Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-19
AN ISSUE SPLITTER.
Lord Salisbury in a Fair Way
to Founder.
HIS PARTY is NOT WITH HIM.
Outline of the Platform on Which the Con-
seryatives will Go Into the Next
Campaign in Great Britain.
A Peer Suspended.
Copyrighted by the Associated Press.1

LONDON, July 17.-Nothing has recently
excited the inner Conservative circle so
much as Lord Salisbury's declaration that
female suffrage ought to form
a part of the coming cleo
toral reforms. The election agents
of intending candidates besiege the execu-
tive of the Conservative association de-
handing to know whether this is essential
to the parliamental programme. Most Of
the members of the house OF commons have
warned the executive that the female-vote
plank would not be accepted by an lntiuen-
tial section of the party without protest.
The premier has been known to be inclined
to accede the right of suffrage 10 women
as a probable counterpose to the. demo-
cratic tendency TO the principle OF
manhood suffrage, but now for the first
time he has tried to commit the party to
this momentous change of franchise. The
council of the Conservative association at
an informal meeting to-day, without pass
ing resolutions to that effect, decided to in
innate to Lord Salisbury that the party
was so divided on the question that it
would be unable TO recognize 1t as Con-
sentative principle.
In spite of Lord Salisbury's allusion that
the life of parliament will not expire until
August, 1898, the electoral agents are pre-
pairing for dissolution in the spring The
Conservatives platform, upon which the
candidates will begin their canvass
without delay is now finally framed. apart
from the Irish local government bill, in
consideration of which the Ministerialists
expect such obstruction rs Will justify
dissolution in the spring. The plat
form will include the reform bill,
amending the distribution of seats by re-
ducing the Welsh and Irish representation,
slightly increasing the Scottish and giving
large advantage to English repre-
sentation. The other planks will be
the maintenance of freeholders' franchises,
the maintenance of residential safeguards
against personatiOn. the abolition of the il
iterate vote. and legislation securing old
age pensions and for the creation OF work
mems boards of arbitration. To sum up
the platform as now officially fixed, the
ministers have Endorsed the leading feat
mes of Mr.. Chamberiin's age assurance
scheme, thus committing the parry TO fur
Their developments ON the lines of state
socialism and the rediStributing of seats.
which will be strong card in the game.
The suspension of peer, rare event in
the upper house of parliament, occurred
tonight in the case OF the erratic
Lord Denman, successor TO the illustrious
Judge Denman. but inheriting little of his
fathers power. Lord Denman had given
notice of motion for the return of the
number of days in which the late Lord
Granville had attended the house and
also the days on which he himself had at
tended during Lord Granville's lifetime
Whether the motion was inspired by sheer
crankiness or by malice, Lord Denman was
not allowed to explain. He was about to
rise to speak when Lord Salisbury said
that the motion could only be described as
unseemly. He might use a stronger word,
but preferred not He would simply move
that Lord Denman should not be heard dur
ing the remainder of the session. Lord
Kimberly Concurred and Lord SaliSbuIy'S
motion was agreed to in silence.