Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-08
NEWS UY lelegTdpll
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. LIBERALS IN COUNCIL Talking Over The Situation - z In Ireland. A GALE OF TERRIBLE FURY. New England Shores
 StreWn With Wrecks. ELECTIONS IN. THE BAY STATE.
ELECTIONS IN. THE BAY STATE.
A Good Day For Citizens
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THE LIBERAL UNIONISTs

Hold B Big Conference at Which the Policy of the Party in Opposition te Gladstone is Freely Expressed. LONDON, Dec. 7.-The much heralded con ference of the Liberal Unionists was hel6 to-day. The Marquis of Huntington occu pied the chair and among the large number
 present were Earl Derby, Lord Northbrooke
 MT. Gosehen, Sir Henry James and many other noblemen and eminent commoners.
 Letters of regret were read from the Duke et Argyll, Lord Tennyson and John Bright, the
 latter writing that he would not attend the
 conference because he might there say some thing that would give pain to those he would not rather criticise, to do which would be to speak or even to write. MT. Gladstone's course, he confessed, had greatly astonished and palned him. It seemed that MT. Glad stone had gone so far on the wrong course that there was no hope of his return. MT. Gladstone's Irish allies were driving matters to extremes.
 MT. Chamberlain wrote that there was no hope of reuniting the Liberal party unless MT. Gladstone's Irish scheme was aban- doned
 Lord Harrington in his speech on taking the chair said the policy which Gladstone advocated was directly opposed to the opin- ions of the entire Liberal party. The Lib eral Unionists were true opponents of lib eral principles the majority who had fol- lowed Gladstone, and indeed in the matter of the maintenance of the supremacy of the rio1Y onf Tha speeches of MT. Gladstone, Sir William Har- court and John Morlsy, Lord Hart ington said, were based on granting to Ireland an executive government and ignored the arguments of the Liberal Unionists. MT. Gladstone assumed that the government was competing with him in 8 scheme for the government of Ireland, but Lord Harrington said the government was opposed to anything of the kind and were in no sense either competing with or emulating MT. Gladstone. The removal of the present government would result in the return of MT. Gladstone, who would then ,ss-0 1a1. the Irish question io5 diDovo-a5 +o "n onnv;noa GnS his ha.1ers of the importance of always bearing in mind that when questions arise which might result in displacing the govern ment the Liberal Unionists interested in sustaining the government. The present az 1tatlon 1n Ireland, he sa1d, was not spontane- ous It was created for political purposes and was simply anarchy. Mr.. Gladstone might not be able to control MT. Dillon, but he could speak one word which would at once have the effect to dissolve the entend between the agitators and the Liberal party. The people of England were waiting seriously endanger the good name of the Liberal party (cheers). .=---.-~--
 Lord Selborne moved resolution declar- xla itS ing. ton to use every effort to uphold the union. The resolution was passed by exclamation. The Duke of Westminster offered 8 reso1u- tion, which was seconded by MT. Henage, ia voring the establishment of Liberal-Union ist associations throughout the country.