Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-15
BRITISH POLITICS.
AN INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY
LOOMS UP oMINousLN
The Extent asd Danger Of the Ulster Move
ment Against Home Bais-Tns BIZ
var Confsrsncs-Notes.
Copyrighted, 1899. BY tho New York Associated
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Ioxpov. NAV 1l.-Mr. Balfour will meet
the conservative election agents May slst.
when a definite indication will be gwen OF
the date of the general election. In the
meantime agents swarm In the Hobbies OF
the House of Commons, Fostering Minis
tiers, whips, and members to expedite dis
solution. The Cabinet decision, when IL
Is announced, will find the parties all
round fully prepared and everything In
readiness.
qbe Liberals forecast events thus: The
vrits will he issued June 28th. Two weeks
later the borough elections will be COM
Melted. and within three weeks the county
elections. According to the statute new
Parliament must assemble within l35 days
of the dissolution of the preceding one:
So the first week in August. II the general
expectation is fulfilled, will see MIR. Glad
stone reinstated in power.
HOME RULE.
The Irish party take it for granted that
the special session to be held in November
will proceed with the home-rule question.
Probably Mr.. Gladstone will not be In such
a hurry. He has privately expressed the
oninion that the home-rule movement IN
Iss6 suffered from haste in its preparation
and declared that he would not make q
similar mistake.
In the electoral field startling phe-
nomenon is the activity of the lndepen-
dent Labor party. No less than 100 candi-
dates ara already in the field, backed by
subscriptions from the trades unions, local
societies. and Tory donations. In daily
increasing number of districts the work
incmen oppose the Liberals. Mr.. Glad
stones negative opposition to the pay
ment of members of the House and to the
eight-hour movement. and his indifference
TO other articles of the Newcastle pro-
gramme cherished by the workingmen, has
alienated q considerable mass OF the
electors.
THE ULSTER MOVEMENT.
Doubt is expressed in many quarters re-
garding the earnestness OF the Ulster move
ment. and this has melted the leaders to q
more violent beating of the war-drum.
Mr.. Saunderson's speech at the st. Ste
phen's Club dinner openly proclaimed the
intention of the Obstetrics to resort To
armed force in their resistance to Dublin
parliament. Ulster would, he said, MAKE
short work of an Irish House or Commons
He led the largest united section OF IRISH
men. who would BIO able, If they were
tested. to wreck the Dublin parliament
His declarations were received with enthu
siastic cheers. While the Lord Chancellor
censures the language as dangerous the
theory of rebellion is heard ID silence
Several members of the Cabinet side witt
the Lord Chancellor in condemning LORD
Salisbury's Indictment to civil war. bu'
the rank and file of the Tories approve 1T
Mr.. j. w. Lowther, parliamentary secre
tary of the Foreign Office, speaking at {
public gathering last night, referred to the
expressed belief that Ulster would evoke
the aid of English loyalists, and said thai
the result would be that the world woulc
see the sternest contest that had occurred
since England was created nation. Thl:
was received with loud cheers.
On the whole the conviction strengthen:
that the Ulster convention Will be his
tory-making event. The recent appeal OF
Irish Non Conformist members TO thell
brethren in Great Britain has been rein
forced by circular letter signed by Rev
DIR. Brown, chairman of the Irish Presby
terrain Assembly: DR.. Lynde, an ex-chair
man of that body; DR.. Usher, leadin!
Baptist. and Mr.. Guard. prominen
Methodist. again declaring the certainty
of a sangulnary civil war If Ireland Il
placed under parliament In which priest
iy influence will be paramount.
THE MONETARY CONFERENCE.
Efforts made to-day to sound Mr.. Go
schen as 70 the basis of the bimetallic con
ference elected the reponse that he Won IL
not speak on the subject while negotia
tions are in progress, as the solution of thu
the problem might be compromises 1t III
formation were given out now. This Ian
guage, with the tenor of his expression
to the Chamber OF Commerce deputatlon
is accepted as indicating MIR. Goscheni
belief thai the conference will not prove
the futility the monometallists predict
While the leading London papers ar,
against the conference the chief proyin
cial journals acclaim 1t.
The financial papers are discussing The
ratio between silver and gold in the even
of an international agreement being
reached. Letters from the experts, II. III
Grenfell and Samuel Montague, concur il
expressing the opinion that the fixing o.
an exact ratio is not the essence of The
question, and that any ratio proximately