Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-19

TdeH was sent Tor, put as ne uetllHSA
to take office, Mr.. Gladstone, though
within reluctance, undertook (Marcn
16) to reconstruct the cabinet. In
August, 1873, Immediately after the
close Of the session, the cabinet was
considerably remodelled Mr.. Glad
stone assuming the CHARACTERISTIC of
the exchequer, in addition to his office
of First Lord of the treasury. On
January "a, 1874. fortnight before
both Houses We're to have met for the
dispatch of public business, Mr. Glad
stone took everybody by SURPRISE by
announcing the Immediate dissolution
of Parliament and issuing his address
| to his constituents at Greenwich, in
which he promised to abolish the in
come tax. At the general election
which ensued, the votes We're, for the
first time, taken by secret ballot. The
result proved most disastrous to the
! Liberal party. The returns, complet-
ed on February 27, showed that Sol
Conservatives had been elected and
3o2 Liberals, inclusive of the Home
| Rulers, who in point Of fact, declined
to identify themselves with either Of
the old political parties. Mr.. Gladstone
at once resigned. and Mr.. Disraeli
became Prime minister In the ses-
sion Of 1874. Mr.. Gladstone who had
! been reelected for Greenwich, was
rarely to be seen in his place in the
| House of Commons: but at its close,
he offered a persistent opposition to the
| Public Worship Regulation Bill. Even
amid the turmoil Of political life, Mr..
| Gladstone had devoted a portion Of his
/ time to literature.
| His "Ecce Home printed from
Good Words appeared in 1865;
pamphlet on the Irish church ques-
| don, entitled. "A Chapter Of Autobio-
| graphy," was published November u,
| 1868; and "Juvcntus Mundi: the Gods
/ and Men of the Heroic Age" in 1869.
/ After his unsuccessful attempt to pre-
! vent the passing Of the Public Worship
1 Regulation Act. he contributed to tit"
| Contemporary Review for October I,
/ 1874. an article IN "Ritualism which
! gave rise to an animated controversy.
( In it he asserted that Rome had sub
I stituted for The proud boast ~ sampe2
/ eadem q policy Of violence ann change
( in faith" that Site had refurbished
and lfaraded anew every tlusty tool
which she was f1naly thought to have
aisused," that 'nu one could become
her convert without renouncng his
moral and mental freedom, aud plaC-
I ing his civil loyalty and duty at the
mercy &c another" and that she had
equally repudiatcd modern thought
and ancient history" Challenged ~
his Roman Catholic friends To sub
I stantiate these grave charges, Mr..
/ Gladstone published tN"v. I, 1870
/ bulky pamphlet entitled, THE Vatican
( DEGREES in their bearing on Civil Alleg-
lance: Political EXpostulation.'
which ELECTED numerous elaborate re-
plies from Mgr Capel, Dr. Newman.
Archbishop Manning, and other dis
/ tingliised members Of the Roman
/ Catholic church Mr.. Gladstones re-
/ ply t. his opponents. published Feb
luary p. 1879, il entitled "Naticanism
An Answer to Replies and Reproofs.
/ MIR. Gladstone followed UP his attacks
on the Roman Catholic church in an
article on The Speeches of Plus TX
/ in The Quarterly Review for January,
4 1879. ON January Il, 1873. three weeks
4 before the assembling Of Parliament.
/ Mir. Gladstone announced in a letter to
+ Earl Granville. his determination t.
retire from the leadership Of the Lib
eral Party
"At the az. " slNty-fve," III remarked.
+ and after fDrtN-tWD wears Nf lIbor-
"uS public life | think myself entitled TO
rrtil@ on the present opportunity. This
\ retirement il dictated "a ME on nv per-
So1Il views as to tine best methods of
spending th" closing Years Of my life.
i tom was chosen by Tho Liberal party IL
/ b their leader In Tho House If Commons.
| Subsequently,, however. Mr. Gladstone
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