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".A Barren Mission.
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A Barren Mission. What Happened Where Joseph Spoke. The Result of the Tearing, Raging Propaganda. i 'WE take the following from the "Daily.Chron- icle," adding Greenock, and several others might be added:— The great "missionary of Empire"-or, as he would more correctly be described, "mission- ary of Protection" -is now beginning to reap the fruits of his labours. It may not be with- out interest to record aome of them:— Greenock (starting campaign)Result, loss of seat. ewcastle-on-Tyne.-Speech, October, 1903. Result: Loss of two seate (Liberal and Labour majority nearly 7,000.) Leeds.—Speech, December 16, 1903. Result: Loes of three seats (great Liberal and Labour majorities).. Bristol.—Speech, November 21, 1905. Re- sult: Lose of two seats (Cabinet minister un- seated, majorities of nearly 3,000). Prefcton.—Speech, January, 1905. Result: Loss of two seats (again great majorities) Wolverhampton.—Speech, January, 1906. Re- sult: Loss of one seat; and Sir Henry Fowler's majority (attacked by a Chamberlainite),near- ly 3,000. St. Helen's.—Speech, June, 1905. Result: Seat lost (a Unionist majority of 1,898 becom- ing a Labour majority of 1,441). Liverpool.—Speech, October, 1903. Result: Lose of two seats. Mr Chamberlain's passionate pilgrimage through the industrial centres of the country I is plentifully strewn, it will be seen, with wreckage of the Unionist party.
Mr Lloyd George Attacked.
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Mr Lloyd George Attacked. Carriage Pelted With Stones. A LARGE audience that assembled to welcome Mr D. Lloyd George, M.P., at Llanfairfechan on Monday were surprised to hear that he had ibeen subjected to very bad treatment on his way to the meeting. Mr Lloyd George was conveyed from the railway station to the hall in a closed carriage by Mr Robert Hughes. Mr Lloyd George was in the middle of a speech on the evil influences of protective du- ties when some booing took place. "As this has happened," said Mr George, "I would like the public to know that I was very badly treated as I approached this hall. My car- riage was pelted with stones by a band of young men. To throw stones at any man is the most despicable and cowardly conduct I can imagine." {Loud applause.) A voice: What about Conway? Mr Lloyd George: Conway has given me a thumping majority. (Cheers and booing). If you repeat that conduct you will have no Hpro- tection." (A voice: If they can't behave them- selves we will turn them out," and applause.) Mr Lloyd George's last words had an almost magic effect, and not a single dissentient note was heard the rest of the evening. To make further molestation impossible a number of stalwart quarrymen undertook to conduct the hon. member safely to his car- riage. The journey to Penmaenmawr, where he addressed another meeting, was made in safety.
Montgomery Boroughs.
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Montgomery Boroughs. Declaration of the Poll: Another Liberal Victory. Sojie two or three hundred people journeyed to Montgomerv on Fridav to learn the Result of the poll for the Montgomery Boroughs, the major portion wearing blue, the Conservative colours. The counting began at half-past eleven, and at half-past twelve showed the figures to be:—Rees, 1,542; Pryce-Jones, 1,457; majority, 85. There were seven spoiled papers and one doubtful. Col. Pryce-Jones demanded a recount, and at half-past one the Mayor (Mi- Henry Jonee), who was the returning officer, appeared at one of the windows of the Town Hall, and declared Mr Rees duly elected mem- ber of Parliament for Montgomery Boroughs, the figures being:— J. D. Rees (L) 1,541 Col. Pryce-Jones (C) 1,458 Liberal majority 83 It seems that in the recount one paper for Colonel Pryce-Jones was found amongst those for Mr Rees, and this made a difference of two in the majority'as first announced.
Mr Lloyd George.
