Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-20
A TEACUP TEMPEST
Giving European Statesmen
and Politicians COnsid-
cradle Concern.
TUG OF WAR THIS WEEK.
The Waterford Election and Its In
fuence on Irish Affairs.
AFALL SCHEDULED FOR GOSCHEN.
Wedding Presents For Royalty at the E1-
pense Of the People
ppTNTESC NLPY'S lNC0MpIJSHMENTS
TUG OF WAR THIS WEEK.
AFALL SCHEDULED FOR GOSCHEN.
Wedding Presents For Royalty at the E1-
pense Of the People.
PRINCESS MARI'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS
rBY CABLE TO THE DrsPArcH.l


LONDON, Dec. 19.-[Copyright. 1-Eu.
ropean statesmen and politicians are to-day
chiefly concerned with the question
whether France means to pursue the
quarrel with Bulgaria 1t is assumed that
Monsieur Ribot has not acted without pre-
vious consultation with his good friends in
St. Petersburg, and that his action may be
preliminary to re-open1ng of the whole
Eastern question, wherein lies grave danger.
But the best informed people believe that
the time is opportune neither to France nor
TO Russia to set the Balkans in blaze, and
that the action of the French Foreign Office
will be confined to protests at Constantine
pie.
Little Bulgaria will not yield an inch.
She has managed to grow and prosper in
spite of the open hostility of the mighty
Car and the secret Vaccinations of his
agents, and having withstood Russia she
feels that she can safely defy France in a
matter in which she is in the right.
Not Altogether Frenchman.
A humorous feature of what appears to be
9 storm In = teacup is that it is doubtful
whether Monsieur Chadbourne, the Offend
ing correspondent of French newspapers,
who has been expelled from Bulgaria. is en-
titled to call himself Frenchman. One of
his parents was not French, and there is
no doubt that he was born in Constantine
pie. He is not at all an interesting person,
and as a journalist he is beneath contempt.
In Paris he would not earn his matutinal
cafe au lait at penny-a-lining, and until he
took to furnishing lying paragraphs about
Bulgaria to the foreign press he found it
very difficult to make both eEds meet
In Sofa he was for some years a mercan-
tile clerk. In Constantinople, whence he
proceeded to Sofa and opened restaurant,
that business didn't pay, and somehow
Chadbourne obtained employment as
copying clerk in one of the Government de-
partments. He blossomed into journal
Est" within the present year, and soon after
ward was able to afford champagne rather
than vim ordinaire with his dinner. Bull
garians, who, of course, are preiudiced
against Monsieur Chadbourne, say that his
newspaper writing produced more roubles
than francs, the bearing OF which remark,
as CAPTAIN Cutie would say, lies in its appli-
cation.
Waterford Election Next Wednesday.
The polling for the Waterford election
result will have great influence on Irish
politics between now and the general cleo
tion. It is generally admit ed that if the
Parnellites cannot win in Waterford City
they can have little chance in any constit-
uency. The same thing was said about
Cork, but the proposition applies with
greater truth to Waterford. The Parnellites
have always declared that the urban
working classes are the backbone of
their party, and in Waterford there are no
fewer than 1000 electors out of 8, 200 voters
who are expected to go to the poll. These
men are admittedly less exposed to what
Parnellites and Tories term clerical intim-
idation" than their fellows in the rural
districts. Nevertheless a DISPATCH re-
porter on the spot declares that Michael
Davitt will receive more than half the labor
vote, and that he will be elected by ma
loTity Of from 800 to 500
John Redmond is aggressively confident,
but withal feverishlv anxious. He is not
an ideal chief of fight in the party and
should Waterford follow Cork in rejecting
him be will have to abandon even the pre-
tense of leadership. Mr.. Redmond seems
- be aware that his political future depends
largely upon the result of this contest.
Preparing TO Drop Mr.. Goschen.
Mr.. Gladstone's recent reference to Mr..
Goschen's note scheme as q quack measure
has so alarmed the Government that already
there is talk of abandoning it. Even
GOschen's friends have taken alarm at the
IL. L. Il
are preparing the public mind for his down.
fall. Some of them suggest that the scheme
was never meant to be more than tenta-
tive proposal, but this excuse cannot be !
justified by the facts in the case. |
Several weeks were devoted to the !
of the scheme. The |
speech in which Goschen publicly fcrmu- |
lated it at a meeting of the Chamber of |
Commerce was read from carefully written |
manuscript, and the plan was subsequently, |
elaborated and explained in long letter |
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer |
wrote to the Governor of the !
Bank Of England, which letter be took care |
to communicate simultaneously to the press /
The scheme, in fact, was the cherished /
product Of Goschen's brain, and in conse-
guence he has been deeply panied, not to |
say inturiated, by the reception accorded to
it. The numerous people who at first re-
garded it with favor now doubt whether it |
would have the desired effect of increasing /
the gold reserve and checking reckless !
trading, while many others cry aloud |
for drastic reforms in the system
and administration of the Bank of England |
rs an indispensable preliminary to the work
of putting the finances of the country on
sounder basis. Fortunately for the Govern
nent, it is not pledged to the scheme, and
experience has proved that Mr.. Goshen's
personal feelings need not be taken into con-
sideration when they conflict with party in
erests
A Fuss Over Cnamberlain's Visit,
The Tories have made a great fuss, this
week, over Mr.. Chamberlain s visit to Edin-
1urg. The party managers considered the
7isit necessary because alarming reports
lad reached headquarters in London of the
and diminution of the Lib
.ral Unionist party in Scotland. The re-
,arts were well-founded, despite Tory
nake-believe TO the contrary. Half the
,eople at the so-called Liberal Unionist
meetings were Tories, and Chamberlain's
peeches denoted depression.
The general election will surely prove
hat the farce of Liberal L nionism is played
nut in Scotland, and the speech delivered in
last night by Colonel Saunder-
on. leader Of the Ulster party, shows that
hose in authority quite realize what is in
tore for them.
"Fie had always thought" said the gal
ant Colonel, ''that on the question of home
ule thev would have help in Scotland from