The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-08-01
Two Young Men Indulge in a Bare
knuckle Fight and One
Is Killed.
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade Re.
ports the Monetary Situation
Growing no Better.
A Liberal Victory aud surprise to Glad
stone and Conservatives.

stohe ana CONSERVATIVES
LONDON, July PA liberal victory in
the Wisbech division is a surprise to
both sides. The Gladstone candidate
was opposed 10y powerful local trade in
tcrcsts and it was hardly calculated that
he would do any more than reduce the
conservative majority to such minimum
as would Justify IA recontcst at the com
ing election. Among the elements of
conservative strength were the publican
and brewer interests long dominant in
the constituency. These were thrown
in their full strength against Gladstone
whose victory is therefore all the more
significant.
But neither this nor the results of any
of bye elections will alter tie determine
ton Of thegovcrnment to try to complete
its scheme Of legislation before the dissolv-
ing Of parliament. Certain influential
conservatives in constant communication
with electoral headquarters are pressing
Lord Salisbury to remodel the cabinet
and to dissolve parliament at
once. They plead that the Glad
s%tonian reaction is growing constantly
and that another years delay will prob
ably result in an overwhelming liberal
majority. These tactical reasons, though
supported by the opinion of officers of
the electoral executive. have not shaken
Salisbury and Balfour in their resolve to
face another session.
The talk over the Wisbech election in
conservative and liberal clubs tonight
treats it as likely to precipitate "a dissO-
luton of parliament. Private mini>te-
rial ~utterances, however, deride the no
ton that the bye election will change
the line decided upon. The period for
the reconstruction of the cabinet depends
upon Smiths health. He has been ill
enough to render it probable that he will
never reappear as minister. Unless he
improves he will withdraw from public
life wholly on taking a peerage. The
Duke of Rutland, who has long been an
invalid, will also retire. Matthews,
home secretary, will get the judgeship.
\ new cabinet. with Chamberlain, Sir
j. r.. Gorst and Lord Harrington, mem
beers who will add further liberal ele-
ment to government legislation, must
have time to settle into working cohesion
before risking a dissolution of parliament.
The reasons for Lord Salisbury's recent
announcement OF the action of Irish
priests against Parnell as a clerical con
are. the subject of keen surprise.
The McCarthyites have shown no inten-
ton to obstruct the government irish
legislation recently; on the contrary they !
nave aided Balfour on every reasonable
proposal. but the ministers, besides recog- ;
nlzing an essential agreement and the
closest political utilization between the
McCarthyitcs and liberals, have private
information on the nature of the com
municatiOns that have passed between
liberal leaders and Irish bishops uniting
them in common action against the gov-
eminent t. countcract the policy now
supported by every bishop except DIR.
.Dwycr Of Limerick. Lord Salisbury
recently renewed ovcrtures to the Vati-
can to intervene and ask the people to
promise to pronounce on the eve Of the :
general election Il decisive word against I
interference. The Pope's re- [
'usal prompted the premier's ~allusion to |
conspiracy and to the abolition
II the illiterate voter and his threat to
'educe Irish representation. The Con
now see hat the bishops hold '
sway in Ireland and that Par
lells ~decadence began the day the
priests deserted him.
No more striking proof Of the utter {
oss of Parnell's strength could be given 9
han the character of the delegates sur
'ounling him at yesterdays con 3
at Dublin. 1t was a meeting i
which careful preparation had been I
making for a long time, yet hardly any /
nan of local or general prominence
be got to attend. The Times,
which has hitherto predicted Parnell's
success. says yesterdays o n g..
proves the impotence of the Par l
and shows that tenants of settled c
districts are no longer with him. Plots 4
dependent upon the existence of a flow ,
If dollars from America are now paralyz- !,
I'd. so low have Parnelite fortunes fallen. {
\ paltry American donation of f125 was I
at the convention with cheers. s