St. Paul daily globe., 1888-10-08
TORIES EXPECT TROUBLE.
The Autumn Sitting Of Parliament Will
Be a Stormy One.
CRAFTY JOE CHAMBERLAIN
Unionist Hopes Are Staked on His
Scheme for a Great National
Party.

Special Cable to the Globe.
LONDON, Oct. 6.-The settled convic-
ton of the ministerialists is that the
autumn sitting of parliament is to be
very stormy one. One thing very
noticeable in connection with these
speculations is the growing feeling
among the supporters of the gov
ernment against Mr.. Courtney,
the chairman of the commit
tee. Speaker Peel has never
been so popular in conservative
circles as at the present time, and the
news of the improvement in his health
has been received with the utmost graft
fication, all the more pronounced be-
cause an idea had got abroad that Mr..
Peel would be unable to resume his
duties in the autumn. There was an
agreement among Conservatives that
Mr.. Courtney, as deputy speaker,
would "never do" Mr.. Courtney
is actually charged with being
excessively timid in regard to the appli-
cation of the clOture, and with tOlerat-
ing willful obstruction and disOrderly
behavior on the Irish benches. Repre-
sentatiOns on the subject have been
made to Mr.. Smith, government leader
of the house, by many of his followers,
and it is said that unless Mr.. Courtney
manages to give more satisfaction the
active spirits on the Conservative
benches will make
A DEAD sET' AGAINST HIM.
Mr.. Chamberlain's anxiety for fur
ther Identification of conservatism and
unienism is by no means universally
shared in the conservative ranks. On
the contrary, there is distinct move
ment among some of the younger men,
bers of the party-especially among the
SO-called" Democratic Tories, "adverSe to
the uniOniSt alliance. These politicians
believe with or without juStificatiOn)
that the local government bill and the
other measures of last session have
brought great accession of popularity
to the government in the constituencies,
and they complain that the UniOnists
are claiming, and perhaps get
ting more than their due share
of credit for the ministerial
policy. The Conservative ministry is
now, they think, quite strong enough to
get along without the Unionist
"CrItch," and if further Democratic
measures are brought in, the COnserva-
tive party, and not their UniOniSt allies,
ought to profit by them. AS to joint ac-
tlOil III OllC
feeling on the part of the en-
ergetic Tories are even stronger.
There are some seats, no doubt, which
are held by UnionistS which would GER
tainly fall to Gladstonian Liberals in
case the Conservative votes went astray.
In those constituencies the COnServa-
tives will act Loyalty by their allies, but
whenever there appears to be chance
of carrying a seat by Conservative votes
alone it will be
NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE
at the next general election to advise
the local association to supports Union
ist candidate. The reports to this effect
which have reached the Conservative
headquarters are decisive. There are
other reasons, besides the feeling that
the UniOniStS take the credit for Con-
servative measures, which render
younger men on the Conservative
benches anything but enamored of the
Unionist alliance. They believe that
without Lord Hartington's advice and
control Lord Salisbury would exercise a
firmer hand in matters of foreign poll
tics than at present, and that in some
respects the palmy days of Lord Bacons-
field would be revived. 1t is more than
probable that Mr.. Chamberlain is aware
of this tendency of feeling in the Con-
servative ranks, and is simply seeking
to cOunteract it in his great project of
National DartV