The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-07
sRITAIN'S POLITICAL BATTLE.
rgE COUNTRY DELUGED WITH
POLITICAL MANIFEsTOEs.

D.form of the House of Lords the
Battie Cry of the Liberals As Set
In by Lord ROsebery-Sir william
vernon HarcOurt Makes the Local
v.to Question the Issue and John
Marley Champions Home Rule.
London. July 6.-The distinctive feature
IF the present electoral campaign as COM
,sr-d with any in the previous history of
ne country is the number and variety of
ss marty manifestoes. Hitherto the ap-
osals which have been made to the electors
have emanated from two or three author
. rative sources and have defined more or
sss explicitly the great party programme
ubieh each candidate must pledge himself
sitber to accept or reject. During the week
tbe country has been deluged with party
s,1 factional programmes taking every
Conceivable ground in the treatment of the
issues upon which the coming election is
to be contested.
The official dictum Of the executive COM
nittee of the liberal party has been fol-
. nrionists combined in a body called "The
N Rational Reform Union" Following these
have been launched appeals from the
welsh nationalists. the local optionists, the
Npublicans Association and the Agricultur-
n al Union, the latter demanding special pro-
lection to farmers. The Liberty of Property
league denounces state interference in any
n thing. while the socialists are out with a
h demand for the privilege of interfering
with everything.
An equal diversity of opinion and want
Of coherence is to be found in the mani
festoes of the independent labor party.
& the McCarthyites. the Healyites, the Red
n mondites and all the other ''ites" and advo-
Gates Of 'isms."
The general party principles and char
Y acteristics of the leaders of the various
parties and factions are shown in these ad-
dresses and this is especially true Of the
# programme issued by the liberal leaders.
Lord Roseberry sounds the battle cry of
the liberal party in a demand for the re-
F form Of the House of Lords.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt regards
{ the local veto question as of first impor-
4 iance and John Morley alone puts home
Il rule into the forefront Of the line of bat
te The liberal and radical conspiracy
Of silence against home rule has stirred
Mr. Morley TO the depths of Indignation,
as evnced by his Manchester speech, in
. 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"
4 But for this honest utterance there is
no doubt that the liberals would have
gone on ignoring the pledges to the Irish
party which kept them in power until
y Mr. Gladstone's retirement from office
and political life ruined them.
4 Mr.. Gladstone himself sent the chill of
4 death through the hopes of home rule
. by his absolute silence in regard to this
. measure in his recent farewell letter to his
. Midlothian constituents. Since Mr. Nor
a ley delivered his Manchester speech, and
stung by the widespread reports that the
H ex-premier had turned unionist, Mr.. Glad
Il stone has found IL advisable to write a
brief letter advising the people of Eng
S land TO recognize the just claims of Ire
land the phrase meaning anything
4 uaionism or home rule-according to the
Views of the reader.
Lord RosebeFy and Sir William Harcourt
IN their speeches yesterday, however
found 1t prudent to admit that home rule
was still a plank in the platform of the
Liberal party, but if the Irish leaders have
not by this time become disillusionized, as
TO the value of liberal pledges, they have
i themselves to blame.
The radical manifesto is as honest and
Straightforward a declaration as any that
mas been issued. 1t simply advocates nome
rule not only in ireland, but in Scotland
and Wales as well, beginning, however IN
Ireland. The radical programme places
QemOprq Ia on, q LIST bllt 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 has been sounded as
70 MS willingness to contest one OF the
London districts for a seat in parliament,
and to these overtures he has replied
with mixture of good sense and irony.
1t would be a trifie inconvenient," Mr..
irving writes, ''to be called off the stage
oy the urgent summons of a party whip,
and still more awkward If the pit should
INSIST upon my coming forward between
lhe acts to be heckled about compulsory
'accination or local veto"
Inc well-known Jewish financier, Sgd
hey Stern, having put $4,000 into the purse
u tne Liberal party, Lord Rosebery raised
nm 10 the peerage. According to the
srIs ~, money like water, always freely.
Inough Mr.. Stern has given financial aid
- the liberal cause with a lavish hand,
Ae mas never distinguished himself as q
eNel TO charities, fact which places him
m al striking contrast to many other mill
,,Onalres of his faith and race. The queen
aonored the Rothschilds, the Montefiores
sHu aHu the Goldsmids for their acts of char
iiCE but Stern's vast wealth has never
betn Shared bV tha Oo0r
Two Jews are now peers and both are
II, TTs,scendants of tradespeople in Frankfort
tHe Sterns began their career in London
al lhe wine trade fifty years ago. They
mdIrled into the Goldsmid family and
.tossomed out as bankers. They are now
% %sie possessors of a colossal fortune Of
many millions
me composition of the Salisbury gov
.i1lnent discontents many conservatives
oHU outrages the sentiments of the mass
NIL, lhe non-partisan public, whose votes
WI turn the scale in numerous constit-
ooencles. Fifteen peers hold office in the
toM government. Nine of them have cab
in' positions, while the other six have
|spoI tant places outside the ministry.
,SIuce the disappearance of the whig-
Soiy ollgarchy under the influence of the
tsl reform act no administration is
l'i!oWn nv to have been constructed on such
e.I' loerations of family interests. Lord
SaIlspury has placed in Office two of his
,'sspnews as A. j. Balfour, who is first lord
~ ne ne treasury; the latter's brother, Ger