
When the subject Of State religion comes
into discu ssion, although it has been more
fully probed and untolded in Scollapd than
elsewhere, and although lively feeling as
was to bs expsc.ed eIists with regard 10 it
10 Wales, yet it is the larger case Of En-.
gland which principally arrests attention
Bearing in mind all the circumstances
of the question in connection with the
length of my own past career, | might
plead for an exemtion from all share in this
controversy, hut having regard on the 9th
er hand to the deep interest felt in il with
a strong connection on the part OF so
many whose confidence | have enjoyed |
think it right to say few words 1t they
only tend to crafty over aRnguiRe eEpec'
tations and to mitigate alarm, though they
arc entertained by many whom both OIL
cialIy and personally ] revere With resPect
TO the severance Of the Church Of England
from the State think it obvious ths! SO
vast a question carnot become prac icsl
until it shall have grown familiar to the
public mind BY thorough discAssiop, With
the further condition that the proposal
when thoroughly discussed shall be sp
proved.
GREAT PROBLEM.
Neither think can such cbasge arise
in any country such as ours except With
large Observance Of principles or equity
and l;beFaiity ss well as the general con
sent of the nation. We can hardly, how
ever, be surprised if those who observe thai
Q current almost throughout the civilized
world slowly sets Ia this direction should
desire or fear that among our
selves, too, it may be found Il
operate. / cannot forecast the dim and
indis,inct courses Of the future. but, like
all others, l have observed the vast, ever
ineressipg development ior the last httl
years, both at home and abroad, in tn
church to which belong, OF the poSer o
voluntary support. Those shsidgsLens
of her preIoSatyes s. al establishment
winch have Been frequent OF late years
have not brought about Q decrease snt
have at least been eontemporsneous sitl
an increase Of her spiritue! sn'
social strength. RI aetO,ednes: o.
II IL