Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-22
A HOT CAMPAIGN
MORE ELECTION TROUBLE IN
ENGLAND THAN HERE.
MANY MUTUAL EXAMINATIONS.
Business Going to Present Ruin Over
Uncertainties OF the October
Election.

London, Sept. % Copyright, 1900, by
the Associated ~Press).-The political
campaign has commences in earnest.
only another week remains before the
polling begins and it will be only a little
over five weeks before the new parlia-
ment assemblies. That it viii be. a con-
body is a foregone conclusion.
Mr.. Herbert Gladstone admits that it is
impossible for the liberals to win the l36
seats necessary to them to gain a major
Ivy. The contest practically resolves it
self into an opportunity for politicians
on both sides TO air their views and to
discuss the momcntous issues of the last
year by the conventionalties of street de-
Tense. The outbreak of oratory, judged
from the earlier stages, promises to de-
Nelop no new or startling facts. The
conservatives con1ine their energies to a
defense of the wal in South Africa and
or It's cement; while the liberals
attempt to ignore it, concentrating their
attacks upon the failure of the conserva-
tives to fulfil their promises of bene-
fetal home legislation. Though this is
officially the liberals main plank, the d.
vision or the ranks over the war is so
great that ii is quite Impossible to keep
al the candidates IN line. Thus while
PIT EdWaru Grey and the Right-Honora-
PIE ~. a. Asqulth and others are telling
the voters that it is useless to withdraw
now ana are admitting the annexation Of
the Boer republic as the only logical out
come. Mr. Morley and other well-known
persons Of the party say that the war
was unnecessary and that the anrexa-
ton OF the republic is a blot upon Eng
lands fair name. On one point. how
ever. the liberals all unite, and that
point is the unfairness of Lord Salisbury
IN bringing about a dissolution at the
present moment when the register of
1898 is expiring, SO that thus all who
We're not registered over two years ago
are diSfranchised.
DISFRANCHIsED.
The new register comes in force in
February. Thousands are affected, and
the liberals maintain that Lord Sails
bury's action is not only without prece-
dent, but Is unconstitutional. On the
other hand, the conservatives claim that
Lord Salisbury acted fairly, as, had he
he waited until after February, he would
have the ~undoubted advantage of the
votes Of the soldiers returning from
South Africa. In their wrath that the
election was precipitated with SO little
warning, the liberals are not alone.
Business men, regardless OF party, are
furious over the disintegration of trade
which always accompanies election
counts. Publishers. for instance. after a
wretched year, seeing the war in South
Africa ending and affairs in hin be-
coming more quiet, made all prepare
tons for a revival of trade. just as they
Il OC64ttiIlh6 " pa WINS ooS tHS "ii
nouncement of the dissolution of parlia-
lnent came like a thunder clap, short
ening all their prospects. The stock .ex-
change, on the same grounds, have got
a great grievance against Lord Sails
bury;~as 1t will be we'll into December
before the public can be expected to take
keen interest in stocks.
The question of home rule, except in
ireland, is scarcely mentioned. Mr.. Her
bert Gladstone, h represents West
Leeds, advises his constituents to let the
matter drop, but the Earl of Sandwich
strikes a much franker note in renounc-
ing his adherence to the government and
returning to the ranks of the liberals be-
cause home rule is dead.
OFFICIAL CORRUPTION.
A miniature bomb has been thrown
into the conservative. camp by the lib
eral Morning Leader, which published a
lengthy story showing that the wife, sons
and daughter OF Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain
hold almost all the shares of the firm of
Hoskins Sons, contractors to the admir-
atty. Among the sons holding large
amounts of the stocks is Mr.. J.. A. Cham
berlain (the eldest son), who is a civil