Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-21
CABLE news.
Has Gladstone C0nsummated An
Anglo German AlIiance7
A Liberal Denial Enthusiasm
For the Lord Lieutenant.
General Dispatches Over the
Cable.

LONDON, February 20.-The Tories are
to-day iIdustriously circulating a report Of
a secret treaty Of alliance between Prince
Bismarck and Mr.. Gladstone The nego,
tiators OF the treaty are said to have been
Count Herbert Bismarck and the Earl OF
Roseberry, Mr. Gladstone's rew Foreign
Secretary. Several telegrams from Berlin
to members Of the Carlton Club are exhib-
tied in support Of this statement These
dispatches assert overtures we're first made
by the Earl OF Roseberry 10 Count Bis.
marck during the interval between Lord
Salisbury 8 retirement aud Mr.. Gladstone 8
assumption of office; that they progressed
rapidly, and were soon taken in hand
personally By the Two Premiers; that Mr..
Gladstone was the more anxious OF the two
to affect an alliance, aud that all the con,
cess:ons that we're made were on the Brit.
ish side. The Tories claim that Prince
Bismarck was allowed to partially dictate
the formation Of the new Cabinet by Mr..
Gladstons's consent TO his demand that the
former Liberal Secretaries OF Foreign Al.
fairs, for War and for the Colonies-Earl
Granville, Lord Harrington and the Earl
of Derby-should not be reappoiuted to
those offices. By this means, the Tories
say, the German Chsucellor removed from
his path Eari Granville, whom be regards
with mixture OF hatred and contempt,
and secured the appointment Of the Earl
OF Roseberry, for whom he has sort OF
patronizipg affection.
THE LIBERALS DENN,
This story is denied in Government cir.
cles, tGt II receives considerable credence
elsewhere, "a il goes far toward explaining
the aggressive confidence with which the
Young Foreign Secretary has ggssped the
difficulties of his new otLce Nobody eX.
pecred 10 Gnd him possessed OF any more
backbone than Earl Granny, as his ven.
erable predecessor is irreverently called I.
When the Cabinet We announced, it was
generally remarked that it contained at
least two men who would be dummies in !
their respective places and that Mr. Glad.
stone would have 10 be the real Foreign
Secretary and Chancellor OF the Exchequer;
but the Earl OF Roseberry heretofore
dilettante in statccrBtI, astouished
his friends and Toes alike by
the firm, decided, and even dashing
character OF his administration OF the For.
eign ONCE. He answered that he would
follow the general lines OF | ord Salisbury
Foreign policy, but he has out-Sslisburyed
Salisbury in demonstrating that Eogland is
determined TO make her weight and coun.
sel felt in the sGaira OF Europe aud the
East. His course 0i arrinn ia 40 complete
ly d,nerent from the foreign policy OF Mr.
Gladstone last Government that the Tories
say that it is evident that he is sure OF the ,
backing of the Iron Chancellor, and is
over confident Of the value OF such support. |
They object, however, 20 the alliance, be.
GAUGE tkey say that Bismark ia no, in the
habit OF backing Young men for nothing;
that the British Foreign Office will be
mainly occupied in pulling German chest.
nuts out OF international fires. and that
Roseberry is only a puppet after all bat
With strings pulled fr0Q iterhR instesd OF
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