The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-30
NOMINATIONS ON SATURDAY
SIxTY-sIx CANDIDATES, MOSTLY
MINIsTERIALIsTs, UNOPPosED.
and Lord Sa1isbury's Son
ViscOunt Cranborne, Among Those
Who Were Reelected.

II TO snow n unlteQ ITOut
figuring more than usual in the contests.
Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state
| for the colonies. by reason Of the agrees
i've tone of all his speeches, was the object
of many bitter personal attacks. Some OF
his enemies declared him to be politically
| dishonest, and even go further than thai.
He was returned, however, without oppo-
|. sition
Winston Churchill. in Oldham, has been
so vigorously attacked that General Sir
| Evelyn Wood, the adjutant general. had
to come to his assistance with a letter de-
| claring that there was nothing dishonorable
connected with his resignation from the
army, and vouching for the correctness or
Churchilrs recent dual role of officer and
correspondent. Some of the Liberals OF
| Oldham apparently make more serious in
| situations against the young candidate,
but, like his father, Churchill seems to
| revel in a fight, and is said to stand a good
chance of being elected. Another war char
acter, Captain Lambton. of the British
cruiser Powerful, has been assisted in his
fight against the government by getting a
letter from Lord Rosebery. He Is also
backed by all the aristocratic interests.
The latest feature OF Mr.. Chamberlain's
speeches consists in his holding up DR..
Gavin Brown Clark, Liberal, who repre-
scented Caithness-Shire, and who was form
erly consul general of the South African
Republic in London, ana Mr.. Henry La
bouchere, the editor of Truth, to ignominy
as traitors. till the audience shouted. re-
ferring to Clark. "Shoot him."
"A LITTLE AFRICAN"
Cir William Vorn0n HarcOurt the Liberal
statesman who has come out of retirement
and has astonished the country b. the
vlrility of his speeches Che was born in
1s2O, scored the point by clubbing Mr..
Chamberlain a little African" on the
ground that, as he claimed, MIR. Chamber
lain would sacrifice everything for his
African policy, and added: Mr.. Chamber
lain, considering himself TO be a Captain
Cook and a General Wolfe rolled into one,
believed he discovered Australia and
stormed Quebec"
Thus attacked on all sides, the central
figure Of the campaign, Mr.. Chamberlain,
would have excitement enough if the OPP
position to him were confined to the OPP
ponents of the government. That this is
not the case is quite evident from all the
il-concealed delight with which some of
Mr.. Chamberlain's supporters hail the bit
terest attacks on the colonial secretary.
while the party leaders, though suppress
ing any personal dislike. are seriously dis
turbed over the allegations connecting the
Chamberlains with the Kynochs and other
firms supplying the government.
In Ireland the election issues are inter-
esting. a verbal fight is in progress be-
tween Mr.. William OBrien and Mr.. Tim
cthy M. Healy. Mr.. OBrien is backed up
by the United Irish League and Mr.. John
Dillon and others, while Mr.. Healy has
Timothy ID. OSullivan and several other
prominent men arguing in his behalf. The
result is that q large number of the constit-
uencies will be contested by nominees of
both Mr.. O'Brien and Mr.. Healy. who ap-
parently profess the same political prin-
ciples. This may give the Conservatives
John REDMOND the leader of the United
Irish party, to which Messrs. O'Brien and
Healy belong, has quite failed to restore
harmony. j. l.. Carew, who has repre-
sented the College Green division of Dublin.
is not only opposed by a Conservative, but
by a candidate put forward by a number of
his constituents who are opposed to him
because he attended the Queens garden
party.
Church associations are figuring actively
in the campaign. The Imperial Protestant
Federation has received promises from
thirty-two candidates TO oppose to the ut
most any movement tending to bring Eng
land and the Vatican in closer touch, or
toward "Romanizing" the Established
Church. On the other hand the leading
Roman Catholic papers almost unanimously
support the Conservatives believing that
if they are returned with a solid majority
hey will achieve the project of giving Ire
land a Catholic University and In other
ways see that the educational interests of
Catholics in England do not suffer.
RESULT OF BALLOTINGS.
One hundred and sixty-seven constituent
cies returning one-fourth of the member
ship of the House of Commons, made their
nominations to-day. Sixty-six candidates
were returned ~unopposed. The Ministerial
lists aggregate fifty-nine, Liberals five and
Nationalist two.
Among those returned on the government
side-returned to-day without opposition
were Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary
OF state for the colonies CWest Birming-
ham,: George Wyndham, the Parliamentary
secretary for the War Office Oover):
Charles T. Ritche, the president of the
Board of Trade. (Croydon); Sir John C.
Colcomb Great YARMOUTH; Jesse Ceilings,
under secretary for the Home Department.
Bordesly division of Birmingham: Sir Fran
els Sharp Powell (Wigan); Joseph Powell
Williams, the financial secretary of the War
once. South Birmingham): Colonel sir
Charles Z. II. Vincent, the founder of the
United Empire Trade League, Central
Shefield); John Heuniker Heaton, tCan-
terbury); Charles Beilby Stuart Wortley,
formerly under secretary Of state for the
Home Department, (Hallam division of
Shefield). and Sir Edward Albert Sassoon
Hythe.) The five Liberals returned unop-
posed include William Court Gully.
speaker of the House OF Commons Gar
lyle), and Sir Henry Hartley Fowlerly. I'M
der secretary of state for the Home De-
partment and secretary of state for India
(East Wolverhampton).
Viscount Crannborne, Conservative, eld-
est son of the Marquis of Salisbury, was
reelected at Rochester.
Lord George Hamilton, secretary of state
for India, who has represented the Ealing
division of Middlesex in the House of Com
mons. and who is a brother of the Duke of
Abercorn. had a very hostile reception at
a Unionist meeting in London this after
noon. The Liberals had evidently packed
the audience. and the disturbance was SO
great that his lordship was finally compelled
to desist addressing the crowd and made
the balance of his remarks to the reporters
who congregated on the platform.
An interesting feature OF the elections is
the Intervention of the colonies for the first
time. In the elections of the motherland. a
dispatch from Hobart. Tasmania. announces
the adoption of a resolution by the Tas-
manian Assembly, proposing a joint Austria
liam cablegram c~ongratulating Mr.. Cham
berIain on the British successes in South
Africa and hoping the electors of Great
Britain will emphatically insist on the
fruits OF victory being effectually secured.
The numerous speeches OF representatives
OF both parties made Tonight add little or
nothing new to the argument already ad