The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-27
GOVERNMENT WILL
GAIN IN ELECTION
English Campaign Is Aus
piciously Opened by
Lloyd George.
AMERICAN IRISH FUND ISSUE
Bill chan,pioned by sufrsgettes
Will Receive Con
sideration.
AMERICAN IRISH FUND ISSUE
by WILLIAM T. STEAD.

December the Issue OF the general
election Will be practically decided. 1t
is true that only boroughs will have
polled. but as Manchester, Birmingham
and Westham. to mention only the
lithree largest constituencies will be
polling then. the whole of the votes
cast by these great constituencies. to-
| getoer with those polled at two pre-
| vious elections. will AFFORD a trust
worthy gauge as to how the election
Will go as whole.
! i have made it my duty during the
| last few days to ascertain exactly from
the headquarters of the various par
ties what they expect Will be the re-
suit of the general election. At the
/, Liberal headquarters the calculation Is
that the government will lose seven
seats and gain nineteen, making net
| gain of twelve seats. or twenty-four
votes In division. This would bring
Opposition, which is fearfully de.
pressed, will be greatly relieved II
| they do not lose twenty Ave seats al
together, which VIII bring the Liberal
will return weaker than 1t is to-day.
| Redmond is most confident that he
| Will hold his own In ireland, but tho
| general expectation Is that O'Brien VIII
| is not mistaken, Redmond VIII nave
a party OF seventy behind him al tina
| general election.
/ Campaign Opened by Lloyd George.
The campaign has opened we'll for
the government Lloyd Georges
| speech at Mile End was one Of the
most brilliant electioneering speeches
| / have ever heard. The way In which
he retorted upon the ridiculous rub
! Dish that forms the only stock In
| trade OF the Tory party. the ailega-
| lions that Redmond. with his 2oo,-
| 600 American dollars, is the dictator
| of the situation, was extremely happy.
! Punch" with dry humor mas re-
marked that 1t was curious to ind
| the British Constitution could be sold
for so low a figure as 100000 which
! amounted TO a little more than what
! duke could earn in a year. The fact
! that the so-called American dollars
are contributed almost exclusively by
American irish is perfectly well I'M
I dollars are distasteful to the English
I public Is received with roars of hui
ulorous laughter.
Lloyd George at Mile End. carried
| his audience with him In ineXtinguish-
| able peals of merrinent when he CON
| trasted the eagerness OF the impecu-
Nous British mobiles to marry Amer
lean heiresses. with the holy horror
which Is expressed at Redmond, receiv
! ing from the exiles of Erin subscrip-
| tions TO enable them TO win their
! liberty.
! The Daily Chronicle has published
| a tabulated statement showing that nc
] fewer than 200.000,000 American
! dollars had been received as wed
| ding dowrIes by mobiles who had re-
/ pienished their fortunes by wedding
| American brides Equally and more
! bitter was the taupt that Irish land
| lords rents have peen paid for nearly
I forty years by contributions from the
American Irish. whose subscriptions
/ are now regarded as something too I'M
! clean TO be touched by any political
| party.
American Irish Fund nm Issue.
The fact OF the matter is the Amer
! ri 70 I'm nj nf hA
| long struggle that has been waged be-
/ tween the people and the landed aristo-
! cracy of Ireland. But for Patrick Ford
/ and other warm friends of the Irish
! cause In America, Parnell's movement
1 would never have had chance of
1 success. Nothing proves more conclu-
/ sively the desperate straits to which
1 the Tory party In England is reduced
4 than the frantic, almost frenzied de-
nunciation of American dollars, which
I form the end-all and oe-all OF the
i Unionists appeal to English constitu-
4 encies.
satisfied regarding the Prime Minis
/ ters promise that trade unlonists be
allowed by law to levy contributions for
parliamentary and municipal purposes.
| providing the will Of their members
is particularly expressed and that no
compulsion Is exercised upon the mi
nority to contribute to any fund which
offends their political. consciences
i
the ministerial promise viii carry Us
over the election.
The suffragettes have also secured 8
promise from Mr.. Asquith that their
conciliation bill will be afforded ia
cilities in the next Parliament, but
that does not please them. Lloyd
4 George has told me that no CONSIDERED
Il ton on earth would induce him r>to
accept the Cancellation bill as II stands.
but he is quite willing to accept 1t II
It enables married woman to vote on
! their husbands qualification.
i Although not officially authorized
to make this statement. yet l have 1t
4 on the best authority that should the
Liberals return with anything like the
majority they have at present. tbs
king will act Loyalty upon the ADVICE VIZ Q
King is a constitutional King, and al
though he may not like to use the
royal prerogative to bring the Lords
to heel. the ministers will find no diff
Il flculty On securing his support for
the passage of the veto bill through
/ Parliament,