Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-08-14
FUN IN ELECTIONS.
-AuohABlE INCIDENTS IN THE RE-
CENT BRITISH CAMPAIGN.

Colonel North on Deceased Wives Sis
tsrs--John Burns Besents an Epithet.
What Causes Drunkenness.
A scat In parliament as a wedding pres.
ent IN novel departure md ono Of the
many Incidents which go 10 relieve the BIT
terness " tho present English electoral
contest Tho Hon. George Allsopp was the
Cnionist candidate In the city Of Worces-
ter. He had arranged To bc married In
London on Wednesday, and the chivalrous
mayor Of Worcester fixed upon the Monday
preceding the wedding as the polling day.
Mr. Allsopp's popularity and the moving
picture Of his bride In tears on her mar
riage day were too much for the susccpti-
BILE hearts Of the voters Of Worcester, and
when Mr.. Ailsopp took his bride to church
two days later he was member Of parlia-
ment elected by IA handsome majority.
Politics and love may combine but 10
would seem from tho Rev. Robert Thorn
sons experiment that politics and religion
will not mix. This divine announced him
self AS an Independent candidate for ono
Of the divisions Of Glasgow. He held his
election meetings In his own church and
put I'D. "" (Dco yolente-God willing)
prominently In his invitations TO the vot-
ers IL Is said that he inserted the same
letters I'm the manuscript Of an address
which he had printed, but the prOofreader,
thinking that ID. V. should be In small
capitals, put the letters IS. c." (small
capitals) In the margin for the printers
guidance The latter misunderstood, how
ever, and substituted "S. c." The address
appeared I'm this way, and his opponents mt
once declared that the letters meant Satan
consenting."
A bill making 1t lawful for man to
marry his deceased wifes sister has long
been matter OF parliamentary dispute.
Colonel North, the nitrate king, In u recent
speech at West Leeds expressed his views
of it by saying, "If my deceased wife's sis
| ter was as good as my wife, l should like
| to have her and should wish TO have the
| law altered"
Some one In the audience next asked him
how he got his vast wealth. He answered
| that 1t had been gained by hard work. He
| got up at half past In the morning and
worked until half past in the evening for
| years. Then no went abroad and had com
mon sense and happened to strike the right
| place. "When you've got 1t, he added,
"you want to know how to keep it," To
| the question, "Are you in favor of work
r ingmen as members sitting in the house OF
| workingmany' which was received with q
| burst of applause
Colonel North's remarks about his de-
ceased wife's sister just escaped being as
| unintentionally funny as what Mr.. Archi-
| bald Grove, the Radical candidate for
| North West Ham, announced as his wish.
England Is paradise for the rich and a
hell for the poor" he shouted at an cleo
| ton meeting. Then he took breath and
added, "Gentlemen, want to reverse those
conditions" The prolonged laughter
| which followed awoke Mr.. Grove to the
meaning of his words, and he spent the
next five minutes in explaining what he
| meant
Sir Wilfred Lawson, addressing a crowd
cd company In the Bath theater, asked,
"Gentlemen, what Is the cause Of drunk
enness?' Drink" promptly responded
one of his hearers, thereby causing the
speaker to almost lose his self possession.
| Political excitement, like charity, seems
to cover multitude Of sins, In east Lon
don especially. Carried away by enthusi-
asm and alcohol, one Fred Jones was in
duced to hustle Mr.. Wootton Isaacson, a
candidate, and to take fancy for Mr.
Isaacson's fine diamond scarfpin. Jones
was arrested, and before the magistrate he
pleaded that the political crisis and the
J drink had got the better of him. He was
allowed to go free with the caution from
the justice that he had better keep away
from political meetings If he could not at
tend them without being tempted.
If presidential candidate In the United
States should be rotten egged and cabbaged
| by mob Mt election time, 1t would cause
pages Of comment, yet that sort of thing is
SO frequent in English politics that 1t
! seems to excite little notice. One London
paper devotes ten lines to telling how Sir
william and Lady Harcourt were driving
home in an open carriage the other even
ing after having attended meeting and
how, passing through one of the rough
quarters of Derby, they were bcset by a
mob, who showered them with eggs, cab
bages, tuffets OF grass and other rubbish.
Mr.. John Burns severely chastised Mr..
William Sawyer for having called him a
"Battersea cough drop" and Mr. Burns
was arrested. The court finally decided
that to be called "Battersea cough DROP
was undoubtedly grave provocation, and
| he therefore discharged the prisoner.
| . At election time every voter is besct by
scores Of canvassers. One freeholder was
| the following notice on his gate: "The
| proprietor is not at home. Any visitors
| will be received by tho dog. He Is not on
| the register, but he can howl as we'll as
| any platform speaker, and his bite Is worse
| than his bark. Will canvassers who call
kindly oblige by being fat menf The dog
| is fond of n cut from the leg and is partial
to 'plumpers.