The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07
BY FREDERIC,
Excitement Rises Over
the Coming English
Combat.
LIBERALS WILL LOSE.
Gladstone WithdraWs From
the Party in Extreme
Disgust.
NO. SUPPORT FOR RosEBERY.
Scandal Caused by the Raising Of
Certain Millionaires to
the Peerage.
NO. SUPPORT FOR RosEBERY.
[Copyrignt 1895 by the New York Times.J

LONDON, ENG, July 6.-During the
week a considerable change has come over
the political situation here. AS the ex-
citement of approaching combat rises you
hear the Liberals speaking much more
confidently than they did six days ago,
but in reality they have far fewer chances
OF winning than they appear to have. In
fact it seems at the moment doubtful if
they have any chances at all worth dis
cussing. The selection of Monday for the
dissolution Of Parliament renders it pos
sible for some of the borough elections to
be held next Saturday if the returning
officers choose to appoint that day, so that
it may be that the opening batch of results
will be chronicled a week from tonight
1t they do not foreshadow crushing Lib
eral defeat, then omens are all at fault
1t was pointed out last week that prac-
tically everything depended on Gladstone.
1t was known to informants of mine that
he had returned deeply stirred up over the
Armenian question, and it was understood
that he had consented to waive his own
personal feelings as to the party's treat.
ment of him, and come to the front with
another Midlothian bugle blast on this, to
him, burning theme, which might electrify
the country and give the Liberals such an
invigorating impetus that they might carry
all before them. Something has happened
to preventall this. Gladstone two letters
of farewell to Midlothian have appeared,
and they are SO chilling in tone and Mig
gard of expressions of interest in the party
that the Liberal papers printed them in
small type and scarcely alluded to them
editorially. A few sanguine persons cling
still to the hope that the grand old man
is lying low, waiting for Monday to spring
his war cry. 1t is to be feared that their
faith will go unrewarded. ] hear to the
contrary that Gladstone, furious at the ex-
plantations given by Rosebery's personal
organs in defense of his disgraceful honor
list, abruptly declined to lift finger in the
elections, and the whole Armenian issue
has therefore gone by the board.
The events of the week furnished other
plausible excuses for Gladstone's disgusted
withdrawal but the episode of the honor
list is the most probable of them. No
other party retiring from office has ever
made more shamelessly mercenary use of
its power to confer titles. It is bad enough
that Lord Rosebery, who is preaching the
extinction of the House of Lords, should
have made four new peers. 1t is scandal
Gus that at least two of these should have
been openly sold to millionalres almost
avowedly in return for big campaign fund
contributions, not to mention baronetcy
given to another millionaire, Naylor Ley
land, in reward for having deserted the
Tory party few months ago, bringing the
borough of Colonel Chester with him and
also drawing handsome check.
ss ss There was a general outcry of shame
when these dignitaries were announced,
and to ward off attacks Rosebery's friends
had the meanness to circulate news item
to the effect that he was really not respon-
sible for the new peers, since they had
been promised their titles while Gladstone
was in Office. After that they may whistle
for Gladstone's help.
Of almost equal Importance is the de-
rushed forward by the Eighty
Club and by its principal London organ
izers, that Kosebery is fastened irrevocablv
upon the organization as its leader This
will take all the nerve out OF the