The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-29
LORD SALISBURY
Unmoved-ParliamsntE ay Show his
Majority Is Not Weakened.
BITTER COMPIAlNFrtERT
Unless the Premier Cuts Loose Soon
From the oulprit's Responsibility
for Defeats, His Overthrow is Pre-
dicted-Maine Iholdsu sealied.

Copyright. 100, by Associated PreES).
LONDON, Jan. 2s.-Though criticism
of the government and It's methods of
handling the war IS undated Il Is safe
10 say that when parliament meets
Tuesday next nothing serious will re-
suit. There viii be theehsA al motions
of censure. with perhaps more than
usually lmpassloned denunciations Of
the various departments of the admin
istration. especially the war and colo
Mai ofnces. But such is the patriotism
OF the average Englishman and such is
the strength Of the Conservative or
gani5ation that 1t win be surprising II
Lord salisbnry's majority is even ap-
preslably weakened.
This. mere tally Of votes, however,
must not be construed as a real index
of national feeling, for many a man
will go to the government lobby who
outside has privately declared some
one ought to be hanged for mal-admIn-
istradon. and that IL Lord Salisbury
did not dlsassoclata himself from the
system Of cuiprits responsible for the
national humiliation he must eventually
take the consequences.
Another cogent reason for prophecy
ing that the session WIN be barren OF
changes Affecting the balance of power
is that the opposition apparently is
hopelessly divided Nothing showed this
better than John Morley's speech at
Forfar. January "a, when. for the first
time. ne publicly sneered at Lord
Rosebery, who numbers among his de-
voted adherents such brilliant Liberals
as H. H. Asquith and Sir Edward Grey.
Confidence IN Rosebery.
Lord iRosebefys magnificent speech
last week and the speeches which he
has recently delivered have been con-
vlnclng men of all parties of his excep-
tional breadth of mind. patriotism and
ability to face national crisis sanely,
and perhaps 1t is not stretching the bow
to say he to-day commands British
confidence to greater extent than
Lord Salisbury. Yet, 1t is impossible for
the Liberals to unite on him, and as the
Saturday Review" says, ,'he is so
admirable out OF office that no one
would r.sS putting him Inv
With Mr., Morley so bitterly opposed
to the Rosebery section of. the Liberals
and Sir Henry Campbe u! Bannerman
such non-eommIttai n6hentIty that
his own party press scarcely ever re-
fers to him, the Liberals have no lead
err upon whom to unite, even should
they cohere. sufficiently to make a de-
tcrmIned attempt to Dust the govern
ment, go it is probable the .opposItion's
tactics viii be Of the g,tsrTilla order
eontentng themselves With putting up
Sir Charles Dixie and others to criticlse
Individual points and, while not direct
lylShauenginR vote upon-t the moral
ity. Of the war and the governments
waging Of IT FOR fear of mourning the
accutauon of being unpatriotc. achiev-
ing the same end by vigorous academic
criticism of the antebelium diplomacy,
bringing up the Jameson raid skeleton
and demanding the production of the
withheld correspondence, which was
referred to by b. f. HawksIey, counsel
for Cecil Rhodes, in the letters recent
ly published by the independence
Beige"