The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-06-23 00:00:00

OH ARMINSTMR.
FORMATION OF A LIBERAL ASSOCIATION.

fin Monday evoliing a I•r.oirli .4 the South I lornet
Lil.,•ral Ann•Wiation Wa. bwitied here.and there is is ery
pronpeet .4 a good strong body oflp•rain lieing
entablinlied in the village. T 11.• •ting Waa held in
Iteading•npati, which had been kindly lent by the
te...
Mr. taciattot H. Loc. presi.l.4l, and in bin ope
speeds simply explained tbe object .4 the meeting.
It Iva., he maid, merely to endeavour to form an
an...iation, so that thy might lie brought in con•
neetion with tht. Divinional They wi-n'
in ('liartnitinter to he connected With the lt.r-ch...4er
ch...4er Liberal .t.....ciation, but it had lanai thought
bent that thee .11..11.1 tom an independent body.
T. Loa eslittined tin. ("notation and working of the
aseiciation, and :del indicated the condition of
things with regard to the anteinneement that
had been made in the papers as to the reniglia•
tbm of Mr. Edward.. if.' wished tlwni to understand
although he huh resigned. there would I.• a eandidate
forth°. 11l ill g, that nothing would be. blot no far AK
1.10. !attend party was concernol -at least, every etfott
winds' Ip. IMO,' to ..lot win a suitable nine. 110 hop,'
the Liberals in that place would all pull together, and
jai, would limitedly attend the good cans..
(Appian,...) The Chairman :dim explain...l the w..rk•
ing of the ballot, which he said wan perfectly went,
and noon, need be afraid to give his vote. Ile then
'Talky! on Mr. Ni•it,.• to adliresm the meeting.
Ti,- Rev. T. NIOCK th.. 111 gave an address on Liberal
principles generally. He ngrettc4l to say Mr.
Edward,. had Isnot compelled through the atpate of hill
health to relinquish Ina candidature. He had felt
perfectly confident from what he had seen of the con.
stituency, and enpecially. 4 the rural districts, that there
w.. 1111.1 hay.. been mit a shatl•ovldthasla as t..likeAlleCel.
of Mr. Edwards, but an, far as the Liberal cause was
concerned it had sustained no damage by the hon.
inenther'm withdrawal. Of comae they fought for
Liberalism, independent .1 all manes, although they
would have been very pleased to have wowed the
victory for Mr. Edwards as a well-tried and thorough-
going Liberal politician, and especially for a gentle.
man who had always evinced the greatest interest in
the 'silk cal advancement of the working chubs..
(Applause. With regard to the claim which eitla•r
party had on them, it was for them to deter 11l i l
what each of dicta had flotte in the past, and if they
f..iui,l the Liberal party had i.e.',, the friends .4 the
working classes it was for them to say whether they
would give them their Silloport ..r whether they would
gite their votes to the party that ball lotilitedly
Iteen intwilling h. give th.on their just right and had
4.l4otr•fiefl theta ill ery shape and form. Mr.
'.ease then critieined the siseclies that had
been delivered by Mr. lkittouiley. Ile dill
not doubt there Wan %nal a specinien of I :inky an
a Conservative working Inan, and he did not .1.114
either that it might lir quite creditable to a working
HAWs intelligeme, lint he had a % ery shrew(' iiii•
pression with regard to the Connervatis 4. w.irking
num that what they meant Ity their Conservatism wan
21s. in the : That's about the thing
" Throe "Mit. to a ultart to they.") It Was for them
to consider what I.ils•mlissii and Ti yinnt had ii' 'ii'.
Ile urged then, to Hake 'it, their mind. t li.• matter.
11.• went on to 01.1 W (bait th.• reform, in the pita
wen- iandonlitedly the work of the I.il•eral party, and
that g•ven now the friutelti.• at ia reganbni ii lhe
Work Of the Liberal.. I Applansej It wan a niatter .4
history that the dii ision. Nlr. Trevelyan's motion.
3.nir aft, r par bad shown a large preP•llderalle• ••(
lumnsition on the pot .4 the 'tortes. It V.NO, ho
for the Toni.. to ...as they ha.ll leen anaion, for
the extension of Ow franchise -- Hair action.
had 1111 l iintratet the 0r... (Hoar, hoar.) Ile
vonsidensl the es pre.nion of feeling 01l the part .4 the
English working men, the If yd l'ark demonntrationn
and others. Sir. Oladston..... sidetelid iii,,V,uuieiit ii,
Scotland after last ge,eti 111 l whieli hail his% such
striking contrast. to die comparatively ppirly
organined picnics- which bad tak..ll pbwr
in the great park. of the landed proprietors-all the.,
strong expression. of feeling its (Avonr of the great
sneataire ref..ntt had nhown the flow.. of Lordn it
wa. Ilse for to contend any longer againnt the
Just right. if the people. They yi..1.1.41 to popular
pressure. and tam through any nepict to Kite Oat Fran. i
chine to the people. I Hear, hear.) They .11.4.11,1 not
he led away by any pack small talk an that, and nhould
rest satisfied that it wan the Liberal.. and they only.
