New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-27
THE HOME RULE BATTLE.
MR.. GLApsToNE's DEMOCRATIC CANVASS.

PEOPLE TO SUSTAIN HIS PoLlCY-GIANTs
ARRAyrp AGAINST ZACH OTHER
SOCIAL LIFE OF LONDON.
mY CABLE TO rHE TRBuNE.l
IoSpox. June 26-The return of the Queen from
ealmoral made it possible to dissolve Parliament
and dissolved it is. The eleventh victorian farIa-
ment exists no longer. Wrs for the election on men-
hers Of the new House of Commons will go down to-
dav The elections will begin in the boroughs next
FRIDAY The verdict of the boroughs Will be gwen
Inv Tuesday following, when the county eiectio"s
will begin and last through the week. 1t VIII DC
known fortnight from to-day whether the CONSUL
rspc;es are for or against Mr.. Gladstones Home
Rule scheme.
Some progress has been made within IN" iast ie"
aavs toward defining the issue The Queens speech
is perfectly colorless document with one impor-
tapt exception. 1t is thought significant that the
Oueep announces that she has dissolved Parliament
IN order TO ascertain the sense of her people upon
the important proposal to establish legislative
body in ireland for the management of Irish dis
tipgnished from Imperial affairs. The country, say
Mr.. Gladstones opponents. is therefore asked to
vote on the proposal. and not merely, as he has
hitherto coutendcd. to affirm the principle This
nronosal eau only be the scheme lately submitted
70 the House and thrown out
Mr. Gladstone's very remarkable speech yesterday
At Manchester seems to confirm this view lie
proclaimed in Edinburgh that the Ministerial blls
were dead They are alive again. Great pressure
1ole tn 1eclara WHEELER
the Land Purchase bill still forms part OF the MINIS
terial scheme Mr. Goschen Mr. Chamberlain and
many others reiterated the question Mr. Glad
stone appeared to say one thing and Mr. Morley an
other while Mr. Childers rashly pledged himself IN
Edinburgh against the revival of the measure
which he had before supported. The object of Mr..
Gladsones opponents is clear. The Land Purchase
bill is notoriously unpopular and is certain II not
abandoned TO increase the number of Radical op-
ponents to the whole scheme. But Mr.. Parneli IS
supposed tc insist OH land purchase for financial
reasons. Mr. Gladstone himself had declared 1t an
Obligation of honor Mr. Morley had continued to
affirm that ne would have nothing to do with
Hone Rule if this were dropped SO at last MI
Gladstone restates his position on this point. lie
now says that the Land Purchase bill ought to be
considered as if il were so many of the Irish
Government BILL Ii is part of the machinery OF the
scheme and substantial part OF the Ministerial
measure. lie adds that it IS open to reView' even
TO reconstruction, if better methods can be pro-
duced or if can be shown that there is no case OF
honor duty or policy for eerseverng with the pan'
The Times and The STANDARD both regard this as
beng. COR NJ. GLADSTONE, explicit. They mean to
hold Linn to it, lie speaks in similar terms of the
other bill and of tic lrsn policy of the Cabinet as
certain the SUPPORT OF the country lherc
is nothing more dangerous than to affirm OF to deny
any proposition based on anybodys construction oi
Mr. Gladstone's words. don't think it is even yet
perfectly clear whether the doctrine of Manchester
supersedes or controls the doctrine OF Edinburgh;
but the Manchester speech does Oh the whole IN
dicat. that Mr. Gladstone is more disposed to take
the verdict OF the country not on mere abstract
principle but the policy of the Government as
embodied in the bills laid before the Commons. III
Is impossible to overstate the Importance OF this
distinction. The whole elections may turn on 1t.
Mr. Gladstones reception at Manchester was
scene Of tu,puItuous enthusiasm in the streets. III
the great hall and by the roadside three miles as he
drove away Never before in his life has lie thrown
himself SO completely on the people, perhaps be-
cause never before has be alicnated many of his
chef colleagues and Supporters and other classes.
His speeches now abound in personalities OF every
kind AS he crossed the border he lung hall a
dozen sentences at Mr.. Ferguson. the Unionist
g.. "a nd she'd him and Door MI.
Felgnson abandoned the field. lie attacked Mr..
OoscLen vehemcnty. but Mr. Goschen is not the
man TO be crushed. He is not only what Mr. Glad
stone called him. the soul of the opposition, but
also its intellectual leader Nowhere has the case
against Home Rule been stated so clearly. cogently
and copiousy as in Mr.. Goschens speeches
Mr.. Gladstones attacks on Mr.. Chamberlain are
even more vehement and bitter. Yesterday he as
sumed a new tone toward Lord Harrington, whom
like the Duke Of Westminster he denounccs IL his
public capacity with every profession OF private
esteem He speaks with tenderness of Mr. Bright,
awhose integrity" he says " revere, whose char
acter love and wrO has conferred on bis country
inestmablc services" All these are old colleagues
Then lie passes to panegyrc on his present col
leagues Lord Granville and Lord spencer. lheh h
well weighed words he singles out Lord Rosebery
Is his own successor and names him to the Liberal
party as the man OF the future.
Perhaps DO three days of this conflict Of the
giants have been more crowded than the last three.
Almost every leading man on both sides has spoken,
Lord Salisbury excepted Mr.. Bright's address
a. fa
thought its deep religious feeling and It's pa'rioc