The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-07

| party everywhere. d2rCOurt, MORLEY
and few other real leaders
are doing their best in the country by the
| finest speeches that they ever made to undo
the mischief thus wrought. They barely
mention Rosebery's name, and ignore hi!
foolish attempt to subordinate the entire
Liberal platform to the solitary plank o.
attacking the House of Lords, but the odds
are too heavily against them. AS matter:
stand, indeed, intelligent, far-sighted
| Liberals see that the worst thing which
could happen to their party would be te
| win some sort of scratch victory. 1t is
| now necessary, if the party is not to be
broken into pieces and dispersed for years
| that it should be beaten now and have
| time to reshape its organization, settle its
| leadership and make sure that it will never
again be possible for little crowd of in
triguers and moneyed snobs to rush into
it in an emergency.
There is already movement on foot to
get the Radical members who are re-
elected to promptly hold a meeting or
sign paper to pledge themselves never to
support in the future Ccbinet supportin g
any peers. This is better indication of
what the Radicals really expect in the way
of election results than all the brave
words on their platforms put together.
The best political guesser l know has put
the Unionlst majority at 40. I own that
to me it seems likely to be larger. What
was said last week about Ireland
calls for some revision in the light
of more recent events. The Ma
tionalsts will be limited to two
seats in Ulster-Derry and North Tyrone.
The Parnellites will probably lose East
Clare and North Galway, but will certainly
win North Roscommon with Jake O. Kelly,
possibly win East Wicklow and conceiv-
ably may slip in a man in Cork City. In
other words, the Irish parties in the next
House will be about as in the last, minus
enthusiasm. AS to internecine friction,
Healy is not pushing the advantage which
the control of the federation council ma
jority might give him. For instance, the
secretary of the council, David Sheehy,
who is hostile to Healy, might have been
thrown out and was not.
At the last meeting of the council, on
motion of DR.. Fox, resolution of SYM
pathy with the family of DR.. Wallace of
New York on the death of him and his son
was passed unanimously, but Sheehy re-
fused to send it to the press and nobody in
terfered.
Three of Healy's warmest supporters,
Kennedy, Mains and Foley, who are also
among the strongest men in the delega-
ton, decline reelection this year, which,
with those who were previously retired,
leaves only a dozen or so whose names
carry the slightest weight or who are able
to pay their own expenses. There is no
money, no fit men, and so Ireland may
hang up the fiddle till the beginning of the
twentieth century.
It would be unwise to attach overmuch
Importance to the development of the
friction between the Tories and the Union
obvious that Cham berlain has driven a
very hard bargain and secured a vastly
larger share of the patronage plums than
fis numerical following entitled him to. 1t
is equally apparent that the rank and file
of the Tories are violently enraged at this
and at the bumptious way in which Cham
berlain is already laying down the law
in the matter of programme, committing
them to all sorts of wildcat schemes of
social revolution, but I have seen Tories
quite as passionately outraged several
times before and heard curses and deep
mouthed pledges of mutiny fit to bring the
Carlton Club roof down over their heads,
but never knew them to vote otherwise
than straight. They will vote straight
now and trust to luck to somehow get the
better of Chamberlain and his obnoxious
gang of allies when the crisis arises. Six
he
the Unionist Cabinet may have terminated
and be showing green above the ground
they are not Of much present significance.
Nor is it SO certain that Lord Salisbury's
Government will not enjoy career of more
than ordinary popularity in England. 1t is
stuffed full of lords, both in the Cabinet
and out of it. So many peers have never
held high office before, and with courtesy
lords and heirs of peerages. they have
majority of the whole Minis
try. Even the great spending department
OF the postoffice is given to the Duke
Of Norfolk, and there will be no official in
the House of Commons to answer questions
on its administrations who more nearly
conforms to the general public than any
other. This big cynical bluff, by its very
llaSultuue anu GuoIOuS SnHeSS, IS not un-
likely to amuse rather than to offend the
democracy. Moreover, it is becoming un-
derstood that troublous international COM
plications are close ahead, and with Lord
at the Foreign Office, the Duke
Of Devonshire at the head of the new Ma
tional Council of Defense, and the Mar |
1uis of Landsowne as War Minister there |
is suggestion of old-time aristocratic cap
taincy in days of stress which rather strikes |
The British imagination.
The world will not halt on its axis, for |
the British elections will be finished after |
! fortnight. In spite of the reports that |
,he negotiations had broken down which |
attained such volume and such an air of |
at last that the wisest tinan- |
,iers here were wholly deceived, the |
loan has gone through, as |
hese dispatches insisted that it would. |
So far as can be learned there is no modi- |
ication of Russia's original demands, ana |
The takes as security lien on the Chinese |
maritime customs. This clashes at once |
Ind sharply with England's vested inter- |
,sts in China. and it is incredible that a |
British protest will not be promptly forth |