Arizona republican., 1910-01-10
THE MANY CRossCURRENTs
There Are Divisions and Subdivisions and Align ments and Re -Alignments Until Situation Has Be come One of Conjecture.

London, Jan. 9.-After one of the most remarkable campaigns iD Eng fish political history. the electorate of Great Britain and Ireland is now about to decide the most momentous question presented to it for more than a generation.
 How the decision will be given will not be known until the returns are in. So far as one can judge the situation is not unlike that which prevailed in the United States when President Cleveland was first elected.
 There are so many clements which have entered into the campaign, the :. effects of which cannot be forecasted that it would be a very foolish prophet who would risk his reputation by mak- ing a prediction.
 There is free trade vs. protection, home rule for Ireland vs. preservation of the union. and a dozen or more oth- CT questions to muddle things. Many voters who would be with the hber- als on the budget and the tariff ques- tfon regard Irish home rule as of the utmost danger to the integrity of the
  are protectionists and who are abso- Iutely opposed to some provision of Inc budget, an6 so it goes Just how these conflicting questions are going to lead the voters to act nobody can tell, and it is on this the result of the , election hangs.
 Undoubtedly the most spectacular issue of the campaign is the curtail- ment of the power of theN house Of lords It is on this point the liberals have made their principal fight. Judg- ing bv the action of those who att tend the meetings they have been making a winning fight, but in Eng land this is not a sure sign by any means It is what is called in Ameri- ca the vest pocket vote which will decide this contest and there. is no way of judging it.
 Never in political campaign have so many peers taken an active part as in this one Dukes, marquises. earls, viscounts and barons have de- veloped into effective campaigners.
 Lord Curzon has really been the leading figure in the oratorical bat tie on the conservative side, and Lloyd- George on that of the liberals They fitly represent the extremes Of the opposing armies.
 Curzon is an aristocrat of the aris- tocrats and has met the attack on the lords without giving an inch.
 Lloyd-George is a man of no family from the English viewpoint and an ultra democrat.
 Tn Great Britain, as in America, the real effective work of the campaign is not done by the orators, but by men little in the public eye who di- rect the machines.
 The men who correspond to the chairmen of the national committees in America are called chief agents here. They look after the real work of the election.
 The chief agent of the liberals is Sir Robert Hudson. ,Warwickshire man who has practically spent all his ca reer. in the work of liberal organiza- tion.
 His first lieutenant. the chief gov ernment whip" has long been affec- tionately known as Jack" Pease. IL was the late Sir Henry Campbel- Zimmerman. a very shrewd judge of men. who induced MT. Pease to become a whip. H was splendid choice, for Jack has astonishing knowledge Of all labor and trade union matters.
 These two men manage the liberal campaign. They have to arrange about the candidates all over the country. People who want to stand come to them for seats. and local party asso- ciations constantly appeal to them to find them candidates.
 The chief conservative agent. MT. James Percival Hughes. succeeds some notable organizers of victory This will be his first general election. for he was appointed after the conservative rout in 1906.
 NSir Alexander Aciand-Hoo is the chief unionist whip.