New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-22
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
.ruE TIMEs's', ATTITUDE ON CHIL1AN
AFFAIRS


Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN - LONDoN
LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
,BY CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE1
,.,,h, 1891 By The Tribune Assocta'ten
,.,aon Nov. 2l--"The Times has not yet
.~ht AZ 10 offer an apology TO Admiral Brown
w. s.cusing him Of acting as u spy to Senor Bal
10 II published leading article on Monday
.he relations between Chill and the United
80 and itself From this article it appears
-, Admiral Rrown's denial is good enough for
-. rbiIians but not good enough to justify The
- IN expressing regret for the calumny of it's
--.snondent. which il adopted editorially. Yet
- IN this country customary to offer voluntarily
-. adeouate amends for an unfounded accusa-
- II NAV be regretted that the Leading Jour
ii which departed from this custom in Mr. Par
'.ns case should now feel bound by the precedent
. ,h.n established and established for itself only.
:, ;s Of the opinion. moreover. that we have
..ten III its good advice on Chilian matters. Its
.avce has consisted for thc most part in impu
,.,ons Of an offensive character and we are
60 ,eproached with our sensitiveness to these
,-,,utations II may be that our monitor Is
IN, and that we should do better to treat
,h.m with the contempt they deserve. The cor
..s,ondent who telegraphed these stories from Chill
a. not learn. the same who served this journal
ar,ng the revolution. but his successor. being
,bs third who has held that post since the
c,isan troubles began. / have therefore TO
.no,oriye to No. for saddling him with the
Ans Of No. 8, and TO No. for inferrinG that
b,s attacks on his American colleagues might
have surunS from their success in getting news
,A,onrb which he failed to impart TO his own
smnlsyers. Ii was No. 2 who failed, and it
.,oala have been better for No. g. and for The
Times II he had failed also.
Nothipg has been heard from Mr.. Egan. If the
s.crtary Of State has asked him for an explana-
,en Of .The Times's' charges against him, or If
hs has answered, nothing is known of either on
this side
postical discussion has turned during good
,.rt Of the week on the Gladstonian victory in
the South Motion division Of Devonshire. The
Cj.ss.onians themselves are elated which IS
natural but elated beyond measure which is also
natural. The Unionists admit their defeat to be
had one as it is No explanations can make de-
feat at which majority Of 500 is turned into
a minority of 200 anything but bad defeat
she Gladstonians regard il as an indication that
they are going to win the agricultural constltu-
enees all over the country. That is a large lnfer
ence II is not clear that it was the agricultural
lahorer who turned the scale in Devonshlre. Ihe
I-nionsts say that il was the cobbers of Chcrlton
and elsewhere who carried the day. The cobbler.
for some reason not yet explained sclentiiicaiy'
is almost always radical. But if it be true that
Hodge deserted his landlord, the argument from
the by.electon to the general election remains
as defective as before.
The one thing clear about the whole matter seems
TO be that Home Rule had little to do with the re-
suit Mr. Lambert who wins, is tenant farmer
who has nursed this constituency with care 1or
some years His opponent, Mr. Butler, was
good candidate but came on the scene at the
eleventh hour. An archangel would have agpoor
chance in such circumstances. The nursing OF
Constituencies is now reckoned the true secret of
electoral success. The other secret is to appeal
10 class interests and to local interests. This
was done with success in Devonshire where few
electors know or care much about Home Kule
This Government has done much for the agri-
mltural laborer but the Gladstonians promise
70 do a great deal more when they come in, and
uromise is mora than performance with tns
English voter He knows that what he has got
out of this Ministry cannot be taken from him.
lie believes that another Ministry would do
still moe if il got the chance, and in politics
rratitude is a lively sense of favors TO come.
Hence that Gladstonian victory, which is but one
more step toward the general decentralization OF
politics now imminent in England.
The Standard" of course, uses South Motion
as An argument for dropping Irish legislation next
session and rushing through measure for which
the English voter really cares. There is much TO be
said for that view from an electioneering point OF
view. but neither the Conservative press IN
general nor Conservative orators on the platform,
seem disposed 10 adopt it. There are many signs
that the GaGstonians, with one eminent eXcep-
ton. think that Home Rule is played out for
electoral purposes They keep it on the bill OF
fare but the dishes they really recommend to the
voter are of a different sort. The eminent excep-
ton is Mr.. Gladstone himself To him, Home
Rule is everything, as it has been ever since he
recognized the fact that Parliamentary majority
was not TO be had on other terms. He discourses
at times other topics, but from the lips OUT
ward: his heart is dlsuniOn. If ne comes IN,
be must try once more 10 pass Home Rue Dill.
Nearly ali his followers would drop it, If they
could. Nearly all are likely to be elected on
local issues as advocates oI
local issues or as advocates cf social reforms.
80 weary are the English of the Irish question
that the leading Tory organ cries out in anguish
that its own Government seems smitten Win
blindness almost resembling the blindness of the
S'uei's 70 i@cte 80 PdeH' 'he' any N"ii"
understand them. The whole duty OF the poiltl-
cal man, and especially Of the Minister, is, In It's
View, 10 trump the GladstOnian trick. Hedge
has got the power 10 turn this Ministry out or
hep it in, and Hodge must be made to see that
II viii pay him better TO keep Lord Salisbury IN
than to bring sir. Gladstone back. Such are the
high practices which now advocated IN inc
highest quarters The appeal TO seliishness Is as
strong on one side as on on the other;
Lord Harrington has been among, the orators
Of the week, who now each week are too aumer-
Gus even TO catalogue. But Lord harrington Is
speaker who has something TO say, ana behlnd
What he says is that weight Of character whlch ls
more impressive than anything else IN
this country. lie is listened 10 when
he points out down what primrose path OF Social
istic l,Ladctanc and his fQllQWers