The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-05-12 00:00:00

II PV7NY
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mPERCH HT COLONICL HAM IiRO.

A meeting of Conservatives was lean in thia village
on Monday evening, when Colonel Hanna.° the Con-
servative rantlittate, gave An widnao. Tien. was a
good attendance, including ha.roans from Weymouth.
Mr. .1. 1.. STKVENs proposed that Nfr. 'William
Mayo lie chairman.-- This was ....canned by Mr..10n3
Mato and crrrieel. There Were also present Ntessne
H. A. Hintable (D•trehester), W. Mayo' Pm.. C.
Hawkins, S. Bone, 17. Cake, .1. Harding, W. Foot,
jun., C. Harvey, It. Gale, Nlesars. Ihityclitch (4),
'Abases. Virgin 121, H. A. Steven*, W. C. Thomas,
F. Luckharn, H. laickliam, H. Itanhani, C. Thomas,
.1. I larland, James Chrish•pher, W. Parsons, .1.
Pashen, S. Barnes, .1. Churchotae. Johnson. Page, T.
Hontisell, he. Front Weymouth : - Mesan. B.
Kerridge, .1. Bloomfield, Engrain, Keeley, Knight,
W. Plowman, Bun, ke.
The Ctimini.tY introduces] Colonel Hamlin, to the
nieeting in flattering terms. He was not one come
fniiii London hi spin a fine yarn, :Ind then never let
them see I again nail next year. (laughter.) !
For many years he (the chairman) had known 1 to
be a gooti o.aservative.
C.01.kn0.1 HAitatto. in the course of his remarks, del
wit suppoet• that all in the Inanity wen. h way of
thinking, and it was not likely they should Ise The
country could never lie aticearaftilly governed if they I
were all the same why of thinking. HV represented
the Conservative interest. awl Mr. Edwards repre-
sented what be called the Itadical interest, and it was
for his hearers to chaste between them. (Hear.
hear.) If they return...l himself to l'arlianwrit, they :
at all events Woilld Is returning • I hireetshire
It was true he was not lioni in lonatshire, but he
wished he had 111,11, and it was not his fault -
(latighter)- I•ut lie had lived there about 40 yean.
Ire had 'bele his Ite-4 t.• fulfil tilt. duties
which every gentleman paraeraing pn•perty, •or
residing in the vointy, fought to do. (Hear, lwar )
lie ""Itradick'd a,. inneeenon which seemed to
prevail that having limn returned to Parliament
gentlemen got any peculiar penanal advantage, but
that on the contrary they often had to w•irk very
hand with a vit•w to benefitting their fellow inen. He
shake highly •if Mr. Edwards, the Liberal candidate,
i but argued t wits a question whether a gentleman
living iii London, with no pn•perty in the county,
and nil interest,' in Ihirsetshire, excepting in the
Banitigh of Wt•ymouth, was the Inie they I night to
select to represent this division I,f the ttttt ty. Tht.y
were told that if they returned Mr. Edward* he would
help every pair man, but it was a different thing
when he had to repratent 9,000 instead of MOO, and
although Mr. Edwards was a god-hearted, liberal
Malt, there were mane Who ',milled to think there Was
not an elector but whom, if be were "hard up" might
write and ask him for say a ra•verenhpi, and he would
*end it whether he happened to he an Parliament or
not. It was not ror Ipiat to tell the motive, nor would
lie make any insinuations respecting it. Referring to
the newly enfranchised agricultural labourers, he
asked whether Ihirsetshin• had not always been a
dinsertative county. t" Yes.") .tt hiresent it
returned ten membeni to Parliament, six of whom
wen. Conservatives. Amongmt the four Liberals,
r. Guest, the member for Wareham, turned out an
old and tried member by 34 totes ; whilst the li•in.
Can Glyn, the member tor Shaftesbury, "got in " by
34 s••tes, so that ISM. than 70 men returned thaw two
Liberals t•• Parliament. Iliad it not lawn Fir this
IFirsehiliin• would have returned eight Conservative
imaither* out of the ten. Referring t•• the Raliatri-
but ion anti Franchise Bills, lie was delighted these had
been lamed, although the ten metillwra were reduced
to four, and he believed they would naiini four
Conservatives. (Hear, hear.) lb. pointed out that to
every question then. were two side*. Nlessni.
lierlain, Bright, I /ince, soil Bratilaugh wanted to upeet
everything connected with the welfare of the country.
lard Wolverton, who was a charming Mall. a Femme,
f riend of h lei ha a dee. WM slims wter of 11r. I llaristone,
saul at a Conservative meeting the other day there
was not A Conservative born fit to black Mr.
I ;latlstriine's Issits--(laughter)-- whilst at another
meeting a Conservative got tip and said Mr.
4:l:Osumi. was only fit to he hung. (irottil
laughter.) The Pill .11411 lit, one of the ablest
