New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-01
EVE OF THE ELECTIONS.
UNCERTAINTY AND EXCITEMENT lNCKhA''
INC.
NOBODY CONFIDENT EXCEPT MR. oLAp.v
lord nANhoLpu ucHuRcHiLL-rhE 'Ri~"
uSIsrER's WONDERFUL CANVASS


tpy cAplE THy TRIBUNE -
- -. ao The strain of the poiiuca
.;,r.t;sn ia Incoming da ~ greater. Genei"i ,N
o;,.,,s,t increascs on one side under the s''h""'
NJ feversh oratory and on the other as the
ous character of the contest shows itsei' hoi0
clearly. Nobody in a position to know ventures 0i
n confident prediction of the result unicsS Ho'
Randolph Churchill be the exception VINO s"i4
Yesterday in racing parlance that inc oh'o"''',
were winning hands down The split III the Llperai
marty makes calculations difficult pecuhar' so ="
london where the migration OF voters ioi '"'
division TO another produces the utmost cohi"s''"'
The Tories now hardly hope to DO more ''""
hold their own in the metropolitan constituencies
Chelsea which they expected to win IS coneeueu
10 Sir Charles Dixie, whom the Torres nave "p-
stained from attacking except on political elounus
ord Rapdolph Churchill is safe III Paddihg'on'
Mr. Chamberlain's brother Richard is very uns'rs
in West lsington. Frederic Harrison cn".es
TO Sir John Lubbock for London unlVernV 10 '"0
sens,tion of the moment Frederic Harrison Is
barrister too rich to pracuce positivist writer
signal ability enthusiastic for Home huie' al"
independent to the point of eccentricty
Nothing is more remarkable than the number Oh
oucontested seats throughout the United Kingdom.
OF these 90 fall to Gladstonians Sni l4f 10 'o'-
seryatives and Liberal Unionists. These heaVy
Ia ocoinst Home Rule are lessened bv 55 uncon-
tasted Parnellite seats n Ireland against 10 Coh-
servative. Both SIDES whatever they cay pnDhciy'
are despopdent. Neither expects decisive niaJoi-
itv Both think that the division oil partes III ',o
new House will be nearly the same as III 'no oi'
Uonse Both look forward to long anu oi''.'
con.est The Conservatives point 10 Mr oi.u-
stones last speech as foretokening svetcni"'o
obstruction by Home Rule Liberals IN combination
with Parnetes against any CONSERVATIVE VI
Uniopist Government
Political oratory flows on fuller stream thah
ever Nearly every leading man on both sues
has spoken since Saturday, but the issue remains
confused. The Home Rule voices are contradictory.
Noboly is quite certain whether the Land Purchase
bill is alive OF dead, what shape Home RULE IL
triumpbant will take. Mr.. Parnell has spoken 10
five English audiences, boldly deciarihe as"in,S @
total separation and repeating III Plymouth Caiuin
ond Chester the assurances first given In Ports
month that the rights of the Protestant minority
should be respected, and that Ireland as whole
would accept the present settlement.
Lord Harrington has produced strong impress
so,, Inv the ANALYSIS to which he has subjected 1lr
Gladstop Is assertion that he had never during
6fteen wears condemned Home Rule in principle
Ills colleagues during all that period were never
allowed TO suspect that their chief favored SELF
,,overnment IN Ireland. Mr.. Gladstone himself was
responsible for the government OF Ireland during
eight of those years, and governed 1t py what ne
now ridicules as judicous mixture oil coercion anu
cancellation, hut never limited at Home hulo. Loru
Randolph Churchill in lively Grafton presented
the fresh point that the policy of semitic" which
MIR. Gladstone had followed in Afghanistan, South
Africa, the CamerOons and the Sondan, lie no"
proposes to follow in Ireland.
Mr. Gladstone, who met with q reception III
T., ,erpool not less magnificent than in Manchester.
l.. for
"a, -.oeea 70 n marvellous example Of glowing
,hotoric passionate pcr5>--GElo-, iucrlsle
euerrv and confidence He throws no new llgEt
IN the perplexit of the canvass and Tehes
ayowedly for success on enthusiasm winch
beyond question he succeeds in arousng. Ills
onslaught on classes has taken new and wider
forJa. for after complaining that he was not sup
ported by dukes, by squires, by the clergy and by
the army he adds. =" nor by any other boly OIL Very
respectable persons" I" No matter" says re; the
classes are always wrong; the masses arc always
right when truth, justice and humanity are con
cernedw
Mr.. Gladstone still wages his war OF personalities
The list of former friends with whom he has un-
settlel personal disputes begun since the Md
lothian journey includes Mr.. Bright Lord Hartng-
ton. Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Goschen, Mr. Irevelyan
MIR. Rylapds and the Duke of Westminster Mr.
Bright makes no answer to MI Gladstones
peremptory summons for proof OF statements III
his letter to Mr.. Ryiands. Mr. Gladstone
vouchsaies no answer to Mr. Chamberlalns state
ment about land purchase, which Mr.. Gladstone
invited hlm 10 make pnblic. Mr. Chamberlain
account of the matter is damaging both to Mr.
Gladstone and to Herbert Gladstone if left as II
now stands.
But it is the Carnarvon-Parnell controversy
which Mr. Gladstone has followed up most
eagerly Lord Salisbury now responds to Mr
Gladstone's challenge and Mr.. Parnelfs assertions
with series of explicit and categorical denas
Mr. Parnelrs statement that lie had reason t'
know that the Conservative Cabinet would give
him Irish legislation is absolutely false, says Lore
, Salisbury SO Of Mr.. Parners stories that Lord
-Sarnarvon had been urging his views on the
Cabinet and the Cabinet debating the matter til
the elections went againstthem and soon-the whole
thing. declares Lord Salisbury. is a dream, fab
ricaton and Mr.. Parnell simply invented 1t for the
purposes OF the present political canvass. This il
unusually strong even for Lord Salisbury, anC
makes strong impression on the English public
OtIier contradictions appear at other points. 1h
1imes risks the remark that Mr. Parnell has beer
convicted ont of his own mouth of conduct i'm
possible for gentleman or man OF honor. Bu'
Mr. Parners friends say that he has not spoken the
last word.
Mr.. Iryingis visit TO Oxford must be Ieckoned
among his greatest triumpbs. Everything Oxford
could do to honor the actor was done save giving
him degree. He was the guest of the Vce-Chan
celor from Saturday to Monday, the idol OF the
students and the centre of attraction for all Oxford
There were fifteen thousand applications for tickets
to hear his admirable lecture on dramatic art
which the 5000 present listened to with delight
and cheered with enthusiasm. The undergraduates
presented him with address. Professor Jowett
eulogized the art of acting and the artist. The
London press presses surprise and pleasure thai
such q reception could be given to representative
actor in the university so lately the home of Con
esrvatves.
Mr. Beecher's arrival at Liverpool occasioned NJ
4 Iia af lala ON.