Omaha daily bee., 1914-03-30
SHY AT A new COALITION
Unionists Fear Radicals and Labor
ties Getting Together,
WAR CRY GIVES THEM ALARM
Platform Of Possible party" Crys-
taIiGcd In Battle Cry "The
AristOcrRts Against the
PcopIe."

! LONDON. March 29-what has beer
pronounced the greatest crisis foI
craftsmanship in 800 years" is simmerinl
over Sunday. Both houses Of Psrlia
ment will train their heaviest guns upor
the whole complicated affair on Monday
Passions are running high and country
Houses where the politicians customarilJ
spend the week-ends are deserted
The party leaders are conferring in
London and urgent summons has been
sent to all members to attend. II the
outcome OF the crisis Is to be a general
election in the near future, the radical
wing of the liberal party will form q
close alliance with the labor party. the
coalition cystallizing its platform into the
battle cry The arlstocrats against the
people" This seems to hold possibili-
ties Of vote getting and the conservatives
shy at It.
Seely'E Tenure Likely short
The army order which Premier Asquith
announced today Is generally considered
to have been intended as a sort OF char
ter on which Field Marshal French and
General Ewart might be induced to re-
main in their positions. Colonel seely's
tenure in the office of the war ministry
seems destined to be of short continu-
ance.
The Westminster Gazette and the Daily
Chronicle, foremost among the liberal pa
pers are saying that Colonel Seely must
relinquish his portfolio. The name OF
John Burns is most discussed as his prob
able successor
FThat a HapnnrroFtC could 10
carried to such lengths as to give super
vision of the army into the hands Of the
sturdy character who came into the lime
light first as labor agitator would have
been unthinkable a decade ago. Yet the
recognition of the soldier as on the same
plane with the officer in the charter
rights and duties which the govern
ment proclaimed today, is a long step
towards the same leveling of the classes.
Panama Debate AlmOsI UnnOttced.
The Panama debate at Washington,
which ordinarily would have been read
here with equal interest to that which It
excites in the United States, is passing
almost unnoticed in the excitement over
the crisis, and the suffragettes are being
wholly ignored
The kings actions and attitudes dur
ing the crisis are gradually becom.N !;
known. The attacks of the radicals and
laborites on the king for his alleged in
reference in politics have subsided. The
unionists are critcising him, but quietly
among themselves. The unionists have
the most reason to complain of the king 5
policy, as would appear from the most
trustworthy accounts of the happenings
at Buckingham palace during the fire.
quent conferences which the king had
with the cabinet ministers and army
officers.
The king followed his ministers advice
from the beginning of the home rule con-
troversy While maintaining impartiality
apparently he had personal leaning to-
ward home rule. The king and the mem
bers OF his court were outspoken in their
condemnation OF Sir Edward Carson in
organizing the Ulster volunteer army
and resented his act in reviewing the
volunteers as though they were a regu-
lar military body. and in assuming pre-
negatives by reason of which the liberals
named him "l<ing Carson"