Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-15
MORE LIBERAL GAINS.
Which, Though Not Up to Expecta-
tions, Make Mr.. Gladstone Safe.
BLAKE, THE CANADIAN, ELECTED.
A Rumor That Liberals Will Postpone the
LONE Rule Issue to
PUSH A BIG NEW ELECTORAL REFORM

not quite realized Liberal expectations, but
they are considered satisfactory, as confirm
ing the steady flow Of gains. When the
actual number of the Liberal members re-
turned first overtopped the Conservatives,
the Liberal Club men INDUCED in prolonged
jubllations. Henceforth Mr.. Gladstone e
total will be in the ascendant.
If to-day was shade disappointing, to-
morrow will make up for it. Conservatives
admit that rural voters are against them.
The ST. James Gazette angrily says that some
thing like rot has set in among the agri-
culturalists.
A feature of to-day's contests was the
fact that for the first time during the pres
ent election, more opposition seats were at
stake than Unionist seats. Out of 80 English
counties polling, II were Gladstonian and
Is Unionists So far as known at present,
the former remain Gladstonian. The con-
test in two Scotch burghs secured Liberals
in their seats, and the polling in eight
Irish counties are reported as resulting in
the return of McCarthyites. The Liberals
thus calculate that to-day's results add 81 to
the Gladstonian total.
A New Recruit for Burns Faction.
Mr.. Burkmire, of Ayr borough, who was
elected to-day on the Gladstonian ticket, is
a pronounced Laborist and will probably
join the Burns faction. The Liberal lead
of the Independent Laborist. These can
not count upon more than five men-Messrs.
Burns, Hartley, Wilson. Picard and may
be Birkmire.
The returns at midnight showed that the
Conservatives had 24S members; the Liber-
ais, 232; the McCarthyites, 81; the Liberal
Unionists, 80; the Parnellites, Z, and the
Laborists, 3. Ministerial total. 2S7; Glad
stonial total, 293.
Thousands of people gathered around the
railway station in Aberdeen to watch the
departure of Mr.. Gladstone for Braemar,
where he will remain for weeks rest after
the tatigues Of his Midlothian campaign.
The Times says: eff the Gladstonians con-
will be disappointing. Viscount Cranborne's
defeat in Lancashire is all the more annoy
ing because the majority against him is in
significant.
Gladstone Can Feel for Morley.
''The most notable return is that of Mid
lothian. Mr. Gladstone isNfully qualified to
extend to Mr.. Morley the sympathy ex-
torted by his similar misfortune. 1t is
idle to speculate upon the cause of the re-
duction of Mr. Gladstones majority. His
thinly-veiled hostility to the Kirk prob
ably co-operated with the enigmatical home
rule policy to produce an emphatic reduc-
ton amounting to defeat.
'The result illustrates, as it did in Ok
ford, Lancashire and Greenwich, the great
characteristic of Mr.. Gladstone as repre-
sentative, that the more he is known the
less he is liked. 1t is obviously only
question of time when the great peripatetic
will seek the hospitality of Archbishop
Walsh and be content to sit for Rebel
Cork"
1t is stated that sermons were preached
against Mr.. Gladstone in almost every .es-
1t cannot be doubted that the church ques-
tion was the chief factor in the contest
Considerable interest has been manifested |
in the returns from Ireland. In the South |
division of Longford, Hon. Edward Blake,
who came from Canada on the invitation of
the anti-Parnellite electors of the district to
oppose the Conservative candidate, was sue
cessful, carrying the district by majority
of 2, 1877.
A Powerful Home Rule Champion.
1t is expected that Mr.. Blake, with his |
wide knowledge of the workings of home
rule in Canada, will prove an invaluable |
ally to Mr.. Gladstone. His attainments are |
such that he is certain to make himself felt |
in the House of Commons, and he will |
always be found in the first rank of those |
who are battling for the re-establishment of |
a Parliament in Dublin.
John Dillon, the anti-Parnellite candi- |
date, has been elected in the East division |
III l. De-
Among the better known men whose cleo
ton is announced to-day, is Sir Joseph
Savory, the former Lord Mayor of London,
who was returned from the Appleby divis-
ion of Westmoreland
The Ayre burgs in Scotland have in past
elections shown wavering political faith, |
out now it has given a ma jority of for the
Liberal candidate, Mr.. Birklneyre. In 1885 /
,he Liberal nominee was returned with
majority of 342. The next year the. district
vas Liberal Unionist by a majority of LIS,
md Mr.. Campbell was returned. On the
leath of Mr.. Campbell a new writ was
ssued in June, 1888, and Captain Sinclaire,
he Liberal, who was defeated by Mr.. Camp
,ell at the previous election, was returned
With 50 ma jority.
The More Recent Fluctuations.
Captain Sinclaire subsequently, resigned
md new writ was issued in March, 1890,
vhen the district was contested by j.
Conservative, and E. Rout-
edge, Liberal. Mr. Somerville was elected
" majority of 130, and he contested the
district in this election only to find that the
lectors had gone back to their first love.
he Liberals, and he was defeated by the
nnoying majority of votes.
Among the Candidates whose defeat is an
lounced to-day is Henry Harrison, who
ONE time ago visited the United States in
he interest Of the Parnellite section of the
rish Parliamentary party.
A dispatch from Dublin says: Rival polit-
cal factions at Portadown are rioting and
ghting. They number 1000 and have
vice repulsed the police. Shots are being
red and several are wounded
The Independent (Parnellite) says that at
select circle of Liberals held in London
asst night, the announcement was made that
he home rule bill would be postponed bv
greement with the Irish party, in order
hat some big reform measure may be intro
uced in the coming Parliament