Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-08-24
The Liberals Really Suffered No
Great Loss in Manchester
Defeat.
Resignation of Master of Elibank
VIII BE Felt by His
Party.
PARLIAMENT HAS ADJOURNED

With a wild whoop, the Tory pa
pers proclaim big victory in the
Manchester election. They shout
that this is the beginning of the end,
demand that the Tory opposition
force a dissolution of Parliament,
and declare the home rule bill is
dead. This exultation is rather over
done, cables T. p. OFConnor, M. p,
as the seat has been nearly always
Tory and was only won in recent
years by Winston Churchills COM
manding personality and the dread
OF all the cotton Lords, Liberal or
Tory, of their industry being ruined
by protection. The Tory candidate
was so conscious that the protection
Idea was an impossible barrier to
Victory that he denied protection as
an issue and the Tory free traders
who supported him begged him to
say as little as possible on the sub
ject.
The defeat of the Liberals was an
ticipated from the beginning for sew
eral reasons. The first one was
that the cotton Lords resent Lloyd
Georges heavy taxation on the cap
ltalists and the landlords, and sec
ondly, the insurance act still is un-
popular, especially among the small
employers of labor and with certain
sections Of the workmen, who object
to the compulsory thrift and have
been stuffed with gigantic lies by the
Tory speakers. 1t is thought pos
slble that Manchester will return to
the allegiance with free trade at the
general election. Anyhow the Lib
erals take the defeat quite calmly.
The other recent elections reveal
no steady current against the Gov
eminent Hanley was won, in spite
of three cornered fight. by a splen-
did majority and. though Crewa-was
lost by triangular fight, the votes
for the Liberal and Labor candidates,
protesting identically the same prin-
ciples, were a majority, and the Tory
member represents a minority con-
stituency. There is no relaxation
whatever in the determination of the
Government to push forward the
home rule bill to final success.
The Liberals are really more dis
tressed over the resignation of the
Master of Elibank than the defeat In
Manchester. His winning person
ality, tact, energy and shrewdness
were an invaluable asset to his party.
His resignation was entirely due to
the necessity of providing for the
members of his family, who have no
fortune except a small and embar-
rassed estate, but the Master of Eli
bank did not retire until he had
made the way smooth for the re-
manning stages of home rule and
helped the Government over the last
few weeks. He got all the finance
and all the small measures finally
disposed of before the end of this
lsession and thus the progress OF the
home rule bill can not be interrupted
in the autumn sittings. One OF the
last acts of the great whip was to
fix the time table and the other terms
of the drastic closure. These will
be proposed within a few days of
THE meeting of Parliament and 1t is
anticipated that the Tories will make
a tremendous scene of stage machined
disorder when these proposals are
made.
Rumors are current that the Tories
lplan some great coup in Ulster dur
ing the month of September, though
noobdy can guess what they intend
to do. They claim they will show
that home rule is impossible, but
they miscalculate English opinion.
The rowdyism in Belfast turned Eng
land and especially the working
classes decisively and finally against
them and the prosecutions of Eng
lIsh Liberals and Irish Nationalist
workers in the shipyards add to the
general disgust.
Parliament has risen until October,
and the members have scattered In
Ian directions to recuperate after an
lexciting session. No new regulations
have been made, but one, at least,
has come perilously near being lost
that of the leader OF the opposition.
In the inner circles Of the Unionists
the hope Is often expressed that
Balfour will again take the leader
ship OF the party. This he will not
do, and therefore the question OF
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