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Mr Lloyd George. A Parliament that Means Business. Two immense meetings were held on Friday night at Bangor, one in the Penrhyn Hall and the other in a large disused chapel, in support of the Progressive cause. Both meetings were most enthusiastic. Mr Lloyd George having addressed the gathering in the chapel proceed- ed to Penrhyn Hall, and had a magnificent re- ception. Mr Lloyd George said he was becoming an old electioneering hand, but he had never seen anything like the meetings that night in Ban- gor. For the first time Bangor, the weakest of the Carnarvon Boroughs hitherto in Libei ai- ism, was going to speak with no uncertain voice for freedom and fairplay to Wales. (Cheers.) It was coming into line with the rest of the boroughs and the rest of Wales. The victories in other parts of the country had been startling, but none had been more signal than the Welsh victories. Till now the cause of progress had been unable to beat down the rampart of wool in the Montgomery Bor- oughs. Following the example of olden days, when bags of wool were put on the walls to deaden the cannon balls, the Tories had put Newtown wool round Montgomery Boroughs. This time the Liberals had singed the wool and Montgomery. (Laughter and cheers.) He had great hopes that Wales would present the unique spectacle—the absolutely unique spec- tacle for this country—of a country declaring solid for freedom. (Cheers.) When there were no laggards Carnarvon Boroughs were not going to begin to limp. They were march- ing strong at the head of th% procession. (Cheers.) After all, in the constituencies they were only storming the outworks. There had been a great series of victories won there, but they had to go on to fight privilege, injustice, wrong, monopoly—all those things that were oppressing the life of the people. (Cheers.) A solid body of the people was needed behind the men who were going to carry on the fight. The new members were not going up to Par- liament to rest or to. hang their trophies in Westminster. They were going to continue the battle and to clear the Canaanites out of the land. (Cheers.) There were a good many things he liked about this Parliament. One thing was that he would feel, if elected, that he would be going to a perfectly strange House. He had been there for sixteen years, and it had felt almost like going to his own house to go there, he had been so accustomed to it. The best years of his manhood had been spent there almost from twelve o'clock to twelve o'clock daily. He could wish for an eight- hour day in the House of Commons. (Laugh- ter.) If he was sent back he would not know the place. There used to be plenty of room on his side. He was afraid it was going to be an uncomfortable House of Commons. (Laugh- ter.) There would be insufficient room for the Liberals there. (Cheers.) Then there would be new faces-in that sense an extraordinary House. It used to be a House of Commons where every fight for fair play was a forlorn hope. It would be a House of Commons in which for the first time since the days of Oliver Cromwell there would be a large solid body of Nonconformists. (Cheers.) Not since Cromwell's days had there been as many Non- conformists in any Parliament, and the first thing that Parliament would do would be to pass a measure of fair play to Nonconformity. (Cheers.) Not a Do-nothing Parliament. This Parliament (Mr Lloyd George went on), unless I am mistaken, i not a do-nothing Par- liament. (Cheers.) It is a Parliament that means business, and for my part I rejoice heartily in the great Labour victories. (Cheers.) You will have a number of men, forty or fifty men there, who know the wants of the people, having experienced them them- selves in their own lives, and who have got the serious purpose of satisfying them. These men will rest neither night nor day until the Ministry presses through Parliament legisla- tion to sweep away the wrongs which the people have endured—and endured, God knows, pati- ently enough !—for centuries. (Cheers.) I be- lieve there is a new order coming for the people of this country. It is a quiet, but a certain revolution, as revolutions come in a constitutional country, without overthrowing order, without doing an injustice to anybody, but redressing those wrongs from which people suffer-that is what you are going to get in this Parliament. (Cheers.) I hope you will send me to-morrow—("We will" and cheers)— and if you do send me to-morrow I am going to this Parliament with greater hopes than I have ever entered Parliament with. (Cheers.) You have now sent me four times, and I can- didly confess to you I had no hopes of the last three or four Parliaments. The only hope I had was that I might make myself a nuisance —(laughter and cheers)—to those who wanted to oppress the people, and I think I accom- plished my mission. (Cheers.) Now, you have a new Parliament, new men, new ideas, a new order of things, a Parliament that will not be satisfied merely with stopping reaction, with putting back the clock to where it was ten years ago. (Cheers.) I hope it will be a Par- liament that will see that .the Legislature keeps time. We are in arrears. We have asked for things, for instance, in Wales for over fifty years. Where are they? And the people have been asking for redress of wrongs in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Instead of their being redressed, new wrongs were inven- ted, new burdens piled on. (Cheers.) The first thing we have got to do is to fling off thoise