The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-06
THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.
LIBERALS NOT QEIiE so BU0YANT As
THEY UERE tEs7ERDJY.

Gladstone Only Eight Seats to IN. Good In
Two Days. Fighting-In 100 Divisions the
Tories " In 80. Liberal Unioni-t- q. ard
Liberals 03-fiiadstonc SIN Feels Sure
ITO WIN Win-Exrlnrer stanley and
Richard chamberlain Drreated-The Lib
erni Cnionists Are Out In the Cold.
LONDON. July 5.-To-day's pollings have not
afforded much justification for loud exultation
byany party. The gains balance losses as
between Tories md Liberals. aud Mr.. Gladstone
8 still only eight seats to tho good on two
days lighting. But hc will be doubtless salts
fed on learning how tho Mugwump Liberal
Tnionists have Jared. for tho electoral indicn-
tons go far point to the utter route OF that par
ty save In the Birmingham district whpro
Joseph Chamberlain's Influence is apparently
paramount. Among prominent Liberal
Upioni.ts who have fuiled to secure reelection
tonight are Joseph Chamberlain's brother
Richard. Theodore Fry of Bristol and Henry
NJ Stanley The seats contested to-day were
not particularly favorable to Liberal gains.
The elections tomorrow will furnish net
gain OF ten according to present indications.
Fleet street. tho Park row OF London. and
the neigh borhood Of the National Liberal
Club. OF which Mr. Gladstone Is President. arc
crowded with shouting Dritons at II o'clock
tonight. Boys are selling extras on the
streets far into tho West End. and the livcried
servants OF the big clubs in Pail Mall. Picca-
diIly. and ST. James's street arc continually
rushing out to buy newspapers containing tho
latest returns. The editorials in tho Con-
seryativs journals are hysterical and many
Tory voters are dropping into poetry. Sir
Lepc Griffin takes up quarter OF a column
O, the Standard this morning with verses en-
titled Tho Slave Market" OF which the most
striking stanZas are:
But listen to-day to the roar
GA hundred thousand throats
Where Gladstone is selling q SLAVE
For q handful Of Irish votea
while above the tum ut ands Erin
Her white limbs stripped and bare.
With the hot tears In her soft ne eyes
And shanrocks tw ned IN her hair.
She is trsading the bitter path
She Oft through the ages has trod.
And appeals from the madness OF men
To the infinite Justice Of God.
The defeat OF Henry Broadhurst, the great
labor organizer. ut Nottingham yesterday. has
received q set-ofY to-day by the defeat at
Nottingham OF Edward Heneage. the Liberal
Unionist. who formerly held Office under
Gladstone as Chancellor OF the Duchy Of Lam
caster. Heneage Is personally unpopular. and
his defeat by several hundred votes is not re-
ceived altogether unfav"rably evcn among
some Of his colleagues He is u very wealthy
man. who delig' ITS In pictures and art treas
ures. and snubs every one whom he thinks
is less foi tunately placed than himself. He Is
big man. after the Harcourt build. and did
not like being bulled on the platform by some
OF his fishermen constituents. who OCCASION
ally yelled that they would like to have him
for months cruise as a deck hand In the
herring feet. They told him that he had lot
90 Lao bofo ho prlu nt ba
fishing port OF Grmsby. ueneags was de-
feated by 100 At the last election lie had
over LOCO majority in his favor. --..
The Broadhurst fight was q hot one. He
was opposed by Col. Seely. large employer OF
labor and Q colliery owner There are over
1000 miners votes in the constituency
Broalhurst declined to support an eight
hour legal working day. but Col. seely mad
this his chief plank. Not only would he re-
strict working hours to eight daiLk but II he
had his individual way he would also give
them "a hali-hour spell between whiles"
and free lunch and beer into the bargain. This
was too much for Broadhurst, and his ma
iority OF 800 Is turned into a minority
Of 300. Tho issue turned on the eight-hour
question. There are some curious anomalies.
The Unionist vote at Gateshead has increased
1000. The Gladstonian vote Mt Westham has
increased 1.5OO. The balance is long way in
favor Of the Grand Old Man. He was jubllant
to-day. He says that the flowing tide will turn
into roaring torrent.
Tho Pail Mall Gdzeae thinks tonight that the
fate OF the various labor candidates in yester-
days elections suggests two remarks. In the
first place the labor programme has clearly
made its mark upon the constituencies. The
eight hours. In particular. scores with the re-
turn of Mr.. Keir Hardie In Westham. the dis
aster to Mr.. Broadhurst in West Nottingham
where it turned a majority OF $40 into q mi
norlty OF 3Ol. and the 2.743 votes cast for Mr.
Tilleti West Bradford. But equally clear In the
second place Is the old moral often urged that
labor In alliance with Liberalism WINS while
labor alone or In opposition to Liberalism fails.
Thus Mr.. Tilet fails to get q scat against Mr..
Illngworth in Bradford. and Mr.. Champion
Is simply nowhere In Aberdeen. while Mr..
Kerr Hardie. who has had the support OF the
Liberals In South Westham. comes in with o
big majority.
The same newspaper enumerates the steps
by which Mr.. Gladstone is advancing from the
complete non pOssumus attitude to one OF
cautious assent. First came the refusal to re-
ceive the labor population. then ths demand
for information. then the consent to receive
tho deputation. then the triumphal Socratc
refutation OF the deputations, points, now
comes the OK explanation OF the Socratic attitude.
and it Is highly interesting:
THAT is the spirit in which should always
wish to speak-to take my conversations or
my speeches to laboring men somewhat less
favorable than my own views really are. rather
than putting on an appearance favorable to
them which might not be able always to
maintain"
To confound tho logic OF working class
deputation was. OF course. a comparatively
simple task for the Grand Old dlalccticinn. and
II was done to Immense satisfaction; but it
u well to fnd that Mr.. Gladstone recognizes
the argument to be based upon a genuine
grievance. and Is not me ely content to dis
cover its logical flaws. Yesterdays speech de-
fines the most probable course of action on
this subject in tho new Parliament. Local OPP
ton. that Is to say. will become as much the
guiding principle In labor matters as in tenn
Serancs.
h sporting journalist draws attention to an
Unprecedented eectioneerins feat which Is 70
be performed on Thursday by George Frye.