Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-07-21
NEW PARLIAMENT.
Gladstone's Majority VIII Number
Forty Counting Everything.

Forty Counting Everything.
Conservatives Preparing q Vigorous Policy
TO Force Gladstone to Declare HIS
Observation-Disclosures Of the
Voting.
LONDON, July 1a-The movement to
induce Mr.. Balfour to contest Midlo-
THAN against Mr.. Gladstone when the
latter resigns his seat on accepting Of
nee Is quite q persistent one It has
two pretexts: First, Mr. Balfour's
prominence, making him q lit antagon-
ist for the liberal leadership; second,
that Balfour owns estates contiguous
to Midlothian and has various interests
in that district, thus giving him some
excuse for asking the sufrages OF the
people there 1t is not considered here
that Balfour will consent TO fight Mr..
Gladstone in this way. He Is on very
friendly personal terms with Mr.. Glad
stone
The whole machinery of the party
will be brought into play, and it is
thought by the leaders that there Is q
good chance to overcome Mr.. Glad
stones first majority of only 100. Mr..
Gladstone's friends regret his recent
Boosting language On the church and
state division They adhere to the fact
that 60 per cent Of the electors of Mid
lothian are churchInen, many of whom
will sink their ideas in favor OF the
Irish autonomy for the sake of demon
strating their loyalty 10 the established
kirk.
The Scotch tories viii hold a banquet
in honor OF Col. Wauchope, in Edin-
burgh, at which the prospects for the
second contest will be discussed. It Is
expected that Mr.. Scha the lib
eral caucus manager. viii personally
engineer the contests in Midlothian and
Newcastle, the latter being John Nor
1ey's division. The result in the first
will hinge upon the church vote. and in
the second ON the labor vote and the
eight hour question.
All the cabinet ministers have been
summoned to London for Thursday
next Mr.. Balfour, arriving in town
yesterday, proceeded to Hatfield house
to see Lord Salisbury. The latter went
to Windsor to meet the duke of Devon
shire. who has been staying at the
castle for some time Here he had I
turned to London this evening, accom-
panied by the duke OF Devonshire-
Tt is expected that some Developments
of an unwOnted character are impend-
ing. a number of members OF the
Carlton club came into town to watch
events The political clubs are crow O.
ed. rumor is rife that the Carlton
club men state that section of the cab
il al, -
forthwith, in order to force MIR. Glad
stone to meet the house of commons
with full disclosure of his home rule
and general policy, and SO precipitate
the crisis.
The liberal leaders are prepared to
take office Immediately or await the
defeat of the government on the amend
ment to the address. No tactics that
the present government can adopt viii
force the hands OF Mr.. Gladstone. II
Lord Salisbury does not await formal
vote of expulsion, the liberal govern
ment policy, as outlined in the queens
speech, can be SO couched as to reveal
nothing that the conservatives do not
already know. If the conservatives re-
" upon forcing Mr.. Gladstone to de-
clare himself fully on the debate to the
amendment, that depends on his pleas
ure.
An analysis Of the latest returns
shows the value Of the British vote or
which the conservatives now rely as the
bu1wark for the rejection of home rule
The number OF members thus far re
turned is 652. This leaves only eighteen
results yet undeclared. England has
sent aS4 conservatives, 1875 liberals in
Guiding members of the labor party
thirty unionists and one McCarthyitG
(O'Connor). Scotland sends clever
conservatives, fifty liberals and ter
unionistS Wales sends two con
servatives and twenty-siX Hber
ais. and ireland, seventeen con.
servatives, five unionists, sixty-four
McCarthyites and nine Parnellites- The
opposition combined thus aggregates
342 and the unionistS SO. OF the eight
cen seats unreturned, seven Irish and
six British in the late parliament were
held by the opposition and five by the
unionists- As changes are unlikely,
the new parliament will consist of $50
Gladstonians and 315 unionists- The
total number of unionists returned
by Great Britain is 292 and the
total Gladstonians 215, lnclud-
ing to-day's results in the eighteen re-
naming districts. When Great Britain
shows clear majority for home rule.
says the unionists' press, it will come
1t can never be carried 10y Irish votes.
especially when these votes are in ex-
cess of their proportion according to
the relative population of the countries
The total number OF votes recorded up
to date is as follows: Opposition. =. 49,
594; unionists, =, COS, 292-
The Kansas Wheat Crop
KANSAS CITY. No, July 1.-THE
Riggs Commission Co, of this city, re-
ceived yesterday the first carload OF
new No. 1 red Kansas wheat received in
this city this year. 1t is magnificent
grain and scales e3 full pounds to the
bushel. It came from Junction City,