new burdens and then begin unloading the rest. This Parliament, I believe, is going to do that. Religious Equality in the Schools. I am glad that the first thing it is going to do is to redress the grievances which Welsh- men feel most acutely, a grievance to their own free religion. (Cheers.) It is going to estab- lish religious equality in the schools. (Cheers.) I saw a kind of card adorned, with great im- pertinence, I think, with the Union Jack and the Crown—a piece of monstrous insolence. The Crown, at any rate, is impartial, as it is bound to be, and no party has a right to drag the Crown into electioneering. (Cheers.) I saw on that card "Vote for religious instruc- tion. Don't throw the Bible out of the schools." Who proposed it? I am not, at any rate, standing on this platform to dp so. Under the present state of things nobody is accepted as fit or capable of giving religious instruction in thousands of sc hool¡;; who has not passed through a denominational college. An illus- tration will show the absurdity of that. Take the man of all others who stirred up the reli- gious life of Wales in the last year, the man whom I am proud to call my friend, Mr Evan Roberts. He was brought up in a National school, and a recent Chureh Congress gener- ously acknowledged the great work he was doing. Yet he would not be qualified by law at the present moment to give religious in- struction in these schools. He would not be regarded as a fit person to teach religion to the children of his own parish in his own parish school. (Cheers.) You have simply to state that bare fact to see what a monstrous injustice the present system is. (Cheers.) Having referred to other reforms which would occupy the time of Parliament, Mr Lloyd George asked what Carnarvon Boroughs were going to do. ("Send you in," and loud cheers.) That is mv belief, but I want you, if you do send me, to give me a good majority, because I have a bigger work than ever to do for you, and I would like when the other representa- tives of Wales and the rest of the country answer to their names, when the forces are mustered for the assault upon privilege, to be able to say, "Here I am to take my share." (Loud cheers.) Afterwards Mr Lloyd George proceeded to Conway, where he delivered another speech. On Saturday he visited each borough, and en route to Bangor from Conway in the morning addressed open-air meetings at Penmaenmawr and Llanfairfechan in support of Mr William Jones, the Liberal candidate for Arvon. »
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Election Notes. "If anyone has been guilty of throwing dust into the eyes of the ratepayers, the Vicar of Conway is the man."—Alderman Hugh Hughes at Conway. w "Wales has had two revivals during the past few months. One was the religious revival, and the other is the present political revival. Both are, I believe, "the result of the cleansing influences of the Holy Ghost."—Rev O. Madoc Roberts, at Conway. "Son am apotolion yn wir! Be ydi Joe, tybed, ond Apostol y Penog Coch."—Parch Gwynfryn Jones, yn Nghonwy. There was a row at the rear of the Conway Town Hall on Friday evening. The Rev Gwynfryn Jones (who was speaking): What does that man say?-A Voice: He says "Free Trade and Lloyd George for ever." Mr Gwyn- fryn Jones (in Welsh): Piediwch rhwstro hwna mewn unrhyw fodd. Mae o yn y seiat yn reit ddiogell. "Mae penau mor bwysig i bregethwyr ag mae cynfonau i'r personiaid."—Parch Gwyn- fryn Jones. "The Vicar of Conway suffers from two complaints: A burning desire to gain a bishopric, and an itch for scribbling."—Rev Gwynfryn Jones. "The Education Act of 1902 brought the Welsh nation on to the borderland of revolu- tion."—Rev Gwynfryn Jones. "Mr Naylor says he will soon be a 'full- blown Welshman,' Welshmen are not made of wind."—Rev Gwynfryn Jones. "There is a gentleman named Carter in the ranks of Mr Naylor's army of helpers. I sin- cerely hope this Carter has an ambulance appropriately prepared to cart away the poli- tical remains of Mr Naylor to-morrow night." —Rev Gwynfryn Jones, at Conway, on Friday evening. "Here on the banks of the Conway, where the first Prince Llewelyn bled in fighting for the freedom of our own dear country, you- you, the children of his warriors—will not betray our second Llewelyn."—Rev Gwynfryn Jones. "It is almost pathetic to think that the two j men who, four years ago, were the most 1 abused of all the men in Great Britain will be in a few days—one the Prime Minister of our Kingdom, and the other with a seat in the Cabinet beside him."—Mr Osmond Williams, M.P., at Conway. 'C.B.'s strength lays in the fact that he has always kept aloof from the enervating in- fluences of the smart set in London's social life, in which the politics of this country have, been far too much centred of late years."—Mr Osmond Williams, M.P., at Conway. "The late Government must regret very much that they did not resign, or, rather, appeal to the country two years ago."—Mr Osmond Williams, M.P., at Conway. "We are not a self-governing country, and will never be until that useless, yet dangerous, 'institution known as the House of Lords has been finally swept to the shades of all lost things/'—Mr OsmondWiiliams, M.P. "I have met you here four times already on the night before the poll, and it was a night before victory on each occasion; but this night is a night before the biggest victory we have ever .had."—The Right Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P., at Coiiyay, on Friday evening. "Wales, after this election, will be a 'Gwalia Wen' for the first time in history. She will have a solid block of Liberals to re- present her."