The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-12
BRITISH PERPL EXITY.
With -Four Distinctive Parties in the
Field, Results are Not Easily
Foreshadowed.

The Socialists Endeavoring to Form a
!. Alliance with the
4. Tories.
/ One OF the minor results of the PaI
i liamentary elections has been a prett
! general breaking up into factions of tn
British Socialists. The statement mad
a short time ago in these dispatches o
/ an alliance between Tories and Social
lists. the existence of which Conserva
tives veheminently denied, is now full,
confirmed. A leading London Social
list, being interviewed to-day, said thai
at recent meeting of the Social Dem
ocratic federation it TRANSFERRED thai
s2OO had been contributed by the Tories
to defray the election expenses of So.
cialistic candidates, a furious debate en-.
sued, several of the participants being
with difficulty prevented from empha-
sizing their arguments with blows, and
scores of the members withdrew from
the organization. 1t is expected that
one Of the first Parnellite motions in
the new parliament will be a demand
for an inquiry into the receipts at Lon
donderry. BY advice of Mr.. Parnell a
number of persons have for some time
past been engaged in collecting
evidence i'll regard to the riots. 1T is
alleged that Magistrate Harvey
grossly neglected his duties and that
police acted, presumably under instruc-
tions, in a most brutal manner to-
wards the Nationalist. La majority
of. cases, it is claimed, Nationalist en-
tirely innocent of participation in the
disturbances were arrested and de-
tanned, while those who provoked the
riots were permitted to escape. Harvey
it is said, stationed himself behind a
stone wall and read the roit act in the
presence Of a score of policemen carry
ing out the letter but not the spirit of
the law. The people toward whom the
act was read, were of course unable to
hear the reading, and until the police
attacked them they were unaware of
the course which the magistrate had
adopted. The Parnellites assert that
they are in possession OF sufficient evil
dence to prove that the police smashed
14.oogs and windows, forcibly entered
Nouses and arrested and
ah,,n and children.
OF ponu, tfter breaking dpa sqs .S''
doors, used their slaves upon the owner,
one McKeirnan, until his head was so
badly battered that the police surgeon,
fearing the man would die, ordered his
removal to warm room and prescribed
the most careful nursing. The order
was disobeyed and McKeirnan was
kept locked in a cold cell for twenty
four hours, no one being allowed to go
near him. The fund for the benefit OF
Mr.. James Stephens, the ex-head-cen
ter of the Fenian brotherhood, now
amounts to FL, roo, and contributions,
though smaller, are steadily coming in.
The Cork cattle dealers who have been
boycotting the Cork Packet company,
have issued a prospectus for the fornaa-
ton of a new steamship company, with
capital of el00,000, and to be in one
pound shares The dealers claim that
the two steamers which they have been
running in opposition TO the boycotted
vessels have each earned a handsome
profit. The Cork Packet company be-
cause of its recent loss OF trade
through boycotting by the cattle deal
ers, has been compelled to pass its last
dividend and it's collapse is imminent.
The political situation is one Of per-
pIexity to all the British politicians.
There are, Gladstone believes, enough
constituencies to vote to make the
whole issue one Of absolute uncer-
tainty. The reason for this may be
briefly stated. When Mr. Gladstone
was defeated he knew that he had
enough absentee votes to give him
So he preferred to reliAquish
the government and depend upon a
vote of confidence from the country in
returning him to power. He desired
in this way to become Independent Of
the Irish party. He desired to have a
British majority at his back so that
whatever he might do for ireland would
be accepted as concession and not as
an extortion. He felt sure Of success.
The Radicals, however, attempted an
alliance with the Parneliites whereby
they could secure the government for
themselves and In doing 30 advocated
several measures extremely popular
with the newly enfranchised voters
Among others was disestablishmens
The Parnellites distrusted the Radicals
and made an alliance with the Tories.
Gladstone then became aroused, forced
the Radicals TO return to their ale
glance, and By localizing the disestab-
lisbment question where it was popular
succeeded IN reducing its effect upon
those Liberals who we're inclined to go
over to che Tories TO save the church, "
CT which the Toiies posed as defenders.
Flushed with apparent success they re-
pudlated the Parnell contract. Through
Gladstone efforts the Tory party was
left without an issue and dwindled.
The Parnelliteg, however, stood man
fully by their compact. At the time OF
writing the Liberals have elected 313