The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-03
An English Election. 1915.

1t was no wonder that a riot was feared.
All the materials were ready for an ex-
plosion. Besides calling in the troops to
keep order, the magistrates had brought
four or five stage coaches full of sailors
and carpenters from Liverpool, armed,
it is said, not with batons, but with
bludgeons. The Times correspondent
counted at Appleby 200 special consta-
bles thus armed, ''who go to the Lowther
public houses, drink at Lowther expense
and bivouac under tents by the river
side"
Upon the least violerce sfovn as JUS
tifca ion, these bludgeon-me l-among
whom Brougham professed to recognize
a Bow street runner, sign and symbol OF
Government influence added to that of
the Lowthers- ready to fall upon
the mobs and professions in which the
soldiers of Westmoreland independence
ranged themselves. Although the latter
steadily abstained from violence of action
it can not be said that they were.inofen-
sive to their antagonists in other ways.
To parade the streets of Appleby with a
Calls head mounted ON a pole, and
decorated with yellow ribbons, was tol-
erably ingenious insult for people SO new
to electioneering. Brougham surpassed
himself in the bitterness of the taunts
which be leveled at the hostile battalions
when they were drawn up in front of the
hustings. .... ...t...
You nave been brought up he told
them to Appleby in carriages, coaches,
wagons, and carts; you have been handed
and led to the polls by their agents, their
Justices, and their parsons. My friends
have crowded here by hundreds, from
their own spontaneous impulse, and at
their own expense. You have heard,
gentlemen addressing his supporters, of
fine game and covies reserved for the use
of the lord of manor; now look behind
you and you will see some of the game.
These six-and-twenty have been brought
in carts or bags. Howls and misses. |
perceive that the game do not understand
me. They are dumb animals; but Twill
ask any Of their keepers who are here
whether this is not true, and If to-mor-
row they can not answer it, they may 60
back to their preserves.
Now, gentlemen Of the yellow, l have
a few words to say to you. | am de-
lighted to see you; it is the first time l
have had that pleasure. I wish to ex-
plain to you the principles on which ]
act, with the hope of inducing some of
you to think more favorably of me.
Kissing and disapprobation from the
Lowther side. / see an honest-looking
man there with great bunch of yellow
in his hat, and if I were but one half
hour with him I am convinced, notwith-
standing his present disapprobation. l
could prevail on him to split his vote
between Lord Lowther and me. n X
Now, gentlemen of the yellow, is it not
a gratifying thing for you to meet with
contested election, by my means, for
the first time in your lives, and to be so
courted as you have been9 Freehold
ers expressed satisfaction with their
present representatives..
do not know that, gentleman, but !
appeal from his judgment to that of the
County Of Westmereland. Ihave asked
my own friends to hold up their hands,
and there has been great show; now, 1
should just wish to see the game from
the preserves hold up their forefeet. The
game mustered in sufficient numbers,
however, to keep Brougham out of the
seat. On the last day of the polling the
numbers stood: Lord Lowther, $50; Col.
Lowther, 925; Mr.. Brougham, 7S8. At
the beginning Of the canvass the Low
thers had given out that it was impossi-
BILE any opponent should get more than
three hundred votes. Considering the
odds against which Brougham fought, it
was not a discouragmg defeat, and
neither he nor his supporters showed any
| signs of dismay when the result could no
longer be disguised.
Mr.. Wybergh, Brougham's proposer,
made spirited address to the electors
and assured them that he had a Dill pre-
pared for the Lowthers against next
election: They had all heard of the
stone-eater, vino devoured stones; they
had all heard of the fre-eater, who de-
voured flames; they had all heard Of the
pen-knife-eater, who swallowed pen
| knives till they killed him; they had all
4 heard Of the cassowary, which digested
iron; but if the Lowthers could swallow
| the pills which were prepared for them,
they would have a bitter swallow, and
stronger powers of digestion, than either
the stone-eater, the fire-eater, the pen
knife-eater or the cassowary.