—Mr D. Lloyd George, at Con- way, on Friday evening. "When Parliament meets, 'C.-B.' will call: 'Glamorgan!' 'Here' will be the reply. 'Iont- gomery Boroughs 'Here.' 'Denbigh Boroughs!' 'Here.' Carnarvon Boroughs;' 'Here.' (the last 'here' echoed in a thunderous volume from a packed audience.) Then 'C.-B.' will cry: 'Every company of the Welsh Fusiliers to storm the Lloyd George, at Conway, night before his victory. "I am no one but a little Welshman, trying to do my duty for my country. They are try- ing to throw me out of my job. Is this be- cause I have betrayed my own dear land at any time? But will they throw me out? (Loud cries of 'No.') No; they can't.Mr Lloyd George, at Conway, night before his victory. "Protection is only a little bit of a worm for some little fish to swallow, but woe betide those who take it."—Mr Lloyd George. "Ap Fychan," a well-known Welsh bard associated with Conway in more ways* than one, relates his experience of life when Britain was under Protectionist sway. Oil Friday evening the President of the Board of Trade quoted telling passages from "Ap.'s" work, from which it appeared that the chief-articles of diet in those days were "cloron" and maip. "What are 'cloron?'" questioned Mr George. "Carrots," answered several voices. "Well, well," retorted the Cabinet minister, "Here we are in Ap Fychan's land and you don't know what 'cloron' are. 'Cloron' are pota- toes, to be sure. But this is what I want you to remember: Vote for the Protectionist, and you vote for potass maip. We are reminded that the so-called storm- ing of the Conway Conservative Club on Saturday evening did not have so great an effect upon the premises as the attack made by the Conservatives upon the old Liberal Club premises in Lancaster-square a lew years ago. Mr Naylor wae one of the first to inspect the damage on Monday morning. What did he really think of it all? It is interesting to witness with what grace patience, and dignity the gentlemanly party is taking its beating, "The Chester Courant" is fairly typical of the temper of that party at the present time. "At the present time," it says, "gratitude seems an unknown quantity in the minds of a delirious proletariat," With the remembrance before us of the war election of 1902, of Mafeking night, "a delirious prole- tariat" is distinctly good. The "Courant's" adjectives are distinctly choice. Mr Arthur Stanley is a "shifty politician," a "raw re- cruit;" the Chinese labour cry is an "appall- ing lie," Mr Mond is a German, the election has been won "by a contemptible truckling to all the faddists in the country," and so on ad nauseam. How great the Liberal victory in Chester must have been, may be judged from the fol- lowing :—"The personality of the two candi- dates unquestionably had much to do with the attitude of the citizens. Mr Yerburgh they have known for more than twenty years, not only as their honoured representative in Par- liament, but as a frank, chivalrous English gentleman, the embodiment of courtesy, and kindliness, a man who would never stoop to do a mean action. On the other hand, the Radical candidate was a stranger, a man of German blood, who could not even pronounce the Eng- lish language like a native, a man who con- ducted his campaign with the weapons of per- sonal calumny and abuse. Mr Mond, in short, is a personality about whom it is impossible to wax enthusiastic, hence the Radical crowds in the streets on the night of the poll took their victory in a subdued spirit, while the Unionists went home in silenec and sorrow, some in tears." Yet with all the advantages on the side of the Tory, and all the disadvan- tages on Mr Mond's, the Liberal won hands down. Which shows that something greater than personal equipment won the fight at Chester, in fact nothing -less than principle, added to disgust, not at Mr Yerburgh, but at Mr Yerburgh's comrades and the Government which he consistently supported. Flintshire is one of the few constituencies which have the honour of never having de- serted the Liberal flag, or surrendered to the Tories, since the Hon. E. Lloyd Mostyn was returned in 1832, except that a so-called Liber- al-Conservative held the seat for a short time between sixty and seventy years ago. Time after time the Conservatives have tried to cap- ture it, but have always been repulsed. Mr Smith, an outisider,-retainect it by good ma- jorities, and it is not likely that a popular Welshman like Mr Herbert Lewis, vvho has done excellent service to his country, will have any difficulty against a political tyro like Mr Edwards, who has done absolutely nothing to help his candidature. The contest is rather a piquant one, in that the Conservative candidate is a son of the Bishop of St. Asaph, and the burning Welsh question is the unfair Education Act, in which the late Government, in the opinion of the Nonconformists, sacrificed their interests at the dictation of the episcopal bench. There is thus a touch of humour in the situation, and we cannot help thinking that both the Bishop and his son are a trifle amused at the spec- tacle of the Conservative and episcopal cham- pion entering the lists against one of the fore- most -Nonconformists in this Liberal and Non- conformist constituency. The Welsh Boroughs, which hitherto have afforded the Conservatives almost their only refuge in Wales, have all come over. Pem- broke was won on Friday by 1,049, and on the same day the Liberals triumphed in the Den- bigh and