River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-22

seven remained neutral. The election
lasted fifteen days; an act of parliament
in 1868 limited the time for polling to
five days at most. Again in June, 1859,
an unsuccessful attempt was made to
unseat MIR. Gladstone, the marquis OF
Chandos being beaten in five days
contest by 1850 to $50. Two wears
later Mr.. Gladstone took leading part
in passing the act which allowed men,
bers Of convocation to vote by means Of
voting-papers without being personally
present at the polls. at was consider.
ed at the time," says writer reviewing
the representation of Oxford university
in the house of commons from the DAYS
of james l., ito be undesirable that
nonresident members of the universe
ty should either have 10 come up from
different parts of the country at great
trouble and expense, or else be In effect
disfranchised; while it was also notori-
Gus that much that was hardly legiti-
mate went on in the way Of paying
voters their expenses. Every vote was of
importance, and Consequently curates
III remote parts OF the country were
tempted up to Oxford by the tacit
promise that their expenses would be
recouped them, and they would be hos
pitsbly entertained for day or two by
the leaders of their party. 1t was TO
prevent this kind of thing that the act
of 1861 was passed, and the first use to
which the conservative members of
the university put it was to unseat the
member by whose fundamentally it
had been carried" At the election of
1865 Mr.. Gladstone was defeated by
Mr.. Claiborne Hardy, now Viscoun.
Cranbrook, after a five days struggle,
the numbers being-Sir William Heath
cote, 236; Hardy, .904; Gladstone, l.
724. OF the 3, $50 votes cast, 2 $50 were
given by proxy. On the day of his de-
feat Mr.. Gladstone was nominated
for South Lancashire, and next day
was addressing TO the voters at Man
chester his famous Sat last, my friends,
| am come among you unmuzled," 81
have loved the University of Oxford"
he said, in another passage of this
speech, with deep and passionate
love, and as long as | breathe that at
tachment will continue. Could they
have returned me by majority of one,
painful as it is to a man of my time
of life and feeling, and feeling the
weight of public cares 10 be necessarily
struggling for mis- seat, nothing could
have induced me to quit that UNIVERSE
ty to which | had so long ago devoted
my best care and attachment" "The
candidate without an address" obtained
his seat, Mr.. Egerton, a conservative,
heading the poll with 8 III, another
with s 500, and Mr.. Gladstone coming
within 20 votes of him, being 80 votes
ahead of the third conservative, and
running ,073 in advance of the second
liberal. At the general election of 1868,
despite his vehement plea that he might
"be permitted and enabled to speak
the words of truth and justice in the
house of commons in the name and
with the authority Of the men OF outh-
west lancashire" the leader of the
opposition was defeated by 260 vetes.
Anticipating this result, the liberals of
Greenwich had nominated Mr.. Alder
man-afterward Sir David-Salomons
and elected him by some LOO votes.
In 1914 the premier was again return
ed, but with conservative colleague,
4.
Mr.. Gladstone having 5 968, the second
conservative 5 SCI, and the second lib
eral 5 255. Last week Mr.. Gladstone
was elected for Leeds, 80 that if he
should be defeated in Edinburgshire he
will not lack seat when the new par
lament assemblies.
Varied as Mr.. Gladstone's experience
has been, he has not yet changed seats
so often as did Lord John Russell, who
sat in succession for Tavistock, Hunt
ingdonshire, Bandon, Devonshire,
Stroud and London. Four constituent
cies it has been noted have especiallydis-
tinguished themselves in modern days
by returning first lords OF the treatury,
actual or prospective. Oxford unlver-
sity can lay claim to Peel and Glad
stone, though she chose and rejected
each of these statesmen ere he had at
tanned to the premiership. Cambridge
was faithful to Pitt to the last, though
she rejected Palmerson. Buckingham
shire gave the country Lord Grenville
and Lord Beaconsfield, and the little
borough of Rye elected in 1870 Mr..
Jenkinson, aiterward Ford Liverpool,
who was premier from 1912 to 1927,
and in 1906 Sir Arthur WELLESLEY, alter
ward duke of Wellington. Lord Aber-
deem was the only prime minister of
the present century who was without
practical experience of the house of
commons, having succeeded to his
fathers title at the age of Is. He won
his way into parliament as q represen-
tative peer at the age of %.