New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-19
DONAR LAW A SUCCESS
New UnioniSt Leader Restores
Confidence TO Party.
MINISTERS GROWING STALE
Mrs. Winston Churchill Central
Figure at Launch of the New
Battleship Centurion.
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London. Nov. 1S.--A complete restora-
ton of confidence is the direct result OF
Che Unionist change Of leadership. Fac
zion has disappeared and the old fight
ing spirit has been regained. Mr.. Bonar
laws speeches in Yorkshire have been
direct practical and businesslike ana
rot above the heads of his audiences
Every one knows precisely where ne
stands on tariff and other questions
There are neither evasions nor subtle
ties. and there is nothing for him to eS-
plain away.
The force of his strenuous personality
has not yet been fully felt in the House
az Commons. but there is general pe-
lief on both sides that Balfouian ameni-
ties have been dennitively discarded and
that ministers will be fought and
harassed at every turn. Candidates are
coming forward for hazardous can
vases. by-elections are welcomed for
She chances they afford of dividing the
coalition forces. and there is marked
revival Of party feeling.
Caution is an important element OF
Mir. Laws very Scottish outfit for effec-
tive leadership and thus it is not yet
clear whether the Ulster campaign oil
passive resistance to Home Rule by de-
clining to pay taxes win be encouraged
nor. even whether the Lords are eX-
Jected 10 hang up the insurance bill
snd force the government to reintro-
ouce it next year. but 1t is plain that a
hard and fast line will not be drawn
against the free fooders. and II is prob
able that Mr. Balfour's pledge that tht
referendum shall apply tC tariff reform
will not be repudiated.
Labor Members Disseminated.
: There are signs Of increasing irritabil'
3ty on the coalition side. While the
risks Of railway mems and coal miners
strikes before Christmas have dimin-
3shed. the Labor members are discon'
tented and critical, and are threatening
10 put up their candidates wherever
they like ct the next general election.
The insurance bill is not popular
among workers and householders. The
Chancellor Of the Exchequer is re-
preached for overlooking a waterlogged
ship with raw material FOR social re-
form.
The Irish Home Rule scheme is in the
hands of a subcommittee Of the Cabi-
net. with Sir John Simon as craftsman.
The Welsh Disestablishment bin will be
introduced by the Home Secretary, and
the Prime Minister himself will take
charge Of the great scheme Of franchise
reform. undeterred by the renewal Of
the activities of troublesome suffraget
Populations
II is patent that the ministers are
growing stale and that the country is
relapsing into a state of apathy, as it
cid toward the close of the first Glad
stone administration. in 1873. when one
great scheme Of reform followed an
other and the electorate was worn out
with political agitation
Feuds in the Cabinet,
4 fresh outbreak of Cabinet feuds has
also occurred. as IS evident from the
Radical criticism of Sir Edward Grey s
diplomacy and from the premature ef-
forts Of Winston Churchilrs partisans
60 magnify his importance at the Ad-
miralty and 10 demonstrate that the ma
tion has been On the brink of war with
Germany. while showing that the navy
was unprepared for a sudden attack.
Mrs. Churchill meanwhile is the CEN
tral figure at Davenport to-day at the
launch Of the Centurion. sister ship to
the George V, with the latest steel
hardened armor and designed as a float
ing platform battery for ten 13-inch
guns.
This makes the twenty-hrst battleship
Of the Dreadnought type. She has a
displacement Of $1,000 tons. The length
IS $50 feet, beam 50 feet and draft 2715
feet, while her engines are expected TO
develop $1,000 horsepower
A feature Of the Centurion and the
George V is the extraordinary number
of watertight compartments. scores NJ
which, 1t is believed. will render the ves-
gels unsuitable. even If a section below
the waterline is penetrated by a tor