New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-08

A SKETCH OF THE PRESENT RELATIONS OF
LIBERALS AND RADICALS.

A. rassed through Edinburgh on oatuiuay'
..lsd about Mr.. Goschen's prospects. MI ooscheu'
ono Of tho foremost men OF the Liberal party Is
oonaidate for the representation in farilamehV Oh
one division of the Scottish capital A hadiea' Is
o.o,ai,o AGAINST him, a certain Mr.. Costeloc.
e'" .aId that Mr.. Goschon himself was confident of
We .Iaotion. while the local leaders Thought he
A'' n .rohallv win but by a close vote. Remem-
-. .not Mr.. Goschen consented TO contest the
,.:a;oo in comuliance with reGuisition slgned oy
- .ho, half tine whole number OF voters. asked
-. had happened to alter the opinions oil MS ma
,i+y aOh, nothing" was the answer. MI
Co.cben is liked and hisspeeches are liked ou' SUM-
or, NOT mite sure whether the leaders oil the
Liberal party really want him elected. on iiio""
Ar Chamberlain No. replied my frehd' eiNine
far opce Scot though he was, positive answer
don't mean Mr.. Chamberlain. Ihth' sa'u,
am mite sure you misunderstood yonr ch'eiS anu wv
them Injustice One of the first men met Il" Lou"
snn vas ono of these same chiefs. and told him
had heard in Edinburgh that MI. GoSchen elec''o"
CTS NO. mite sure. "Well" responded he. oeihg
..Lot om 7 sbould vote for Mr.. Gsschcn. but IL
,ror. Scotch Liberal ia Edinburgh should vote
t Lie onnonentr But he is u Home huer. III
that case certainly not"
This story Is not a bad illustration oil the spur"
abroad in the Liberal party, or IN one OF TWO sec
tions of it This is what is gong on III 'he Wy
heart of a contested general election. 80 '"'
mere partisan matters are cohcerneu' wv
..r;,ino foot in the contest is the division III the
Jiberal PARTY. and the way III winch one WHY "
tbe marty 1aunts in the face OF the pubic 10 am
mostly to tue othei. Mr. Forster lies Ill az Nor"oo"
and Mr.. Chamberlain goes to Bradford as the eneS'
and orator OF the Radical caucus which is uHlhR 10
defeat his former colleague. MT Uosc"ou 10 ''0
tarcet for whole volleys of barbed arrows out OF the
Mr Cbamlerlain
.,Y;,l,o AR Chamberlain crticses Lord liartlng
ION and greater than Lord Harrington Mr.. John
Morley cannot repress his impatient scorn OF al
Iiherals who are not Radicals Mr. Jesse Ceilings
on6 many others of the lesser Radical Clique are
s,mnlv behaving as if the Tories did not eAst' ahu
"a if all they had to do TO persuade the country
that the majority of the old Liberal party ia"
ceased to be Liberal. II is not IN human nature
NOT even in Wing human nature, 70 s't oo"h
SILENTLY ander all this abnse, and the wings delehu
+hamseves As best they can with an obvious desire
10 say no more than they must against men whom
they well know to be necessary alIleS'
Mr. Gladstone's manifesto IN PLAIN words ia''eu
Of its intended effect 1t was to unite both wings of
the party and it did not unite them 1t was TO lay
down a platform broad enough to be trodden by
Radicals and Liberals alike and 10! the Radicals
declare il is too narrow TO give thcm standing room
II WAS meant to close the ranks OF the party IN
nresence of the enemy, and never were there so
MANY stragglers and guerillas as now. IL was pro-
fe Ssion OF faith. and the men whose dissent IL vas
to silence are open-nouthed IN declaring 'heS DC
Gavs great deal more than Mr.. Gladstone does. 1t
asan order of the day read at the head OF the army
and il provoked instant mutiny. The LlDerals-to
drop all these metaphors accepted 1t at once. Inc
more moderate of them were little alarmed by lts
ysguenesS on certain ponts-most OF all perhaps on
the Irish questioa-but they stliied their nervous
MACS honrd all would turn out for the best. and said
d;tto To Mr. Gladstone with all the ferv"1 of their
natures. The Radicals spoke out by the voice OF
Nr Cbamberlain at South London and declared
thev would have no part nor lot in Government
,vb;cb should be founded on Mr. GladstOnes mani
testO.
Ii some time since Nj Chamberains nelnor-
ahia declaration was made, and II has since been
modified but | co back to it because IL seems 10 Inc
still to give the keynote Of the situation. "h'I
Mr. Chamberlain said was that he could not enter
Cabinet which excluded from its programme the
proposals which he had been urging on the country
Never has there been better example oil the
macmillan tactics which this Radical leader uses.
From the moment it becomes certain that the year
cannot close " .thout general election. he takes
ths field He starts new theory OF RadIcsIi'ln'
announces his theory of " ransom" at Birmingham.
.voands il at Ipswich gives il a definite form at
Hull and from every stump-pulpit he enters
breaches his new gospel of political socialism. As
the contest thickens he condenses his new demands
into three free education; power to municipalities
10 acquire land compusOrily for allotment t. labor
ers ; and graduated taxation. These are the three
points of tho Chamberlain Charter They are not to
he fonnd in Mr.. Gladstones manifesto, aud there
fore said Mr. Chamberlain in London he cannot
join Mr. Gladstones next Government SIT Charles
Dixie, OF conrse, took similar ground MT joan
Morley has led the refusal with enthusiasm, and II
looked for while as if tie Liberal party was split
hopelessly asunder.
Presently it was that thus state Of things
spoId not last Mr.. Chaiubcrain's protestations of
willingness to the Liberal cause loyalty out
aide of Liberal Ministry .Sincere, no doubt
but impractical. No electorate can be made 10
understand such distinctions He began to modify
his self-denying ordinance Remonstrances reached
him from unexpected quarters Tory exultat on
Taught him something BY and by came a summons
ko Hayarden aud a parley between h'm ana the
chief whose authority he had challenged. The re-
suit was q compromise. Mr.. Chamberlain was to be
At liberty to advocate free education and alotments
not as articles of the Liberal creed, but as points
In his own future programme. Graduated taxa'lon
he aban dOned. On these terms tho quarrel wac
adjusted aud fresh attempt made to present
united Liberal front to the enemy; with such sue
cess as we have seen. The watchword of tho Radl-
Gals at this moment seems to be Loyalty-a con-
ditional, qualified. and limited loyalty-to Mr.
Gladstone: for which they indemnify themselves
by renewed assaults on the colleagues whose sup
port Mr.. Gladstone values most OF all.
Idoubt much whether Mr.::GlAdstone himself is
satisfied with this state of things. If anybody
knows Mr. Gla.stones mind it is Lord Rasebery
1t is no secret that before Mr.. Chamberlain went Il
Hawarlen some OF his friends and some of tn,
moderate Liberal leaders had been to Mentmore
Lord Rosebery spoke yesterday at Sheffield. The
speech as usual, is full OF variety and Of point, bu
the point to which it all tends is the necessity OF
What he calls q swinging Liberal majority, and t,