The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-08-18 00:00:00

Moroi iountti Express.
DORCHESTER, AUGUST 18th, IslBs

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LORD R.A-NIX)LPH_ CHURCHILL. AT CAN.

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The Conservative party arc as proud of Lord
Randolph Churchill as a hen of one chick. At
Canford on NVerlnesday he was the object of the
adoration of some twenty or thirty thousand honest
Dorset people, and, strange torelate, but a short week
ago more than one-half of these probably were crying
"hear, hear" to the outspoken denunciations
thundered forth by their own particular organ, the
Standard. Hit. rhetorical skyrocket, although evok-
ing the enthusiastic cheers .4 his admiring audience,
has nosed little or no iinpre.sion in the political
world, and although the hods NebrB drrots.l a leader
ia its own defence, and the Tow, went out of its way
to criticise the utterances 41 the wade lord, the
truantry generally .-erii.••l strati rely indiffer,tit t his
opiniona. In more thanotie direction Lin! Randolph
hns aroused a great amotint .1 ridicule, and especially
by his laberrious effort to prove 14 •ey be be all artielo of
food deserving to be placed in the same category as
bread. Of course, on such • "brewer's holiday.- and
to such an audience, the speaker's appreciative def,tice
et the national beverage was highly acceptable, but
ass all prewnt did not think liner alisolotely iiecerwary
for their existence, his remarks 'on this matter did not
prove is, ioninently,,pleasing to all as they evidently
were b. many. This portion 411 the speech in
scarcely worthy ...Thaw consideration, but many Were
led to ask themselves—Was there, before the late
Government's iniquitous attempt to itnkrsel such a
heavy Vanden. n the "foal .4 the people, absolutely
free trade in the beverage! The increase pirutssord
Stall th. addition to the existing duties of one shilling
on a barrel of thirty.six gallons, or a little imwe than
one farthing a gallon, a tat, which in the opinion .4
Mr. Ikea himself, would have been paid by
the brewer. alone. "We defeated the late
Government," said leer.l Randolph grandiloquently.,
" hP(2ll.br they tri.• I t•• t.k• ti,. 1..4.1 of the people !
This, fn.in 48111. ale,:1.101148. t.• OW 1-.8 •1111. 181 his
party, and whlreweel tet aitatleeritut k +headed
Dorset turn, was sublime-1y riilieulou-. wi•re
other statements equally droll, and Wi• may lir-t
allude tee his refutation 41 the -fiatement that lie had
declared the agricultural labourer was not fit th has,.
• vote. Notwithstanding his dordahip's denial, if
words mean anything, he did eXIIII-41 Mich ~11 opinion.
Front one, out of many speeches on the -object, we
quote the following from an oration delivered on
December 20th, Isi43:—" With respect to the demand
for equalisation of the franchise in town and country,
I can only say that at present there is ni! anomaly
and if we are to obliterate in our legislation all dis-
tinction between town and country, if we assert that
society in towns is not infinitely more educated,
intelligent, and progressive than society in the country,
we shall be legislating on a principle which is against
My views on Parliamentary
lle:orm are that the assimilation .1 the county and
borough franchise is UnCalle,l-feor, premature, inexpe•
client, unnatural, and therefore highly dangerou,"
Then, again, we assured every tlir•nb!r of the
GO.9ll,llelit would re-oil with horror Ivan any policv
which might in any way raise the price of the neebssaries
of life but this would scarcely pp, down ev..l.
with a Tory audience : there were several cries
"Farquharson," and the- happy posworsor Of that
limns looked decidedly uncomfortable. Is not Mr.
Chaplin • member of the Goveniment, and is he not
in favour 41 • duty on corn, and is not Lord Salisbury ,
pretty generally known to he in favour of the Fair '
Trade theory ! This paradoxical statement of the
noble lord can scarcely be reconcged.with his much-
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vaunuird " Gospel fac—i' and truth. V.. ar.:not "ver-
exacting, and w I MI not inclined to ascend with Lord
Randolph Churchtll into dee, region to which his
fanciful flights of oratory led hitn, hut we have sought
in vain for some serubhutce pfott fact and truth in
the matter* above referred to.