The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-07
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Nowhere do the American and English people differ more strikingly than in thelr manner of electing the only two truly representative legislat tive bodies of any importance in the evolution of gov ernment This nation in the course of l4 hours swiftly, easily, almost silently, mas Just determined for at least two years the political complexion of it's most representative body. On tbe other nahu, Tor the past year the British people have been arguing and voting hefe and there in scattered districts as 10 who shall represent them in the House Of Commons. Thus the Commons represents Tn very strong way even as 10 the method and manner of it's crea ton the slow-going, conservative nature or the Brush people. While in a single day this broad country elects nearly A thousand members of Congress. In Greaf Britain each little district has it's own specially chosen time of election which may vary at any point within year before the new Parliament Is due to assemble.
 Again, the House of Commons is re- elected but once in seven years. The personnel of the new British Parliament is getting to be one of extreme. interest. large number of new faces which give promise of filling permanent posts on the British political horizon have been returned from the various bor- oughs. The older members. whose faces are thoroughly familiar to the Ameri- can public. are naturally the ruling fac tors in the new Parliament; but this article will give the faces and character istics of those new men who seem to stand out strilingly from the ordinary level or the new NJ P.s. For the first time in 50 years the British parlia- mentary election has had an actual live issue, aside from the Irish question, in connection with other than foreign poli- tics. Curously enough this election has presented the spectacle of a political fight in which the central figure has been a dominating individual belonging strictly to neither of the two factions. A man who by the sheer force of his per sonality. dominating influence and an ln- tense conviction. has stood alone as the real factor in the battle, although dis owned by both the contestng parties and publicly disavowed by the leading spirits in each of these hostile political camps.
 Chamberlain the True Issue.
 The world knows thoroughly 5f Joseph Chamberlain of Birmingham, who has practically been the point a issue be- tween the Liberal and the Conservative government The demand of Mir Cham. berlain that Prime Minister Balfour ac- cept his scheme of preferential tariffs. which should bind together into com mercial unity Great Britain and her colonies. and bar out the markets of the British world to the goods of the other commercial nations, particularly Germany and the United States. having been declined. the Birmingham states. man, than whom no more interesting or determined figure now plays a part on the worlds stage. attempted to disrupt his own party, withdrew from MT Bal tours cabinet, and has charged up and town the tight little Isle of Great Brit tour the country, making speeches in favor of abandoning the Panama Canal. He would then be in the position of op- 2osing the leader of his party. and yet