Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-14
Wednesday aforning. April IA. 1880.
s.CoAR~E INsTRUMENTALITIEs.,

.sCOAR$E INSTRUMENTALITI
 Presidential campaigns in this country art
 sufficiently lively, but the record of the cleo
 tions to the British Parliament shows that
 our English cousins can give us points in re
 gard to behavior at public meetings and the
 treatment of the speaker or speakers thereat
 MT. Herbert Gladstone, son of the great Lib
 eral statesman, who was candidate for the
 county Of Middlesex, was interrupted in his
 speeches constantly by opponents who made
 such riot that the police had to be called in. ing. and bombarded with coffee and beans, while live cat was thrown at the orator of
 the occasion. In Lambeth the Conservatives
 spoiled Liberal meeting, and when they met
 the Liberals were present and there was ''ae-
 rious fighting" At Ashton Mir. Mason, the Liberal candidate, was stoned, his carriage
 wrecked and his coachman injured. At Mel ton Mowbray Lord John Manners was pelted
 with eggs filled with gastar ia fight after
 wards took place and Lord John had to re- tire" At Poole some enthusiastic Liberal knocked the Conservative candidate, Mir. Schreiber, senseless with stone as his sup porters were drawing him through the streets. At Derby there was "a terrible scene of riot ing and disorder ; Mr. Collins, the Consery- ativs candidate, and his followers were driven out of the Corn Exchange Hall with chairs and benches, the furniture, scenery and foot lights were destroyed and all the windows smashed At Portadown the Conservatives broke into the Home Rule candidates com mittee room a0d threw his managers "down 0 3ng flight of stairs and into the street, where they were very roughly handled" and smashed the windows of his hotel. At Shsf- field some 20, 900 men assembled at meeting in Paradise square, and such tumult was raised that s'neither MT. Mundella nor MT. Waddy two." At Bristol the platform was stormed and speakers, reporters and all driven out and everything that could be smashed or torn up was destroyed. The only man who seemed to enjoy this sort of work was Sir Stafford Northcote, who when speaking at Hackney said that ''his heart warmed at the sight of such meetiug." The scene reminded him of old times, when meetings were a good deal livelier than at present." and removed n1S IGHTS LuAG &IleI lu0 aOOiltIOu O1 OP6A AoA- nations and hustings speeches Ian election would resemble funeral" 'I must say," he continued, 1T do like good stand-up party fight" but not, he added, without English fair play. AS one of his meetings was after wards broken up and he himself stoned while on his way home his joy must have been full.
 In Scotland the voters have been more II. q, Lo,, bIalS kIa tors most unmercifuly. Anamusing instance of 'ht htckling" occurred in West Aberdeen shire, where Liberal named Mcintosh, whose strong point was foreign politics, made Sir William Forbes ridiculous, as follows:
 Mr. McIntosh-Can you tell us how Bessa- rabia, now made over to Russia, was ruled or governed before the Russo Turkish war?
 Sir William-Bessarabia must have been in B very bad way. Great laughter and hiss ing.)
 Mr McIntosh-Before the war they were a free people?
 Sir William-You mean Be.sarabia; no doubt they were 50. (Great laughter.)
 Mr McIntosh-What do you think of the Salisbury Schouvaloff agreement?
 Sir WAliam-My dear sir, I cannot carry all these questions in my head. (Great laughter aHd hissss) You must allow me, I think, 8 little time I cannot remember the whole of | hese things. I am ready to answer every | question that can. Daughter and cheers l
 MT. McIntosh-The question has been be- fore us for years. (Cheers.)
 Sir William-Very possibly, sir. I don't pretend to have such memory as some peo- ole. Daughter and hissss.)
 The Pal Mall Gazette recently said 'The Americans know we'll that if great multitu- linous constituencies are to be moved coarse
 |. , coarse instrumentalities for affecting public opinion as live cats, eggs filled with gas-tar, Itones, fighting, etc, are fortunately not in common use in this country, and are not con- idered necessities of democracy"