New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-18
'ENCL|SH ELECTION NEAR.
The Veto Conference Regarded
as Doomed to Failure.
INFLUENCE OF CORONATION
Liberal Newspapers Going Far
Afeld to Find Issnes-Jan-
uary Set for Contest.
IBv Cable to The Tribune.l

London, Sept. 17.-An eminent Union
ist organizer has expressed the conFic-
ton that general elections will be held
in January, in consequence OF the TALL
ure Of the veto conference. His main
ground for this opinion is the effect OF
the coronation pageantry in stimulating
loyalty. The republican movement in
England has collapsed, since Queen Vic
toria's jubilees. and King Edwards cor
onation pageants have popularized mon
archy and impaired the resources of de-
mocracy, and this tendency will be
strengthened by the spectacles and
revels of next year.
So well is this truth understood on the
Liberal side that the best organizers
agree that the veto question must be
taken up early in the year or dropped
altogether If the government attempts
to continue the present armistice and
to defer an appeal to the country until
the autumn Of next year it Will lind
itself without an issue of paramount i'm
portance, and will be overwhelmed by
the swelling tide of loyal enthusiasm for
the crown and the empire. This is the
opinion of an expert politician, and 1t is
confirmed by evidences Of the anxiety
of both Nationalist and Labor leaders to
hasten the elections. The departure OF
John Redmond and three associates for
American and Canadian bases Of sup
plies indicates an urgent necessity for
filing the war chest and being prepared
for a crisis at the end of the year.
The labor leaders at the Trade Union
Congress have been even more explicit
in forecasting a general election in jan
uary and a close coalition with Radical
ism for legalizing political levies. The
pressure of the extremists is increasing
for fighting out the constitutional issue
instead Of compromising it by secret
bargaining, and the Free Traders have
persuaded themselves that it VIII be
easier to beat the Tariff Reformers be-
fore than after the coronation. The
Unionists are expecting a failure Of the
conference, and have already begun to
canvass in the small towns, where vans
are covered with posters, heavily stocked
with leaflets and equipped with gramo-
phones and magic lanterns
Lord Rosebery is expected to play an
important part in the political crisis,
since his resolutions dealing with the re-
form of the Lords will have precedence
over the veto resolutions. If the con-
ference breaks down, the veto resolu-
lions cannot be blocked and if the Prime
Minister favors an early appeal to the
country he may obtain in this way re-
lease from an intolerable situation, in
which Messrs. O'Connor and Shackleton
are constantly threatening the ministry
with desertion and defeat unless their
demands are complied with.
While the Labor party is organizing
an active autumn campaign against the
Osborne judgment, by which the ener-
gies Of trade unionism are paralyZed,
Liberal editors are eXerting themselves
to carry the country on g. select assert
ment of foreign issues, such as Ameri-
can discomfort with the Payne tariff
and the German revolt against the high
cost Of living. They are paying more
attention to these remote subjects than
to the veto question or to anything
directly affecting the fortunes Of the
English workingman.