Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-01
CATCHWORDS:
rhe Value of Party Phrases in the
Home Rule Campaign.

run It's course anu mas passed luJO us
tory. Yesterday saw the last of it. The
lights were turned off and The House of
Commons was given over to darkness and
silence for the present.
THE WORK OF PARLIAMENT.
The extinguished Parliament did moth
ing in one sense. but it did a great and
grand thing in another sense. 1t did not
pass much valuable legislation, it is true,
BUTT laid the foundations of that scheme
OF home rule which is destined before long
% bring peace to England and the chances
tor development and prosperity to Ire
land.
Very few members attended the House
of Commons AZ the time Of the prorOga-
ton yesterday. How could many attend,
with most Of the members down among
their constituents speech making, wire
pulling, canYassing, devising new modes
OF stirring appeal and struggling to put
the old argument in new light?
PARTY CATCHwoRDs.
Great has been the competition for
catchwords. In an election, as in low
comedy, one great thing is to have good.
taking catchwords, TO be repeated at in
teryals, not for use all through the per-
formance. The Tories tancied they had
got 1old OF very telling catchwOrd when
tuey called themselves and their allies
"Uniouists" and their opponents "Sepa-
ranOnIsts." Mr.. Gladstone turns the first
nickname to good account by calling
them Paper Unlonists.' Sexton i'm
proves on that by describing them as
Waste Paper UniOnists." Another Irish
member satirizes them as "Blottng Pa
per lnIOnists."
As to the title Of "SeparatiOnist," Glad
stone triumphantly asks, who were the
"sepa"atiOnIsts" last summer and au-
tumn, after Lord CarnarvOn had said that
be was willing to go as far IN the way of
home Iule as Parnell himself could deslreY
CARNARVON MUST HAVE DONE 1T.
Carnarvon must, Mr.. Gladstone says,
have told Lord Salisbury, then Prime
Minister, all he said TO Parnell and
all Parnell said TO aim, and no doubt Car
naryOn Gid tell it. For myself, | may say
am quite satisfied be did. And yet sails
bury allowed CarnarVOn to remain
memoer OF the Cabinet and Lord Lteuten-
ant Of Ireland months and months after
UarnarvOn had acknowledged himself 10
be what the Tories would now cail-are
every day calling-a separatist, disinte-
orator, disruptiOnist.
RUBBING ITIN
Gladstone keeps pressing this on the
Tories, rubbing IL III day after day, insist
irg that he Will nave an answer on two
Ifblll6s + li~ls W udb ulu y indl Won dN I'D
ParEeu: Next, what did CarnarvOn tel
Lord salisbury about his interview
with Panell? We have had already
some rather astonishing evasiOns on this
subject, hut so far there mas been no di-
rect ans Wer to either of GladstOne's ques-
tons.
The reason is plain. Salisbury knew
all about the interview, and at one time
hoped to be in a position TO introduce
Ofag t.4FF 4, n bfAr f-1al a ah
finding tne condition of things altered he
got morbldiy anxious to back out OF toe
whole ad8p.
BBrTER BE CAUTIOUS.
Very likely We shall near some curious
evaslOus still, but there will not he,
should think, any very direct deuials.
After all, IL is necessary for the tories to
be a little cautious aud discriminating in
their drniais. Fhere may pe some docu.
mentagv evideuc who snail saw Ii IL
not for mt 10 say, certainly; but how il
some letters did pass and are still in ex-
istence!
The COMING ELECTIONS.
l shall not yeuture on forecast OF the
results OF the cumtrg elections. Glad
stOnians and their opponents have one
Characteristic in common Just now. Ia
public both are alike full of confidence; IN
private both are alike full OF doubt. In
truth, the situation IS very difficult II see
ones way through. Lines OF cleavage
show themselves suddenly and IN uneX-
pected places. The question OF church
disestablishment comes up in Scotland to
add new perpleXty TO our efforts TO
forecast the probable vote.
THE CHURCH DIFFICULTY.
In the minds OF many Scotchmen Glad
stonian principles on any subject seem to
be meant to include the disestabiis
OF the church Ia that country, and there
can be little doubt that some votes will be
endangered by that feeling. On the other
hand, the influence OF the Grand Old Man
is almost magicals in Scotland and
throughout the northpf England.
ANTAGoNIsMdF LONDON,
London--of course / mean London So
ciety, AS it is called-and the journals
that represent 1t are wholly set against
Gladstone and home rule. Only Que Lon
don morning paper, the Daily News,
stands up still Tor Gladstone and his
policy.
But what does tbis matter? t. was ex-
actly the same thing in 1880, just before
Gladstone came ia at the head OF a tri-
umphant majority. Then all London So
cleJv and nearly all the London press
denounced Gladstone. The daily and
weekly papers of the metropolis, with
the tewest exceptions, revived him.
He mrsht we. have said with King
Lear: The, lItua dogs and all, Tray,
Banch and Swet dea'TcS S2e, they bark at
me- Yet the king chbrus yelped in
vain Gladstone swept thf country. II
he is not destlne3 to do the some thing
tnls time, the even is certainly not to be
anticipated becau Of any auglry To be
drawn from the TIVE Of London Journal
isln.
IpIsu NsAUErRg
The Irish members are throw ing all
Their energies into the cause 81 ella istone.
Not day passes bat some honsl cuous
irish member addresses an htglis~ meet
INK in favor Of some English gappOIter of
Gladstone.
Parnell himself, sexton, 7, O'C0n-
nor, James O'helly, the Red nords, and
your correspondent among thy rest, have
taken TO tne.stump 10 Lenfpn and The
provinces. We are popuian itbw, "Qa0d
minnie rerjS," as Anchises Wink, says
III Virgil. JUSrrNl THY.
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