St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-03
Tuesdays Voting Relied on
to Definitely Forecast the
Ultimate Result.
Both Sides Sensibly Avoid
Contests in Hopeless Con-
StitueneieS.
Colossal Campaign Fund in
the Hands of ConServa-
tive Managers.
Friends of Home Rule Have
Aching Hearts Over Irish
Faction Fights.

:. LONDON, July 2.-The week is at
hand to which Tory and Liberal states
men have looked forward for years, and
with all the hurrahing on one side and
the other it would be rash to say that
the leaders of each party are at all GER
tain as to the result. Today's uncon-
tested elections are, however, the best
evidence that the campaign has been
thoroughly, aad, it may be said, seem
tifcally organized. Both parties re-
solved to waste no money in conStitu-
encieS that gave no reasonable promise
of return in the elections, and that reso-
luton accounts for the fact that seats
which were contested by the Liberals
in 1856 have been allowed to go to the
other side today without contest, and
vice versa.
In the struggle of 1856 the parties
were feeling their way. Nobody knew
how many Liberals had been allenated
on home rule issues, and many of the
candidates were put forward by the
Liberal party merely as feelerS of the
constituencies. The results of that con-
test told how the land lay after the
earthquake, and they serve as a guide
as to constituencies in which it would
be hopeless for one or the other party to
pat up candidates. Wherever the Lib
erals met defeat only by narrow mar
gin in 1856, theShaye soundly concluded
that they have
More Than a Chance
now of recapturing the seat. and in
some constituencies where they met
with signal reverses in the last campaign
circumstances have since arisen to give
good ground for expecting Liberal vic
tory now. But no money has been
wasted in the nomination of candidates
on a will-of-the-wisp speculation.
The list of candidates returned today
includes some illuStriOuS names, a fact
which accounts for the nominees being
returned without a contest. TO Amer
leans an uninterrupted representation
of one community by one man for over
fifty years may well, perhaps, excite
surprise. The man is Right Hon.
Charles Pelham Villiers. who has rep
resented WolverhamptOn in parliament
for over half century. But the veneer
able Mr.. VillierS is not the oldest men,
Der in the house of commons in point of
service. although the oldest in years.
Mr.. Gladstone, although seven years
younger than Mr.. Nilliers, was first
elected to parliament sixty years ago
next December, aud Christopher M.
Talbot, of Glamorganshire, has repre-
Sented that shire for fifty-fve years,
having had contest only three times
during that period. Mr.. Talbot is lord
lieutenant of his county, and enjoys the
distinction of having refused q neerape
He is eighty-siX years of age. The
contest.
WIFI Open in Earnest,
both in Great Britain and Ireland, Mon
day. Tuesday will probably tell the
fate of home rule SO far as the next
parliament is concerned, and before the
close of the week the world will know
whether Salisbury or Gladstone is to
govern the British empire. The Tories
have raised tremendous election fund
no less, it is reported, than 9300,00O.
This money is largely contributed by
men who are not in politics, like the
Duke of Westminster, Baron Hirsch,
Col. North and others, who are each
afraid that their vested interests will be
affected unfortunately by the Liberal
success or hope for favorS from the Tory
government. Baron HirSch has his eye
on British peerage, and means to get
it if a lavish use of money will enable
him to obtain it. The Liberals have not
large election fund, and they will
therefore be hampered to some extent
in These, legitimate expenditures per-
United by law-eXpenditures compare
lively small in each instance, but enor-
nous in the aggregate of general
election.