St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-15
LIBERALS WEAKEN
HARCOURT,S DEFEAT HAS HAD
DECIDEDLY DEPRESSING
INFLUENCE.
EVEN THE MOST SANGUINE
OF CONSERVATIVES FAILED TG
PREDICT THE IMMENSE
GAINS.
More Elections to Occur Today
Most of Them in Lon
don.

LONDON, July 14.-Sir William
Harcourt's defeat in Derby was the
sensation in political circles today.
1t is admitted on all sides that the
Liberals are beginning very badly.
OF 110 members thus far elected, 96
are Unionists, 10 Liberals and Par
nellites. Eight Liberal seats have
been captured by the Unionists, and
the Radicals have captured one
Zionist seat, that at Perth. AS
far as outward appearances go, the
elections are causing little excite
ment in London. There are a few
idlers in the Strand where the
Graphic displays a representation of
Lord Salisbury and Lord Rosebery
climbing ladders to indicate the
course Of election returns.
The moral effect of Sir William
Harcourt's defeat will be great, as
even the most
SANGUINE CONSERVATIVES
did not expect a Liberal majority
Unionist majority of 100.
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 leader
of the house of commons, nearly
doubled his majority in Manchester.
After the result had been announced
IN
Harcourt, with his wife, drove to
Liberal headquarters and made
speech, in which he said that he had
been defeated too often to be either
elated if successful or depressed by
a reverse. But he did not wish to
conceal the magnitude of the de-
feat which has fallen upon his
colleague and himself. Sir William
Harcourt's defeat is generally attrib-
uted to the prominence which he
gave to the local veto, or local op-
ton measure.
The Sunday Observer Unionist)
points out that yesterdays returns
of
UNOPPOSED CANDIDATES
are as significant as the results Of
contested elections. Seventy-six
seats had been handed over to the
Unionists without a fight, while the
Liberals We're allowed to retain only
five seats. The Parnellite total of
unopposed returns has been in
creased to four by the uncontested
election of John Daily from Lime
rick. Thus the McCarthyites have
yielded without a contest a seat of
which they were in actual possess
sion. Judged both by the result of
contest and the numbers which the
Radicals had allowed to go by de-
fault, there can be but little doubt
of the final result. T. P. O'Connor's
Sun says that yesterdays result
was keen disappointment, but that
it does not follow by any means that
the whole country is going against
them.
1.-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 dis
creditable to Manchester"
Tomorrow fifty more seats will be
decided. including many in London.
NEWSPAPER COMMENT.
The Daily News, the Liberal organ,
says of the elections: A closer ex-
aminatiqon of Saturdays figures
makes them seem less discoura ging
than they would seem. The result in
Derby surprised even the local Tories.
Sir William Harcourt and his col
leagues were fioated out on beer. In
other constituencies the efforts of re-
publicanS and brewers, with the alli-
ance of the militant section of the
clergy, contributed largely to the same
results. There is plenty of cause for
the Tories triumph. But there is little
cause for Liberal encouragement and
none whatever for despair. We are
used to bad beginning. There is not
a step of Liberal progress which is
not taken over the stepping stones of
defeat.
The Chronicle ascribes the Liberal
defeat in Lancashire to the scandalous
misrepresentation of the government
policy on the Indian cotton duties,
which were made in leaflets, sent
broadcast through the country The
Chronicle says: I'VE congratulate the
Unionists upon having drawn first
blood at the empires cost. They have
played anti-imperial and anti-national
games for votes of Liberals and have
failed to win two seats, owing in some
measure to the action of independent
labor party and the socialist fedora
ton, who gained no result for them
selves. Their polls We're small and
contemplate
The Standard the Conservative or
gan, sees in the results remarkable
testimony to the growth of Conserva-
tive sentiment in the large towns.
Archbishop Walsh wrote 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 of
the country is a national ruin and dis
grace if an end is not speedily put to
the feud and dissenSions which are
going far to make Ireland a by-word
throughout the world.
The Times says: 1.-The unopposed re-
election of Daily from Limerick is a
significant reminder of the sentiments
which animate all sections of the
Irish NationaliStS and anti-Parnell-
ties. In their own constituency, they
shrank from opposing so popular a
criminal The Times then proceeds
to recite the charges upon which Daily
was convicted. 1.-The election, of
course" it says, twas not meant seri-
ously, but was only intended as a
demonstration of sympathy with
dynamite patriot and a hostility to
British law. Both parties know that
a convict under sentence is not capable
Of being elected a member of parlia-