The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-14
BRITAIN CASTING BALLOTS.
THE PARLIANENTARY ELECTIONS
NOW UNDER WAY.

rbo VniOnists Set the Ball Rolling
hx EIectinE Twenty-EIght Mem
hers of the Lower House on the
first Day without OppOsitiOn-The
Liberals aid ParneIIites Each
score Three-The Liberals at a De-
cfded Disadvantage.
Special London Cable Letter.
London, July 13.-The unionists started
IN Yesterday. the first day of the cleo
lions for members of the new parlia-
rsnt. by returning 2S men to the house
vitbout opposition, while the liberals re-
t1rned only three, and the Parnellite fac
zion of the Irish party also scored three.
The success Of the unionists at the polls
IN actual contests cannot anywhere near
" correspond with this showing, but
there is an undoubted significance in the
fact that the liberals have permitted
Judgment TO go against them by default
in so large a number of constituencies, at
the very beginning of the conflict. The
remainder of the constituencies in which
there are no opposing candidates now
show only 10 where there is no unionist
standing, against lis where there is no
candidate representing the Liberal party.
This state Of things is very reasonably
regarded as the result of conviction on
the part of the liberals that the contest
IS hopeless in these particular divisions
or districts. Hitherto, the liberals have
contested these seats, with the notion
that there was a remote chance of bag
ging one here and there, but on this oc-
casion they seem to have concluded that
it would be waste of
time and energy to make the attempt.
Consequently they have abandoned the
campaign in these districts and the liberal
executive committee have decided to con-
centrate their efforts in cOntesting for the
doubtful seats in the consciousness that
they will have enough to do to capture the
share which the last general election al
lotted to them. If they do this they will be
extremely lucky, and indeed nobody be-
lieves that they expect 1t.
The worst of all the misfortunes that
have overtal1en the liberals and home rul-
ers in this campaign, or in fact since the
retirement Of Mr.. Gladstone, has been the
disclosures made by Timothy NJ Healy
concerning the relations of the liberal
whips with the anti-Parnellite leaders.
Every liberal and every AIcCarthyite de-
plores these revelations, and the feeling is
widespread that all of the power which
the priesthood usually exert over the Irish
electors, or all of the power which they
are capable of exerting, viii fall very far
short Of counteracting the baneful ,infiu-
ence Of Mr.. Healy's disclosures. AT the
convention of the Irish national party held
at Omagh, a short distance from London
derry, this week Mr.. Healy related how
Thomas E. Ellis, the principal liberal whip,
through the Hon. Edward Blake,
formerly premier of Ontario, do
minion of Canada, bargained with
the anti-Parnellites for four Irish
seats, giving f20O year for each seat, on
the condition that they should be regard
ed as liberal and not Irish-Nationalist
seats This transaction, assuming that 1t
actually occurred, and there is no doubt
that 1t did. was not at all out of the ordi-
nary line of Irish party dealings. In
deed the practice is common with all of
the factions The money of both the
unionists and the liberals was wanted to
assist in defraying the expenses of the
registration of electors and otherwise Sc
curing the Irish seats, and neither Mr..
Ellis nor the anti-Parnellite leaders con-
sidered the arrangement as implying the
sale Of the home rule vote.
If such a question had been involved in
the transaction. there certainly would
have been no bargain, as neither party
would have entertained such propo-
sition for a moment. But Mr.. Healy
knowing this full well, knew also how to
distort the matter in the eyes of the public
so as to inflict a terrible blow to the ma
tonalist cause in order to crafty mis-
hatred toward his personal opponents IN
the Irish parliamentary party The bick-
erings between members of the Irish par
~ have been prevalent coeval with the
p6rtys existence, but it has remained for
Mr. Healy to depart from the custom of
fighting out personal feuds man to man,
and to use the party which made him as
weapon in a losing scrmmage. No eX-
panatiOn was given by Mr.. Healy OF the
manner in which the whips, who are the
eustodians of the party funds, are accus-
toned to distribute the, money, nor can
any explanation that may be made now
dissolve the public, and especially the
Irish suspicion, that electorals are COM
monty bought and sold the same as po-
tatoes or any other commodity.
Mr.. Healys stab has reached the public
heart and the unionist organs are jubilant
over the incident. They revel in the In
oulgence of disingenuous ranting over the
outrageous practice of trafficking in
seats and demand the immediate dismis-
sal of Mr.. Ellis from his official position.
although Mr.. Ellis disclaims any connec-
uon with any contract with the anti-Par-
hellites, and Notwithstanding the fact that
every man whom Mr.. Healy has sought
10 befoul has been able to show a clean
hand in the affair, the incident will un-
aoubtedly have the effect to throw several
Seats to the Parnellites and paralyze the
!rlsh vote in the great industrial centers
IN Great Britain, where that vote Is eX-
pected to turn the balance of power. The
IRISH voters in these centers have already
become suspicious of the English home
rulers, and are now in the last stages of
Tsaftection over this episode in the pro-
Nhged warfare within the Irish party,
Nhch threatens finally to shatter the ma
taiohalists into mutually destructive fac
with the exception of Ireland, where the
PTIsonal feuds of the Healyites, Dillonites,
VIZ arthyites and Redmondites embitter
pvHllcal differences, the elections are
MI TSniaracterized by only mild excitement.
Iuey are not in any wise distinguished by
..aahpaign scandal, despite efforts in cer-
Ia I'm quarters to blacken the repute of
IoeIal wire-pullers over the Omagh in
Prime Minister Rosebery, noticing
ne statement that he created four peers
-i return for contributions of f10O 600 to