St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-09
All Hope Of a Powerful Lib
eral Majority Is Now
Abandoned.
Gladstone Must Be Content
to Face His Task With
Weak Support.
His Closest Friends Assert
He Will Not Shirk the Re-
sponsibility.
Justin Mccarthy Beaten. and
Dublin Is Invaded by
the Enemy.

LONDON. July 9.-Out of the twenty
yesterdaythc Liberals lost two aud won
two. These results dispose OF the last
possibility that Mr. Gladstone will OBJ
tain reliable working majority.
Though disappointed in the burghs,"
said the Liberal chiefs, ''when the
counties wheel into line we will sweep
the country" AS the elections held
yesterday are fairly representative, no
great Liberal triumph can be expected
from the county votes when completed.
The Liberal executive relied upon
capturing ten counties in the voting yes
terday. They admitted that their cal
culations must be realized in order to
fulfill their expectation that the agri-
cultural labor vote was theirs. With
their prediction falsifed. the last hope
that the Gladstone government would
be butressed by strong, coherent party
failed. On the contrary, the Liberal
majority must now depend on the Irish
party. Even with the support of both
the Irish sections. it is impossible that
Mr. Gladstone will have more than
A Majority of Fifty.
AT the Conservative headquarters a
majority of more than twenty is held to
be improbable Capt. Middleton. who
occupies in the Conservatives a position
similar to that held Dy Mr.. SchnaidhOrst
in the Liberal party, can point to his es-
innate made prior to the elections as
now being verified. The Conservatives
regard with malicious equanimity the
prospect of Mr. Gladstone in power
with the sole prop of the Irish vote be-
tween him and collapse.
Among the certainties of the future,
nothing is so certain as that a long
period Of political turmoil is before the
country. A Conservative government
with small majority readily controlled
and accustomed to obey would be COM
paratively secure. Mir. Gladstone. with
a small majority composed of motley
groups of Liberals, Radicals, Laborists,
McCarthyites and Parnellites would be
unable 10 effect any serious legislation.
rumor that he will decline to form
ministry. and that he will recommend
The queen to send for Earl Spencer for
that purpose. sd{
Will Face the Test.
The Liberals rightly ridicule the
rumor. They know that their chief,
even with nominal majority of twenty,
is ready to take Office and produce his
home rule bill. They are also begin
ming to admit that the chances of home
rule passing the house of commons are
becoming remote. If ever it does pass
no strain will be put upon the house of
lords in rejecting it. as the peril to the
house of lords lay in vetoing home rule
as backed by the declared will of the
country. All danger of that is now
past. They can reject it with a light
heart.
Among other difficulties awaiting a
Liberal government is the formation of
labor party not caring rap for home
rule and ready to coaleSce with any
side. Already Burns and Harde, the
strongest personal forces among the
Liberists, declare their intention to Or
ganize party iD parliament and max
ing terms for their support. When
majority is doubtful even ten laboristS
following Burns might decide the fate
of the government. Besides, along with
the pure laborists, the new London
members will form municipal social
iSt group equally
Regardless of Home Rule
and determined not to allow IrishQues
tions to block the progress Of social re-
forms. With these and other factors
operating against him, Mr.. Gladstone'S
cherished scheme to give Ireland sep
arate legislature seems hopeless
achievement.
Concerning home rule. Mr.. Gladstone
in recent declaration said that the bill
would follow the general lines of the
measure of 1856, with some changes
that have already been announced, III
eluding the retention of Irish members
in their imperial parliament: the en-
ployment Of the police and mill
tary to enforce the payment
of all taxes levied by the
Ifish parliament: restricting the pow
ers of the Irish legislature to interfere
with the endowment of religion or to
impose disability or confer Il privilege
on account of religious belief, and Civ
ing further guarantees regarding de-
nOminatiOnaE education. He referred
to the adjustment of the pecuniary
burdens of Ireland, and alluded to a re-
vision OF the proposals relating to the
arrangements between the imperial and
irish echequer and the proportion of
the national debt to be assigned. to Ire
land. In 1855 this was calculated as
One-fifteenth for Ireland, based OH esti-
mates Of taxation. ratable values, etc.
This has been found to be gross over
estimate entailing oyertaXation of the
long engaged Gladstone's attention and
in it he was assisted by Goschen. This
inquiry tends to show that Ireland can
only be justifiably apportioned about
one-twenty-second part of the debt,
making another great difference in ad
justing the pecuniary burdens under
the new bill.
Some Pleasant Surprises.
The Liberals scored victory in the
defeat of r. B. Find!ay. the Liberal
candidate in Inverness. whose desertion
of Mr.. Gladstone made him almost as
obnoxious to Scotch Liberals as Mr.
Chamberlain is to English Liberals
Another welcome surprise to Lib
erals was their victory in the
Ince district of Lancashire. UneX.
pccted as it was. it became a
double triumph by the largeness of the
present Liberal vote as compared with
that i'll 1883. On the other hand there
was disappointment to find the East
London district Deptford =
which had been looked upon aa 6
trades union stronghold, but was aap
tured by a Conservative. The Liber al;
made mistake in putting up Lord Ed
mund Fitzmauricc, a merely hereditary
Liberal, 10 fight Conservative OF
strong local influence. The result il
Deptford leaves net Liberal gain in
tbe metropolis Of twelve,
Excepting Mr.. !ntiIrchie, all of the cab
net Ministers are now reelected. Mos
of mi mam bQrc M ba a,,f inf