Mr. Balfour addressed a Unionist meeting in support of the
Unionist candidates at Chester on Tuesday. Addressing himself to the Home-rule policy of the Government, he commented on the significant reticence they had maintained as to their intentions. They were resolved to say nothing about their Bill while the Election was going on, because they knew perfectly well that they never could get from the constituencies of the United Kingdom authority to deal with the question of Home-rule if they told them what it really meant. This course of action, and their decision to destroy the power of the House of Lords before taking up the question of reform, exactly tallied with the requirements of Mr. Redmond and the Irish Party. The Opposition plan, on the other hand, was to retain all the good features of the Second Chamber and to remove its defects.
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