The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-22
NEW PARLIAMENT.
Gladstone's Majority Will Number
Forty Counting Everything.
Conservatives Preparing a Vigorous Policy
to Force Gladstone to Declare HIS
MISUNDERSTANDING of the
Voting.

LONDON, July 1S-The movement to
induce Mr.. Balfour to contest Midlo
THAN against Mr.. Gladstone when the
latter resigns his seat on accepting Of
fee is quite persistent one. 1t has
two pretexts: First Mr.. Balfour's
prominence. making him a fit antagon'
list for the liberal leadership; second,
that Balfour owns estates contiguous
to Midlothian and has various interests
in that district, thus giving him some
excuse for asking the sufirages of the
people there. 1t is not considered here
that Balfour will consent to fight Mr..
Gladstone in this way. He is on very
friendly personal terms with Mr.. Glad
stone.
The whole machinery of the party
will be brought into play, and 1t is
thought by the leaders that there is q
good chance TO overcome Mr.. Glad
stones first majority of only 100 Mr..
| Gladstones friends regret his recent
boasting language on the church and
state division. They adhere to the fact
that 60 per cent of the electors of Mid
! lothian are churchmen, many of whom
will sink their ideas in favor of the
Irish autonomy for the sake OF demon
strating their loyalty to the established
kirk.
The Scotch tories will hold q banquet
in honor of Col. Wauchope, in Edin-
burgh, at which the prospects for the
second contest will be discussed. 1t is
! expected that Mr.. Schandhorst, the lib
eral caucus manager. will personally
engineer the contests in Midlothian and
| Newcastle, the latter being John Nor
! lev's division. The result in the first
will hinge upon the church vote, and in
the second on the labor vote and the
eight hour question. .
All the cabinet ministers have been
summoned to London for Thursday
next. Mr.. Balfour. arriving in town
yesterday. proceeded to Hatfield house
| to see Lord Salisbury. The latter went
| to Windsor to meet the duke of Devon
shire, who has been staying at the
castle for some time Here he had a
conference with her majesty and re-
turned TO London this evening, accom-
panied by the duke of Devonshire.
1t is expected that some Developments
OF an unwonted character are impend-
ing. A number of members of the
Carlton club came into town to watch
events. The political clubs are crow d.
ed. y rumor is rife that the Carlton
club men state that section of the cab
met want Lord Salisbury to resign
forthwith, in order to force Mr.. Glad
stone to meet the house of commons
with a full disclosure of his home rule
and general policy, and SO precipitate
the crisis.
The liberal leaders are prepared to
take office Immediately or await the
defeat of the government on the amend
ment to the address. No tactics that
the present government can adopt will
force the hands of Mr.. Gladstone. If
Lord Salisbury does not await formal
vote of expulsion, the liberal govern
ment policy, as outlined in the queens
speech, can be so couched as to reveal
nothing that the conservatives do not
already know. If the conservatives re-
" upon forcing Mr. Gladstone to de-
clare himself fully on the debate to the
amendment, that depends on his pleas
ure.
An analysis of the latest returns
shows the value of the British vote on
which the conservatives now rely as the
bulwark for the rejection of home rule
The number of members thus far re-
turned is 652. This leaves only eighteen
results vet undeclared. England has
sent 2S4 conservatives, 1913 liberals in
GLIDING members of the labor party,
thirty unionists and one McCarthyitc
(O'Connor). Scotland sends eleven
conservatives. fifty liberals and ten
unionists- Wales sends two con-
servatives and twenty-six liber-
ais, and Ireland, seventeen con-
servatives. five unionists, siXty-four
McCarthyites and nine Parnellites The
opposition combined thus aggregates
sac and the uniOnists SO. OF the eight
cen seats unreturned, seven Irish and
six British in the late parliament were
held by the opposition and five by the
unionists. As changes are unlikely,
the new parliament will consist of $50
Gladstonians and 315 unionists. The
total number of unionists returned
by Great Britain is 292 and the
total Gladstonians 275, includ-
ing to-days results in the eighteen re-
naming districts. When Great Britain
shows a clear majority for home rule,
SAYS the unionists' press, 1t will come.
1t can never be carried by Irish votes,
especially when these votes are in ex-
cess of their proportion according to
the relative population of the countries
The total number of votes recorded up
to date is Us follows: Opposition, =, 199,-
59i; unionists, 1904, 292.