The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-29
HOME RULE REVIVAL.
Great Victory for Cladston-
ianism in an Important
English Constituency.
DIRECT Is~uE RAISE
Liberal Wins Where q Tory Won
at the Last Eleclion-Plat-
forms Of the Candidates.

tBy Cable to The Associated rress.J
LONDON. Sept. 20, IS97.-The result Of
the election yesterday in the East Divis-
ion of D~enbignshire, for d Memher OF
Parliament to succeed the late Right
Hon. Sir George Osborne Morgan, Bart,
Liberal, deceased, is a Liberal victory
with an increased majority.
The polling was as foilows:-
Mr.. Samuei Moss, LIBERAL. .....,.... 5,114
The Hon. George T.. kenyon. Con-
....... ,... ...-.... 1,o4o
Liberal majority ........ ........ :. 2,s2s
AT the last general election, Sir George
Morgan, Liberal, poiled 4,s9s votes, and
Mr.. H. s. /. Raikes, Conservative, polled
3, HIS votes. a majority of LISA for the
Liberal candidate. Consequently Mr..
Moss is elected with an increase in the
Liberal majority of 543 votes.
Mr.. Moss. who Is a lawyer by profess
sion and a resident of Rossett, in his
address to the electors, of whom there
are 1913 in 81 polling districts, about 5000
Of them being engaged in agricultural
pursuits and the remainder in industrial
mostly coilieries, declared he
was prepared to give loyal adherence to
the policy of the last Liberal Govern
ment. he explained that. i k their old
leader, Mr.. Gladstone, he placed implicit
faith in q union of hearts cemented by
proper concessions to the reasonable de-
mards of either Welsh, Irish or Scotch
N~afionalists, as expressed by their law
fully constituted representatives"
Continuing, Mr.. Moss said that for this
reason such q measure of Home Rule for
Ireland as would satisfy the just aspira-
lions of the Irish people and which would
also ensure the safety and integrity of
the Empire would have his hearty sup
port. For the same reason, but also as a
Welshman and a non-cenformist, he
deemed it the imperative duty of the next
Liberal Government to establish perfect
religious equality for all in the eye of
the State. To effect this, among other
changes, here must be the d~isestablish-
ment and abandonment of the State
established Church in Wales, the placing
of all schools receiving State aid under
direct popular. control and that mar
riages in nol-conformist places of wor-
ship should ha1e just the same force,
through the COMPULSORY attendance of the
Registrar as marriages inthe State
Church
Referring to the eight hours bill, which
is a matter of great concern to the work
ing classes throughout Great Britain, Mr..
Moss SAID it would receive his cordial
support.
Among the other reforms which Mr..
Moss advocated as being urgently needed
in the interests Of the working classes,
Uara stnna rs a :, ON vota an altarot;on ~
the present system of registration, and
the payment of the returning officers
charges out of the rates, thus Facilitating,
where necessary. the return of labor can
didates."
AS to local government, Mr.. Moss an
noaHced thai he would gladly see the ex-
isting powers of the County Council much
extended. especially in purely local affairs
Touching upon the interests of the
farmers, Mr.. Moss ~nnounce his inten-
ton Of supporting the recommendations
of the minority report of the Welsh Land
Commission.
The new Member of Parliament for East
Donbighshire is in favor of reforming
the House of Lords. He admits the wis
dom of a Second Chamber and of its veto
power; but he is OF the opinion that
this Second Chamber should be either di-
rectly or Indirectly elective n repre-
sentative of the will of the people.
Mr.. Moss during his campaign severely
condemned the policy of Lord S~aliSbury's
government. He declared its foreign
policy will ever be condemned and that it
mas done but little better in home legis-
Iation, asserting that by the Agricultural
Rates Act it had robbed the towns to
please the country, holding that by its
Voluntary Schools Act it robbed the tax
payers to please the clergy, and claiming
that by It's Werkmen's Compensation Acr
fed neither the employers nor the en-
pIoyes.
MIR Kenyon, the defeated candidate, in
his electioneeripg address, announced
Lord Salisbury IA the Unionist Party
the cordial yet independent support
which he had previously accorded them,
explaining, however, that there are many
matters of tine deepest interest to Welsh
men which are not sufficiently studied OF
Understood by the leading statesmen OF
either political party, and in his treat
ment Of these questions he asked to
be allowed TO exercise his own Judgment,
claiming, for instance, that the neglect
of those subjects has given a fictitious
Importance to h cry of Home Rule for
Wales, and that no real desire exists
for such a sweeping measure II only the
attachment of her children to their ma
tional objects and aspirations is allowed
to Eave fair play.
In appealing for the Of this
farmers, Mr.. Kenyon said the report OF
the Welsh Commission on Land, though
II completely absolved the landlords from
they were ulljustly exposed, yet disclosed
some points Of hardships under which thu
sitting tenant and the small freebooter
stu isbored,a Therefore, IN the opinioI
wise policy to remove these grievances
and he would be willing. If elected, to in