The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-30
POLITICS PLAYS IMPORTANT
PART IN RUMPUS

London. July 28.-Ireland is a mael-
strom that drags everything In It's
whirling waters, and so this week it
has involved the king. says I. p.
O'Connor, in the Chicago Tribune.
The first announcement of the con-
ference at the kings initiative spread
equal alarm and disapprobation among
all political parties. The labor men
roundly denounced and the liberals
gave Mr.. Asquith but chill encourage
ment, while the n~ationalists submitted.
The irreconcilable point was between
the demand for six counties by the
Orangemen and the nationalist refus-
ing to concede more than four. Sir Ed
ward Carson, speaking with his usual
frankness, declared that neither he nor
Mr.. Redmond could give up Tyrone and
Fermanagh n that therefore no re-
Cancellation was possible.
The proceedings of the conference
We're conducted by all sides with
friendliness OF language and demeanor.
But this deadlock existed. But for the
desire Of the English representatives
the conference would have ended in a
couple of hours.
is the explanation of Carson
%adhearing to sue an impossible de-
man as the denial of the right of the
Catholic majority in Tyrone and Fer
managh to include while insisting on
the right Of a similar majority in Derry
IAN 4 AcbS ~ sM IL - II ~ lllo
dread that his Tyrone volunteers, who
are proportionately most numerous and
most resolute mons his volunteers,
would repudiate and %renounce him If
he yielded them up. But the second
most powerful Influence in preventing
a deal with the nationalist is thai the
English tory party now is generally
convinced that Ulster. even if it break
out the HOPELESS rebellion, can be ex-
plotted to destroy the present ministry
and produce a general election in
Which the Tories might win a big cleo
toral victory. Further, Carson obstin-
ately adheres to the opinion that As
qu1th and the other ministers will never
have nerve to face a rebellion in u
ster. There is a further reliance on the
unWillingness Of the king to sign a
home rule bill without insisting on an
immediate appeal to the country. Some
hope is also placed on the notorious
hostility Of some powerful members Of
the cabinet to face an issue of civil
wal and their equally notorious sym-
pathy with the Orange demand for an
Immediate general election.
AT this moment the Irish controversy
is diverted largely into a ministry and
the liberal party as to the question
whether and under what conditions the
next general election shall take place.
and on this question there is a Ger
tain cleavage between the attitude of
some cabinet ministers and the atti-
tude of the liberal rank and file. 1t is
feared that some ministers may yield
to the kings pressure and accept an
Immediate general election in return
for getting the kings signature to the
home rule bill, while the rank and file
Of the liberals p~assionately and unani-
mously demand that Asquith should
force the king to dismiss him rather
than submit to such a claim. The rank
and file of liberals hold that the 90
ceptance Of the kings condition would
be a negation of liberalism and fur
ther proclaim that a general election
held after such a surrender would
make a crushing overthrow of the lib
eral party, while the election on the
issue of the king against the ministry
would. with equal certainty, promise
an overwhelming liberal victory. This
struggle is still going on and men
| breathlesslY await the result.