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VOLUME LXXVIII.-NO. 51.
ASQUITH THEIR MAN
The Liberals May Find
a Moses in This
Leader.
PLANS OF THE TORIES.
England May Soon Overlook
Her Own Struggles in the
Gathering Clouds.
THAT AFFAIR IN BULGARIA.
Once More There Appears a Good
Prospect for War in the
East.
Copyrightc.l, 1896, by the iCew York Times.]
LONDON*, Eva., July 20.— Ex-Secretary
H. H. Asquith's turning up with a notably
increased majority is in its way quite as
dramatic an episode on the electoral battle
field as Harcourt's phenomenal tumble at
the very outset of the tight. His defeat
bad been so entirely taken for granted that
bets of 10 io 1 against him were offered
satirically in the National Liberal Club
Thursday night amid laughter at the no
tion that anybody would be silly enough
to take them. Naturally the amazement
Bt his victory, which is ably a per
sonal triumph over immense odds, is
promptly followed by the excited conclu- j
eion that ho is a heaven-sent mortal who
is to lead the Liberals out of the wilder
ness, and people talk as if he would be
hailed with acclamation at once as the
leader of the party.
This is not the case. No voice will be
raised when the forlorn remnants of the
party get together in opposition to Har
court's re-election as the House of Com
mons' chief, but undoubtedly events have
thrust Asquith forward a long way to the
front of everybody else or as heir apparent
to that post.
What is more to the point is that his ad
vancement destroys practically every ar
gument in favor of the party remaining
committed, etc., to the reputation of the
disastrous Rosebery experiment. If it be
true that the Liberals need a young chief
tain, there is no longer the necessity of
going to the Lords for one. Asqnith is
younger still than Rosebery and will have
in the new House of Commons not only
the prestige of his splendid electoral suc
cess, but the authority, based on the best
administrative work done in any depart
ment of the Liberal Government. His
great fault is a certain steeliness of mind,
which is apt to chill human contact, but
*be Liberals no longer attach the import
ance they formerly did to a genial mien
and funny after-dinner speeches. Unless
all signs fail Herbert Asquith if ill be Prime
Minister before Rosebery is.
The discussion as to the cause of this
overwhelming rout of Liberalism has long
since grown wearisome. If you adopt the
theory that the defeated candidates are
the best judges of what struck tliem there
is practically the unanimous explanation
of beer, and not only, they say. did the
lower classes rally vehemently in support
of the publicans but the recent conversion
of many of the great breweries into limited
companies has turned thousands of mid
dle-class Liberals into small shareholders
or trustees of brewery stock, to protect
which they and all their friends unhesi
tatingly deserted tne party. It certainly
is true that all these brewery stocks have
gone up during the week; but this is only
one phase of the general demoralization
that has been steadily increasing since
Gladstone, failing to command his own
way in tne party, left it to its own devices,
and here in London I fancy the increase of
rates had still more to do with the crash
than the beer issue.
The progressive City Council tried nobly
to make London cleaner, healthier and
more beautiful, but it could not be done
for nothing and the small taxpayer re
sented the extra cost. There was, more
over, in the poorer districts of London
especially, the grossest public corruption,
some of which will, one is glad to hear, be
brought before the courts. Unfortunately
ff>ooo has to be deposited as a guarantee
before an election petition can be heard,
and if Harry Marks, whose victory even
Tories blush at, is aliowed to retain his
«eat without inquiry it wili be -because his
antagonist has no money to pay lawyers.
Public indignation in his district ran so
tiigh the night of the election that the bal
lots had to be carried into another division
to be counted, for fear that otherwise he
Would have been killed by the mob.
