The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-23

lar shot, "Sit down, Jampot." An 0bnoxiOus
grocer could not rise against, Nov, Currants,
who tould thee to speakY' baker is
branded as a maker OF dog biscuits, aud 'dt
was in vain for him to grapple with social aad
political problems, for the more he unravelled
| them the more his audience barked." A
farmer whose specially consisted in raising
hens, and who attempted TO address an audi
ence on politics, was met by such a olacking
chorus and such a growing, that he soon
bowed before 1t and retired. In a country
where saddlers, china merchants, grocers,
farmers, and bakers are thus silenced for pre-.
sumption, by the roughs and riffcaff of pub
lie meeting, it ia not strange that Captain
Grosvenor, an un1edged chick in some brood
OF so-oalled 'gentle blood" who has yet to
win his spurs in any line of human achieve
ment, becomes the senior of John Stuart Mill
when both are running as candidates for
Westminster on the same ticket.
American audiences may be by far too
polite. They will listen patiently aud without
other manifestation of displeasure than the
absence of applause, or an occasional call for
the next speaker, to addresses which
often badly need cutting short. But what
would become of an American orator who in
entering upon his speech should be ssluted
by some brawny " 'longshoreman" with "Put
in thy Gods head and shoulders" Yet this
would be the mere seasoning of a Yorkshire
speech. Sometimes the speakers go into
these meetings with scientific backers"-
men able and willing to bark, hoot, yell, or
whistle down their antagonists, or to lay
gentle hands (moAiter mdnuS impoaeTe) on any
opponent who should attempt to groan,
cackle, or crow in the opposite interest, or
to hurl the germs of British poultry at the
sconce of his own right honorable eau
didate. In case both parties adopt this
salutary preoaution, the best blood of
Britain flows freely at about the cost of the
like quantity OF beer. We are told of one
meeting that, nafter long discussion upon
the Irish Church and its prospects, they
fought for half an hour" On another occa-
sion dauntless democrat is engaged lowing
to an inability to agree on the Irish Church
question) in single combat for several minutes
with highly respected friend Of the constitu-
tional cause. The farmers, young and old,
hit out tremendously for Church and State,
as well as for malt and corn, and they are
generally too many for the townspeople. At
hawick the border men quite oVerpowered
the weavers, the original Dandie Dinmont
being able to take two of the weaver bodies
in his brawny arms, knock their heads to-
gether, and then drop them, stunned, for an
other pair" Alas under our system of
universal suffrage (for nearly all this fighting
is done by men who have no votes, and hence
no other means of striking a blow for
their cause than by breaking the skull
of somebody who has)-under our system,
heads, however empty, have acquired a
Fictitious value which prevents their playing
so useful part in the fight. Lists of the
killed and wounded from all parts of the king
dom are not yet received. 1t will take as long
to collect them, and they will occupy, if
printed, nearly as many columns in the
Gazette as would the casualties after an i'm
portant battle. Hardly any county or borough
was exempt from riotipg, and many leading
towns were swept over by successive mobs for
days together, the police and military being
the only parties who were thoroughly subdued
and disposed to let everybody alone. At Bel
FAST the roughs captured the town, and the
candidates fled for life. At Monaghan, the
Liberal rutiians wsylaid and shot Conserva-
tive party. At Blaenaford Pontypool, and
Abery scnan, continued and fatal riots occurred,
the towns being for several days contested be-
tween a force of four hundred special consta-
bles and the rioters, the former succeeding in
arresting seventy-seven OF the latter after they
had sacked the inns and other buildings and
destroyed a number of lives. At Bolton the
soldiers were called out and the Riot act read.
At Upton the Liberal mob beat and nearly
killed the Conservative candidate. At Newport
the soldiers, in charging on the rioters, ran
through with the bayonet, not only young
man, one of the rioters, but his mother also,
who was attempting to save his life.
Wigap, in Southwest Lancashire (Mr. Glad
stones district) contained 80 strong an anti
Irish mob that it's devotion to the Established
Church could only be appeased by clubbing
every man who dared vote for Gladstone and
Grenfell. The Rev. Philip Hains, the vicar of
the parish, though clergyman of the Eng
lsh Church, had warmly favored the disesta-
blishment of that Church in Ireland as fraught
only with evil to the Christian cause and to
the Irish people. For casting his vote for
Gladstone he was beset by this crowd of Doors
on his way from the polls, beaten down,
kicked with their clogs in the usual Wigan
style" until stunned, when his life was barely
saved by two Tory gentlemen at the risk Of
their own.
We might continue the recital ad nauseam.
Even including the damniDg atrocities of the
"month of assassinatons" which preceded our
late election in the Southern States, where
race of conquered and rebellious Shareholders
Were permitted to vote on terms Of equality
and side by side with race of unolfending
freedmen, the history of American elections
presents no parallel to the vulgar depravity,
crime, and 'lawlessness which characterized the
late contest in Great Britain. If a change of
Government accomplished or sustained by
successful force be a revolution, England has
been more thoroughly revolutiOnizsd than
Spain. Bribery also was very openly and
generally pracised. "The man in the moon"
with f5 for every voter who would sell his
vote, was readily accessible in some back
corner of nearly every borough. Offices We're
opened for the purchase OF votes, as ia New
York for the sale of certificates OF naturali
cation. Fraud, in a far more manifest
and shameless form than was practised here,
characterized some borOughs. At meeting
OF the committee acting for Mr.. Beales, the
defeated candidate for the Tower Hamlets, il
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