Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-28
LABOUCHERE'S Wall
Directed Against the Wrong
Person When He Says It
Was the Queen Who
HAD HIM TURNED DOWN.
his Proposition to Postpone Home
Rule Work Did the Business.
GLADSTONE GREATLY SHOCKED
At the Manner in Which Her Msjestys
Name Has Been Dragged In.
HAD HIM TURNED DOWN.
GLADSTONE GREATLY SHOCKED
MATRIMONIAL SNAPS IN THE CABINET
rBY CABLE TO THE prsPArcH.l

Unless Mr.. Labouchere has some docu
: mentary evidence held in reserve for tn,
confounding OF his enemies, he will moi
come out of his controversy with Mr.. Glad
stone with much credit He commenced
the discussion with the deliberate assertion
that his exclusion from the Cabinet wa.
due to the di ect intervention of the Queen
but his statement in this weeks Truth doe.
not show that his complaint was founded
upon anything more than suspicion or idle
gossip, and against this is to be set Mr..
Glsdstore's emphatic declaration that the
Queen had nothing to do with the matter.
The suggestion that Labouchere's oppo-
sition in the House of Commons to the
granting of money to members of the royal
family induced the Queen to object to his
inclusion in the Ministry seems disposed of
by the fact that an important post was Of
fered to Samuel Storey, who has opposed
such royal grants more fercely and per-
sistently even than Labouche1e. Storey
declined to take Office, but the Queen had
offered no objection to his name, which
figured in the preliminary list submitted to
her by Mr.. Gladstone. Furthermore, Sir
royal grants. was in the former Gladstone
Cabinet
Truth About Labouchere's Turn-Down.
Information obtained by THE DISPATCH
reporters justifes the belief that Mr..
Gladstone's decision not to ask Labouchere
to take Office was taken several months ago,
in consequence of editorials which appeared
in 7T7th urging the postponement of Home
Rule until various British reports had been
accomplished. The editorials, which were
written in Labouchere's most cynical man.
ner, virtually urged Mr.. Gladstone to be-
Irav the trust which the Irish members had
reposed in him, and to set at nought his
most solemn obligations and engagements.
Those articles caused some stir at the
time, and created feeling of uneasiness
among the Irish leaders which was only re-
moved by direct assurances that the editor
of 7TIEth in no way represented Mr. Glad
stones views There is good reason to be-
lieve that this repudiation was followed
shortly afterward by confidential Intima-
tion that Labouchere would not be men,
Der of the Liberal Government
Labouchere has lost much prestige over
this business People had learned to re-
gard him as a fearless independent politi-
clan, who did not care button for a place
or power He is now seen in the unpleas-
ant character of disappointed Office.
seeker, criticising as Indignantly as any
Tory members of the Ministry from which
he has been excluded and sneering at his
leader.
What the Malcontent Intends to Dc.
Rumors, natural in the circumstances,
are current of Labouchere's intention to
form 8 section of the malcontents for the
purpose of worrying Gladstone in the same
manner that Churchill and the so-called
'fourth party" harried the Tory leaders
some years ogo, but in the present temper
Of the country it is not likely that many
men will venture to follow Labouchere in
this dangerous and disreputable work.
The dragging of the Queens name into
the controversy has distressed Mr.. Glad
stone and greatly shocked constitutional
pedants 1t is not calculated to do Labou-
chere much good, especially after Mr..
Gladstone's statements Even in Labou.
chere's own rational town, Northampton,
ut meeting held to protest against his ex-
clusion from Office, mention of the Queens
name has been enthusiastically cheered, and
elsewhere popular feeling is undenisbly
against Labouchere. Or course this does
not prove anything except that Labouchere
has made a mistake.
Dillon declared that the Irish leaders
"were in possession Of understandings and
agreements which, in their Judgment, If
honorably carried out, would satisfy the
people Of Ireland" 1t is understood that
some of these agreements are in writing and
will be made public should occasion require
such use to be made of them.
The On G nuine Hom. Rulers.
As matter of fact, a good many Irish
members believe that the only genuine
Home Rulers in the new cabinet are Mr..
Gladstone. Earl Spencer and John Morley,
and they hold that it is their bounden duty.
bearing in mind the lessons taught BY his
tory, to be constantly on guard against
treachery. Such an attitude may appear
ungracious at this juncture, but it is emf
nently wise.
Speaking at public meeting in New
castle, Wednesday evening, Mr.. Fowler, a
very influential member of the Cabinet,
said the Irish members were a power at
Westminster which they could not despise.
1t would make itself felt He did not like
1t any more than that meeting did. He
did not like the power of the Irish members,
nor did he like to give up the time of Par
lament to Irish questions" If that is the
spirit in which one member of the Cabinet
Evowedly regards home rule, it is pretty GER
TAIN tnat tnere are many other unwilling
horses, inside and outside the ministry, who
will have to be spurred to their work.
Many things tend to show in fact that the
Irish leaders will have to be suspicious and
vigilant to the verv end.
If pledges publicly made by public men
are of any value, Mr. Gladstone's govern
ment in the coming session of Parliament
will make serious attempt to deal with the
difficult question of how to return their
holdings to the Irish tenants evicted during
the sgrarian war of the last few years.
Din-rent Places for Different Views.
Mr.. Shaw Lefevre, member of the Cab
met, speaking al Galway In December, 1889,
said: f'The first work of the new Parlia.
ment would be to remedy the state of things
that bad resulted from disputes On these
several estates in the countr5. He would
not be member of any government He
was going to say he would not remain in
Parliament If some help we're not extended
TO the people who, through this long period,
have suffered and sacrificed so much"
In the same month and year be said at
Drogheda that be held and firmly believed
that the Massereene tenants were perfectly
justified in refusing to accept any terms
until the evicted tenants were reinstated,
and when home rule was granted an equit-
able measure would be passed to put these
tenants in possession of their farms, as well
Is all other evicted tenants in Ireland.
Mr.. Shaw Lefevre was almost the last |
man appointed to a Cabinet position, al |
iAough his claims were undeniable and |