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Show TURKISH POLITICAL PARTIES. Literary Digest says: The assembling assemb-ling of a Turkish Houso of Commons or Doputles has aroused the attention of European publicists to the partle& into which Its members will naturally crystallize. As was to be expected, tho Turkish legislators divide into two main parties, which are classed according to the degree el radicalism which characterizes their revolt from a Mohammedan absolutism. We learn from a writer in the Tour du Monde (Paris) that while party legislation is still in a merely inchoate condition, it Is plainly discernible that' of the two principal groups at Constantinople, Constantin-ople, the party of Union and Progress is tho only one as yet completely and practically organized. Granting that Turkey Is now a constitutional monarchy, mon-archy, this party would represent the Tories of th-i Hanoverian period and the Conservatives of Lord Salisbury's days. The. writer observes of this party: "It now has gained a pretty laige parliamentary majority, having in Its ranks 150 out of the 220 Deputies of tho Assembly. Nor is its ascendency Impaired by the fact that alongside of it stands another group of reformists, reform-ists, under the moral direction ot Prince Sabah ed-dlne, who style themselves them-selves Union Liberals. This group io less advanced . and leas clear In Its Ideas of reform than the party of Union Un-ion and Progress. Among the Union Liberals are found the Grand-Vizier Klamil Pacha, and the ex-minister of the interior, Hakkl Bey, now minister of Justice. In opposition to these two parties, which eventually may coalesce, coal-esce, stands the Young Turk pavty, which Is radical and more clearly Ottoman Ot-toman In sentiment, and constitute! the extreme left, though party spirit has not yet developed to tho stago nf violent rivalry with the party of the Union and Progress. In fact, the divisions di-visions of these parties have not yet become so decisive as to admit of di-scriblng di-scriblng tho pituation clearly In regard re-gard to coming political problems. ' |