The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-07-10 00:00:00

MID-WORCESTERSIITRE ELECTION.

An open-air meeting was held on Saturday even-
me, near th Vauxhall Inn, to hear an aedress from
A. J. Dadson, of I.ondon, eith a view to his
..!onteeing toe Mid_Wor, e-ters,•ire Divi.don on
eiladstontan principles.. •-eSince the meeting of the
Liberal Council at lirdcferntinster on Friday week,
wh: n the expected candidature of Mr. Robinson
U C., tit t nrough, coin uricatio es have been goitre
with the object of re curing a Miei.tei candi-
late, and toe working men at this end of the division
eave been taking en ospec:ally active interest in the
•übjeet. Mr. Dadsen, Wit 3 a jouroalist, cam,
lawn to Stourbridge under tie) auspices Of the
National Liberal party in London to confer with
,oint. of the active Liberals as to contesting the
dvesion, and was favourably impressed with the
spirit shown by the representatives of the working .
classes and others with with whom he conferred.
He "as invited to stand for Marylehone some three
.rr four years ago, and has en doing a conehterahlc
amount of active work as a Radical politician to
Loeclou fer some time past. The men-tine ennvenee
on Saturday evening was ettended by a large
number of persons, prtncipally working mn. Mr -
W. H. Packwoed presi e_t, and said that the force
of circumstances had compelled the workingmen
of the re igL bourhood to Preset t t hems Av. s as they
were doing before. the 1)e-bac. Tie y had been con-
nected with the Liberal Association ever since it-
for nation, and had been wailing for seme of those
associ ded with it to taltelectien in brineine fmward
a candidate who woa d represent th .ie views differ-
ently from M. John Coi 'bete_ Meer, heals-) sTe-ey-
placed power in the hands of a few gentlemen, and
at the last election they were sree.ing abut for
candidate, but the re wee., no one t at ne,t with the
approbatien of these gentlemen but Mr. Corbett,
who first fiddled to the Litiera's and then to the
Conservatives. Re got both parti is to dance to his
time, until there was no time to get anyone el-e.
the Patlianient then elec'ed hal been but ash
one, and workine men of the constituency had now
Another oppor:nrity of expre.si g th-ir views as to
the kind of eandidtte they desired They had wilted
iereir leaders—he woule net say their eneeries, bu•
not their friends to take actiee, but they had a
:erect interest in Mr. Corbett retaieing his seat.
Ishey (the workine men) di ; not meet to split the
eerty, and ve,uld rather have those gentlemen he
stoke of were with teem than against them, but
;hero might be times when it was neceseery for the
eorking men to take up the u.atter themselves.
et the lest meeting at Kidderminster there were
forty-four to nineteen in faeour of obtaining
mother candidate, and the nineteen were comprised
noetly of the Dr di wien part of the division. But
it was the. Stourbudge, Wollescote. and Wellastou
vhere the strength of the constituency lay. and a
TV of the working men there reso;ved that if the
Peoenised leatere would not take the matter np
hey woeld take it irro thei, ewn hands. They kad
ne so, anti they new had a gentleman who woul
xplain to them his politi al views. After an tel
Tees from Mr. Sabine, Mr. Dadeen a idres,ed the
, .neetiee, Be saii he was in favour of Hem° Rule
' •or Ireland, hut he was not in favour of buying oat
.he land erds. He would not himself vote ono
degle penny towards such a scheme, nor did he
-leek Mr. Giad•atoue, if returned with a sufficient
mejority again to bring forwerd again to bring
orvrard his bill woul t maintain that part of his
..,:eeme. From the past history of the connectien
)f the !leo coentries. he thought every man must
eonle to the conclusioa that the time had arrived
fer some such flci::ine as Mr. Gladstone had intre-
laced to be card--d o In his opinion, neither
Me.Chamberlaine, scheme nor Mr. Bright's would
.te at all workable, and Mr. Brig"..`et'e proposal w .uld
net give the Irish representatives et Westminster
Ater more actual control over bills of an ii;eh eseure
introduced into the House of Commons thaii they
iow pos,eesed. In regard to the land questioe,
he erica ural interest being by far the greatest
interest in the country, it demanded immediate
attention. It was impossible that Rey English
matters could be attended to in Parliament till the
Ireda question was d sposed of. Dating the pate
seven years Parliament had been almost entirel)
occupied with Irel ,ne's aff drs; and Thu nuieber ot
Co-rcion Acts passed in the last eighty-six year
were a complete condemnation of the poli, y pur-
sued towards Ireland by this country. Mr. Glad
sto to was the only En-lish statesman who ha,i
really grappled this qu-st on on the broad lines of
justice, and some such soluton as he offered ap
pe red to him to be the only effective one. His
eroposal of course admitted of many modifications;
hu+ so far us he (Mr. Dadson) could see there cou!d
be no reasonable objectiou on the part of this
coentry to Ovine Ireland the p.iwer of g iverninent
regarded pur7ly Irish affairs. Mr. P Pargeter
moled, and Mr. J. Lowe seconded, "That this
ne ‘ting of electors of Mid-Worcest-rshire, having
eeard the views of Mr. 4. J. Dadson, c. rdially in
vites him to become a candidate of the divi.ion in
the Liberal and R tdical interest, p e gime itee7f to
use every legitimate endeavour to secure hie sue
i.essful return The resolution was ce ried.—On
the motion of Mr. Miles, second d by Mr. Holum,
'he following resolution was also passed, " That
this meeting of electors and non-eleotors takes this
)I)PertunitY of recording its continued and ia-
ereesed confidence in the heroic leader of the
Liberal party, Mr. Gladstone."
The nominations for this division took place on
Monday. Mr John Corlett, Irepney, .alt mane.
facturer (Unioni-a), was propoeed by Mr. Thomas
aarr'son, Droi' wich, and a conded by Mr. Herne
Deven; ort, Bromsgrove Station. Mr. Arthur
James Dad-on, S • reatham Common. sun ey.
joutnalist (Gladstonian Liberal), was ale, nominated
by Mr. Daniel Wae-taff Goode in, Kidd!
rtm:st,r.
Led seconded by Mr Mi!ler Corbet. Kidderminster.
rhe &Toni nomination was handed in at ten in flutes
.o two.