papers publialial, reported hi tin effect RllaliA WWI
in the right and England in tht• wrong. If, howevt•c,
they went la•ltinn the Names they would find the
Pal ihr:rth had been " bought and paid for on
Is.half of the Rusairtia," and that Madame Novikoff
was a gnat friend ••( the editors as also of Mr.
Illad*tone's, and that ainsequently feminine influence
had been brought to bear, Thus it was that ono of
the t•ve g hailers which had a large circulation told
them they.avere in the wrony, that tit. ..Afghans struck
the first and that the Itiissians Were a Isar,
Mated class of people. For his own hart in belie, ed
England to he In the right. (Hear, hear.) If they
Wialled to have this proved they had only to read Mr.
lilaciatone's speech in the Mame of Conine In.. Ile
said the Hussiana began the fighting, enteral the
territory of the Anima tit' .‘fghanishin, anti took
without any provocation, a portion of lila territory,
(Hear, hear.) .11luding to Mr. Portman, that gentle-
man had said there must be an alteration ii. the land
law*, that a law must lie hamar' enabling people to
sell land ; that there was no power to ••••11 land now,
and that it was tied from generation to generation.
In lieB2, however, Lord Cairns, tht• Conservative, got
a Bill passed which freed the land entirely, in then,
was no difficulty in the work( now in selling estates,
Mr. Porttuan also wished hi do away with the Howie
larda, and further alleged that Mr. Gladstone made
50 lords while in tidier, totem whieli the Conservatives
made. .1* to the price of corn it had been as dear
since the repeal of the Corn LAW, at ever it was before,
owing to the cheapen., of the tarn produced by their
sons and daughters who had emigrated to foreign
countries, and produced Ruch large quantities to send
here. He accused the Liberal Government of
not having taken due intenat in the colonies, whilst
a proof that the army was not what it
ought to have been was the fact that when
they went to war in the Soudan they were obliged IA
ask the colonie* to lend them nwn. .% greet deal
of the fifteen mill' asked for at the present time
had been spent in putting the army and the fleet in
medians, for war, but this ought to have been done
previously, to he ill readitierat for emergency. The
Govenuiwnt had not during the past five Years
managed matters as they I Atgli t t.m ',See done. 'They
had, as a consequence, asa thonsands .1 live* of
Engli*littieli, and ten* of thousand* of natives in
F:gypt, and had nearly vine to war with Russia.
They could wa claim any advantage over the Gm.
aavatia• party. (Apnlalaw.) 11. was A strong
advocate ha a cheap loaf, lint the pnisperity of the
country did not always go with that. Agricultural
labourers had had him they were never better off
than when bread was sixpence a loaf. He was, never-
tht•less, not in (*tour of a tax upon corn. 'That idea
WWI olit of the question. Tht•y must not believe this
if told that the Conaervatives wanted to dotal or that
their hunible servant was in favour of it. (Loud ap-
plause.) Fair Trade did not mean protection. (Hear,
hear.)
Mr. B. KICRRIDGE, a working man, of Weymouth,
attempted to adversely criticise certain remark made
by Mr. .1. H. Hoven at Chiekerell a few day* ago.
Ile, however, was gtmenunt enough to give lath
hart it" credit for doing their best, and proceeded to
criticiae nit. action of the 4 loverntrient in respect to
the Soudan, anti alleged they were never KO well
represented in Weymouth as they were by Mr.
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31r. Boxx two. ed a soh. of confidence in Colonel
liauuuin, a* tlit • Col Nen ails e cant I idate, and endeavou red
t•• prove that the career of the present Government
was ~u,,of liniken promises, and said that for the
first time they had now attaintd to an expenditure ••f
nu hundred millions. Referring to Mr. liewen's
natuerks, he said these were tery foolish. He was
probably a welbintentii•ned, good young man, but his
zeal had outrun hi, discretion. (Laughter.) He
rattled id a long string que*ti• ins Whiell he said lie
should ask Cl. nel Hamlin:, but why did lA.
attend the meeting Ilia, night to do so' (Hear, hear,

LiTer alto :I am very glad he is not here to
bother me. _ _ _

Mr. BONI: Mr. Bowen should have made sure of
his facts before he rattled off such an amusing
speech.
Mr. JOHN MAVO seaside(' the proposition, which
was e:arried.with cheers,

Colonel HAMBIto briefly replied, .alying that it the
e.n.tltu..nt did not elect I lf he hoptal they would
"look out " another I ). wart man.
The fleeting then terminated.