The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-27

ELECT IONS
Liberals Don't Expect
to Win.
| MAY LOWER TORY VOTE
Herbert Gladstone Accuses the Cor
servatives Of Trying for a Shabby
Advantage.

NEW YORK Sept. ia spec-a to
the Tribune from London says:
Lord Salisbury has passed a busy day
in London, holding his usual weekly re-
ception and seeing six or eight ambas-
sailors. His health has improved dur
ing his holiday in the Vosges, and he
has the manner of a statesman who
considers himself equal to any political
emergency and to all anxieties Of state.
The Marquis of Lansdowne is almost
the only colleague who has been closet
ed with him during the last twenty
four hours, but the War Office Is the
point at which the press of cabinet re-
construction must naturally open.
Sir William -Walrond, the chief gov
eminent whip, has kept laoge force of
clerks busy since the announcement Of
the dissolution Of Parliament was Off
cially confirmed, but that is not proof
that he was taken by surprise or that
the Unionist canvass was not in an ad-
vanced state of preparation. Herbert
Gladstone has been in Leeds, where he
had an appointment to address his own
political supporters and the Liberal
headquarters have been deserted. The
LlDeIdlSs dIt liOl IIldhlIS d lOlSy Gail
vass, but are conducting what is des-
ignated in America as a still hunt.
They do not expect to carry the cleo
ton and, indeed, would be embarrassed
If the unexpected should happen and
they should find themselves in the ma
jority and then be unable to form a
working homogeneous ministry. Their
leading men frankly concede Union
list victory and assert that Mr.. Cham
berlain must have the responsibility OF
settling the war.
| What they do expect is that by q
lscareful and judicious course of candi-
dates and by avoidance of wastefu
contests, they may be able to reduce
the Unionist majority to fifty or seven
| ty. Every appeal to the electorate il
fraught with surprises, and the Liberal:
may do better than their most hopeful
partisans imagine. Without doubt i
las true that the last Parliament wa,
more strongly Unionist than the coun
| try and that at least thirty seat!
naturally liberal We're captured acct
| dentally. These seats under norma
conditions would be regained by tn,
Liberals this year, but as many NOR,
are imperiled because their radica
holders were out of touch with British
policy when the soldiers of the Queen
were fighting in South Africa. Poitica
experts for this reason are disposed t
believe that Liberal gains will be bal
anced by losses and that the new Par
lament will be as strongly Unionist a
the old Parliament.
While the China question does no
into he IL
deed, is temporarily laid on the shell
until Count Won Waldersee can arriv
at Peking from Hongkong to take com
mand of the International forces an
save the dignity of the German EN-
pire, South Africa has again becom
the center of public interest. Ger
French has been converted into a.
electioneering agent whose captures O
engines and military stores has bee
invested with political significance an
whose arrival at Koomatipoort is look
ed for about the date of the final nom
nations for Parliament Special dis
patches describing the demoralizatio
of the Boer forces and forecasting
general surrender of the burghers sti
in arms are well timed for >/electio
purposes and the rumor has been Re
vived that Lord Roberts will resign til
command and leave General Butler /
charge of the army of occupation abou
the time the first contests are held
England and Scotland. Lord Robert
is, however, a good soldier and a poo
politician. The war is coming to a
end but is not yet finished, as the sieg
of British garrison for weeks on til
Western Transvaal sufficiently ind
Gates, and his judgment will be indis
pensable in the final stages when polio
work is substituted for military can
paign and the defeated and desperat
burghers need to be alternately coaxe
and bullied into laying down their arm
and abandoning a hopeless conflict.
| NEW YORK, Sept. ia dispatch I
the Tribune from London says:
The first public announcement in tt
British electoral campaign comes frol
Herbert Gladstone, who addressed h
constituents at Leeds last night. II
argued that the Government, in orde
to gain a somewhat shabby party at
vantage, was putting the country I
the trouble of dissolution at a most il
convenient time. AS to the question
the annexation of the South Africa
Republics there was no wide divers
ence of opinion in the Liberal party G
1t was already an accomplished fact