Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11

| the size of THE DISPATCH in the front win
| dows of his house, In order that the neigh
bors and passers-by may know with which
political party he is associated.
| suburbs these plscards in the windows of
Dozens of them can be counted in any street
! in suburban London. On some streets there
/ are q half dozen houses together In the win
dows of every one of which there is one of
these placards All classes of people dis
play them They are to be seen in detached
villas renting at from G100 to 9160-a high
rental for suburban London-and in the
| windows of tenement houses occupied by
the humber class of working people, who
j pay 8 or 10 shillings per week for three
or four rooms The effect in some of the
politics of the occupiers are of different
complexiona
PIacards Displayed in the windows
A Tory placard is frequently to be seen
in one window and q Home Rule placard in
the window Immediately above On some
of the streets in the nearer suburbs, where
house renting for s70 per annum is occu-
pied by two families, it frequently happens
that one family displays the Tory colors in
its room windows while the second family
exhibits those Of the Liberals. :
There is another noteworthy feature
about the electioneering literature now on
the walls and boardings of London. The
placards and addresses emanating from the
Conservatives and Unionists show how COM
pletely the Conservatives have adopted not
only the planks of former Liberal plat
forms, but also the battle-cries of the Lib
eral party of ten years ago One of the divi-
sions Of st. Pancras Is placarded with Tory
bills calling upon the electors to vote for
"R G. Webster and Peace, Retrenchment
and Reform"
Less than ten years ago 'peace, retrench-
ment and reform was the battle cry of the
old school of Radicals-of the party which
was represented in the House of Commons
by the late Mr.. John Bright and the late
Mr.. Peter Rylands, and which was repre-
sented in the Parliament which expired
Yesterday by men like Mr.. Illingworth, of
Bradford, the late Mr. Dillwyn, Of Swansea,
and Mr.. j. A. Pictou, of Leicester. When
this party was power in English politics
and its standard was rallying point for the
electors of towns like Manchester. Birming-
ham, Bradford, Leicester and Rochdale, a
Conservative candidate at a Parliamentary
election would as soon have thought of
stealing his opponents watch or of forging
his name as OF stealing the Radical battle
cry of "peace, retrenchment and reform"
Meetings at the Street Corners.
Yet this has been done quite openly
in other places besides St. Pancras during
the present election, and has occasioned no
outcry. A midsummer general election has
one advantage for Londoners 1t admits of
large number Of electioneering meetings
being held in the open air. This circum-
stance in itself tells somewhat to the ad-
vantage of the Gladstonians. It saves
money which would otherwise 60 in the
rent of halls, and allows a candidate pro-
portionately larger fund for postal ex-
penses, for the distribution of campaign
literature, and also for advertising.
In the long summer evenings, when it Is
light until 9 o'clock, it also enables the can
didate to attend in one evening two or three
meetings convened at street corners and
other open spaces most convenient to the
electors he desires to reach. London
electors do not turn out in great numbers
for political meetings of any kind. During
the present election no massmeeting has
been held anywhere in the metropolis at
which more than 10000 people were pres
ent The biggest electioneering crowds
were seen in Fleet street on the nights
when the bulletins were being received at
the newspaper offices.
There is much less machinery and organi-
zation about an English political meeting
than there is about political massmeet-
ing in America The organization is sim
pie in the extreme.
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