The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-11-18
POLITICS IN ENGLAND.
eAoRD SALISBURY GETTING HIS PARTY
IN TROUBLE.

The Governments Position ON tho Bulga-
rIan Question Has Excited General Con-
tsmpt-Tenants Adopting the Iolicy Of
the LeaGue-Other Foreign News.
LONDON. Nov. 16-The position Of tho
government which was to have been vastly
improved by Lord Sasbury's speech at tho
Mansion house has been vastly weakened by
that performances. The prime minister
touched on two questions, and on each, his
remarks will, as usual, be a source of trouble
for a long Time to his party, or rather to the
alliance by which he is maintained In power.
On the Bulgarian question, his bounding on
Austria TO war without having the least no.
tion of going to war himself, has excited gem
eral contempt and cannot be repealed if he
wants to continue In power. On the Irish
question also his mean attempt to conceal the
fact that he has actually been coercng, not
the moonlighters, but the Landlords, has de-
ceived no one and instead Of dscouraging
the movement against the unrelentng rack.
renters, has actually given life to the move
ment because it shows that at present at least
when crime is diminishing he dares not pur-
sue a coercion policy.
Five hundred tenants of Clanricarde have
adopted the policy of the league since he
spoke and the tenants in at least five other
large estates have followed their example.
1t may be added here that the prosecution Of
the Nationalist paper in Roscommon, which
might, at first sight, seem to show that the
government was bent on coercion, is mere
sham, intended only to delude the English
public but the absence from it Of all allu-
sion TO the program OF legislation for the
next session by means of which Lord
Churchill has been politically raising the
wind is the most remarkable feature about
the Salisbury deliverance, and hereby hangs
tale.
The fact is that If Churchill has delighted
his Liberal allies by his promised reforming,
he has angered the old gang of Tories beyond
measure, and it is owing to the representa-
tions made by them that the prime minister
ostentatiously evaded all reference to his su-
bordinateS' pledges to return to the Irish
question, still holds the field as Mr., Glad
stone foretold it would. The Tory papers
say every day that it is not pressing, yet
they are every day discussing it at enormous
length, and it is the subject of numberless
meetings all over England and Scotland.
The winter campaign on both sides in fact
has now fairly begun in Great Britain, and
on the Home Rule side is being carried on
with great vigor. The Irish press agency is
distributing Home Rule tracts and leaflets by
the hundred thousand, and the effect in max
ing converts is already greater than could
have been expected. One great result Of the
Leeds conference has been to clear the way
for the favorable reception of this literature,
and of the Irish speakers, in nearly every
constituency where Gladstone was elected at
the last election. There is difficulty in fact,
to supply the English and Scotch demand for
Irish literature and Irish speakers, Parnell,
Sexton, Dillon, O'Connor and Healy, are
now as regularly called for by Ell 5lish and
Scotch organizations as are the leaders Of
the Liberal party themselves.
Complaints used to b9 made in England OF
the language used at Irish meetings, but the
most violent words now used on ths Irish
question comes from the Englishmen who
have recently been seeing things in silence
for themselves, and who are now relating
their experiences to their countrymen On
the whole, the situation from the Irish point
of view is most reassuring as to tho final re-
suit of the present struggle, though, of
course, very few expect any immediate good,
which could only como from very improb-
able event, the repentance Of the Liberal dis
sident