Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
GLADSTONE GAINS 80,
Giving Him a Majority in the
Next Parliament of As
or Thereabouts.
ENOUGH FOR THE PURPOSE,
According to the Grand Old Man,
Though Less Than Expected.
THE LIBERALS NOT DISCOURAGED.
Morleys Blue Outlook in a Newcastle's
Triangular Fight
ENOUGH FOR THE PURPOSE,
THE LIBERALS NOT DISCOURAGED.
ALL COURTESY THROWN TO THE WINDS
TBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH ]

hundred and fifty out of go members who
constitute the House of Commons have nov
been elected, and the parties this evening
stand as follows: Liberals, 266; National.
lists. 65; Parnellites, g. Conservatives, 26o
Liberal Unionists Al Gladstone has gained
altogether in Great Britain so seats, but
against this magnificent achievement must
unfortunately be set 10 Conservative and
six Unionist gains in Great Britain and Ire
land
The net Liberal gain, therefore, is 55.
OF the remaining 20 seats Gladstone can
scarcely win more than two. and his major
ity in the new Parliament cannot exceed As
This result, it must be confessed, is not
equal to the sanguine hopes with which the
Liberals went into the fight, but Mr. Glad
stone is confident that it will suffice for his
purpose.
Not the least satisfactory feature of the
struggle, which practically ends to-day,
is the drastic manner in which the
constituencies have treated the Liberal
Unionist party, led by the Duke of Devon
shire, and that most venomous of Mug
wumps, Joseph Chamberlain. The party
numbered 70 members at the beginning of
the last Parliament, it lost several seats at
the bye-elections, and to-day it can muster
only A men, including six who accord
ingly won seats during the present contest
Gladstone Not Entirely Satisfied.
But this punishment, although to all ap-
pearance sufficiently severe, does not sat
isfy Mr.. Gladstone and his more ardent fol-
lowers who long ago made up their minds
that the Mugwumps would not number
more than 80 in the new Parliament. Mr..
Gladstone displayed his disappointment in
a letter published yesterday addressed to
the Liberal candidate for Handsworth
division, Staffordshire, in the course of
which he said: "Of all classes of candi-
dates now before the country none is SO
hopeless as the dissentient Liberal I can
not help hoping that the Tories, if left
to themselves, would have had good sense
enough to restore harmony between Eng
land and ireland by settling the irish ques-
tion, but here are set of geatlemen whose
creed seems to be summed u I'm their hatred
of the Irish cause, and who, in their in
dulgence of that unhappy sentiment, have
foresworn, one by one, all their liberal
ideas, and yet continue to maintain the
name of political creed of which they are
the masked but not dangerous enemies"
But, after all, the reduction of this polit-
icsl party from 73 to A is a striking piece
of work of which the Liberals have good
reason to be proud. Mr.. Gladstone is now
resting in the Scottish Highlands, but he
will be in London next week in order to
confer with his lieutenants as to the course
to be pursued at the reassembling of Parlia-
ment on August 4
Salisbury Waits to Be Kicked Out,
1t is understood that Lord Salisbury has
made up his mind not to retire gracefully,
but will want to be kicked out. He argues
that the numerical strength of the Tory
party still exceeds that of anv other single
party in Parliament, and that be is not
bound to count labor members, Parnellites
and anti-Parnellites among Mr.. Gladstone's
followers, until they have actually gone
with him into the same Parliamentary
division lobby. This, of course, is
merely a device for postponing the
inevitable, but at the most it will
not delay Mr.. Gladstone's return to power
beyond a week or two. 1t will involve
among other small inconvenience, a set
debate upon the Queens speech, in the
course Of which the Tories hope they will
he able to force Mr. Gladstone's hand by
compelling him prematurely to divulge the
details of his home rule bill They ought
to know the ''old parliamentary hand" bet
ter than that They are toredoomed to
disappointment. The Grand Old Man will
beat them in strategy and tactics, and will
carry vote of censure in the way which
seems best to him notwithstanding the
Parliamentary fllibustering which the
Tories are already threatening.
Of the 81 Irish seats which a wear ago
Timothy Harrington confidently predicted
would be won by Parnellites, only nine
have been secured by that faction, a result
which speaks highly for the good sense and
patriotism Of the people.
Harrington's Offer That Was spurned.
A large Nationalist majority was never
in doubt, but few people believed that the
factionists would be SO utterly routed.
Upon the eve of tine general election Har-
rington made what he described as a gener-
Gus offer, made solely in the interest of
peace, that there should be no contests in
Nationalist constituencies if 80 seats were
allotted to his party, but If that offer were |
rejected he and his friends "would make it |
hot in every sense of the word" for the |
all over Ireland
In order to avoid contests which would |
let in Tories, the Nationalists offered the |
Parnellites II seats, but that offer, generous |
in the circumstances, was coptemptuousIy |
rejected, with the result that while proving |
to the world their own insignifcance, the
Parnellites have made a present to the |
Tories of five Nationalist seats. The Tories |
are as much chagrined as the Parnellites
They had counted, in their ignorance of |
Ireland, upon the presence in the new Par.
Lament of an Irish party almost equally
divided and they would have been prepared |
to pay high price for the Parnellite sup
port against Gladstone, but that assistance
is now scarcely worth purchasing.
Meanwhile, however, the Parnellites are
PLAYING the Tory game BY en-
deavoring to SOW distrust between Nation
alists and Liberals. The Independent, the
chief Parnellite organ, gave prominence
yesterday TO a ridiculous statement pur-
porting to emanate from London to the
effect that Gladstone had decided, with the
of the Irish members, to shelve
home rule in order to give him an opportu-
lity OF reforming the electoral system.
Statement Without Foundation.
The statement is an impudent and ma
icious fabrication. Mr. Gladstone will
proceed with his home rule scheme with the
east possible delay The Irish leaders had
positive assurance TO that effect before the
,eneral election commenced, and Gladstone
ould not have gone back upon them had
lis majority been double its present size.
But that majority now absolutely depends |
pon the Irish vote, and that fact, If there |
rere nothing else, affords of itself ample