The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-11
Gladstone Said To Be Anxious for Another
Fight on Home Rule, but His Policy Is
Contingent on Future Developments.
He May Remain in Office if the Tories
Fail to Secure Clear Majority.
Precedents for Resigning Immediately on the
Reassembling of Parliament-Georg O.
Treyelyan and Joseph Arch Defeated.
THE TORY VICTORY.
The Things that will Determine the Future
Policy of Gladstone.

ROI1cy or GLADSTONE
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
Boston, July 10.-The Herald's London cable
correspondent sends the following: Victo-
ry is still with the Tories up to the
present. and will probably remain with
them The election returns now in leave
the Conservatives an absolute majority of
three over all other sections in the House. The
figures are 265 Conservatives against 262 Liber-
ais. Gladstoneites ana Unonists, Radicals and
Parnellites. Counting in the 81 Unionsts thus
far elected, there are 319 Tories and Unionists
to 208 Gladstoneites and Parnellites. The to-
tai number of seats in the Commons
is CO. In the Parliament recently dissolved
only 655 were filled, although there were 666
members Oh the floor. Out of 60 there still re-
main 143 seats, for which members have not
been returned. OF these 143 the Gladstoneites
are confident of carrying eighty-four, conceding
ffty-nine to the Tories and Unionists. If the
home-rule party succeeds in doing this, which is
the utmost to be hoped for. it will still be in
hopeless minority, if the House remains divided,
as as present into minist teralsts and opposition.
Taking the most favorable estimate which
Mr.. Gladstone's friends are able to make, the
final disposition of the parties will be: Union
lists, 1868; Gladstoneites, 292. It would not be
surprising. however, if the Tory Unionist COM
bination turned out to be still nearer AGO.
The decision of Mr.. Gladstone, whether to re-
sign or to continue in Office after the assembling
of Parliament next month, will depend altogether
on the strength of the Conservatives, independ-
ent of the Liberal Unionists. If, on vote, the
Tories fail to obtain an independent working
majority, the ministerial section of the House
will insist that the government remain in Office
Mr.. Gladstone, himself, desires to resign and let
the Conservatives assume the lead in legislation,
while he would conduct persistent opposition,
aiming to break up the Conservative Unionist
coalition with the aid of his home,rue followers.
This would place the Tory leaders in minority,
and would be followed by another appeal to the
country In that case Mr. Gladstone would 60
into the campaign with an amended home-rule
platform. designed not only to win
over the least violent element of
his Liberal opponents, but also to lead
the doubtful Liberals. who have abstained from
voting this time, to come to the polls in his in
terest This would certainly result in triumph,
as many of the abstaining Liberals are only
waiting to make up their minds about ireland,
or to have offered them a home-rule measure
somewhat less radical than the one in which the
government was defeated The fact that the
immense body of workingmen whose change of
residence has prevented them registering this
time will, by the next election, have
registered and oe ready to vote, is
another point which is likely to count
in Mr.. Gladstone's favor At this moment, how
ever, nothing is fixed. The Cabinet is expected
to meet on the 10Th inst, week from next
Monday, instead of next week. and will probably
then decide on the course 20 be pursued by Mr..
Gladstone. and the tactics to be adopted in at
tanning his purpose. A resignation Immediately
on the meeting of Parliament would be resorted
to, if at ALL under the precedent established by
Earl Beaconsfsld in December 1868, when he
gave up his first tenancy of the prime ministry,
dating from February of that year, in the face
of majority of 112-a precedent which was con-
frmed, with added force, in February 1874,
when, after repeated defeats and consequent dis
solution of Parliament, Grdstone was faced by
Conservative majority of 49 as the result of the
polling, and left the government in Lord Bea-
consfeld's hands for the next six years If it is
decided to follow these precedents, the govern
ment will not wait for hostile vote in Parlia-
ment but will act at once on the official returns,
and will advise the Queen to send for Lord Sails
bury. Lord Salisbury indeed, expects to be
called upon to form new Ministry, and will re-
turn next week to be ready to do So
Another Story of the Premier's Intentions.
Cable Special.
There is a story in circulation that Mr.. Glad
stone will ignore the division in his party when
the House is called to meet and assume that all
the members are Liberals who are not branded
as Tories. and keep Office the strength of this
assumption letting the home rule bill wait over
one session. But my own information is to the
effect that the aged Premier is in furious state
OF temper, desiring nothing so much as the
formation of another ring for a second fight,
and planning already to smash Sails
bury Ministry, drive Chamberlain out
of public life, and after sharp series of debates
in the Eouse of Commons go to the country
again. The secret of this desire is explicable by
an analysis of the figures of the elections The
Liberals have been beaten by tremendous fall
ing off in their own vote rather than by acces-
sions to the other side. These absentees from
the polls are to some extent mon who have not
made mp their minds regarding the home-rule
issue, but more largely poor people who move
about during the winter and spring looking for
employment and whose names are not on the
old registers. learn tonight of one district
alone where the Liberal election agent has had
600 letters returned to him, because the ad-
dressed had changed since last November. All
this will be fixed before another election.
Trevslyan and Joseph Arch Defeated.
To the Western Associated Press.
LONDON, July 10-The Right Hon. George
Otto Trsyelyan Who. with Dir. Chamberlain, re-