Montgomery Boroughs. Cardiff', another seat which has been somewhat caprici- ous, was carried by Mr Ivor Guest, one of the promising young converts from Toryism, by 3,005. Carmarthen, in the same category, showed a Liberal vote more than twice the size of the Conservative, and a majority of 2,094. Counting Monmouthshire in Wales, there is yet another gain, the Monmouth Bor. oughs having been won. For the first time North Wales is represented only by Liberals. Except the old Liberal con- stituencies of Flintshire and North Carnarvon- shire, the final polls were on Saturday, when Mr Idris was returned for the Flint Boroughs with the increased. majority of 376, and Mr Lloyd George raised the Liberal poll in the Carnarvon Boroughs by more than 800 above all previous records, while his opponent fell 119 below the' last Conservative total. Mr George's victory, with a majority of 1,224 in a very small constituency, will be receivecl-witli the greatest delight in the Principality, and far beyond its borders. Nothing could exceed the laborious industry with which the Tariff Commission has reported on the "going" industries, but it is clear that the localities affected by these industries do not as yet think the}- are ruined unless they get a "scientific" tariff. We give below a list of (a) the industries already reported upon, and (b) constituencies, all the isceits of great and sweeping Liberal victories:— Iron and Steel.—Newcastle, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, Merthyr, Wolverhampton. Cotton.—Lancashire. Wool.—Bradford, Leeds, and Yorkshire gen- erally. Hosiery.—Leicester. Carpets.—Kidderminster. Lace.—Nottingham. Flax. Hemp, and Jute.—Dundee. e are afraid that Mr Chamberlain would find in the results of the pollings here a sad lack of "intelligence."—"Westminster Gazette." THE SECRET OF BIRMINGHAM. An Oswestrian, travelling home from Bir- mingham, entered into conversation with a Birmingham voter. Well, and what are you going to do? Oh, vote for Chamberlain, of course. Why? I followed him when he was a Radical, 1 followed him when he was Tory, I followed him when he was a Free Trader, I follow him now he is a Protectionist, and I would follow him to hell.—"Oswestry Advertizer,"
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—— The example given at Manchester of form- ing a Miniature Range Rifle Club for the in- struction of the postal telegraph messengers in shooting is being followed at other post offices, and in encouragement of the movement Mr Henry Whitehead, formerly High Sheriff of Lancashire, has offered the Postmaster Gen- eral a challenge cup to be contended for by teams representing the various post offices in the county.
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Great Liberal Triumph in the Denbigh Boroughs. • (Continued from, Page 5.J have done nothing, if I have not carried out my promises I shall be glad if you will send me about my business. (Cheers.) I am very glad of this victory. (A voice: Why don't you go down to Holt?) I have come from a per- fectly magnificent demonstration at Holt. (Cheers.) I went down to live at Holt to con- vert Holt, and we have done it; and I am glad of this victory because it is placing a crown upon the splendid work that our old warriors have done in the boroughs here in foul weather. It has been vouchsafed to me. a young man, to come along and reap something of the political harvest—(cheers)—the fruit of the spade work, and the sowing of the seed of the old warriors who have kept the banner flying in the boroughs in spite of adversity for very many years. (Cheers.) I knew it would be your wish that we should lend a helping hand in the Flint Boroughs on our way back from Denbigh. I 'have been making speeches in five of the Flint Boroughs, and I have ven- tured in your name and in the name of the electors of the Denbigh Boroughs, to say that you expect to-day that Flint will do as the Denbigh Boroughs have done. There are only two or three more hard fights in NVales yet, and I believe that in these two places-Flint Boroughs and South Glamorgan—we are going to win and that AVales is going to speak with one single voice in the House of Commons. am going this afternoon to help my friend Mr Frank Edwards in Radnorshire, and I wish to be away for the next five or six days so that we may help friends who have a tight fight. on. (Cheers.) Again I thank you. We have had a splendid body of workers; not only have the men put in the work, but we have had splendid help from the women. I am not at this moment going to single out one of our workers for special praise. It has been a sol- diers' fight. The privates have fought as the officers have fought, and I thank one and all for the splendid way in which you have rallied to the great cause we have at heart. Again I thank you on behalf of myself and my wife. <Loud cheers.) A procession was then formed, and the new member drawn through the town to the Great Wes "n Railway station, where, amid the cheer6 the populace, he left for his native COUl." to further the candidature of Mr Frank Edwards. A vote was reoorded for a man who was ,killed on the railway a few montha ago, and -in another ward an elector on arriving at the polling station was considerably astonished on being informed that he had already voted. He indignantly denied this, and eventually he was allowed to exercise his privilege on making a sworn declaration that he had not previously Toted. There were two cases at least of elec- tors record ng their votes twice at different ,polling stations. I