The question of what tiie Tory Govern
k ment is to do now that they have this ex
traordinary majority behind them, is
easily answered. To the best of their
ability they will do nothing. Chamber
lain's congenital restlessness may produce
a mock semblance of legislative activity,
but the dead weight of Toryism is heavy
enough to prevent his accomplishing much
in the way of change. It is thought pos
sible that Sir Michael Hicks Beach, the
new Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is
the special representative of the squir
archy, may partially undo Harcourt's
death duty work. But these taxes once
laid are rarely remitted. The school sys
tem will suffer most by being pushed fur
ther back into the slough of cierical mas
tery from which it has just begun to
emerge, and an abrupt end will be put to
London's aspirations or unification and
municipalization of its water and gas sup
plies, streetcars, etc. There is much
Tory talk about distributing the se:its on
the basis of one vote for one value. They
are full of the idea. This would enable
them to take 200 seats from Ireland, but
this would involve either a repeal or the
flagrant violation of the act of union, and
even then it is doubtful if they would not
lose more by the destruction of their own
little rotten boroughs in England and Scot
land than the thing come to.
From all appearances they are going to
try the policy of taffy in Ireland. So long
as the country is quiet, there will be no
attempt to return to coercion, and I hear
much of an intention to propose abolish
ing Dublin Castle and the Grand Jury
- system, siving the Irish County councils
instead of the latter, and sending the Duke
Of York to hold the royal residence in
place of the Viceroy. They may also pass
• land bill not greatly differing from John
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Morley's lapsed measure. These things will
be sharply resisted by the Irish landlord
party and a certain section of their British
friends. But just now, at any rate, their
disposition is to tell these gentry to take a
back seat.
This conciliatory policy, if patiently pur
sued, might keep Ireland relatively quiet,
even though it changed no votes anywhere
in the island. But the chances of hitches
and exasperations are too multitudinous
for this possibility to be of much value.
With a narrow majority the Tories would
have been prepared to go a considerable
way toward home rule under some other
name. Now there is no strategic reason
for thinking of such a thing. It is hard to
see any ground upon which it would pay
them to try to make a bargain with any
section of the Irish Nationalists.
They are much more likely to find them
selves by next spring under the circum
stances to club them all impartially and
govern the Catholic parts of the island
once more by force. This prospect will do
much to draw the Irish together again.
The victories in Derry and North Tyrone
were both gained by special arrangement
of ail three Nationalist factions to sus
pend animosities and rivalries within the
districts involved. It is not impossible to
do this elsewhere if stern necessity arises.
If Edward Blank would return home and
take Dillon with him on a prolonged visit
it could be done easily enough, but such
continued stupidity as that of presenting
the Liberal party with North Tyrone when
it is known perfectly well that it could be
won by the Nationalists, or the even more
painful folly by which David Sheehy,
the secretary of the federation, through
sheer, bumptious ignorance, sacrificed Kil
kenny to the Parnellites, is difficult to bear
in silence. Ireland is beginning to under
stand this and if its exiled sons will only
leave it alone it will put things right of its
own accord. It will only be so long as its
advertising egotists and sharpers are pro
vided with outside money to maintain
bands of heelers and run the country in
their own way that Irish affairs will re
main in the present unhappy muddle.
But all these political calculations and
forecasts, it should not be forgotten, are
subject here to contingencies which no
man can foresee.
The three kingdoms have been as en
grossingly self-centered the past fortnight
as if, like the United States, they almost
occupied a planet by themselves, and
already, however, it is becoming borne in
on them that they have eot neighbors.
Before the last of these foolishly straggling
constituencies declare their belated results
next week England will be thinking much
more about her affairs beyond her coast
lines than of anything at home. Appar
ently great events are in the air.
Stambouloff 's revolting murder is taken
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all over Europe, and here as well, to be- '
token the breaking up of the state of
i things in the East which has existed since
the treaty of Berlin. The circumstances
of the crime itself are relatively of little
importance by comparison with the fact
that the young Czar, Wednesday, even
while Bulgaria's great man lay in the
death agony, received at Peterhof a Bui- j
garian deputation, headed by Stambouloff 's
ancient enemy, Metropolitan Clement,
and promised that he would not withhold
his protection from the Bulgarian people
in the future. It is not necessary to sug
gest that Russia has put Stambouloff to
death, or even that she Jcnew what his
assassins, who had been maintained by
her money for years, were going to do. It
may pass as a coincidence that she finally
was ready to reassume the old dominion
over Bulgaria at the very moment when
the one man able to resist her is hacked to
pieces on the streets by bravos in her pay.
