Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-17
security that no attempt will be made to
trife with Ireland's demands.

security that no attempt will be made to
trifie with Irsland's demands.
The Tory leaders have not vet met to con-
slider their course of action, but the utter
ances of their inspired organs in the press
leave no room for doubt that their policy is
to be fighting one. The home rule bill
will be contested, clause by clause and
line by line, and every device of parlia-
mentary obstruction will be used to defeat
1t Nor can there be any doubt that when
the bill reaches the House of Lords it will
be thrown out The peers might have hesi-
tated to take such daring action had Glad
stone obtained the majority in Great
Britain, but with the Liberals in an actual
minority of British votes, it may be taken
as absolutely certain that no quarter will be
given to them by their hereditary foes.
AGreater Struggle Yetto Come.
In every quarter the general election
now ending is regarded merely as prelim-
mary to greater struggle to come, prob
ably In the summer of next year. Tory
and Liberal newspapers alike are already
e1horting their partisans to take care that
their names are placed on the new register
of voters which will be made up at the end
of this month, and in many constituencies
successful as well as unsuccessful candidates
are making their personal arrangements on
the assumption that year OF hard work is
before them.
In pursuance of their new fighting policy
the Tories have resolved upon the usual
course of opposing the reelection of men,
bers of the new Cabinet Hundreds Of
years ago the House of Commons, in its
wisdom, decreed that any member accept
ing place of profit under the Crown should
e. l. L.
to his constituents for reelection or re-
lection. The rule has long ceased
to be of any practical value, because the
Crown no longer dares to gain its way with
the House of Commons by bribery and cor
ruption, but remains in force. Usually
new Ministers, by courtesy of their op-
ponents, are reelected without opposition,
and almost invariably so when q general
election has just taken place, but upon this
occasion the reelection of every man who
accepts position in Gladstone's home rule
Cabinet is to be stoutly opposed.
Newcastle the Seat of War.
Preparations for these ungracious conflicts
are being actively made, and especially in
Newcastle, wher, John Morley is to be op-
posed bv labor candidate as well as
Tory. Keir Hardie, young labor leader
who has just been made NJ. P. for West
ham by liberal votes, has ungratefullv gone
down to Newcastle to take charge of the
campaign against Morley, much to the de-
light of the Tories who hail the incident
as timely proof of the instability
of Gladstone's majority Fortunately, how
ever, there is not another labor member
who would act as Hardie is now acting.
They all owe their seats to Liberals, apart
from labor votes, and everyone of them e1-
cept Hsrdie has sense enough to grasp the
significance of that fact. Hardie, being
young and vain, will probably not realize it
until he has alienated the bulk of his con-
stituents and finds himself out in the cold
after the next election.
The probabilities are that even Mr.. Glad
stone will not be spared the ordeal of an
other election, for it is ,,thoritativsly an
nounced to-day that, emboldened BY their
success in reducing the Grand Old Mans
majority in Midlothian, 'the Conservatives
and Liberal Unionists have commenced an
energetic canvass of the constituency, with
view, if thought advisable, of contesting
the seat, in event of Mr.. Gladstone accept
ing Office as Prime Minister"
An Attack Bound to Fai'.
The proposed attack will certainly tail,
but the fact that such action should be seri-
ouslv considered is one of the many signs
of the evaporation of the Tories at being
defeated, and Colonel Kenyon Slaney,
publicly % denounced Mr. Gladstone as
one of whom nothing was more
clear than that those who knew
him best trusted him least" and Tory
speeches and Tory newspapers almost |
teem with similar abuse, showing that |
orators and writers have been severe
" hit. For many years, however.
Mr.. Gladstone has been the best |
abused man in the United Kingdom, and
has learned to pursue his way needless of
the swapping and snarliug of insignificant
enemies He loves to fight well enough |
when the foes are worthy of bis steel, and
he will have plenty of it in the coming Par
Lament.
An idea has taken hold of tine Tory mind |
that the Grand Old Man may be worried |
into retiring from public life, and the task |
will be undertaken by Balfour, Goschen |
and Chamberlain, assisted, in all prob |
ability, by Lord Randolph Churchill, who is |
about to reappear on the Parliamentary
stage in the character of the friend of the |
distressed party. The result of the general |
election has converted the powerful daily |
Chroniele, which henceforth will give stan
independent support" to Gladstone policy. !
Expressions of the Radical Feeling.
1t has transpired that Prince Christian of |
Schleswig- H Holstein, one Of the numerous
who is kept from the poorhouse by the
of the British taxpayer
vas, in some manner yet to
De explained, placed on the
electoral register for East Berkshire, and
recorded his vote for the Tory candidate.
more is likely to be heard of
his matter in the new Parliament
Meanwhile, the radical feeling about it is
indicated by the London Star, which re-
marks to-day: Royalties, supported by
he House of Commons, should not be
Illowed to vote at ALL They will
,nly vote for men who will keep
man who has received little outdoor re-
ief from the people, or a little medical aid,
,ut a royal pauper who draws Thousand a
rear is allowed to vote"
In accordance with royal proclamation
he peers of Scotland pet Thursday in the
Incient Palace of Holyrood, near Edin-
,urgh, for the purpose OF choosing 16 of
heir number to sit and vote in the new
Parliament as representative peers of Scot
and.
The Usual Protest Lodged.
What is described as the usual protest
Tas lodged against the Earl of Kellie voting
S the Earl of Mar, but the Duke of Mont
ose, who presided, refused to accept it,
Though it was Endorsed by the Duke of
sutherland. the Earls of Strathmore, Stair
nd Galloway, and Lord Sempill.
The Earl of Mar and Kellie was treblv
nrtunate, Thursday, because not only did
he peers refuse to abet the Earl of Mars
enewed attemp to rob him of half of his
tile, but they elected him a representa-
i've peer at the very moment that
e was being married in London