The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-07
LoNDoN'S LATEST GOSSIP.
ROSEBERY MOULD REFORM TIE LORDS
SIR william Harcourt Regards the Local
Veto Question of First Importance.
Morley Thinks Home Rule should
Lead-sir Henry Irving Not
Candidate


| LONDON, July 6-The distinctive fea-
turs OF the present electoral campaign,
as compared with any previous occasion
IN the history OF the country, is the num-
Der and variety OF party manifestoes.
Hitherto the appeals which have been
made ii the electors have emanated from
two or three authoritative sources. and
have defined more or less explicitly the
great party programme, which each can-
dldate must pledge himself to either ac-
cept or reject.
During the week the country has been
deluged with party and factionai pro-
erammes taking every conceivable
ground in the treatment OF the issues
on which the coming election is TO be con-
| tested.
The official dictum OF the Liberal party
| has been followed by illumination by the
Radical unions, combined in a body called
the National Reform Union" Following
these. have been launched appeals from
the Welsh Nationalists, the Local OPP
| tionists the Publicans Associations. and
| the Agricultural Union, the latter de-
manding special protection to fafmers-
The Liberty OF Property League de-
nounce state issie in elections, while
the Socialists are out with demand Tor
the privilege Of interfering with every
thing.
An equal diversity OF opinion and want
OF conference is to be found In the mani
festoes OF the Independent Labor party,
the McCarthyites. the Healyjtes. the Red
monites. and all the other 'ites' and
advocates of '1sms." The general party
principles and characteristic Of the lead
crs of the various parties and factions
are shown I'm these addresses, and this Is
especially true of the programme issued
| by the Liberal leaders.
nosEBERy rEHAsDs REFORM.
| Lord Rosebery sounds the battle-cry OF
| the Liberal party in demand Tor the
| reform of the House of Lords.
Sir William Harcourt regards the local
veto question as Of the first importance,
and Mr.. John Morley that Home Rule be
the line Of battle. The Radical conspiracy
OF silence against Home Rule has stirred
Mr. Morley TO the depths of Indignation,
| as evfnced by his Manchester speech, I'm
which he said: "If, at this election, the
Liberal candidates shall put Home Rule
| aside the Liberal party will become the
most dishonest political organization in
the history of England"
| But for this honest utterance there is
no doubt that the Liberals would have
gone on ignoring the pledges &c the Irish
party which kept them I'm power. until
| Mr. Giadstones retirement from office
| and political life ruined them.
| Mr. Gladstone himself sent the chill OF
death through the hopes OF Home Rule
silence in regard TO those measures in
| his recent farewell letter 10 his Midlo-
THAN constituents.
| Since Mr.. Morley delivered his Manches-
| ter speech. and stung by the widespread
| reports that the ex-Premier had turned
! Jnionist. Mr. Gladstone has found II adj
visable TO write a brief letter, advising
the people of England to recognize the
| just claims of Ireland" the phrase mean
| ing any thing but Unionism or Home
Rule. according to the views of the reader
| Lord Rosebery and Sir William Iar-
court, IN their speeches yesterday, found
| II prudent 10 admit that Home Rule was
still plank In the platform OF the Lib
eral party. but If the Irish leaders have
not by this time become disllusioned as
| 10 the value of Liberal pledges they have
| themselves 10 blame.
| The Radical manifesto is an honest ane
has been issued 1t simply advocates Home
a straightforward declaration as any that
Rule. not only In Ireland. but in Scot
land and Wales. as well, beginning, how
ever, in Ireland.
| The Radical programme places demo-
cratic reforms first on the list. but unless
| the balance of the parties in the coming
| Parliament shall restore the value of the
| Irish vote. which is not at all likely. the
! chances are that the Irish cause Will be
postponed for at least decade.
SIR HENRY IRVING DECLINES,
Sir Henry Irving has been sounded as TO
| his Willingness 10 contest one of the Lon
| don districts for a seat in Parliament
| and 10 these overturcs he has replied
with mixture of 6ood sense and irony.
at would be trfe inconyenient.' Mr..
| Irving writes, "to be called Off the stage
| by the urgent summons Of Il party whip.
| and still more awkward II the pit should
| insist upon my coming forward between
| the acts TO be hecked about the evasion
OF the local yeto.'.
| The well-known financier Sydney Stern
| having put 1900 pounds into the purse OF
| the Liberal party. Lord Rosebery has
| raised him TO the peerage. According
| to the Jewish Chronicle. Stern has poured
| out his money like water. always with a
| view TO securing peerage as the price
| OF his political contribution.
/! Though Mr.. Stern has given financial
| assistance TO the Liberal cause with q
| lavish hand. he has never distinguished
| himself as a giyer to charities a fact
which places him in striking contrast TO
many other mllionaircs OF his faith and
race.
| The Queen honorcd the Rothschilds,
| the Monteros. and the Goldsmiths for
| their acts OF charity, but Stern's vast
wealth has never been shared by the poor.
| Two Jews are now peers. and both are
| descendants Of trades-people OF Frank
| fort. The Sterns began their career in
| London in the wine trade fifty years ago.
| They married into the Goldsmith family
| and biossoned out as bankers. They are
| now the possessors OF a colossal fortune