Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-02
ERIN'S FOES IN THE LEAD.
COLCHESTER CARRIED by THE
CONSERVATIVES.

ANa DtsIriCt the tirsJ One 10 hhiiot IN
which there Was "a COntest-The Con-
serVatiVe UniOnist Vote Considerably
Stronger than the Gladstone -Parnsn-
ite-Bri ght Spoaks at NJ Manahestsr.
LONDON, July 1T. Sullivan, Paruell-
iJe, has been reelected to represent Cox
lege Green division OF Dublin in the next
Parliament, and w. Murphy, Parnellite,
has been returned for st. Patrick's diVi-
sion. They had no opposition. John Bright
is reelected, and also Joseph Chamber
lain. Neither was opposed. Up to 3
O'Clock this afternoon sixteen Tory can
didaies, seven Unionists, eight Liberals
and two Parnelites had been elected to
the new House OF Commons in uncontest-
ed districts.
Orders signed by President O'COnnor
and Secretary Brady have been semitic the
branches of the National League in Great
Britain, urging lrishmen TO vote for the
MInisteriahst candidates. "rhe lssue,"
they say, ''is Of moment0us Importance to
Ireland, and we fervently hope that every
Irish vote will be polled."
BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM.
John Bright addressed n large and en-
thusiastic audience at Birmingham to-
night. Upon rising to speak be was
cheered for several minutes. He said he
had believed that his time was coming TO
retire. For twenty-nine years be had
served Birmingham, but in the face Of a
question of the greatest magnitude he
considered it his duty to remain at the
front. During his life in Parlia-
ment he had acted alongside OF
the still eminent leader OF the Liberals.
Cheers He had not been follower.
Cheers. The Liberal leaders had gener-
ally followed the course adopted by Mr..
Gladstone in preference to following their
own convictions. Some intimate friends
Of his had no notion of anything but fol-
lowing where Mr.. Gladstone led. They
reminded him of Cooks tourists who
enjoyed great security because they were
personally conducted" Laughter.
IRELAND's SORES.
He claimed that he more than any other
man had implOred the successive govern
ments to deal with Ireland, who had so
long and perunaclOusly shown England
the sores OF Ireland. 1t was because his
sympathy was undiminished-nay, more
powerful than ever-that he was unable
to accept the proposals OF the govern
ment. Could anybody suppose that he
would have estranged himself from
long political and personal friend
could have seen any way TO support the
bills. In the great speeches of the Pre-
mIer and others they had introduced a
great deal OF ancient history and many
old stories about Ireland, but the history
OF nearly every country was dismal
story. The old story of Ireland had
nothing to do with the question. Cheers.
1t was unbecOming In the Premier to
make long speech telling what had hap
in TpaIond a 90 n T( lhaara
PROGRESS OF FIFTY YEARS.
Going back would show the enormous
progress OF Ireland during the past fifty
and even twenty years. The whole tone
of Parliament toward Ireland had altered.
The church had been disestablished, the
land laws had been reformed, the arrears
act mad been passed, and other legislation
had been enacted, ending last year with
the widest household suffrage. Gould
any government in the same length of
time have done more for any peopleS
After adducing data TO prove that the
Irish malady is not political, but alto
gether economic, Mr.. Bright proceeded.
he said be was entirely against anything
in any shape called a Parliament at Dub
lin. [Cheers he was also opposed to
the mOnstrOus proposition to purchase
estates. But for the bill to revoIutiOnIze
Ireland nobody would have dreamed of 80
eXtravagant a proposal.
AN ECONOMIC SCHEME NEEDED.
In regard to land, the political scheme
made an economic scheme necessary.
While economic proposals were con-
demned, the political bills proposed would
create a government in ireland which
would be untrustwOrthy as regards tue
first duties of government, namely:
preservation of property and security
Al
Gladstone proposed was only step
raplne to the break up Of the Kingdom
cheersl, and the astounding proposal
was that this conspiracy be dignifed by
the name, form and power OF a parlia-
ment. They were told that the land bill
was dead. The country had right to
complain of the singular want of frank
ness on the part of the Premier. He was
concealing from the public that definite,
open declaration which he ought TO make.
Prolonged cheers.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
Probably an open declaration of the
PTemier's view TO adhere TO the land bill
might lose the election, while to abandon
it might shake the allegiance Of some of
his colleagues. Cheers. Therefore there
was variation In the language and terms
that was unbecOmlng 10 Minister
speaking to great nation on so
alarming project. The constitu-
encies might be certain that if they
gave the Premier majority large enough
TO enable him TO 90 on with the govern
ment bill, 1t was Mr.. Gladstone's inten-
tion also to thrust the land purchase bill
through Parliament. Cheers The alb
surdities oi that land purchase scheme
had been amply exposed. lie reminded
his auditors that among the complaints
made by Ireland was one concerning the
great evil OF absenteeism. This land bill
would make the English Treasury a uni
versal absentee landlord over all the land
in Ireland, and an absentee whose rents
IT would be most difficult TO collect.
LCheersl.
WHAT MIGHT FOLLOW.
1t might De found, when the landlords
we're gone, that the happy time Of con-
spiracy had come, that the garrison OF
England had been driven out, and that the
new Irish nation, left to its growing ca
lamities, would not think about paying
rents. The teaching OF the Parneliite
conspiracy Igroans and Kisses dur
ing the last seven years WAS
against paying rent. Could it be
supposed that the lesson taught during
these years could be Immediately un-
learned. Would that general dem Oraliza-
ton which had occurred over three parts
Of Ireland cease, or would the people be
told: "YOu have got free from the bur-
dens of the local proprletOrs OF the soil,