New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-26
THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS.
A CONTRAST BETWEEN PREDICTIONS AKIN
RESULTS


winch more completely h6 led the calculations and
disappointed the hopes OF every one of the political
parties concerned in il. The position Of things to-
day is not the position on which anybody had
| counted new poet is wanted TO write a new
poem on the Vanity Of Human Wishes, bat the
moral he should point would still be the same, and
| the toes OF the wisest the text on which he would
have to preach Never were predictions more con-
fdent, never have they been more signaly
fasifed. Nor any better idea of the
actual situation be had than by
review Of the expectations which wero
announced al the beginning Of the contest Tie ex-
pectatioas mean are not the public prophecies put
forth 10 encourage friends or misead enemies, bat
the expectations really entertained by the leadela
and managers of the different parties
The Tories, 1t may be admitted, were not at the
outset confident None, | imagine, really beloved
that the country TO return Tory majority. If
you go back to tho date when Mr.. Gladstone took
Lord Salisbury into mis- Cabinet for the purpose If
settling the Redistribution bill, you VIII
recoect that his assent to the measure
finally agreed On surprised eyerybody;-his
own party and the Liberals alike. 1hey
both thought Lord Salisbury was signing his own
death warrant political leader. lie was, PIE
sumo himself under no illusions as 70 the act he
performed. He did not fSpect dcmOcrati,cd
electorate to put au Old-fashIOned Tory govern.
mcnt in power But if you take leap from this
Redistribution bill to the speech which Lord sails
bury delivered last October at Newport you viii
see what he had i'm mind when he agreed TO En-
fcanchisement and Redistribution. lie meant tc
compete with the Liberals in Liberal policy Tia,
explains, or explains in part, the policy which was
thought 50 dark at he time.
The Newport speech laid down programme for
the future not much less rich in promises
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