Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
CAMPAIGNING IN ENGLAND.
They Take Good Care of Public Men
IabOuchere On the Lords.

They Take Good Care of Public Men
Inboucherc On the Lords.
r. p Porter in the Philadelphia Press.
In my conversation with Lord Rosclery
at Bradford some weeks ago he said Amer
leans cat too fast. This, with our dry. in
MIGRATING climate, he continued, together
With the habit OF not taking time for
everything, and Of carrying on such tre-
mendcus campaigns as Mr.. Depew. Gov
erncr Mckinley and Senator Hill had just
gone through, must play havoc with health
and bring on premature age. They are
much more deliberate in England. The
Sherness meeting was for o'clock When
we arrived in the town the hall was crowd
ed. Nearly all the seats had been re-
moved. Hundreds we're clamoring for ad-
mission outside.
Did Mr.. Labouchere rush madly to the
hall?
Oh, no!
We all went to cozy little inn and there
in a snug private parlor, with a cheerful
fire blazing in the crate. found round
table with a fresh white cloth set for
four. The silver, the knives the glasses
were Of the best quality. It looked home
like and restful. Each of the party was
shown to a bed room, clean and comforta-
BILE, with plentiful supply of hot water.
Then We dined quietly and without in
terruption. 1t was a simple dinner--soup,
fish, delicious joint, apple tart, cheese
and coffee. There was 40 boiling of food
in a public dining hall and getting up to
shake hands and be introduced to strangers
as 1 once experienced in similar trip
through Ohio with Governor Mckinley.
They take good care Of public men here.
After dinner smoke and then we all
proceeded to the hall.
Meantime the audience had been amused
and entertained with music and singing.
TIRE mendous applause broke forth when
troduced with a few appropriate words
by the chairman, Mr.. Labouchere, with
hardly any preface and certainly no display
Of oratory. began the speech which had
been awaited by those assembled with
such patience and interest. He wished
them to understand he was an ultra and
devout radical. The house Of lords was
rotten branch Of legislation and ought
magic words MY lord' had charms
for him. The way to abolish them was
to create a sufficient number of new radi-
cal lords to vote the house of lords out of
existence. 1t had been urged that this
was not practical because they would not
after being made peers keep their word.
He would agree to furnish 500 good, honest
shoemakers from Northampton, bring them
to London and personally underwrite
every one OF them.
This tickled the audience immensely and
the applause and laughter was loud and
prolonged. The hit of the evening came in
what follows: Turning 10 me Mr.. Labou-
chare said:
America, my friend Mr. Porter will
doubtless '.sl: tel tell you' manages to rub along
A voice-"But American ladies marry
them, Mr.. Labouchere."
Then followed the most deafening ap-
plause and laughter. 1t was some min
utes before the speaker was able to re-
sumo his speech. Then he said:
LAS you say, they marry them, and for
my part / wish they would marry the
whole blessed lot and take them over to
America. But, If these noble lords have, as
fS>yery possible, children in America. thew
won't make lords of them there. The
Americans will take very good care of
thatp' This was greeted with renewed
roars of laughter and applause.