Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
HAYYONS LETTER.
How Any Man With a Little Pile Can
Become Candidate for the
British Parliament,
The Story Told by Joe Chamberlain.
the Radical Screw Manufac.
turer Of England.
Queen Victoria the Cause of the rrcsecu-
tion OF Editor stend for EiIsa Arm-
strongi Abduction.
Special Correspondence Of tho Gazette.

Il h"hk -h'ohtione
special Correspondence OF tho GaIotte.
THR OLD wARFARK AND TIKI NRw.
LONDON, Dec. The talking is over.
| The lighting has commenced. In some
districts the helllgerent term may be
used In Its technical sense, but on the
whole order Is fairly maintained. In many
places the battle OF the constitution Is
conducted with the greatest good feeling.
Here and there, however, there has been
rioting, and In some OF the colliery and
manufacturing centres IL Is feared that
the declarations of the polls may be at
tended with serious breaches OF the law.
/ In these cases the ordinary police force
will be supplemented by troops conve-
niently placed IN case OF need, but mean.
while not in sight Of the people. Polling
day Is not one general fixture. The time
Is varied, covering about week
or ten days for the entire country.
| For Instance the day OF polling In nv
London district of Marylebone was the
goth of November. My favorite candi-
date in this division was Lord Charles
Bercstord. The voting for Waterford, IN
1 ireland, where friend OF mine is light
Ing, does not take place until the lth of
December, so that II had vote for Wa
terford | should have ample time to ex.
ercse the franchise in both places. In
the early days Of this century the polling
for single constituency lasted many
days. There being no ballot and con-
cealment Of any kind, everybody knew
from day to-day how each clector had
voted and who had yet TO vote. This in
tensiied the excitement and gave to the
contestants all kinds OF openings for
bribery and intimidation. Then there
were flags and banners OF rival colors,
bands of music playing rival tunes, hotels
and public houses belonging for the time
to rival factions, little armies of roughs
imported from other districts 10 maintain
"order" at the rival meetings; and alto.
gether a general election was general
sheol,
-
ANY MAN wrrn $1,000 CAME A CANDIDATE
Even in my time the periodic sensation
OF the election of members of parliament
has been considerably shorn of It's pic
turesque and exciting features When /
was boy we had flags and ribbons
| galore, party bands OF music wearing the
colors OF the candidates they played for,
| professions Of each side, great hustlngs
/ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iANdA AOAtlN ana nllN
open to all Corners who had votes aud
were declared partisans Those were the
days when the victor was "uhaired. -
which means that he was carried round
the city in a grand chair ON the shoulders
OF stalwart men, at the head OF tro-
mcndons procession, and at the concu-
sion OF the day the chair was broken up
into pieces and carried away for relics
In those DAYS candidates who fought the
great county divisions sometimes i'm.
poyerished themselves for life. An
election was then often the out
come of family feuds, the battle
OF rival houses, which WAS fought with
as much Intensity as the real cam
paigns which their ancestors had wagcd
In the medieval days with sword and
spear and batteripg rams and other en-
gines OF war. To-day we are almost down
20 the bedrock OF simplicity as regards
the costs and method OF parliamentary
candidature. Any man who can give the
proper official guarantee of $1,000 for
the legal expenses and ind two electors
10 nominate him can be candidate The
expenses Of printing and advertising have
been so much reduced, the money allowed
as legal for committee rooms Is SO small,
the paid canvassor is abolished, and the
legal costs OF contest are now so fewand
bribery Is made so difficult that any man
Of moderate means may advertise himself
as candidate for parliament. There are
instances where u constituency Itself will
elect man ut their own cost. As II 20
maintain the Scripture axiom that "to
him that hath shall be given" the Blr-
mingham division, for which Joe Cham
berlaln Is standing, insists that his cleo
cha ta,aNts d
very rich mani so they will pay his ex-
penses.
JOE cHAMBERLAIN, TliE PROFESSOR AND
THE MAN WHO ASKED A QUESTION.
Joseph Chamberlain, the great Radical
leader, IL famous screw manufacturer,
and he told curious story the other day
against American protectlon-how his
! firm had been paid a certain large annual
subsidy by protected American 1rm not
TO export certain Of his firms goods 20
America, whereby the American firm was
relieved of outside competition. | don't
| know that this was u very patriotic boast,
but patriotism Is not a strong point with
some OF the self-made men OF the day.
business is bus!neesn isa powerful motto
with them, and many who are free traders
almost TO fanaticism do not think " un-
patriotic or inconsistent 20 build factories
IN protected countries, availing them
selves Of foreign protection and sending
their surplus stock into the free markets
Of their own country. II Is against this
class OF Englishmen that Prof ArmtniHs
VamberY "a famous political econ
Omlst) appeals TO the cleo
tors in letter he has written 70
a friend at sheffield. az don't mix myself
dp in politics,n be says, ''bnt hope the
voters Of England win open their eyes
and send 10 parliament men who have a
sound understanding Of the imperial inter-
ests Of Great Britain, aud who are deter
mined 70 uphold the honor OF the Union
Jack in Asia Thoroughly European and
\ Western as the English are, the future Of
their state lies, strange TO say, IN Aslgtic
soil. II depends greatly upon the perna-
uunoa and uroaUpFftV NJ Vour poinpfea In