The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-28
Overwhelming Defeat of the
Candidates Who Went Forth
With a Sack.
RYDER HAGGARD VERY SORE.
Salisbury and His Men Have Enough
Majority to Rule With
Ease.
Copyrighted 1895, by the New York Times.l

LONDON, Enc, July 27.-To-night's re-
suits practically close the gate. They are
quite in keeping with the other figures
from all parts, which have made the week
one long, weary pounding of the already
disabled and gasping antagonism. As
significant finish we have the defeat of Sir
George Newness, owner of Tit-Bits and the
Westminster Gazette, popular man, who
spent his money like water for the party
in a district where he had a majority OF
1908 votes three years ago; but then the
district is Newmarket and the African
bling League has Infatuated local opinion,
ard the vacuous, rowdyish young million
aire, McCalmont, owner of Isinglas, could
have beaten Gladstone himself under such
conditions.
OF SO net reactionary gains the Mid
lands furnish Is, London 10, Lancashire
IA, Scotland and tie west of England 8
each, East Anglia s, Yorkshire Z, South
Wales and the North of England each
and the South of England only 1, because
everything else was Tory there before. So
in about fair proportion to the popula-
ton every non-Celtic section furnishes i'm
feat any English party has had since the
days of the Stuarts.
When Lord Salisbury holds his first
Cabinet meeting next Tuesday he will
meet his colleagues with something like
I55 votes of a majority at his back. His
own Tories have just a bare majority of
the entire House, SO that he could do moth
ing without his Liberal Unionist allies. 1t
is, Just now, however, a favorite speculation
with the Conservatives that Chamberlain
personal following among these latter is,
at the utmost, forty strong, and that if he
were expelled, and even if he took all these
with him into the opposition, Salisbury
and Devonshire would still control a suffi-
GENTLY powerful majority of seventy-fve,
and could laugh at Birmingham for six
long years. Mechanically this doubtless
approximates the truth, but Chamberlain
stands for something much more import
ant than figures, as would quickly enough
be shown to anybody who tried to cheat
him out OF his share of this extraordinary
victory. Conceivably the attempt may be
made in time indeed, the situation would
be hopelessly uninteresting were there no
chances of jealousies and ruptures inside
the vast, inert, reacJionary majority to
discuss, but, at all events, they will keep
until next year.
The fact that while Liberalism in Scot
land, in Wales, in town and country alike.
has been literally hacked to pieces, Ireland
returns more Nationalist than before,
stands out in such glazing relief that even
the Tory papers are forced to recognize its
N AIo4 L.
made among the various factions of home
rulers in the matter of seats are admitted
not to affect the question of Ireland's gen.
eral attitude toward the Union. These
changes have all been effected on very
small margin of transferred votes, and can
all be accounted for by general consent.
Kilkenny was given to the Parnelites, as
has been said, by the gross ignorance and
incapacity of Sheehy, secretary of McCar-
thy's organization, in making out papers
so imperfect that they had to be invali-
dated. East Clare was given up by the
Parnellites, and they only held it through
McCarthy's organization providing them
with au opponent in P. J. McHugh, who
was weaker than anything that could be
imagined possible.
On the other hand this remarkable or
ganization did not propose to fight Ma
guire in West Clare at all. They put up
no official candidate and sent not penny
into the district. The local Nationalist
put up Major James, a friend of the
Realys, on their own account, and swept
Rochefort, Mcguire and the Parnellites out
OF sight. Even more striking an example
occurred in North Mayo of the popular
contempt for the independence OF these
parliamentary gentlemen who started out
to run Ireland in their own way. They
had single convention for all the four
districts of Mayo, and by the other votes
of the other three, refused to allow the
North to renominate its old member,
Chilly, because he is Healyite. and put
up Roche instead. The delegates from
North Mayo repudiated Roche and
marched out in body, but Roche was re-
ported as nominated in the party papers
and received f275 of the party money for
the initial expense of his contest.
On nomination day Roche turned up in
Ballina with this money, which had to be
lodged with the Sheriff. What happened
has no parallel in election history. He
and a iunketing party OF Parliamentary
friends with him were unable to get a sin
gle householder in the whole constituency
to sign his nomination paper. He had tc
return amid the jeers of the crowd, and
Chilly was reelected by practically the
same majority as before. These thing;
are Unexpectedly reassuring, as showing
that the Irish people remain solid despite
the phenomenal unftness of their pro-
fessed leaders. They also show that 1 wa!
right long ago when l said that the honest
Nationalist in Ireland did not need these
big sums of money from the outside, which
only debased Irish politics.
For the first time the new Parliament
will assemble on st. Georges day, August
is. The question who will then be elected
Speaker is still open, but opinion is now
veering around to the idea that Balfour':
policy will be repudiated, and that Gully
will be reinstated. The swearing of mem
bers will consume sew eral days, and the
problem of seating over 400 Unionists on 6
side of the chamber containing less thar
400 seats all told will get its solution il
some mysterious sort.
The Queens speech will mention nothing
it is understood, except the supply, and a:
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