The Topeka state journal., 1900-10-06
CIRCULATING
ON The CABINET
British Ministerialists Consider
Victory is Assured.
Now Discussing Probable Ad-
ministratIgn Changes.
SALISBURY Is SILENT.
Expected That He VIII Find
Places For More Relatives.
Marlborough is Not to Go to
Ireland After All.
SALISBURY Is SILENT.

London, Oct 6-As a Conservative
majority daily becomes more and more
assured. speculation as to the personnel
of the next cabinet grows rife and all
sorts of guesses are published. None of
these, however, seem inspired. All take
it for granted that sweeping changes
will be made, but this conclusion, the
Associated Press learns, is unjustified.
The facts are that Lord Salisbury al
ways uncommunicative, has not broken
the habit of his life for the benefit of
close friends or even fellow cabinet
members, but from a peer high in Con-
servative councils the Associated Press
learns that the makeup of the next
cabinet will be so similar to that of its
predecessor that it will come as a start
ling surprise.
The Marquis OF Lansdowne, who, next
to MI. Chamberlain, is the object of
more attacks than any other cabinet
member, can have the war office port
folio again if he desires, and he prob
ably will accept it, as he has implicit
belief in Lord Roberts and is anxious to
cooperate with him in reforms which
he has been contemplating for some
time, but would not commence with
Lord Wolseley, the late commander-in-
chief, and Gen Sir Evelyn Wood, the
adjutant general, with whom his rela-
tions are greatly strained.
NOT OFFERED TO MARLBOROUGH
1t is untrue that either Lord Lands
dOwne or the Duke of Marlborough has
been offered the lord ieutenancy of Ire
land, and it is quite improbable that
either will have such an offer, though
Earl Cadogan does intend to retire,
much to the relief of the leading Con-
servatiyes in ireland, who are bitterly
opposed to Mr.. Gerald Balfour (the chief
secretary and Earl Cadogan's attempt
at non-partisan government
Lord Salisbury win resume the pre-
Fr,Tst
at least everything he has said to his
fellow members of the cabinet points TO
his doing SO.
Probably the only really complete
change viii be in the admiralty, for
which the Right Hon. Robert William
Hanbury is being favorably considered,
though Lord George Hamilton, who
formerly was at the head of the ad-
1niralty could have the portfolio again,
but he prefers to remain at the head of
the Indian office The Earl Of Selborne,
at present Mr.. Chamberlain's assistant,
has been selected for preferment. He IS
regarded as one of the strongest men
in the government, and may have a seat
in the cabinet in the place of the Right
Hon. Walter Long, president OF the
board of agriculture. If he does, he will
add one more to the long list of Lord
Salisbury's relatives controlling Eng
lands destinies, as he married the pre-
nier'S daughter.
FIGHT ON CHAMBERLAIN.
The vigorous personal attacks upon
Mr.. Chamberlain continue and seem to
gather bitterness as the reality of defeat
dawns upon the Liberals. The Hon. P.
J. Stanhope's reverse al Burnley is con-
Strued by the Conservatives as a direct
rebuke for his bitter denunciatiOns of
Mr.. Chamberlain, but Mr.. Stanhope ad-
heres to his attitude, reiterating that he
is ready to prove in the courts that Mr..
Chamberlain only whitewashed Cecil
Rhodes in the house of commons be-
cause a member had letters in his pocket
discriminating Mr.. Chamberlain with the
raid This member, though not named
by Mr.. Stanhope the Associated Press
learns is Mr.. Abel Thomas, a Liberal
who represented East Carmarthenshire
in the last parliament. In the meanwhile
Mr. Chamberlain is apparently unmoved
and is serenely sending messages to the
nation and stumping the country putting
all his vigor and strong personality into
the campaign in marked contrast with
the other cabinet ministers
While Mr.. Chamberlain is practically
the only interesting figure in the strug-
gle in England, there are in Ireland sew
eral men and issues stirring up the
country into such chaotic condition Of
party lines as has never occurred before,
and 1t would excite the greatest interest
were it not for the fact that England is
so occupied with her own local contests
It is claimed that Mr.. Timothy NJ.
Healey has split the Irish party to al
most as great a degree as did the late
Charles Stewart ParneIl and that the
bitterness injected into the fight equals
that of the historic division.
IRISH POLITICS.
The Freeman's Journal declares that
anyone voting for Mr.. Healey's candi-
date ''iS without an atom of Self-respect,''
and describes his campaign as one of
ssecret ealumny and villif1cation." The
paper blaneS him for the loss of Galway,
i'Galway has disgraced the national
solidarity, broken once more by the
treason of renegade home rulers and the
flag of the union has been planted be-
yond the Shannon"
on the other hand the Dublin Indepen-
dent supports Mr. Healey and Cardinal
Logue has also come out with declara-
ton in his favor
and Galway have changed their colors
and other constituencies are likely to
follow suit
The Duke of Abercorn, whose son, the
Marquis of Hamilton, ousted Count
Moore from Londonderry. said to a rep
resentative of the Associated Press:
Frankly, you can say to the Ameri- |
cans that the people in my part of the
country, north, are more prosperous and !
more thrifty than ever. The Irish chan |
mel and lack of coal and more other |
facilities are drawbacks to the develop |
ment of many of our industries. But |
everything will come in time and wheth- |
er ireland returns an increased or a de- |
creased Nationalist majority, I believe !
she will improve commercially Slowly, /
perhaps, but surely. SOwenay eventually /
who annually go to your side of the wa
ter"
PARNELL RECANTED.
Mr.. John Parnell, who was so cur +
iously ousted from South Meath, only /
secured the nomination by recanting his /