New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-01-03
SUPPLEMENT-.
PAGES 9 TO ID.
NOTES FROM LONDON.
,.po,TCHERE AND HODGE - SIR c.
Mn, Tr-TUE AMERICAN EXHIBITION.

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hoi' whatever ESQ may DO said Of him he is the
0i'S orts,okcn politician in England, and perhaps
ct useruI 20 the Conservatives Hero Is d
Wv son,op Of his present delverances:
W. are accused of having brbed the voters IN
.ornt,es hut our creed is tho greatest harp'-
' of the g,ca est number. We would better me
y. of ,be Iocr by tho more equal partition OF
Nv We did not therefore bribe; We proclaimed
our prncples' -, -, - Ais Mr..
Nohero has far too keen au intellect nov 10
,o,coi,e. but lie delights in pazzhag ~ wen az
iho.t,up people. In effect he says: Our primer
n,oo ara 10 brbo by the raditicn Of other people
rrso,.b among those who have non }. but VIC pro-
eoim these principles therefore We DO ho1 "ii"''
lie continues: o,,,,.
.rb,so nrlncinles are cvideptly destined tG carry
~ hofora then. because most persons are gu'dee
interest. and it is to the ralrahc irtcrcs; Of
.go ,,.;cr;ty that they shoull prevail. What is
called the cow argument NNS oe0" ''"''
weigh all o;hers.' ,
Nohody can exceed the cynicls'n of TINS. MI
cior,hcrIain. aprrehend, mus; al times Icc"h
,;.,,o from the frauhncss Of his SOprorteT. MT.
,ohonchcre puts into plain English what Mr..
Chomborlaln envelopes in plausible phrases. Yet
ala rot Mr.. Chamberlain himself say that he re-
C.rded Jack Cado as a very lli-used parsonage
= NJ chamberlain and Mr. LahOuchere alike build
.bo- MANS for the future tho Liberal successes
in the counties. They think, rs Sir Nliilam H'h-
ccrrt does that they are going to keep the c''n'c-
forover That is not the general opinion even
among Liberals. The uprising of Ho7se 10 use NV
J.bonch res phrase, is due, rs lie ADMITS l" ''''
hihes offered HIM. or. If he prefrs' to inc pfoc"-
nation of Liberia prnclDlos. principles WHICH III
Mr. Lobonchcre's mouth, do not widely dheT I'o'h
40 oo,obrote1 vote yourself a farm" programme.
,r,,oa ocrrs and n COW express them in a concrete
form. But the efficiently is that Hodge having
given his vote will expect his paw. Tho Ihrcc ac;eS
and A cow will not be forthcoming IL VIII DC
t0,,d that the men who possess those valuable
itcns of property will hold on 10 them. As LORD
salisbury warned Mr.. chamberlain, the rich whom
No ottacks will be found extremely well able to
toke care of themselves. Hodge will not get l'ls
tbrce acres. He will be dissatisfied. 10 will DIS
oover th,t he has been deceived, and he VIII 50
back to the ToIo6
This is the prediction Of orc of the most clear
,chted Liberals know. The squire and tho rar-
son. if heretofore they have carried matters WIN
TOO high hand, will have been taught lesson.
They and the tenant farmer have. after an q
closer relation 10 the agricultural laborcr than
ANYBODY else. They can do hlln aore good OF more
harm than all tho Radical candidates together'
II We arc to accept Mr. Labolchcre's theory thlt
everybody is governed BY low motives. Hodge VII
nerce,ve that his permanent interest IS to make
friends with those who can befrIend him; VINO can
sweetcn his hard lot in lio. or can mako ~ harder
stiD. lie will not forget how the farmers nave CUT
down his wages or turned him OIL alo@sth"r' II"
NAV vote LIBERAL once ont of revenge, but If he
10 tbo miserable creature the Radical would make
him ont. he will vote Tory ont of self-ioye. Ana
N Nv Lab,uchere's millennium. when LORDS and
pburcb end Properly are to be abolished, may
have 10 he post2oned for while. If. however,
con like 10 put your faith IN The DGdy AerS, the
millennium has arrived already. That sober
minded and intelligent organ Of Liberalism OBJ
serves this morning that the Liberal party has
gnn in the pre~eDt election o1e of the most 9Pcn-
did victories in ifs history. Who was 1t who SAID
CHS is not comic paper
Many persons arc asking why Sir CHARLES Dixie
g. so Internationally Offering lis support to tho To-
POS Political reasons apart, there are TWO winch
are personal 10 him IL not to his per on inter
est that the Liberals should come IN AZ once. lie
was 4 Cabinet Minister in the late Loeral uo'er"-
mont He could hardly be one in The next if it were
., Iva for;red to.,norrow. The Divorce Cont diff
cn,,v is an obvious oae and need not he dwelt on;
II is cnourh to say that till il is disposed of he
cnuld not we'll be offered . Cabinet appointment.
Usc Naiesty's Measure w0nld have TO be taken
shonN MIR Gladstone be inclined TO mako the oher,
which IL doubtful. Behind that stands an OBJ
stac'e likely to be permanent, and that IS the
Obligation TO present hImself on accepting Office,
TO his nstituents for reelection. Sir Charles came
in for Chelsea by something under 200 majority
His o1ponent, Mr. Whitmore, was an unknown man
at the start but az he became known became
favortc. The Torres say that had the canvass
lasted few days longer Mr. Whitmore would have
won Or had Tory celebrity started aG inst Sir
Cbqrlrs Dixie the Radical would have been beaten.
That may OF may not be so, bnt ii il perfectly evi-
dent that a seat won by majority so narrow is not
a s2f. seat Sir Charles and Lady Dixie both com
planned publicly of the measures used against his
candidaturc and most of all the canvassIng by the
codes of the Primrose League. What ono hears ~
that the scandal which Mr.. Whitmore and the Tory
orators who supported him ahorcd to teach in pub
lie was hawlged about in private, and that IL tod
against Sir Charles IL is not probable that these
tacticq questionable as they may be, would be
abandoned were another contest to occnr Sir
Charles Dixie is wise in not making another con-
test although his motives for encouraging the
Tories to stay NAV BE- indicated on public
grounds. The Liberals, at any rate, eught not to
complain. for they say that the Torres by staying III
are playing the Liberal game.
Some of the London papers published yesterday
aslatement that Governor Waller, United States
Consul General. had been appointed" one OF the
vce-presidents of tho General Council Of the Amer
lean Exhibition TO DO held next year in London.
second paragraph appears to-day. Governor
Waller, 1t is even said has advised the managers
of the Exhibition that he cannot accept the Office
which had been "tendcred" him until he should
have received permission from the Department of
State at Washington. Then who published tine
ErSt announcement This is not. think. the first
tine that Governor Walters name has been used
for the purposes Of this Exhibition. Other names
have been used in a similar way, and the object
seems to be to persuade the British public that the
enterprise has the official sanction of the United
siates Government. But the scheme il. in fact, a
private one and most of the capital for this Amerl