This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... vague rumours as to Mr. Gladstone's plans which began to circulate directly after the elections were quite enough to produce such a deep impression in the Liberal camp that a split seemed inevitable. The Conservative Ministry, which had not obtained a majority at the elections, was placed in a minority in the House on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... vague rumours as to Mr. Gladstone's plans which began to circulate directly after the elections were quite enough to produce such a deep impression in the Liberal camp that a split seemed inevitable. The Conservative Ministry, which had not obtained a majority at the elections, was placed in a minority in the House on the first opportunity, and Mr. Gladstone was entrusted with the task of forming the new Administration. The moderates, the Whigs, declined for the first time to join it; Lord Hartington, Mr. Goschen, Sir Henry James, all refused to take office; they had a presentiment that the time was drawing near when they would be obliged rather to cut themselves adrift.1 In fact, directly Mr. Gladstone produced his Home Rule scheme the moderate Liberals, led by Lord Hartington, parted company with him. In face of what they considered as endangering the unity of the Empire and the very foundation of the English constitutional system, they no longer hesitated to combine with the Conservatives against the man who had been the great representative of Liberalism, but who, in their eyes, had become simply the leader of a destructive type of Radicalism. The situation became strangely complicated, owing to the fact that Mr. Gladstone was unable to obtain the unanimous approval of his own Ministers for his new Irish policy. In spite of their proved Radicalism, two of them, of whom Mr. Chamberlain was one, taking up a purely Imperial standpoint, preferred to forego power rather than cooperate in a measure which, in their opinion, made for the disintegration of the Empire. Mr. Gladstone then had to face a resistance within his own party which was all the more formidable because he could not set up the will of the electorate against it to justify the granting of Home...
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