The Irish standard., 1886-06-19

and will have to resort to othel
stratagems to cover up their alliance
with the Tories. The Imperial demo
Gratis, as the caucus men are derisively
called, seemed to be making no real
progress in their efforts to detach the
Radical masses from their allegiance
to Gladstone. They are hard at work
framing the proposed new organiza-
tion, and will come out in q few days
with blazing, sky-rockety pronuncia-
miento, but the whole fabric of Cham
berla1n's political power has crunabled
away, and what remains is froth. The
great difficulty with. which Gladstone
found himself confronted at iirst-the
want Of moneyed candidates-has grad
ually cleared away, and may be said TO-
night to have almost entirely disap-
peared. Good, solid men, sound Eng
lish Liberals, pledged to Gladstone's
Home Rule measures, are now coming
forward, and it is certain that every
seat that Gladstone wishes to contest
will be provided with acandidate. The
Liberal caucuses are fairly aloused
and everywhere display an unexpected.
ly fierce spirit. Nowhere can there be
discerned the slightest desire to shrink
from the combat. The constituencies
demand leaders to
and bury them henceforth politically
out OF sight. Nor are the Tories and
Loyalists lacking in energy, strength
of feeling, and the display Of resources.
Their preparations are on scale never
before attempted in that country. A
curious complication has arisen in con-
nection with the uprising of the Glad
stone Liberals OF Rossendale against
their member, the marquis of Harting-
ton, leader Of the Wing revolt against
TIE Premier. The local caucuses hav~
ing decreed his loldship's rejection and
the selection Of a strong Gladstone Lib
eral to oppose him, word was received
from headquarters that the Premier
hoped nothing of the sort would be
done, but that their member would be
returned unopposed, ,inrecognition Of his
position as the head OF separate polit-
ical organization. This gave great.of-
tense in the constituency, and the end
OF it was Arnold Morley found himself
compelled to make diplomatic denial
of the report. The local Liberals are
satisfied with the denial, and are going
ahead with their preparations to return
q Home Rule member to parliament in
the place of the leader OF the WING mu-
tiny against Home Rule. In other places
represented by anti-Home Rulers tho
local caucuses have been equally yigor-
GUS in dealing with their members, who
in all instances reported have retired
before the
WRATH OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS,
and have wrecked themselves political
ly for the remainder of their lives.
Gladstone is taking a more active part
in this campaign than is yet publicly
known. He has personally dealt with
the arrangement Tor contesting every
English and Welsh constituency. The
Scotch constituencies will have his
close supervision when he reaches
Scotland. He will probably speak
twice in England, as we'll as in Scot
land. Herbert Gladstone is wanted for
Derry city. If he accepts he will be al
most certain to win the seat, displacing
a conservative, a gain Or two Oh g div
ision for the Premier. The crisis has
brought number of Home Rulers to
life again. Among them are the easily
recognized names Of Col. Colthrust,
formerly one of the Home Rule MEM
bers for Cork county; r. Blennerhas-
sett, lately Home Rule member for
Kerry, and Arthur Moore, who once
represented Clonmel as a Home Ruler.
OTHER IRISH ITEMS.
With literary man Of the proper
quality to assist, there is hardly any de-
partment of letters in which Queen
Victoria's family could not make their
mark. The two sons of the Prince OF
Wales, in connection with a literary
man, made journey around the world
and have written a book about it: that
is the boys made the journey and the
literary man wrote the book. The daz-
zling genius which produced the
"Leaves from My Diary in the High
lands'' seems to have descended to
those gifted children.
The following, signed = Kate Sui
livan, lady mayoress. appears in a late
issue of the Dublin Freeman: g In
view of the petition which has been
forwarded to the Queen purporting to
emanate from the ladies of Ireland and
expressing opinions at variance with
what are, as 1 believe, the desires of
the greater number of the women of our
country as to the restoration OF our ma
tive Parliament, 1 feel that many will
be glad to sign some such form of
declaration as that which I annex, and
which shall, when signed, be forwarded