Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-26
PROTECTION THE ISSUE,
And 1t Is Being Made the Most of
by All Parties in England.
RED-HOT POLITICS OVER THE SEA.
KnOck-Down Arguments Things of Every
Day Occurrence.
CANADIANS IN LONDON TO CELEBRATE
tBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. J


lament will not be formally dissolved until
next Tuesday, but the great electoral strug
gle has begun in earnest Mr.. Gladstone
and the other leaders have issued theil
manifestoes in the form of addresses to theil
constituents, and have since been making
speeches daily. The newspapers contain
scarcely anything except politics, and there
is so much of that that orators usually re-
ported verbatim or to the extent of column
are now relegaUed to paragraphs
Everywhere the fight is being fought with
determination on both sides, and the popu-
lar interest and enjoyment is demonstrated
BY fsticufs as well as arguments in this
country and ireland alike.
Mr. II. NJ. Stanley the friend of Kings,
who thought that the magic of his name
would suffice to capture North Lambeth
without serious effort on his part, has been
9 howled down and mobbed by quite common
people, and has been glad to get for protec-
tion behind his wite's petticoats. MI.
Joseph Chamberlain, at Coventry. last
night, had to sit down five times in the
course of his speech, while his bodyguard
threw out scores of lnterruptors whom he
had denounced as drunken blackguards, but
who were in reality over-enthusiastic Glad
slonians who had managed to get into the
enemy's camp. His brother Richard, by a
curious incident, had an extremely warm
experience at exactly the same time in
1slington, a division of London which he is
tontesting, and like Stanley in Lambeth,
had to shelter himself behind his wife.
Even Balfour has His Turn.
Even Mr.. Balfour, in Leeds last night,
had to speak amid continual interruptions,
notwithstanding that his audience had been
carefully selected and was supposed to con-
tain not a single Liberal All this shows
that the people are taking a keen interest
in the general election, and that is good
omen for the success Of Gladstone and home
rule.
Mr. Gladstone alone seems to be able to
command universal respect. There are
never any Interruptions at his meetings,
and even the promiscuous crowds assembled
al railway stations listen to him in respect
ful silence and cheer him with unanimous
enthusiasm.
DR.. Clarke is reported to have said re-
Gently: There is no physical reason why
Mr.. Gladstone should not live to be 200
years old, and certainly at Chester, where
he addressed big meeting to-day, the
Grand Old Man seemed to be a man in the
very prime of physical and intellectual
vigor
This is emphatically the time for mani
testoes. Every interest threatened with
Parliamentary interference has issued ap-
peals to the electors, and all the faddists
and others who have knives to grind on the
great Westminster milestone have sent out
manifestoes by the thousand.
Campaign of Education.
The United Empire Trade League has
spent a small fortune in mailing literature
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protection can alone save England from
sure decay. But the league is not likely to
get any return for its money, except, per-
haps, in Sheffield, where its president,
Colonel Howard Vincent, is one Of the Tory
candidates
The local organ of Toryism, the Daily
Telegraph, has for years past been advocating
protection, and apparently with consider
able effect, because in Sheffield the election
will be fought more upon economic ques-
tions than upon home rule. Sheffield, more
than any other manufacturing center in
England, has felt the effect of the new
American tariff and Mckinley is, in conse-
quence, a name abhorred.
Major Mckinley little knew when, a
week or more ago, he praised Lord Sails
bury's protectionist utterances, what a
scurvy trick he was playing upon the Shelf
field Tories. His words were cabled here,
dAO AhCN arc at tuls placarOeQ
big and flaming posters on the grimy walls
of the cutlery town. 'Vote for the friends
Of Mckinley and protection" is one of
many telling mock appeals issued from the
Liberal committee rooms. 1t stares in the
face thousands of men who for many months
past have been walking about town with
idle hands in their pockets cursing the
American to whom they believe their
troubles are primarily due, and talking of
fha uoad ripno hafora foE Eip1o Al.
was no stint of beef and beer and the work.
ingman had money to spare to back his
faVorite sprinter or race horse.
Salisbury Working Hard
The Tories are trying hard to prove that
there is nothing in common between them
and American protectionists, and working
men are asked to help return Lord Sails
bury to power, in order that he may demon
strate how little he loves Major Mckinley.
Tory candidates of the baser sort are max |
ing INSCRIPTIONS use of the anti-popery cry |
started by Lord Salisbury, and emphasized |
by the Protestant conventions held in Bel |
tsst, Dublin and London.
According to the Ulster newspapers dis |
covery has just been made at Portadown |
which will doubtless be trumpeted forth at |
many Tory meeting as another proof of |
the danger of home rule to the Protestant |
minority in Ireland. The story is that men |
engaged in making a quay at Portadown |
have in the course of their excavations on |
the river bank discovered about q dozen |
human skulls ''and other fragments of the |
remains of Protestants massacred by being
driven into the river by rebellious Catholics
in 1641."
One scarcely knows which to admire the
more, the singular opportuneress of this
discovery" or the precision with which
the religious complexion of human remains
$50 years old was ascertained.
A Feast for the Lawyers
One curious effect of the general election
is to put money into the pockets of lawyers
who, as rule, are not overburdened with |
briefs. About three-fourths of the leading |
barristers practicing in the high court of
Justice are candidates for parliamentary
honors, and as the judges have declined to
postpone cases for their convenience until
after the elections they have had 10 return
briefs already in hand and refuse others.
The novel spectacle has therefore been
afforded of solicitors searching in vain for
counsel Litigants will benefit by this
state of things because, instead of paving
100 guineas for a fashionable barrister's
services, they are now getting men prob
ably quite as efficient for tenth of the
money!
The electoral campaign has opened in
Ireland with brutal assault in streets of