The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-05
They Expect to Retain Their Hold in Scotland,
and Claim the Agricultural Vote Will Be
Cast for Gladstones Candidates.
Masses of Voters Not Deeply Interested
in the Result of the Balloting
Charges that the Tories Have Resorted to In
timidation and misunderstanding Out
Socialism in Germany-Cable Notes.
THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS.
Gladstone People Elated Over the Scotch Re-
turns-Features of the Balloting.

Gladstone People Elated Over the Scotch Re-
turns-Features of the BallOting.
LONDON, July 4-The Gladstonians are elated
over the decisive character of their victories in
Dundee, and confident that they will maintain
their hold on Scotland. The Gladstonian agents
report that the agricultural vote is safe for the
Ministerialist party. They say that the labor
ers' meetings show undated faith in Mr.. Glad
stone, and concurrence in the belief that the
granting of home rule to ireland would relieve
the English market of Irish labor. Mr.. Jesse
Ceilings will stump the midland countries, and
try to persuade the laborers to the contrary.
The Gladstonian prospects in the metropolis are
dark, as the Liberal Unionsts are giving warm
reception to the Conservatives.
Mr.. Reid, the Gladstonan candidate who was
defeated at Aston Manor, complains that Mr..
Chamberlain promised not to interfere in any
division of Birmingham except his own, but
that few days before the polling began hordes
of rufians invaded Mr.. Reid's district,
Haunting Chamberlainite literature, and
Mr.. Bright's and Mr.. Kynoch's speeches.
grossly insulting every Gladstonian, and
urging Liberals to support the Tories. Mr..
Reid says his friends were maltreated, some of
them being permanently injured, and he believes
that fear of outrage caused wholesale absten-
tion from voting. He also says that similar
measures were pursued in the Bordsley and
east divisions.
The total number of votes so far cast and
counted is: Gladstonian, 34S, ,227; opposition,
375, 752
Mr.. Healy, in a speech at Newry, said: 'The
1ohk
aided by Gladstone, we are going to undo it and
get rid of it forever"
Lord Carnarvon writes to the newspapers pro
testing against Mr. Gladstone's letter Of the Goth
of June in which the Premier construed Lord
Carnarvon's speech in the House of Lords as an
acceptance of the governments Irish policy.
The decreased vote is due to the fact now re-
vealed that the masses are less interested in this
contest than are the educated classes. It is felt
by many that Mr. Gladstone may have made
mistake in purely political sense in basing his
appeal to the country too exclusively on high
moral and sentimental grounds. The Unionists
have taken advantage of this to appeal to the
pockets and the stomachs of the rural classes,
who are naturally Mr.. Gladstone's allies. The
circulars OF the National Radical Union. sown
broadcast in the counties, denounce home-rule
legislation as an unnecessary hindrance to the
consideration of measures in favor of the labor.
ing classes. They also warn these classes that
home rule would lead to a rush of Irish labor
ers into England. driven by lack of work in
Ireland to compete for work in England. If
tactics like these prove potent as the Unionist
leaders expect, the Gladstonians' present claim
that yesterdays indications will be contradicted
hxyf fho Ire in lff1rnl 6isfrt
be too sanguine.
A strange phenomenon is the separation be-
tween Gladstone and Bright For twenty-five
years Bright was sort of worshiper Of Glad
stone. Many times has Bright surrendered his
ideas, even his convictions, in Difference to the
views of Gladstone. Some of Bright's own fam
lily used to complain of his devotion to Glad
stone. Now he has deserted his leader, has
flung down the alter at which he used to wor-
ship, his burning idol he won't to adore. In
plain words, Bright now denounces and satirizes
Gladstone as once ne used to denounce and satir-
ize Pamerston or Disraeli. The truth is, Bright
never had a progressive mind. In intellect and
heart he is essentially conservative. He was
set on carrying one or two great reform
measures years ago, and when these
were carried he was satisfied, 'And
thought all the rest of the world ought to sit
down satisfied as we'll. When he found there
were some people not satisfied he became angry
with them. "What can these people want2" he
seemed to say. Don't they see want nothing
morep He is especially wroth with the Irish
people for daring to take up with Parnell in the
present, instead of being content to abide with
John Bright in the past. Now that Gladstone
encourages the Irish in their audacious inpovat-
ing way, Bright loses all patience with Glad
stone and reviles him. Years ago heard Bright
declare that Gladstones mind was one that al
ways struggled toward the light If that was
true Of Gladstone then, it is equally true of hi
now; but for many years Bright has shrunk
back from the light, and prefers to live, owl like,
in the twilight and dusk-a melancholy close to
a once splendid career.