New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-13
THE LIBERAL PROGRAMME.
GLADSTONE DETERMINED TO PUSH TIE
HOME RULE BILL.
INTEREST IN THE ELECTION IN MIDLOTHIAN
MIR. GLADSToNE'S MAJORITY PROBABLY
REDUCED-SIR CHARLES DILKE'S
CANVASS.

London July 12.-Up to midnight the Conserva-
tiyes have returned PA members of the new
House. the Liberals 1873, the Liberal Unoniss
+birty-one, the anti-Parnellites thrty-fivc the
Paruclntes five, Labor candidates. three
since Lord Salisburys return from Windsor, the
Carlton Club has appeared TO have received in
formation that the Government Will remain in
office till it is defeated OF party division. Lord
Salisbury will meet Parliament with the Queens
speech, declaring his policy, and inviting an at
tack on q division following debate on amend
ncnt 10 the address. The Government will be
defeated and the Cabinet will resign Lord Sails
bury thereupon will recommend to the Queen
t7at she send for Mr.. Gladstone.
Prominent Radicals in the National Liberal
Club are tonight discussing what Mr. Gladstone
ought to do. They favored postponing the Home
Rule bill for year. and the opening of the ses-
sion Of Parliament with the labor and rural re-
form programme. The reasons for adopting this
course are, first the recognition Of the fact that
Home Rule will precipitate dissolution the first
year Of Parliament and. second. that if Home
Rule is postponed the members can rely upon
two years. and the next will give Mr.. Gladstone
time to perfect the details Of the measure.
representations TO this effect will Ike made to Slr
Gladstone, but it is doubtful if they succeed as
In private conversation with his colleagues he
has never faltered in the expression of his in
tention to eXpedate Home Rule and then retire
from public life.
The Radicals will nominate Mr.. Labouchere for
the Home Office of the Local Government Board.
Owing to the defeat of Sir Horace Davey, nt
Stockton, Mr.. Rigby, the member for ForfarShirc,
will certainly b. Solicitor-Gencral.
The Liberals will be agrceably surprised to-
morrow Il Mr. Gladstone's majority m Midlothan
nv rlv N-otcs y
reports credit Colonel Wunchope with the bulk
Of the farmers ballots. Colonel Wonchope. whose
family has long been connected with Midlothian
interests, lives on the ancestral estate which js
partly within the district, and be is held In high
esteem for his personal qualities. He is talt
gaunt, bg-boned, sandy-haird and freckied,
typical Scot, of frank, generous nature, popular
with electors, high and low. He has dsun-
ghshed record as an officer Of the Black Wntch
in Ashanteeand, Egypt. He is a strong tmonst.
and a bitter enemy of Mr.. GladstOne's foreign pol
icy. He has devoted several years to asslduousiy
nursing his consttuencyhoping If not to Dust the
Liberal chief at least TO minimize the importance
of his return. There is no chance that Mr. Ulao-
stone has been defeated but the Liberals are full
Of dread that the poll will disclose a greatly re-
duced vote.
Party feeling in the district is raised to fever
II.
be so heavy, In 1885, Mr. Gladstone had a ma
iorty of 4,63l' in this district, and in 1856 he
WAS returned without opposition, the Unionlsts
feeling that il would be waste Of time TO run
candidate This year the churchmen are voting III
body for Colonel Wauchope. The Irish votcs |
which Mr. Gladstone lost in 1885, is now solidly
Nberal The fourteen polling places in the dis
net are widely scattered, and the result OF the
ontest will not be known until tomorrow, as the
counting of the votes does not begin until 10
oclocS tomorrow morning. The ballots are all
counted in Edinburgh.
The pelsonal character OF q candidate enters
more largely into the canvass in the Forest OF
Dean Division Gloucestershre, than III any other
place in England. The Liberal candidate in this
division is Sir Charles Dixie, who, some years
aco WAS oompelled 10 withdraw from public lie
owing Il, the revelations in the Crawford divorce
case in which Sir Charles was the correspondents
The details of this case Were mrt'imrly rcsoi,,,
Ing. and public opinion, even among helnoc.s "a
his party was 50 strong agasC m ,lna imcsd desire
10 stand again for the use Oi Commons "i''t
accordingly he is a candidate III the foresc Va
Dean Division. His opponents called - neteinT
today at which it was expected that MI. o.eai;
tho former editor Of the Pail Mall Gazette
who has been particularly active in attacking
the iInmOralities of England wOuio appear anu
attack Sir Charles. Many of the friends OF OF
Charles attended the meeting, but MI. S'eau
aid not appear. Instead of an attack being lhaoe
unou Sir Charles, the Rev. l. George mace
motion condcrnning the unChritianlike conduct
Of the Social Purity party in assalilg Hlr OIalc,
and the motion was adopted amid hearty cheers
from the supporters of Sir Charles. 1esterdhy
AT a Liberal meeting a resolution was a1ople9
declaring that the electors OF the dlstrlct ueeIeu
only man OF hlgn mordI cHai@oNi !" iNpA'''
them in Parliament.