Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-14
READY FOR THE RACE.
Both British Political Parties All
Ready for the Word Go.
LABOR WILL PLAY A LONE HAND.
The Majority of the Tories Still Patting
Ulster on the Back.
NEWS FROM THE EUROPEAN CAPITALS

| COPYRIGHT. 1892. BY N. Y. ASSOCIATED PRESS
| LONDON, May 13.-Mr. Balfour will meet
the Conservative election agents May 81,
when a definite indication will be given of
the date of the general election. Mean
while the election agents swarm in the lob
bies of the House of Commons. pesterIng
the Ministers whips and members to e1-
pedite the dissolution.
A memorial to the Government, got up
by Tory election agents, urging that Par
lament dissolve in the middle of June, fell
| fiat Only halfa dozen members of the
House signed it. The whips limited that
| the appeal was superfuous and might em-
barrass the Government, which was already
favorable to a midsummer election.
The Cabinet decision, when it is an
nounced, will find the parties all around
fully prepared and everything in readiness.
The Crown Office will dispatch the election
writs within "a hours after the intimation
of dissolution is given. The officers in
charge of the private bills before the House
of Commons have been instructed to wind
up their business as far as possible by
June o.
Reasoning from this fact, the Liberals
figure thus: The writs will be issued on
June %. Two weeks later the burgh cleo
tions will be completed, and within three
weeks the county elections According to
the statutes the new Parliament must as
semble within 35 days of the dissolution
of the preceding one, so the first week in
August, if the general expectation is full
filled, will see Mr.. Gladstone reinstated in
power.
The Irish party take it for granted that
special session, to be held in November, will
proceed with the home rule question.
Probably Mr.. Gladstone will not be in such
hurry. He has privately expressed the
opinion that the home rule movement in
1886 suffered in haste in its preparation, and
declared that he will not make similar
mistake He will take time to sound every
section of his supporters in framing the new
measure. If Liberal Government is con-
stituted in the autumn, no policy of home
rule ought to be fully developed before the
session of 1898.
In the electoral field startling phenome-
non is the activity of the Independent
Labor party. The Schnachorst counted
upon the absence of funds to weaken the
Independents and to force them to the pro-
cess of selection by the Liberal Executive,
by which the insubordinates would be elm
mated.
The Labor Party In Dead Earnest.
The calculation failed to take into ac-
count the earnestness of the supporters of
the Labor party. No less than 1856 candi-
dates are already in the field, backed BY
subscriptions from the trades unions, local
societies and Tory donations. In a daily
,har of u{r o}a ha IL
ingmen oppose the Liberals. Mr.. Glad
stones negative opposition to the payment
of members OF the House, to the eight-hour
movement, and his indifference to other ar
ticles of the Newcastle programme, most
cherished by the workingmen, has alienated
a considerable mass of the electors
Doubt is expressed in many quarters re-
garding the earnestness of the Ulster move
ment, and this has melted the leaders to a |
more violent beating of the war drum. Mr.. |
Saunders, in his speech at the Stephens |
Club dinner, openly proclaimed the inten-
tion of the Obstetrics to resort to armed |
force in their resistance to the Dublin Par |
Lament. Ulster would, he said, make short |
work of the Irish House of Commons. He |
led the largest united section of Irishmen,
who would be able, if they were tested, to |
wreck the Dublin Parliament. His declara- |
tions were received with enthusiastic |
cheers.
Most of the Tories Encourage Rebellion.
While the Lord Chancellor censures the |
language as dangerous, the theory of re-
bellion is heard in silence. Several mem
bers of the Cabinet side with the Lord |
in condemning Lord Salisbury's |
Indictment TO civil war, but the rank and |
file of the Tories approveit. On the whole,
the conviction strengthens that listers
will be history-making event.
The opposition leaders have now decided to
leave it to the Irish members to move the
rejection of the Irish local government bills.
MI. Mccarthy, who is still suffering Sc
verely from sciatica, will delegate Mr..
Seaton to take the initiative
The inquiry of Mr.. Goschen, as to the
basis of the bimetallic conference, elected
The response that he would not speak
On the subject while the negoti-
atoms are in progress, as the solution
Of the problem might be compromised if
were given out now. While
,he leading London papers are against this
the chief provincial journals
and financial papers are discussing the ratio
between silver and gold in the event of an
agreement being reached.
Letters from Experts II. R. Grenfell and
Samuel Montagu, concur in expressing the
opinion that the fixing of an exact ratio is
lot the essence of the question, and that
my Iatio proximately accurate could be
maintained under an international agree
nent