Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-08-28
BRITISH ELECTIONS.
Incidents and Anecdotes in the
Recent Campaign.
A BRIDES TEARS WIN OVER VOTES
Col. North on Deceased Wives Sisters
John Burns Resents an Epithet-
What Causes Drunkenness.
A BRIDES TEARS WIN OVER VOTES

A seat in Parliament as a wedding
present is novel departure. and one
of the many incidents which go to re-
lieye the bitterness of the present Eng
lish electoral contest. The Hon. George
Allsopp was the Unionist candidate in
the city of Worcester. He had arranged
to be married in London on Wednes-
day, and the chivalrous Mayor of Wor-
cester fixed upon the Monday preced-
ing the wedding as the polling day.
Mr.. Allsopp's popularity and the mov-
ing picture of his bride in tears on her
marriage day were too much for the
susceptible hearts of the voters of Wor-
oester, and when Mr.. Allsopp took his
bride to church two days later he was
Member of Parliament, elected by
handsome majority.
Politics and love may combine, but
it would seem from the Rev. Robert
Thomsons experiment that politics
and religion will not mix. This divine
announced himself as an independent
candidate for one of the divisions Of
Glasgow. He held his election meet.
ings in his own church, and put I'D.
"" ("Deo volente: God Willingly
prominently in his invitations to the
voters. 1t is said that he inserted the
same letters in the manuscript of an
address which he had printed, but the
proofreader, thinking that DIV. should
be in small capitals. put the letters
rs. c." (small oapitals) in the margin
for the printers guidance. The latter
misunderstood, however, and substi-
tuted IS. c." The address appeared
in this way, and his opponents at once
declared that the letters meant "Satan
consenting."
A bill making it lawful for a man
to marry his deceased wife's sister has
long been matter of Parliamentary
dispute. Col. North, the nitrate king,
in recent speech at West Leeds ex-
pressed his views of it by saying: 'If
my deceased wife's sister was as good
as my wife, l should like to have her,
and should wish to have the law
altered.
him how he got his vast wealth. He
answered that it had been gained by
hard work. He got up at half-past five
in the morning and worked until half
past five in the evening for years.
Then he went abroad, and had COM
mon sense and happened to strike the
right place. "When you've got it, 4"
he added, "you want to know how to
keep it," To the question: care you
in favor of workingmen as members
sitting in the House of Commons?" he
replied: "What am but working
man?' which was received with burst
of applause.
Col. North's remarks about his de-
ceased wife's sister just escaped being
as unintenionally funny as what Mr..
Archibald Grove, the Radical candi-
date for North West-Ham, announced
as his wish. England is paradise
for the rich and hell for the poor,
he shouted at an election meeting.
Then he took breath and added: Gen
tlemen, want to reverse those condi-
tions." 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
crowded company in the Bath Theatre,
asked: Gentlemen, what is the cause
of drunkenness?' Drink" promptly
responded one of his hearers, thereby
causing the speaker to almost lose his
elf-possession.
Political excitement, like charity,
seems to cover multitude of sins, in
East London, especially. Carried
away by enthusiasm and alcohol. one
Fred Jones was induced to hustle Mr..
Wootton Isaacson, candidate, and to
take fancy for Mr.. Isaacson's fine
diamond scarf pin. Jones was arrested,
and before the magistrate he pleaded
that the political crisis and the drink
had got the better of him. He was
allowed to 60 free with the caution
from the justice that he had better
keep away from political meetings if he
could not attend them without being
tempted.
II Presidential candidate in the
United States should be rotton. egged
and cabbaged by mob at election time
it would cause pages of comment. yet
that sort of thing is so frequent in
English politics that it seems to excite
little notice. One London paper de-
votes ten lines to telling how Sir Will
liam and Lady Harcourt were driving
home in an open carriage the Other
evening. after having attended meet
ing, and how. passing through one o.
the rough quarters of Derby. they
were beset by mob who showereS
them with eggs, cabbages. tufts o
grass and other rubbish.
Mr.. John Burns severely chastlset
Mr.. William Sawyer for having calle'
him "Battersea coughdrop. and Mr.