Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-20
UNION WALKOvER
ENGLISH LIBERALS CONCEDE
THEIR OWN DEFEAT.
EXCITING ELECTION TIMES.
Many Dry Old Bones in Political Arena
Will Go Down in the
Dust.

New York, Sept. ga London special
says: The press is filled with election
intelligence. but the contest is too UNI
e9ua to be interesting. A unionist vic
tory is conceded even by the liberal man
ayers, and the only question in doubt is
whether the government Will have a
larger or smaller majority in the ne"
than it had in the old parliament. The
details OF the settlement in South Africa
will not be explained. although this is
the issue upon which the government
asks for seven years extension of its
lease of power. The electorate, which
has been artificially restricted by the
acknowledgements of ar enormous body
of voters under the old registry, will be
called upon to arm the government With
a mandat to transform the TransVaal
into British Africa. Public interest CEN
tiers in the reconstruction OF the cabinet
rather than in the results of the cleo
tons, which is a foregone conclusion.
Lord LanSdowne is marked out for
slaughter, and NiScount Gross Will also
be forced to retire. 1t is also rurnored
that the Duke of Devonshire will not be
a member of the ministry after the cleo
tons, and that Lord Transformers resig-
nation from the war office will be the
signal for the retirement of Mr.. Goschen
from the admiralty. Mr.. Chamberlain
will be almost the only liberal unionist
in the cabinet. and ought to have a most
conspicuous office in order to illustrate
the principle of the survival of the
tittest.
"ALDERSHOT GANG"
There are a good many s~uperannuated
tories who would adorn the privacy Of
retirement, and their fate has not yet
been settled by the rumor mongerS. One
theory is that Lord Cromer will be
brought into the cabinet and General
Kitchener into the war office, and hat
Mr.. Balfour, Mr.. Chamberlain and Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach will be left where
%hnx orN u1,l Il -, -Ise
planned the holiday promenade to Pre-
toria a year ago. will find itself between
"the devil and the deep sea- when asked
to choose between Mr.. Chamberlain and
General Kitchener. Another mystery
which f%ascinates the rumor mongers is
the probable selection of the new lord
chief justice. The lord high chancellor
ordinarily makes all judicial appoint
ments, but the prime minister is re-
sponsible for the choice of the lord chief
Justice. Lord Salisbury n Lord Halls
bury are intimate personal friends and
probably will talk over the matter. but
the decision rests with the prime minis
ter. Sir Edward Clark would have been
Lord Russell's natural successor if he
had not gone wrong on South Africa
and been forced to abandon public life.
Sir Richard Webster has excluded him
self from the chief seat on the bench by
becoming master of the rolls. Sir Robert
Finley has been attorney general for
only a few months. and his elevation
would be considered premature. ut is
predicted that Sir Francis Jeune will be
appointed. He is president OF a num-
Der of important societies and has grea,
Influence at court.
WILL FOLLOW IN CHINA.
Germany has taken. without doubt, a
line of her own in China, but the British
foreign office has made it clear that it
preferred to follow the other powers and
was unwilling to lead the way. The Ger
man emperor's circular is now commend
ed by the English press as the wisest de-
liverance yet made on the Chinese ques-
ton, although it is not explained how
any blacklist of guilty mandarins can be
provided which will omit at the top the
name of the empress dowager as the
chief conspirator against the foreign en-
bassies and mission stations. The most
candid English journals tell the plain
truth about the diplomatic situation
namely, that England, by remaining in
the background and waiting for other
powers to take the initiative, has lost
the great opportunity for justifying its
position as an Asiatic power and exert
ms moral influence in the world. Eng
land has been adrift in China without
a definite policy. Now that the cleo.
tions are coming on, the foreign office
is s~tiffening it's policy and receives credi
from the unionist press for making
strong demands at Pekin.