The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-05
A DiAPHANOUS EXPLANATION
Sent Out by English Tories to Lesso
the Sting of Defeat.

Sent Out by English Tories to Lesson
the Sting of Defeat.
LONDON, Dec. 5.-The ST. James Gazette
complains that the Radical dodgers have
succeeded i'll securing numerical VIC
tory through the vote OF newly en-
francisco ignoramuses. 1t declares that
the result is triumph for vii
lage ignorance over the voice of the more
inteliigently trained constituents all oven
England. The suicidal folio of such an ar
gument as this needs no pointing out, but il
will doubtless please the old-time Tories who
are the sole patrons of The Gazette.
The Carlton club has sent forth circular
advising Tories to explain their defeat az
follows: ''Thc victories of the Liberals in
the earlier county elections disturbed Par
nell's plans He feared that, despite his aid
TO the Tories, the Liberals would obtain
majority which would make them indepen-
dent of him Therefore he sought to
hedge. Ho sent letters to the Liberals
standing for the remaining county di-
visions, offering to swing the Irish vote
over to them If they would give
pledges to advocate and vote for home rule
OF Ireland The candidates. flushed with
the victories thus far achieved by Liberals,
declined the bait. The Irish electors were
left uninstructcd as to how they would vote,
and they did not vote at all. Thus, the
Carlton club claims, Mr.. Parnell avenged
himself on tho Tory party for the alleged
bad faith which the Tories displayed toward
him at Liverpool The new Parnellite
leaders now in London all agree that the
statement is another Tory lie and declare
that it has not even the merit of ingenuity
The Liberals are shriekinS with delight
over the defeat of Sir Matthew W. Ridley
in the Hexham division of Northumberland.
Sir Matthew was the political secretary OF
the home department in the Lord Beacons
field government, and was the man, desig-
mated by the Tory leaders, when they
doomed their success certain to be the
speaker of the next house Of commons
Now he will not be even mem
her of the house unless some warm
ing pan member can be induced
to resign a seat in his favor.
The Liberal campaign is being conducted
with more vigor and dash as the end APP
proaches. The Liberal orators frequently
refer to the tramp Of the two milion,'
meaning the new voters who We're enfran-
chised by the Liberal party. favorite
song at Liberal meetings Is u parody on
1.-THE Campbell's Are Coming" Its chorus
begins, "The COMMITTEES are coming, heigh no!
heigh hol'
The excitement caused by the closeness of
the elections is tremendous -Four deaths
from excitement caused by politics are re-
ported. Riots are the order of the day.
Mr.. Charsley, the defeated Tory candidate
against Baron T.othchild in the Aylesbury
division of Bucks, lies dying at local hotel
from injuries received at the hands of mob.
Twenty residences of Tories and the
two chief hotels at Radstock, Somerset, have
been destroyed Scores of citizens and po-
licemen have been injured at Worthing,
where the police were stoned. Fifty cas-
ualties are reported at Wilton. The sue
cessful Liberal candidate there was beaten
black and blue, only by the aid of All es
cort of sixty policemen battling their way
to the station did he escape being throw
into the river
The returns up to 3 o'clock Friday show
that 273 Liberals, 2l5 Conservatives and 80
Nationalist have been returned