New-York tribune., 1875-03-05
DIR. KENEALYS ELECTION.

sutation with parties in the Assembly.
DIR. KENEALY'S ELECTION.
| A TRIUMPH OF PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE HOUSEHOLD
| sUFFRAGE-POPUIAR DEMONSTRATION IN FAVOR
or THE TICHboRNE CLAIMANT-DR. KENEALY's
| QUARRELsoME CHARACTER.
IFRoh TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT oP THE TRmUSEl
LONDON, Feb 1s-People who don't like House
hold Suffrage and the Ballot have been for "a hours
! the bapplest of mankind. The election of Dr.
| Menealy for Stoke-upon-Trent and of Mr.. John
Mitchell for Tpperaryi gives them. they think. the
| night to 60 about with q triumphant / told you
| SO" in their mouths. And among well-to-do people
| in general, whether reformers anti-refOmers,
aristocrats OF democrats Tories or WhiRs, the two
elections have certainly excited deep disgust. Dr.
Keneay in for Stoke by nearly 1000 majority
over his nearest opponent Liberal aud (socalled)
workingman, Mr.. Walton. 1t is to be remarked,
however, that Mr. Walton is of the sham working
man species He is really sort of architect some
where near London and was not supported heartily
either by the Liberals proper by the workingmen
for whom he presented himself as a champion. At
the last election he was at the bottom Of the poll
the borough then returning one Liberal and one
Conservative.
DR.. Kenealy did not stand, it is perhaps needless
to state. either Liberal Tory. He may be called
the Arthur Oron candidate and his party is simply
the Orton-Keneay party. His election Is popular
demonstration in favor of the claimant and his
counsel. II Is q proof il any proof were needed,
| that q multitude Of Englishmen still believe
| Orton to be Tchborne. His cause always had
hearty support in the provinces. mainly, think.
among the ignorant classes though not among them
| only. The extraordinary weekly paper which Dr.
Kcneay edits The Eagishman. is said to be crcu-
| lated principally out of London. IN the North of
/ En- md Tfa ayio mi
ness itself to mens who make pastime of kicking
their wives TO death. At any rate, it's popularity
| was not diminished by the ferocity with which
| it assailed everybody who has had the mis-
fortune to displease its editor. do not mean to
join in the almost equally savage energy with which
they and society in general. have retaated DR..
Kenealy. He is mau who has thrown away good
opportunity not from lack of ability culture, but
from fans Of temper. His bearing at the trial was
unproessonal and it has grown far worse since, but
his anger was not unprovoked. / think 1t was the
Lord Chief Justice who began, aud whether he began
not, his conduct during great part of the trial
was unworthy of his position and of the reputation
of the English Bench for impartiality He was more
French than English, taking sides distinctly against
| the claimant. Dr. Keneay could have made all this
apparent witbC Mt using hard words. But he mis-
| managed matters that his professional career was
pretty much at an end with the conclusion OF the
| Tichborne trial. His disbenchment and dsbarment
were no great pecuniary injury TO him, for his rela
| tions with the courts had became such that
so citor could hardly intrust n cause to his
advocacy. So with the canoeing of lis patent
| as Queens COunsel-an. act OF doubtful
legality there being legal inquiry into the facts
| on which the Lord Chancellor proceeded
With every step the sense Of injury sunk deeper
| into DR.. Kenealy's mind. and he finally threw of
Of
spracy against Orton and himself got possession of
him. He had no thought of anything but the claim
| ants wrongs and his own. When he vowed he
| would get into Parliament to proclaim them, no.
| body paid much attention to his threat Down to
the very day of the polling his candidature was re-
garded as joke by the best informed politicians in
| London. Some went so far as to say he would not
be admitted into the House if elected. But l pre-
sune there is ground for rejecting him. He can
hardly be pronounced incapable of sitting because
he has said hard things about the House, snch as
that it is mass of corruption. How he will be re-
ceived by bis feow-members is different ques-
tion. The general feeling seems to be that he will
be cut and sent to Coventry, and that no
body but Mr.. Whaley will recognize him.
They would certainly do much better to treat
him with polite codness 1 don't see the use OF
giving such a man new grievance. 1t doubted
to the habits of the House, and content himself
with Parliamentary language, or attempt to repeat
in the House the extreme expressions he EMPLOYS
his paper In the former he would soon become
insignificant think his illwishers; in the latter he
would find himself in the custody of the Sergeant
alarms. That awful functonary would hold him
till he had purged himself of his contempt and till
he had paid the fees of his commitment. These
would amount to the respectable sum OF GSO,
which it is thought DIR. Kepealy might find diff
Guilty in raising But all that would only make him
more a martyr than ever in the eyes OF his sup
porters. As for putting him down by ordinary
means, such as leaving the House or making dis
turbance-as in the case of Mr.. Auberon Herbert
success is very doubtful. l heard an old member
of Parliament say yesterday that the supposed
efficiency of the House to extnguish bores or nui-
sances was overrated "Keneay will be sure to beat
us in the long rum" exclaimed he dolefully.
Stoke, which has suddenly made itself famous by
cecting Dr. Kenealy its representative is borough
including within its parliamentary limits Hanley
and number of other towns, all together going by
the name of the P0tteres In 1864 it had less than
5000 electors. Mr. Dsraelrs Reform bill of 1867 es
tablishing Household Suffrage multiplied its con-
situency some six times over; the number Of its in
habItants entitled to vote being now more than
10000 Obviously the increase must be among the
poorer classes-people who lived in houses worth
less than $50 year-the old qualiication-and who
vote now from the mere fact OF Occu patton, irpe-
spectively of value All or nearly all these new
voters belong t0 the wage-earniDg class. An emil
nent member of Parliament has been led by con-
sideraon of these circumstances to compose, as he
SAYS, poem Oh the election believe have the
honor of being the first to give this work to the