Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-02
LUNGS RULE THE DAY.
Reason and Rhetoric Not in 1t on the
Riotous English Stump.
TORIES OUTBID THE LIBERALS
In the Scramble for the Labor Vote, But 1t
Doesn't Avail Much.
MRS. CHAMBERLAIN ON THE ROSTRUM

COPYRIGHT. 1892 BY N. z. ASSOCIATED PeEss.1
LONDON, July 1.-The present generation
has seen no general election which will be
SO hotly contested as the one now proceed
ing. Party spirit is so embittered that open
conflicts on the streets are prevented only
by the restraints of the judicious system
now existing for the control of election
procedure.
Political feeling boils over at all the
meetings, especially when they are held in
rooms. The candidates are howled down,
rowdyism is rampant and the assemblages
are broken up. Many of the candidates find
it necessary to adopt the plan of making
tours Of their districts in wagonnettes and
where they generally get hearing. These
often impromptu gatherings largely occur
in the districts in London inhabited by
workingmen, where organized bands of
bullies are bribed to incite to riot.
When the assemblages are addressed from
wagonettes, these bullies do not have time
to arrange their plans to interfere, and the
candidate makes his speech and gets away
before the leaders of the bullies can get
their gangs together.
Both Sides Dodging the Law.
Enormous sums of money are being spent
by both Conservatives and Liberals in hid
den ways, so as to evade the bribery act.
The Liberals charge that the Conservatives,
whose purse is ampler than anything the
Liberal Executive can obtain, with running
paid Socialist and labor candidates to break
the Liberal vote.
As a matter of fact, the list OF both
Socialist and labor candidates who are
standing for election has become thinned
during the week. To-night's list presents 33
labor candidates, including those who are
seeking reelection. Seven of them have no
chance of success, and their only aim is to
spoil the chances of the Liberals standing in
their districts. Thus there are only 26
genuine labor candidates in the field, of
which only four are likely to be elected,
making the labor vote in the next Parlia-
ment of about the same value it was in the
last. The Socialists are nowhere. Several
candidates pose as their men, but pure
socialism has absolutely vanished.
The Conservatives in London and other
populous centers outbid their opponents in
the extent of their social programme The
case of the Tory candidates at Stepney and
Lime House applies to the others. They ad-
vocate the establishment Of an eight-hour
day, the creation Of Labor Minister and
the taxation of ground rents. They also
advocate the fixing of the rate Of wages by
the union.
The Labor Party Shut Out.
A programme like this cuts out the
Labor party and beggars the socialists. The
trades unions are suspicious as to the Con-
servative pledges and continue to incline
toward the Liberal candidates.
No new factor has appeared during the
week to alter the party forecasts A high
Associated Press that the Cabinet had shown
their conviction of coming defeat by set
tling their private papers in order to be in
readiness to vacate their Offices. The
Ministers never leave all their official
papers for their successors. Documents re-
vealing too much disappear. A general
clearance of those documents which the
Liberal Government will be unable to claim
has already occurred.
Mr.. Gladstone's declaration that the re-
lection of the home rule bill by the House
of Lords will not involve fresh appeal to
the country, as Parliament will then pro-
ceed with other measures, has been shock
to the Irish party. 1t is certain that they
will not tolerate any action OF the kind in
tending to indefinitely shelve the home rule
question.
The British Non-C Conformists have issued
manifesto. The declaration is vigorous
defense of Mr. Gladstone, but hardly one in
a hundred of the British Mont -Conformist
ministers signed it.
The Confidence of the -Conformists.
Its adherents express supreme confidence
that Mr.. Gladstone will not be guilty of
treason; that religious freedom will never
jeopardize the liberties of Ulster Protes-
tants; that Parliament will never pass a
scheme favoring the Romish ecclesiastical
system, and, generally, that the fears of the
Obstetrics is utterly groundless. DR.. Dale,
DR.. Dallinger, the leader of the Methodists,
protest against assigning to the manifesto
the character of representative of Non-Con-
formist opinion.
The Speakers estimate of the Irish cleo
toral result is: Anti-Parnellite, Is; Union.
lists and Parnellites, 8. The Unionists say
they are certain of % seats, and the Parnell-
ties predict the return of "a of their candi-
dates. Timothy Healy offers 10 to 100 that
the Parnellites will get only five seats.
French papers concur in the opinion that
Lord Rosebery has dispelled the illusion
that Mr. Gladstone's accession to power
pos of Mr.. Gladstane's foreign policy, Ar
mold Foster has originated an electoral
boomerang in saying that "There is not
quarter OF the globe where Great Britain
has an enemy in which Mr.. Gladstone has
not friend"
Mrs. Richard Chamberlain, who has taken
the stump for her husband, has acquired
distinction by her intrepidity in facing
rowdy opponents An effective orator, she
has won the admiration of the Liberals by
facing and quelling uproarious Islington.
She persisted in being heard, overcame her
opponents and made them friends.
BERING SEA ARBITRAT0Rs