Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-04
TORY SWELLS ARE
TO GET NEW JOBS
"HEE-HAW" BRIGADE MUST
RETURN TO CALLING
Great Change In House-Refreshmen
Plan Must Be Altered to Meet
the Purses Of the New
Members

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, Feb. 3.-Nothing in tn
British elections is more striking thai
the virtual extinction of the band o
young tory swells known as "Hee
Haw" brigade The man about tow
who fiourished politically under the lat
regime, now reverts to his proper avo
cation. The new house of commons will
be- composed predominantly of the pro
fessional, business and working classes
The popular element has come In lik'
81 deluge and It's advent must lead tC
q revolution in the British parliament
internal economy.
The first business of the new kitcher
committee will be to revise the refresh
ment tariff to suit the slender purses
of the great mass OF the new members
Not Enough Seats in House
The mere physical question of finding
adequate seating accommodation in the
commons chamber for the two sides
present insuperable difficulties. There
are $40 members and the house can only
seat about $50 on each side, whereas
there will be about 3S5 Liberals alone
looking for seats on the ministerial
benches. The Irish, numbering about
twenty-six, independent labor men,
bers. and $50 Unionists will sit in op-
position with ample space to spare.
Former Premier Balfour's friends say
he has aged ten years since his defeat
and that nothing can relieve his de-
preston nor divert his mind from con-
temptation of the humiliation that has
overtaken him. At first he was inclined
to abandon political life, but when he
was reminded that this would leave
Joseph Chamberlain in undisputed con-
troll of the Unionist party his resent
ment overcame his despair. He Will be
returned for the city of London without
contest, but he must wait to take his
seat until the new parliament is In the
full possession of it's functions. Then he
will be introduced by two sponsors as a
new member. thus emphasizing the Bit
ter fact of his original failure to Sc
cure reelection.
Tory Party Torn by Dissension
The small remnant of the tory party
Is literally stunned by the unparalleled
magnitude Of its defeat and more than
ever is torn by internal dissensions.
The fiscal Gariff) question is power
less to rehabilitate itself. The struggle
for mastery between Balfour and
Chamberlain will now be renewed. But
the most staggering fact of all for the
tories emerging from this phenomenal
workingman has been wholly captured
by the Laborites and the Liberals and
has come to realize his power. In the
opinion of all experienced political OBJ
servers nothing short of some stu
pendous political blunder or q vital in
ternecine feud can deprive the Liberals
OF power for two septennial periods.
Some of the Participants in Fight
brothers named Phillips, all between 6
feet 2 inches and feet 3 inches tall.
Sir George Newnes, the owner of the
Strand Magazine, and his son, Frank
NeWnes, are both elected. So are Lei
cester Harmsworth and Cecil Harms
worth. These two are Liberals. An
other brother, Hildebrand, was defeated
as a tory. r. C. Lehman, contribu-
tor to Punch and IL noted amateur Ok
ford rowing coach, who went over to
America one year to coach the Harvard
crew in the English rowing methods,
was defeated as a radical. Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle. thorough-going Cham
berlainite, met his fourth defeat in
Hawickburghs. A. T.. w. Mason, the
novelist, will be the Liberal member
Tor Coventry. The house membership
jncludes three O'Connors, three
O'Briens, three ODonnels and two
O'Kelleys.
The anti-tory revolution has spared
no tradition. Sir William Hart-Dyke
whose forty-three unbroken member
ships made him the Father of the
House of Commons was rejected by
"A big majority. So was Henry Chap
lin, who had represented Lincolnshire
thirty-eight years. And for the first
time in four centuries Monmouthshire
has refused to return a member Of the
Morgan family.
Society Also Stunned
Smart society here has been paralyzed
by CONSERVATION and disgust at the
political upheavals. Twenty years of
almost unbroken tory rule gave the
great tory houses a monopoly of court
officers and influence which this long
usage led them to regard as theirs by
prescription. All the great American
heiresses in the set (with perhaps the
solitary exception of Walter Ii. Burns
daughter, who married Lewis V. Har-
courD had been snapped up by tory
peers. Therefore these ladies, Consuelo.
duchess of Manchester; the duchess Of
Marlborough, the duchess of Rox-
burghe, the countess of Essex, the
countess of Donoughmore and the
countess of Craven find themselves out
in the cold with the party to which
their husbands belong.
They will still go to court, of course,
but court functions will no longer be
managed by their political friends.
Some of the tory ladies in their anger
proposed TO boycott the London sea-
sen. so that the country might note
the social weakness of the Liberals,
But word came from King Edward
that he would regard any such scheme
as personal affront, which intimation
effectually Killed the proposition.