New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-23
LONDON TOPICS.
roprsgrRE POLTTICS -TIE TINES OUI4'AUL
ao"'>~ A REMARKABLE DINNER.

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r.o liberals had allowed themselves to peneEe
~ we're going to elect Mr.. Rowlandson Tor the
r"r,h riding of Yorkshire and their dsappo 'in'h'
ortion 70 their over-San g1iDe expectation.
- .ta roU rs well as during the canvass, tiey !
a az IN n victory One of the Liberal WHIPS |
I~oi,oa \ Telegram yesterday morning, from q To- |
" manager before the declaration OF the result !
..,ssin- ne greatest confidence Of success ms |
..as forwarde.. 10 Mr.. Gladstone, who two hours !
- had 10 be { I'D that the Tory was ID Dy $50
80 Most of the Liberal papers write of the
Socat in tef1us of unusually frank chagrn,
~ the Tory organs bubblng over WIN
srltaton. All this comes from an excess Of nope
s,ross ~, one side and anxiety on the other. For
-, from strictly party point of view, the defeat
ut disaster The Liberals have not lost seat nor
~LnConservatives gained one. Before this confess
he North Riding was represented ID Parliament Dy
o,o Conservative and one Liberal. and 1t Is still
,e,rsseuted by one Liberal aud one Conservative.
Mt Guy Dawnay, who is Tory succeecs Loru
peln,.lev who was also q Tory, aid that is all
prt the matter has more than mere rarity
si.~iGcance. 1t touches the land question:
aud the question whether great landowners are
10 maintain in the future tho political
s,,rre,nacv they have exercised in tho past,
Notl,nr is so remarkable about the contest as the
fact that two If the chief Wing territorial mag
notes Of the divisiou-the Earl of Zetland and the
puke Of Cleveland-went over 70 the enemy, ana
that notwithstanding their detection MI hoWIanu-
son came near winning. 1t is well remarked Oy
The Pail Nail Gazette which almost alone occupies
itself with philosophical politics, and Wulch us
cusses this election from the soclai-pTosIeSS
,oirt Of view, that the last real contest
T. the North Riding IN ls62, Wheh
she Tory won by 466 majority, ana th''' Il IL
1850 the Duke of Cleveland ana the Earl OF let
Ia had supported a Tory, no Liberal
,ronld have dreamed Of dispudng tho seat
Further. Mr.. Guy Dawnay, though nylng
Tory col,rs. found himself obliged to accede 10
IL. evqr,, demand aud take nearly every pledge
evacted OF him by the tenant farmers lie "Oulu
,,+ have had a chance otherwise. The tenant
e,rcere in other words, still follow 10 some extent
,bo POLITICAL lead Of their landlords. Put II is on
codi+,on that their landlords candidate Pr ul'ses
60 DO the farmers bidding.
Liberal managers the spot are, OoAe'e u
oDinion that MI Rowlandson would stu nave "ou
the farmers had had perfect confidence IN lie PRIV
tectiCn-that u.s. IN the absolute secrecy-oI Inc "t
Ii Rnt the ballot Is still novelty, and the WORK
ingof il a mystery 10 those who, IN constituency
where successive compromises have STAYED OF I'll
now t.st struggle have had no means OF Judging
1ybctber or not their landlords knew how Trey
voted Tie screw was put on in the old IasllIon'
and when Il il put on the farmer who votes against
bislandIord rsks his holding if his landlord can
discover how he voted. If lie has no lease out he
,oas within q twelvcuouth. If he holds for a term
of years be must 90 at the expiration OF his tern'
The English farmer knows, as a rule nothing ''''
farming and one kind Of farming. lie has, beside
deem attach ment to the soil on which he was born
and hopes to hand down his farm to his SON. i'
ask him 70 oppose the nominee OF his landlord Is
70 ask him to sacrifice most of what Is worth
most 10 him in life, unless You. can insure
him against his landlords knowing of his oppoSl-
ton. II speaks well for the sturdy independence ana
sslf-rsHance Of the YOrkshremen who, IN spite Oh
pressure and in spite of dstrust recorded their sui
f1age- for one Of their own class. neither Mt
Rowlandson reaped all the advantage he Is sup
rosed 10 have reaped from being himself tenant
farmer is a different question. The English middle
and lower classes have shown often enough that
they have no wish TO abolish the distinctions which
keen others above them or TO elevate one Of their
own number above the heads Of his compeers. IL Is
likely enough that if Mr.. Rowlandson had been an
aristocrat holding opinions equally favorable to the
tenants interests he would have received larger
support than he did
The following paragraph appears in the most con-
spicuous place and type OF this mornings Times:
No mains have been spared by the management IF
this journal to discover the author OF gross out
roge committed BY the int poatiou Of line III the
ereech of Sir William Harcourt reported III our issue
ri Monday last This malicious fabrication was
pttlousy introduced shortly before tho PAPER
Went to press The matter is now under LEGAL in.
vestigaon and it is hoped that the Perpe traitor OF
the outrage VIII be brought to punl mnent
The matter mentioned this paragraph Is
preciselv one of those about which a Of the
world would preserve silence. Any possible refer
ence TO il does but make it worse, if only
b. keeping the topic alive. The inter
polated line is not only absolutely unquorahe,
but iudescribabie-a line Of such gross rbaldry
and physical natUraliSm as even u. lola
would not venture 10 reproduce. 1t appeared be-
heve in no small part Of the edition. On its discov
cry the press was stopped the line Oberated IN the
stereotype plate from which the paper was print
ing and the remainder worked OFT with a blank. So
scarce did the paper in its original state become III
London that guinea copy offered for II III
the course of Monday. 1t is perhaps a still more
striking fact thai all the copies at sone Of the clubs
gcre-wel, let say appropriated, whether by
members servants nobody can say The man
ayers Of the paper took every pains to suppress it.
One hears they telegrapLed to many stations to
meet the newspaper trains which leave London
about 8 every morning, and rush all over 5he King
dom. SO far as provincial supplies within
their control they stopped them They sent round to
the London statiOners and news agents 70 call IN
buy up their copies But as Messrs. w. II. Smith
IL Co. buy the greater part Of the whole impression
their cooperation must have been necessary 10 any
successful attempt. 1t is doubtful how far the at
tempt was successful, though shiliings a copy
said 10 have been gwen for cancelled papers before
the pubic heard anything of the trouble.
The outrage, as The Times rightly describes it,
might have been perperated on any paper, and the
other morning Journals, with one exception. held
their tongues. The Morning Post printed an epi-
gram Of particular wit, to the effect that sir
William Harcourt had raised the prnter's) devil.
MIR. IabOuchere also had on