The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-04-08
DR.. KENEALY's RECENT ELECTION.
A Triumph Of People Who oppose
Household Suffrage..POpular Dem.
onstratjOn in Fa yOr Of the TichbOrne
Claimant--Dr. Kenealy's Quarrel.
some Character.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune.1

CORRESPONDENCE IN. L.
LONDON, Feb. l8.-People who don't
like Household Suffrage and the Ballot
have been for twenty -four hours the hap
pest of mankind. The election Of DIR.
Kenealy for Stoke-upon-Trent, and of
Mr.. John Mitchell for Tipperary, gives
them, they think, the right to go about
with triumphant 81 told you So in
their mouths. And among well-to-do
people in general, whether reformers or
anti.reformers, aristocrats or democrats.
Tories or Wings, the two elections have
certainly excited deep disgust. DR..
Kenea.y comes in for Stoke by nearly
1000 majority over his nearest opponent.
a Liberal, and (so-called) workingman,
Mr.. Walton. It is to be remarked. how
ever, that MIR. Walton is of the sham
workingman species. He is really sort
of architect somewhere near London, and
was not supported heartily either by the
Liberals proper or by the workingmen for
whom he presented himself as a cham
pion. At the last election he was at the
bottom of the POLL. the borough then re-
turning one Liberal and one Conserya-
tive.
DR.. Kenealy did not stand, as it is per-
haps needless to state, as either Liberal
or Tory. He may be called the Arthur
Orion candidate, and his party is simply
the Orton-Kenealy party. His electlonls
a popular demonstration in favor of the
claimant and his counsel. 1t is proof, i
any proof were needed, that multitude
Of Englishmen still believe Orion to be
Tichborne. 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.. Kenealy edits,
the Englis5nidn, is said to be circulated
principally out of London, in the North
Of England particularly. Its violence
may seem mildness itself to men who
make pastime of kicking their wives to
death. At any rate its popularity was
not diminished by the ferocity with which
1t assailed everybody who has had the
misfortune to displease its editor. dc
not mean to join in the almost equally saw
age energy with which they and society
in general have retaliated on DR..
Kcnealy. He is man who has
thrown away a good opportunity, not
| from lack of ability or culture, but from
faults of temper. His bearing at the trial
was unprofessional, and it has grown far
worse since, but his anger was not unpro-
voked. / think it was the Lord Chief
Justice who began, and whether he began
or not, his conduct during great part
of the trial was unworthy Of his position
and Of the reputation of the English
Bench for impartialitv. He was more
French than English, taking sides dis
tinctly against the claimant. DR.. ke-
nealey could have made all this apparent
without using hard words. But he SO
mismanaged matters that his professional
career was pretty much at an end with
the conclusion Of the Tichborne trial.
His disbenchment and disbarment were
no great pecuniary injury to him, for his
relations with the courts had become
such that solicitor could hardly intrust
cause to his advocacy. So with the
canceling of his patient as Queens Coun-
sel-an act of doubtful legality, there
being nc 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 off everything like
self-control. The notion of conspiracy
against Orion and himself got possession
Of him. He had no thought of anything
but the claimants wrongs and his owR.
When he vowed he would get into Parlia-
ment to proclaim them nobody paid much
attention to his threat. Down to the
very day of the polling his candidature
was regarded as joke by the best in
formed politicians in London. Some went
so far as to say he would not be admitted
into the House if elected. But | pre-
sumo there is no ground for rejecting him
He can hardly be pronounced incapable
Of sitting because he has said hard things
Of corruption. How he will be received
, by his fellow.members is different ques
ton. The general feeling seems to b
that he will be cut and sent t.
coventry, and that nobody but Mr.
Whalley will recognize him. They
would certainly do much better to trea
him with polite GOODNESS. don't see tn,
use of giving such . man . new grievance
. 1t is doubtful what course he will take
, whether he will conform to the habits o
the House, and content himself whtiPar
liamentary language. or attempt to re
| peat in the House the extreme expires
sions he employs in his paper. In tn
, former case he would soon become insigni
l fcant, think his ill.wishers; in the latte
he would find himself in the custody o
) the Sergeant. alarms. That awful func
, tionary would hold him till he had purg
ed himself of his contempt, and till h
had paid the fees Of his commitment
n These would amount to the respectabl
: sum of f32O. which it is thought Dr.
!. Kenealy might find difficulty in rails
: ing. But all that would only make hir
e more martyr than ever in the eyes {
n his supporters As for putting him dow
d by ordinary means, such as leaving til
IS House or making d;sturbance-as in Ii
nj case Of Mr.. Auberon Herbert-success
# very doubtful. / heard an old membt
J. of Parliament say yesterday that the sul
o posed efficiency of the House to extil
e gaish bores or nuisances was overrate'
> "Kenealy will be sure to beat Us IN IL
]. long run, exclaimed he dole1ully.
ri SH0ke which has en6Aanlv made itse