It is the fact that she is on the point of
putting her hand on Bulgaria which
counts.
Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales
have not sent to the widow of the low-born
Bulgarian attorney in a distant and ob
scure town which has only known Chris
tian rale eighteen years repeated messages
of condolence longer than they sent to
Mrs. Garfield and Mme. Carnot, for noth
ing.
Lord Salisbury was not Foreign Secre
tary in April, 187S, when 8300 Sepoy troops
were brought .to Malta, for nothing. From
that day to this England has held itself
to have interests paramount to those of all
other nations in preserving the status quo
in the Balkans and the Black Sea. No
doubt under Gladstone this position would
not be insisted upon, and even in part
waived, but the events of the last few
years have made the Liberals quite as anti-
Russian in feeling as the Disraelian jingos
were. They abominate the Turk of course,
but they all come around to the point at
least of hating official Russia.
Salisbury, returning to power with a
great party majority at his back, may
securely act as if he had the mandate of
the whole nation to oppose the expansion
of Russian influence in Europe.
I discovered long ago that a prophet
never gives dates. In this case it is plain
enough that the way has been hewn open
for troubles that may involve all Europe,
but it is quite another matter to say how
long shifting diplomacy or the mere
inertia of human nature may delay
the climax. If Prince Ferdinand, who is
being curstd by unanimous consent as the
meanest and most craven sneak and
scoundrel produced by royalty since
ancient times, does not return to Sofia, the
first move in the game will turn upon the
discovery of who has the upper hand in
Bulgaria and by whom they intend to re
place him.
Upon this, or alongside of it, will come
the development of the form which the
Czar's protection is going to take. It will
probabJy not be until then that England
will be able to make sure what support she
can command for the counter-demonstra
tion. It is noticeable that while the Par
isian press, eager as ever to pay court to
Russian taste, abuses the dead Stam
bouloff, the united journalistic voice of
Berlin, Vienna, Pesth and Rome is raised
in violent wrath against his murderers
direct and indirect and in denunciation of
Russia as above all others responsible for
the crime.
This newspaper clamor, while it com
mits nobody, shows clearly enough how
the wind of public opinion is blowing. If
the Triple Alliance decides that this affords
a proper pretext for overtaction it is obvi
ous that the people of Germany, Italy and
Austria-Hungary will approve with senti
mental enthusiasm.
Events may, therefore, move slcwly or
swiftly, but it seems beyond doubt that the
storm cloud of the Eastern question so
long hanging as a menace over Europo is
at last on the point of breaking. It is
always pdssible that the big powers will
shelter themselves under combinations and
bargains in other people's goods and that
the burst cf the tempest will fall only on
the States and helpless folk generally. But
for ten years back there has been no time
when the season of complications that
menace an ending in war seemed so closf;
at hand as now.
By a fortuitous accident it has been dis
covered that the spire of Salisbury Cathe
dral, which for six centuries has been the
most unique in height and perfection in
the world, is in imminent danger of fall
ing. Up to the time of the Stuarts this
vast pile used to settle periodically until
finally a deflection of two feet was reached.
Since then there has been no change and
it became f.n article of faith that the thing
was as secure as a mountain, but now sud
denly a dangerous state of affairs has been
revealed and the Dean issued an urgent
appeal to-day for $25,000 for immediate re
pairs which he promises shall not be at
all in the nature of a so-called restoration.
Renan's posthumous memoir of his
sister, Henrietta, who died in Palestine in
1861, has not yet found an English trans
lator, but it is enjoying exceptional sales
in Paris, where critics agree in rinding in
the little volume not only the choicest ex
amples of his matchless style, but also a
revelation of tenderness, sweetness and
exalted and innate piety in the man him
self transcending anything shown in the
rest of his works.
Sir Henry Irving's cup overflows this
week. Thursday, at Windsor, though
j numerous other new Knights were gath
i ered with him to receive the formal acco
j lade from the sovereign, he was the only
j one to whom the Queen volunteered the
personal addition of the words, "I have
very great pleasure." Yesterday at the
I Lyceum he was the central ligure of a
j gathering which certainly has no parallel
jin human records. There were 4000 men
j and women who passed the doors on the
I presentation of their visiting cardg as
j actors and actresses, which gives one new
ideas as to the size of the profession.
