New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-27

Inadon Oct o6-There are signs that MIR. Glad
Stone means to lead an attack on LORD SALISBURY
foreion policy The OutldanoS' arucle In " lhe
Contemporary Review was 0ne-an arucle now
lnown 70 he his incOncevabe as 1t is that the eX-
Prime Minister should have published such an in
rective against friendly Powers The agitation about
Armenia and Crete is another, though the attempt
IN repeat the Bulgarian atrocities campaign
.oorns unlikely 10 be successful, and Mr. Glad
stone,s litter ON Moussa Bey, some time since,
well founded as it was produced no impression.
Now Lord Salisbury says that the stories about
ontrages in Crete are exaggerated, and the Glad
stonian organ retaliates by lkening Lord Sails
hurry to the Grand Vlzler.
The supply of political oratory during the last
week was at least equal to the demand; perhaps
more than equal. Mr.. Balfour at Manchester, MIR.
Gladstone at Southport Sir William Ilarcourt at
the National Liberal Club love-feast Sir George
Trevelyan in dear old Scotland Lord Derby at
Liverpool Lord Spencer at Stockton Mr. Biggar
and Mr. Davitt before the Parnell Commission, and
AT Brighton one everf1Owing tide of speech from
both candidates and their innumerable supporters
these are but the more notable of the long cata-
logue of SPEAKERS who have talked politics and
nothing but politics since Saturday last Not
one of these discourses can be called
really important, not even Mr. Gadstones
AZ Southport, which was in one sense the
most disappointing of all Friends and enemies
were alike disappointed enemies perhaps more than
friends Both imagined that something was to
come of that conclave at Hawarden. Enemies
hoped. friends half hoped and half feared that
the long-expected. ever-deferred Home Rule pro-
Eramme was at last TO be announced. Ihere WAS
not hint of it from beginning to end of this long
-tc rood IN a
great audience of coinage. of London police. OF
Turkish wickedness in Armenia and elsewhere; he
told the Turk that he ought to clear out; he
condemned the Sultan in one breath and MIR. Bal
four in the next; he denounced the administration
nj law in Ireland: he defended boycotting he eX-
ensed the Plan of Campaign, which he once thought
ILLEGAL hut is now content to call eXtra-lega, ana
he declared that whether legal or eXtra-legal the
true authors of it are the Government, and the
maionty which supports the Government III
Parliament: he affirmed gravcly that the puohc
opinion which prevents Irish farmers from taxing
and working evicted farms is manifested peace
fully. 1t was courageously said, but when all
had been said no man knew one whit better uhah
before what sort of Home Rule for Ireland Mr'
Gladstone means next TO propose, nor whether
l.o himself has yet settled in his own MIND the
main lines of his next Home Rule bill
i indebted a
Liberal friend for an explanation of the Hawarden
conclaye different from the generally accepted
one which l gave last week. No conference, ne
xavs was summoned by Mr.. Gladstone; none
was desired by him, nor had he the least Intention
of adopting or announcing a new Liberal pro-
o,amme One of his former Ministers was
invited to Hawarden a purely friendly footing.
His name appeared in print as guest Forth
with other colleagues proposed themselves as
quests. some of them seeming TO believe that
the question of the succession TO the LlDefai
Leadership was being raised, and might be settled
in their absence They had an agreeable VlslL
but the lions skin has not been parcelled out
among them. Mr. Gladstone's health is no tle-
mendOus as ever
The chief interest of Sir William Har-
courts speech turned on his reply to
Mr. Chamberlains charge that votes were
obtained in 1886 for Mr. GladstOne's Home
Rule bill by bribery. Sir William contents him
self with saying that everybody knows that state
nent to be calumniOus falsehood and that nobody
knows it better than Mr.. Chamberlain himself
If he had had TO condense this circumocution for
the cable, he would have said that Mr.. Chamberlain
he'd If Sir William means anything he means
that, and that is the point which political contro
versy has now reached. One other point is
Liberals with not arguing the Home Rule question.
True, retorts Sir William, we don't argue; we don't
mean to; we know that the country is with us.
The Tory majority at Brighton is less than it
was in S86 when the Tory candidate had almost
o walkover, but greater than IN 1885, before the
Liberal party went to pieces. 1t is at least 200
greater than the Tories exp acted. The Liberal
organ in London even hoped 10 W the seat, say
w
poll with absolute confidence liumaniy speak
ing il can hardly be anything out victory for
U.S." Well humanity speaking jc is a pretty CON
siderable triumph for the Tories, who are accord
ingly in great spirits this morning, while the
Gladstonians are not. Brighton is as naturally
TOry as any other town Of villas. Sir Robert Peel
sttracted support by his powerful manner, but
rpellcd it by his flippant treatment of serious
questions MIR. Loder, who WINS is clever
young fellow, under thirty, with something under
thirty thousand sterling year.
Mr. Biggar did neither himself nor the Irish
cause any good by his brief violent speech
before the Parnell Commission, which resumed
sttings on Thursday Mr. Davitt, who has been
reading his address during nearly two days, will
probably occupy Two more. IL is hne effort
He appears avowedly as advocate of tlre Irish
po@hantry and an apOloGst OF the land war now
raging In Ireland. His speech is POLITICAL agrarlan,
soclailsac lie uphOlds the righteousness of the
i%hu League, but condemns the oUtrages by which
eDe power Of that League have been in the last
tesor' maintained; he admits that he was a
'ehiah twenty-five years ago and would he again
were une circumstances the sane he AYERS that
Heiahu re'eres the memory Of the Manchester
murderers commonly called n that countrv
naiSiS, nv re'eils the story heard before, that
General Sheridan told him ,ba, ,,,hin ,hrt,ei,,bt
hours after declaration Of war nv America against
England million men Of Irish blood would
have leaped to arms The Times has already
published twen'y-three cOlupns of him.
o'"us'onee advocacy Of municipal control of
Ae police is supposed 70 fore,b.dn,, ofo,,s in