who had Imam anxime, to give then* the Fr:Melvin,
(howl applalow.l As to •the future, What wen. they
to expect (p.m the Tory party! Mr. nottnntiry inn!
n rntant the count T%. and had laid dowel a kind of
I•r"gra ----r the Tmli .. Itea as !Air(' 4113 ent. Ming,
however, to LAP Mr. Wean ..ithel.iny progranolie Irian
such an mittiorit) as Mr. If •ttimaler. It- preferred to
go to the fountain load, lust, sinfOrtUnately, when he
%yule therc, there was no anti r drink there wa.
St, In. had (leitel laughter.) Isird
no 1.. • •is a 'it a
Randolph Churl. • in mato, papects
programme, and Sir. Itottomie%
followed him .1 th it they might take I to
port .1 joint foll.,wer with the noble lord What,
then was the epgro...e this gentleman proposed '7
that the Tory 'arty wen. to protect the itritinh
constitution, but he (Mr. N-avel %van afraid if the
salvation of the constitution had Isnot ioft. to Toryistss
time .iviodd have 111,41 I .%11.1.1mim• and
laughter.) Was it to lie nab,' that sup9oning the
refoniss .4 the last had been dented. which was the
undoubted policy of the Torka, England r'•whl
have been able to maintain the imsition Altv in in at
the present time (.‘ No, tio.") Ikailalesn, what
England in to-day in her conntitvit ion was
owing t.. the great fiilteral which
had been pawed, and which had pre, ented any-
thing like an ulil,eat:4i .4 ievolittion in the
count re. That loubtedly was the work .4
Liberalistn. Toryinnt would have knocked the tsmsti•
tution to pieces, so that Mr. flottomley Thant not talk
nuch nonsense to the independent working men of
Dorset -they would not lase it. llf ear. hear.) Mr.
IkAtollileV al,a., went in for the ...eightl elements
between Church and Suite. He 1( at any nit,'
was in favour of A setaration with the Church and
State, and that w.aild Is. 1. ail.tedly an essential part
of the programnie ..f the future. lfe centended
justice shonlil be don.. all round, and that the main-
tenance of a favoured elinreli was Utterly Mir if
harmony with the principles of Iciberaliant. The
cite.tion was, in the Meantime. one 14 education, and
they would not thcrefon• divide the Liberal party on
the point. Many Liberal chiirchmen say., not pre.
'Rm..) at IreAellt go ill directly for din-entihilish-
uim'iut
;nt ill the ,1111•41011 1111 l Ise allowed to develope
itself. and when the catintre is ripe for it, no doubt
it would lie made part of the Liberal policy. (Hear,
hear.) The boote no doubt would be for the benefit
of the rhurch--ntill it was not a clination of benefit •
ting the Church, an it wan one simply .4 justice and
right ita to what Mr. Mott ley meant la• the
essential elements 14 Church mid State it would be for
hint to 41.. fine, lint Ile ler.looll eMeArlal
element. of Church and State to ha- that the Church
Plead.' be dominatc.l and governed by the State.
How then would Nfr.ll..thatilev's ideas A2ree with the
great ~..nnon lately preach I hy Canon Liddon
co et with the installation .4 the ltinhop.
Lincoln and Exeter, when he affinninl that the man
who n 1 Id say that the Church should 1.• controlled
hy the State was the w, nut enemy the Church could
have 7 NOW. whether they were to take their opinion.
(nail a competent man like Calvin Litillon or Mr.
llottimiley was a fluent ion on which they would have
henitation, it,. to th.• other parts Iml the " pro-
gnu they Were on a piPle With rhe other',
- the whole thing WA. perfectly vague and indefinite,
it was simply chaff, which wan n..t likely
the %yorking claanen, and certainly not the regricultiwal
labourer.. The rev. gentleman, in conclusi, n. briefly
sketched the Literal policy .4 the (Mtn..., wli **natl.!.
he believed, he favoinall.• to the working chase., and
t:tl-1.1717.1,1'.11.."1 ;11 innt ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
whielt %%add a. purl. •••• 11111 l and their sentivithy. ( A 1..
Plan.e.l As to the fall if Mr. lladstone's Ministry.
tend to indicate the weaktiens a the Tories, and com-
pel them to show their hand, b..th in respect to the
11*h:et, a• their ele •iat ion of Mr.
lladnbale.4 I •• tillear, hear.)
Mn, Hicks then prolmoott a cordial %ode • thanks
t'. the Chairman and "r. Neave, which, hat ing lanai
duly neconded by a working man in the W;let
carried by inn-Imitation.
The meting, which had lanai I,f the mont orderly
character. then 15.1 a. up, dune cheers being given for
Mr. 4:latlstttne.