What was even more remarkable is that
it is probably safe to say that there was
not one of this huge throng who was not
stirred by real admiration and affection
for Irving, though to many of them he was
merely a name. It is really an extraordi
nary achievement in a craft historically
prone to jealousies and uneasy egotisms to
have climbed as he has Dy force of his own
character into an atmosphere wholly free
from this taint.
It is now understood that "Trilby" at
the Haymarket will differ considerably
from the American version, but the changes
are likely to be amicably agreed upon be
tween Dv Maurier and Paul Potter, which
at one time seemed unlikely to be the case.
The play will be tried first in the prov
inces, and will not reach London until the
end of October.
Murray is to publish in the autumn a
work of monumental proportions in the
shape of Gibbons' hitherto unprinted lit
erary remains, long in the possession of
the Earls of Sheffield. These include his
journal of 1762-64, a very large correspond
ence with his family and intimates, and
the full text of all seven of the quite differ
ent autobiographies he at various times
composed. What is known as his auto
biography is, of course, a loose compilation
of extracts from all of these, md the pub
lication in extenso of the originals will
be extremely interesting.
Marie Engle, whose success has been one
of the features of the late operatic season
here, signed yesterday with Abbey, Schof
fel <fc Grau for the Metropolitan Opera
houae. t Hakold Fkedeeic.
OHAMBESLAIFS EEVIEW.
1
This Correspondent Also Sees Dark,
Threatening War Clondg Hang
ing Over the East.
[Copyright, 1895, by the New York Sun.]
LONDON, Ekg., July 20.— The assassina
tion of Stambouloff, which shocked all
Europe except France, is only one of sev
eral recent events which have aroused the
gravest uneasiness over Balkan affairs
and it will not be surprising if Europe's
annual summer war scare be uased upon
the situation in the troublesome penin
sula. The Macedonian situation was be
coming a little easier, when this blood v
deed was done. The belief strengthens
that Russia will recognize Prince Ferdi
nand. The opinion also grows that other
important events are pending, but nobody
assumes sufficient wisdom to forecast their
nature.
The general reopening of the Balkan
question by the powers would be regarded
on all sides as disastrous at the present
moment. Still signs multiply tbat the
Armenian situation soon will become acute
again, which, in combination with the
crisis known to exist in Constantinople,
may compel the powers to adopt drastic
measures toward Turkey. Active inter
ference once begun will be almost sure to
lead to a radical readjustment of all Turk
ish relations.
The chorus of eulogy in which the press
of all countries except France joins over
the dead statesman is only less significant
than the flood of indignation and contempt
poured upon Prince Ferdinand. Rarely
have English newspapers indulged in such
intemperate vituperation as they heap
upon this unhappy princeling.
The press of France, which is equally
extreme and unnatural in apologizing for
the assassins and hardly veils its satisfac
tion at the fall of Bulgaria's man of iron,
has tbe decency to print Stambuloff's
recent words in defense of his harsh
measures while he was Premier. The
dead statesman said to a French inter
viewer a few days before his death:
"I have killed only the enemies of my
country"; and, mentioning the name of a
French general, he added: "He shot 30,000
insurgents in behalf of la patrie and he is
honored. I have had half a dozen exe
cuted for the same reason and I am called
a murderer. You see, sir, one must not be
a small nation or a little fish."
According to current reports Queen Vic
toria once more has demonstrated that she
is the most tactful sovereign in Europe.
The Shahzada gave a grand demonstra
tion at Dorchester House this week, at
which the Prince of Wales and all the
aristocracy remaining in London were
present. The affair was such a success
that the young men proposed to repeat.
