Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
THE TORIES JUBILANT,
But Their Rapture Destined to Be Of
Not Long Duration.
COTTON GROWING IN RUSSIA
Not Yet Such q Success That American
Planters Need Fear It
NO FOURTH OF JULY IN LONDON TOWN
rBY CABLE TO THE prsPArcH.]


LONDON, July g. Copyright - Mr.
Gladstone has had harder fight than be
expected, but to Liberals of strong faith
and to students of political meteorology
ultimate success was never in doubt The
latter class felt rather discouraged Tuesday
evening when, as polling returns came
rolling in over the wires, it was seen that
seats which were Liberal in 1885 and Tory
in 1886 had not been won, and that Tories
were actually gaining unexpected victories
in constituencies thought to be safely
Liberal
Tory newspapers Wednesday morning
were jubilant as if they instead of the Lib
erals had made considerable net gain, and
the results were even described as emf
nently satisfactory. These editorial COM
ments were inspired BY the same feeling
that for five years past has induced Tories
to shout thanksgivings whenever they man.
aged to save one of their seats in a bye
election, yet strange to say, dependency
prevailed for awhile in the Liberal camp,
because If seemed evident that Gladstone
was not going to sweep the country, and
these creatures of impulse had not bar
gained, as wiser meu would have done, for
occasional reverses which the most skillful
commanders cannot always guard against in
q great campaign.
Never Any Cause for Alarm.
1t is now seen that there never was cause
for serious alarm, for the close of each days
polls showed a net gain for Gladstone and
home rule. Next weeks polling in the
counties will certainly give the Liberals
additional gains, but rural constituencies in
this country are proverbially uncertain and
II is too soon to particularize the extent of
the home rule majority.
Up till Friday morning Tories were con-
ident that the most Gladstone could do
would be to secure majority of s or 10 by
aid OF the Irish members, and the in
tentions # the Government were a matter
of Common talk at the Carlton Club in Pail
Mall, and the Constitutional Club in Nor
thumberland avenue, London. Salisbury was
to chang on, a new Parliament was al
ready summoned to meet for business on
August I, was to be prorogued to November,
and thereafter to February, thus enabling
the Government TO enter into negotiations
with Irish members with q view to obtain
their support.
The Government is deeply pledged not to
grant Ireland home rule, but it is under q
solemn promise to deal with the question
of Irish local self-government, and it
would not be difficult to draft virtual
home rule measure and style 1t local gov
eminent bill Irish members, it was urged,
would prefer half loaf to DO bread; an in
stallment of home rule would be better than
nothing at all, bird in the hand was worth
two in the bush and SO on.
still Room to Down the Tories.
But there is still room for hope that the
constit uencies will give Gladstone small
majority, irrespective of the Irish members,
thus spelling the Tory plans and furnishing
8 most effective guarantee that justice shall
be done to Ireland promptly and gener-
ously.
Mr.. Arnold Morley, chief Liberal whip,
who ought to know something about elec-
tion matters, told a meeting in Noting
hamshire last evening that he saw no reason
to be dissatisfied with the results so far
achieved. They did not expect to make
their great gains in the borough constitu-
encies but they expected to realize them in
the county contests, which began that dav.
Mr.. Gladstone said the same thing in the
course Of a conversation at Dalmeny this
afternoon.
On the other hand, Sir Michael Hicks
predicted Tory majority of "a, but in form
ing that estimate he coolly ignored the fact
that at the time be was speaking the Lib
erals had made a net gain of q seats When
Parliament was dissolved the ministerial
majority was 68 Yesterday afternoon it
had been reduced to 80 Therefore, urged
this sapient critic, little sum in arithmetic
would show that if they went on at the
same rate there would be a Tory majority of
81 when the elections were over
Making a Ministerial Majority.
The London Standard yesterday INDUCED
in arithmetical calculations of equal quality.
In order to effect a ministerial majority,
Mr.. Gladstone fought obviously to make |
"a gains"
But as Sir William Harcourt pointed out |
last night, in lively speech at Chesterfield, |
q gain of "A seats meant the destruction of a |
majority of l4S, which the present Govern
ment never possessed.
The Ministers commenced in 1886 with a |
majority of 1l6, which at the dissolution |
bad been reduced by Liberal success to 6S, |
30 that it only required net Liberal gain |
Of 30 seats to place the Government in a |
Estimates and political conclusions based |
upon Tory arithmetic may have been cabled |
to America, so that it is well to make known |
the true state of affairs At the moment of |
cabling this the net Liberal gain is 80 seats.
Gladstone would now have a majority if |
The Irish Nationalists had presented q |
united front to the enemy.
Just How Things Now Stand.
On the 2Oth of Nav, 1891, Timothy Har-
ington, in public speech in Dublin, in
1iscreetly went into particulars respecting /
the electoral prospects of the Parnellites,
Ind named 81 seats which he was confident |
they would win. Several of these seats
have already been won by anti-Parnellites,
Ind at the moment OF cabling the members
elected in ireland are thus distributed: |
Four Parnellites, % anti-Parnellites and l6
Tories and Liberal Unionists.
Mr.. John Morley has been placed in an
position by the action of the New
,astle electors He has been elected, and
'annot, therefore, with any show of graft
ude or political decency, seek another
at present, but he was placed
econd to Tory who poiled over 5000
7otes more than he did. Newcastle is
wo-member constituency, but the Tories
lad no idea that they would win, and there
ore ran only one candidate. The figures
how that they might easily have won both
eats, and the question now of interest 10
,1r. Morley is how he will fare when he has
o seek reelection.
Morley in a Bad Box
On appointment to place in Mr.. Glad
tones Cabinet he will not be spared a con-
est, for the fight in Newcastle, whicn has
ust ended in an unexpected Tory victory,
L 4.