New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-15
MR. GLADSTONE CRITICISED.
ORIGIN AND OBJECT OF HIS POLICY
VIEWS OF A CONSERVATIVE KN-MiNi'IEN "N i'N
ISSUE WITH TIE TONY GOVERNMENT.

VIEWS OF A CONSERVATIVE EX-MlNi'TER ON i'''
ISSUE WITH THE TONY GOVERNMENT
icy CABLE To TIE TRIBUNE
Copyright; 1888: North A'ae'tccn cao'e N'"" ~
LONDON, June 14.-Ihe manifesto OF MI
Gladstone makes such direct issue Win the a'c o
servative Government as to the origin oi '"o '
Rule policy that the representative OF THE iRibuNI
.ouent to-day :he views OF Cabinet member OF that
Government upon the point in dispute In reply 10 'e
oucs,jcu II he considered Mr. Glads,one's statement
mat the Conservative Government compelled him INTO
MS Homo Rule policy by Its own declared p"hcy o'
coercion correct. the ex-Minster said;
"t is certainly an entirely novel view to me ana
shin to very other member Of Lard salisonrys Gov
ernneut which Mr. Gladstone presents when he states
that OF power aud he came into power oe-
eau, nc Ysh question put Ill the foreground 10
the Q, every other on the 26th OF January oy
on: dccara'ion that coercion was the choice OF our
Cover o. 40 Carnarvon alone refusing TO snare III
H. IA i.or II fact the Government OF Lord SANS
bury I'd ., - of power the Irish question al all
as ar lalst 20 well knows IL was put out OF power
by N ,fs cooperating with tho rish party i" '"o
pr - on m issue entirely different In order that Mr'
"a stone might reward the Irish party for putting Nun
iopowcr by bringing the Irish question into the FORE
rrclst @ the exclusion OF every other. Mr. Gladstone
pr,s o cart before the horse. His object is obvious
,ros ltsults his present attitude to ask the voter to
tescye At the Government OF Lord Salisbury forced
him 20 sacrAce all tho great measures which tho Lib.
order to prevent Conservatives from throwing the
euore INTO disorder re-enacting in Ireland his own
poy OF coercion which in lssl earned Tor the late MI
Forsts- .he sDbriquet in Ireland OF Buckshot' ana
raus,d men like Mr.. Michael Davitt TO denonnce Mr.
Gladstone oppressor and relentless enemy OF the
Ir sh race"
Th,n you DO not think Mr. Gadstone's policy ofjus-
uoe 70 ireland sprang up his mind in opposition to
your Conservative policy Of coerconi"
Nonsense. The elections were hardly over In No
yember. 1885, when negotiations began between the
Irish National leaders and of the Liberals for the
purpose breaking down what they supposed to be an
alliance offensive and defensive. between the Conser-
yatives and the Irish Natonalists 1t is
ln open secret now that the negotiations
were mainly carried on through MI
Iabouchere. who is very clever and nimb!e-wiited
man. and their first effort was to induce Mr. Glad
,oue to try the public mind the subject by sending
his son. Mr.. Herbert to sound wel-knowu Liberal
journalist in Yorkshire to the probable reception
which Liberal and Radical voters wolld give the Home
Rule scheme fathered by Mr.. Gladstone All the way
long the Goth OF January long before that date
Indeed long before the elections in November. 1t was
well known that the Conservative Lord Lieutenant of
IreandLord Csrnarvon-was strongly adverse to tnose
methods for sencing Irish dscontent which Mr. Glad
stone unhestatngy adopted when he was In power IN
1851
"You have seon that Lord Carnarvon's conversation
with Mr. Parne about government in Ireland took place
August l. IL was because nc KNOW the VI
Lord Carnarvon and because he expected the govern
ment of Lord Salisbury TO be Influenced by them in Its
policy toward Ireland that Mr.. Gladstone made such
efforts during the elections TO secure Liberal
majority strong enough TO dispense with the irish
vote. In this he failed. and then only 1t was that
he lent his ear to those who urged him to
capture the Irish vote and with its help the
Government. But It is not quite ingenious
for imply and almost assert that he turned us ont
on the Irish question This far from being true that
II am not greatly misnformed Mr. Cowan, one of the
very strong and prominent Radicals who still sup
port Mr.. Gladstone. earnestly endeavored 10 dissuade
Mr. Parnel from forcing the issue Mr. Collingss
until the debate should have brought out those
views OF the Conservative Government upon which Mr.
Gladstone asks the country to believe that the issue
was ioned Mr. Parnel would not listen to Mr.. Cowan.
II you ask why. can only surmse that 1t was be.
cause the arrangement had already been perfected be-
tween himself and Mr. Gladstone for introducing that
scheme which House has condemned and which the
country as hope and believe will bury out Of sight"