The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-01-22 00:00:00

Mallet Condi' Expo'. '

DOROHINTER, JANTILRY 292 d, 1884.

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The unanimity displayed at the Conservative
mistier on Wedoesday lad was simply wonderful;
be &pollens was so lasiehly bestowed on the dell
lifeless periods of the blarquio that it was quite •
relief to get a good mind hiss at the mention of the
Bridled member for Birmingham, who found himself
nicely oanderiabed between Lord Rutin/00a and the
American socialist, Hoary Geoege. Bat although
11mA/dog and anything of the frothiest possible
sharacter found a monopoles echo in the mealy breasts
the Dcrsei farmers present, the meeting was far
from lively, and it &Egged It. weary length aloag till
I was electrified and iewr'outhd by the magic power of
the noble lord of Crichel, and the jovial speech of Lord
Ad. ley. "I don't thluk much o"ee," which fell,
almost invelunterily, from the Ups of • outdo Tory
farmer, will glee eloquent expression to the opinion of
hunde,,is who had the pleasure of hew' tg the • sat
Opposition leader, although it were the naked try ma
I. breathe soot • word wthin the closely b. larded
deers of the Corn Exchange. Lord rirslthis,r, never
• brilliant speaker, and possiessiag now not half the
eloquence of many a teetotal " tub-thumper," wrs at
his very worst, and hal it been anybody in the world
but Robert Arthur Talbot Grooves Coo, E.G.,
D.C. L., P.C., kr., it ls email to be feared the yawns
would hare been as audible so were the theirs 11 the
present ore.

Scre 5,1 Seri() ('" Lsti but seriously") is his ltrd•
ships family motto, and few Doe 4 have earned their
title to these siguificant words so well as the gentle-
man who is now at the bead of that noble homes. Hs
was rather late, but wry serious—terribly so, in feat—
and, alto bearing the gloomy speech, which appeared,
despite its apparent inoonaistesolee, to give tha liveliest
eatiefaction to the majority of those present, oar
thoughts aster•lly tweed to dreams of outrage, iispise,
sod murder, and on heavies the hall and oasis( in
coatect with • loos die of solecan-looklag poileseassa
drawn up se a personal gated, we peesume, to our rile
tingulshed vieitor, these Asians were strengthened,
sad we could spearcely Wave we were not witnessing
some bkleoss phantasmagoria, ths oatoome of which
would be the breaking up of all sooial and oonstitu•
Mosel order, to be followed by • foetid reign of untold
terrors. Tkat the members of the "great Dowsers-
tive part," did sot believe their noble leader wee
manifest in the abeerful Lents of the indigoes wit!'
se intnittsimal period of the cheers dying sway; facet
Isegthened visibly during the delivery of the homily,
bat the volaUle Tories shook the gloomy impel tslons
off in • very Mediae way to that in which. dog shakes
himself free of water. rue the noble lord lias just
cease for gloom,as wellies the whole rank and file of the
Donservative party, foe the matter of that, is quit. true
—from Wee in the position of the Marquis himaelf
to those in the position M Lord Randolph Obutoilill,
end on from those In the pisition of Lord Randolph,
to those stink low In the depths over which Mr.
Werton reigns ruprant —all this goys without saying.
Ws say, w• do not deny that there stein the oonoctils
of the Conservative party Infinenees enough to make
every member thereof blue with despoils.; but we do
think it was positively unnecessary to have travelled
all the way to Dorset for the purpose of diecharging
such a that, with the hope that it would stir
tie party out of that ditikious stets of apathy, which
we are told is the "natural peril of their dispoeitioe."
Whether the shaft will rankle suffiniently remains to
be ems.

With all this, however, the speech wee important
and interesting, showing as it did the attitude of the
Conservative party on the great question of the forth-
coming Reform Bill. Apparently it is not the
principle of the bill itself which I. Lord Sallebuir's
main ground of objection, but rather the details, and
It la the details which will rewire such strenuous
opposition on their part. Sir Stafford Northoote
!spoke at Exeter on tits seine subject and about the
rose time, and to all appeananoe they bad put their
head, very Glow together with one oonwat before they
proceeded on this political essay. Both these great
wen averred that the Liberal Government bad •
pereccoal motive in bringing forward the Reform BSI
during the present Parliament, and for the • lc. of
argument let it pass, but will not this same obieo eon
apply with equal forte to the (endure of the 00111.1 re-
tire party with regard to wine very important
aware' in the pest? They are not above suspicion
In this matter, and notwithstanding the platitudes of
Lb. speakers on Wednesday, Lord Salisbury has been
actuated by personal motives during his political
*weer as moth as any living num. Thee, again, on the
question of rediatribution, there is cause for absolute
amiseemeat Why in the name of 001110101) MOSS
should the Liberals avoid • re-distribution? Would
they not rather court it? dee rrdistribution not been
Lb. rallying fey of every great Liberal meeting of
late years. It le beginning to be pretty plain, how-
ever, that attaching such • huge importance to re-
distribution in such a sudden and violent manner how
been adopted by the Leiden of the Cowervetive
party, not for re-distributioale sake, which certainly
will wereely be to their beeellt, but nattier as a petty
weans of impedhig and obetruothag the enfranchise-
neat of the rural householders. Whether the new
Bill will be woompaned by the Rio-distribution Bill.
or whether the letter will be betrodoeed in the wow
Bersion, otanot be sail, but that the one will be
followed by the other le as oertaiu as the fact that the
Conservative party have it sot la timid+ power to prevent
it. The eheurdity of attempting the two measures
elmultawously was wall shows by • Liberal speaker
some time ago, who explained that "It wee necessary
to know bow many electors the.. are la the rations
weetitneocies before aa waltable re-distribution of
nate can be attempted." The fallacy of objecting to
the principle of the Bill hem been recognised by the
Opposition, Wow the new move in the 1„.-eat politic.
game.

Sorra politke were apperestly too serioua •
subjeat for Lord Salisbury to deal with, sad he vs./
wisely let them aloes The rems'ader of the et molt
was made up of en invocation to the party to organ" a.
That will apply.. well t a the Liberal' of this oounty
at to the Orservativek sod we bop they • -I take
the hint There to no doubt there lel be • ca....pood-
les movement oa their aid.; and this reminds us
fortibly of tie amusing illustration of two dogs asleep
hi • itannad. Ooe more, and the action arouses the
other—the consequers le there le • terrible sore and
agitation for a brief spaok but being exhausted with
tbe narrated effort, they quickly Mapes Into their
former eoussoleat condition, ea th impressed with the
notion that It ire done it. duty. It is siarrely hoped,
however, both aides will wake up, and that the agitation
will Dot subside, but that it el" lead to • mote
thorough rad, of the read po'itical question@ of the
day, the result of whir we are ciertainly not disposed
I. dread.