Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-15

London, July 14.-Sir William Har-
courts defeat in Derby was the sensa-
tion in political circles tonight. 1t is
admitted on all sides that the Liberals
are beginning very badly. OF one
hundred and ten members thus far
elected, ninety-six are Unionists, ten
Liberals and four Parnellites Eight
Liberals seats have been captured by
the Upionists, and the Radicals have
captured one Unionist seat, that at
Perth. AS far as outward appearances
go, the elections are causing little ex-
citement in London. There are a few
idlers in the Strand. where the Graphic
displays a representation Of Lord SAL
lsDury and Lord ROsebery climbing lad
ders, to indicate the course of election
returns.
THE MORAL EFFECT
of Sir William Harcourt's defeat will
be great. as even the most sanguine
Conservative did not expect a Liberal
majority of nineteen hundred to be con-
yerted into a Unionist majority Of
eleven hundred.
While Sir William Harcourt Jared so
badly, Hon. A J. Balfour, the new
First Lord of the Treasury, who is to
succeed Sir William as the leader Of
the House Of Commons, nearly doubled
his majority in Manchester. After the
result had been announced in Derby, al
midnight Sir William HarcOurt, with
his wife, drove to the Liberal headQuar-
ters and made speech, in which he
said that he had been
DEFEATED TOO OFTEN
to be either elated if successful, or de-
pressed by a reverse. But he did not
wish TO conceal the magnitude of the
defeat, which had fallen upon his col
leagues and himself. Sir William Har-
courts defeat is generally attributed TO
the prominence which he gave TO the
local veto or local option measure.
The Sunday Observer Unionis0,
points out that yesterdays returns Of
unOppOsed candidates are as significant
as the result of the contested elections
Seventy-six seats had been handed ovc=,
to the UniOniSts
WITHOUT A FIGHT,
while the Liberals were allowed to re-
tain only five uncontested seats. The
Parnellite total of unopposed returns
has been increased to four by the un-
contested election of John DAILY, from
Limerick. Thus the McCarthyites have
yielded, without a contest, a
seat which they were in actual possess
sion. Judged both by the result of the
contest and the numbers which the
Radicals had allowed to go by default,
there can be but little doubt Of
THE FINAL RESULT.
The O'ConnOr's Sun says that yester-
days results was a keen disappoint-
ment, but that it does not follow by any:
means that the whole country is going
against them.
THE substitution of a popinjay like
the Marquis of Lorne,' the Sun goes on
to say, "fOr a politician so esteemed,
and a man of science so hOnOred as Sir
Henry Roscoe, is discreditable to Man
chester.
Tomorrow fifty more seats will be de-
cided, including many in London.
Archbishop Walsh wrote a letter,
which was read in all the Dublin
churches yesterday, asking for prayers
that
THE SPIRIT OF DISSENSION
may be banished and adding that the
only prospect before the country is na-
tional ruin and disgrace if an end is not
speedily put to the feuds and dissen-
sions, which are going far to make
ireland the bye-word throughout the
world.
The Times says: THE unopposed re-
election of Daily from Limerick is sig
nificant reminder of the sentiment
which animates all sections Of the Irisa
Nationalists and anti-Parnellites. In
their own constituency, they shrank
from opposing so popular criminal" e"