This resolve opened up such a prospect of
a prolonged stay that the court decided
something must be done, and the Queen
rose to the occasion. She sent word to
Nasrulla that she soon would be proceed
ing, by lier doctor's advice, for her custom
ary summer stay at her marine residence
on the Isle of Wight, and possibly his
Highness might like to take his farewell of
her at Windsor to-day, thereby avoiding
the fatigue and discomfort of a sea
passage. The fchahzada rose to the bait
beautifully and duly received his farewell
audience, presents and decorations this
Continued on Second J'aae.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
RIVALRY OF METALS
Horr and Harvey Take
Up Their Eight-Day
Debate.
SOME AFT COMPARISONS.
Carlisle's Utterances of the
Past Read With Telling
Effect.
AS TO THAT BIG CONSPIRACY.
The New York Editor Denied It and
the Chicago Author Went In to
Prove It.
CHICAGO, iLr-., July 20.-After a day's
rest for the participants the Horr-Harvey
debate was resumed at 1 o'clock this after
noon. While paying his respects to his
opponent of the day's debate, Mr. Horr
said :
"Since the opening of this discussion he
has done little but read essays prepared
and written out, tilled up with a lot of in
correct and, as I think, untrue verbiage.
It is impossible for me to remember and cail
attention to all his carefully written and
misleading statements. I deny the bulk of
the stuff that you have heretofore printed
or that you have prepared and are reading
from day to day."
Resuming the discussion of the law of
1873, the New York champion quoted from
W. A. Shaw's "History of Currency" in
reference to the first international mone
tary conference, held in Paris in 1867, to
show that the subject was being agitated
by the civilized nations of the world. All
the nations except Holland declared in
favor of the gold standard after eight
daily sessions. It was after this action, in
which the United States participated, that
the American experts commenced to
examine the question and see what legis
lation should be enacted. The bill of 1573
simply carried out a resolution of those
civilized nations of the world.
The silver men from the start had at
tempted to smirch that bill by claiming
that the officials and members of Con
gress were all false to their duties. There
was not a word of truth in the yarn told
by the silver people and published in a
thousand papers all over the United States
that a man named Ernest Seyd had visited
tbe United States and brought with him
$500,000 in gold, and that he paid that gold
to secure the passage of that bill. The al
legation had been disproved by the letter
which was recently found among the pa
pers of the late Congressman Hooper,
written by Seyd in reply to Mr. Hooper,
who had sent him the identical bill and
asked his opinion upon it. The letter
showed that he opposed the measure
.which his traducers said he had spent so
much money to get passed.
"The report," said Harvey, "of the mone
tary conference at Paris in 1867, will con
tradict the history that Mr. Horr has read
from. Aa to Ernest Seyd and a letter
found among Mr. Hooper's effects since he
and Seyd died, it reminds me of this.
Suppose, in the years to come, some one
would say that John G. Carlisle was a bi
metalhst and in proof of it read from Mr.
Carlisle's speech: 'The demonetization of
silver is the greatest crime of the age and
its consequences for evil are greater than
all the floods and fires and pestilence of
tfie past.' Would that prove that Mr. Car
lisle was a bimetallist at a particular time
when something might be charged against
him when he acted as Secretary of the
Treasury under Mr. Cleveland? If that
Seyd letter, disentombed by the zealous
friends and family of Mr. Hooper, was to
prove anything it would prove Mr. Hooper
falsified when he said that he had sub
mitted that bill to distinguished experts
and they had all agreed it was the proper
thing to do."
He continued reading from the Con
gressional Record to show thac Mr.Hooper
had worked for the passage of the substi
tute bill within the hour of its presenta
tion without having been read and without
the majority of the members knowing that
a fundamental question was involved in
the bill. Mr. Hooper reiterated in answer
to questions put by members that the bill
made no change in the coinage or currency
laws.
In reviewing the history of the bill in
the Senate, where it was called up by Mr.
Sherman, he said: "It is evident it was
the intention of Senator Sherman to con
vince the Senate that careful consideration
of the bill was necessary, and in this he
succeeded, as appears from something that
Senator Casserly said during the discus
sion provoked by him about abrasion. It
is this: 'I will not contest it with him
(Sherman), because it is evident very few
Senators are paying attention to this sub
ject.'"
"A provision had been introduced in the
House," said Horr, "and was a part of the
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