Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03
THE TORIES HAVE NO HOPE,
Though Publicly They Claim They
Are Sure They'll Win Out
MARKETMEN RIOTING IN MADRID.
A Civil Guard Unable to Disperse Them
Till Volley is Fired.
FRENCH TROOPS FIGHT WITH PIRATES
rBr CABLE 70 THE prsrArcH. j

LONDON, July Il Copyf1gnl "A mlo
the present political storm and stress one
cannot faii to be struck by the calm conf
dence in immediate triumph displayed BY
the Liberals. TheGrand Old Man is serenely
sure about it. the humblest fighting man
among his followers has no doubt about it,
and the Tories, while protesting assurance
In public, admit privately that they have
no hope Of victory.
NOBODY speculates upon what will hap
pen should Lord Salisbury be returned to
power, because that contingency is by gen.
eral consent regarded as too remote to be
worth considering at all. Tories as we'll as
Liberals talk of nothing that is not based
upon the assumption that Mr.. Gladstone
will he prime minister in two or three
weeks time.
Difference of opinion is mainly mani
tested when the extent of MI. Gladstone's
majority is the subject of discussion. The
Tories hone that without the 80 odd Irish
Nationalists he will have no majority at all;
cautious calculators, with whom some ex-
perts agree, place the Liberal. majority at
80 over the Tories, Liberal Unionists and
Nationalists combined; and the enthusias-
tic provincial Liberal, whaee faith is always
more robust than that of his London
elected by Baitish constituencies will out
number the Tory and Mugwump members
by quite 110
Figures for the Confidence.
The latter gives mathematical reasons for
his prodigious confidence. There were, he
saws, 410 seats in Great Britain contested in
1885 and 1856. Bye-elections have taken
place in 80 of them since 1885. and of 60
Tory seats thus trebly contested, % were
Ix-- he ihoro1S bila fhe Toriae eyai od
only one seat out of 81 rendered vacant
during the same period Applying the
rule Of three to these figures the confident
provincial extracts for Mr.. Gladstone net
British majority of ITO, and is greatly COM
forted.
Mr. Gladstone's electoral campaign has
so far been a magnificent success His
speeches, fully reported even in the Tory
newspapers, have deeply moved the people,
and the spectacle of the aged statesman
fighting in the forefront of the battle to the
cry of ''iustice to ireland" has fired the pop
ulsr imagination in an extraordinary man.
neE
Mr. Gladstone at this moment is address,
ing, at Glasgow. his second great public
meeg%g Next week he will make several
short speeches everv day, mostly to OPEN
air gatherings, and it is probable that be
will remain in Midlothian until after the
polling day, on the 18th instant He is in
excellent health and overfowing spirits,
and the slight injury to his left eye, caused
by gingerbread cracker thrown for luck
by an over-enthusiastic lady admirer at
Chester, has ceased to give trouble.
Ssiisbury's Address a Surprise.
Lord Salisbury's address to the electors
of the United Kingdom caused much sur
prise to politicians, as it followed close
upon the publication of semi-official state
ment that the Premier did not propose to
do anything of the kind. Mr.. Baltour
went down to Hatfield on Sunday, however,
and persuaded his uncle that something
must be done in view of the deep despond-
ency prevailing in the party on the eve of
the elections
preston that Lord Salisbury rendered him
self liable to pains and penalties by thus
directly interfering in elections with which,
as peer, he is supposed to have no concern.
A standing order Of the House of Commons
declares ut is high infringement of the lib
critics and privileges of the Commons of the
United Kingdom tor any lord of Parlia-
ment or other peer or prelate to concern
himself in the election of members to serve
for the commons in Parliament" But |
the Tories have just made q dis
covery that when the House of
Commons has been dissolved its standing |
orders cease to exist also, and remain In \
abeyance until they have been re-enacted |
by new House. Some Tory PEERS there |
fore, are taking an active part in the present |
electoral struggle, and there is certainly no |
law on the statute book by which they can |
be prevented or punished, although their |
interference is certainly contrary to consti- |
tutional usage. They are not likely to do |
their party much good by their unusual |
efforts.
GIadstone's Elective Campaign.
Mr.. Gladstone is making most effective /
use in his stirring campaign in Midlothian, 1
of Lord Sallsbury's manifesto, and the Duke
of Norfolk has done the Liberals excellent
service by ridiculous letter or manifesto
designed to prove that it is the bounden
duty of Catholics to vote for Tory candi-
dates He argued that home rule must be
wrong because "it is to be handed over to
men who have defed the Pope's decree"
But the burden OF ali Tory speeches, and
the foundation of all Tory arguments, made
alike BY Lord Salisbury and the humblest
orange tub thumper at Ulster meetings, IL
that home rule will place the Protestants of
Ireland at the mercy Of willing, subservient
tools Of the Pope.
Free traders profess great satisfaction
with the proceedings of the conference of
Chambers OF Commerce, which terminated
yesterday. There was plenty of protection
jst talk, to be sure, but il came chiefly IRON
the mouths OF Canadian ueleg2tes, and the
division lists on Sir Charles Tupper's reso-
luton in favor of preferential duties show
that ''the free trade heresy" has taken little
hold upon British traders
Free Traders Rather Well Pleased.
Members of the Golden Club and other
enthusiasts declare that the facts ELECTED at
the conference confirm and strengthen their
belief that if Canada would only summon
up courage to adopt unrestricted tree trade
she would soon knock the bottom out of the
United States The Pail Mall Gaestte is
OF the opinion that the United States
has become such an expensive ooun-
try to live in that Canadians, by
making their country q cheap one,
could divert the stream of emigration from
the States to Manitoba Canada has need
&c take heroic measures in this direction,
for the predicted emigration boom has not
come TO pass, despite help given to agents
by the Board OF Trade and pestofice de-
partments. Thousands OF rural postoficcs
are placarded with attractive descriptions
of the Dominion and its advantages for
emigrants, but the men wanted, the small
farmers and agricultural laborers, show no
disposition to move toward the promised
land.
Anarchist IncIting to Rebellion.
PARIS, July IA large number Of An