El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-28
HOW THE PARTIES
FIGHT.
A mud SINGING" CAMPAIGN
X-The English Elections

, of highwayman. Robbery. Effective
plumber. Confiscation. Positive brig
Z andage. Progressive and cumulative
! plumber An act Of financial slaughter
! A nightmare. A tremendous scheme of
plumber and confiscation. A profligate
impOsture- A scheme of despotic plum
/ der. A colossal sham
And then the editorial concluded with
/ this apology: I'VE feel the utter made
quacy OF words to convey due sense
OF the magnitude Of this issue"
| This same newspaper, so wrought up
about the tax which would raise the
! price OF the poor mans beer, stOutIy
/ advocates the imposition of a duty Of
seven cents a bushel on wheat Gin the
| interests of the empire"
! German Scare Worked.
The Conservative party continually
/ attacked the Liberals for their alleged
/ failure to keep the British navy up to
the two-pOwer standard in the face Of
the German naval expansion program
The Conservative leaders declared on
every stump that there was no doubt
| but that Germany was preparing to
make war on England, and that the
Liberals would not and could not meet
/ the grave issue.
| Undoubtedly, there is grave reason
to fear hostilities between these two
| nations, but the way in which the Ger
man scare was worked in the campaign
| would have disgraced an American
political party.
The Liberals, in reply, used the word
| Thar" with great freedom, and accused
the Conservatives Of deliberately at
tempting TO bring about war so that the
! landlords might not be forced TO give
up some Of their unearned wealth to
help support the nation Mr.. Lloyd
George, who was far and away the
of the campaign, whether he was right
! or wrong, said the German scare was
used in the same way that American
! politicians used to twist the Lions tail
| and wave the bloody shirt, but that in
| America such methods were no longer
permitted.
American Campaign Points.
| Indeed, Lloyd George frequently came
, to America for campaign points. He
compared the attacks made upon him
| to those upon Roosevelt, and said the
attempt Of the financiers to place the
blame for the panic on Roosevelt had
failed even as the attempt OF the same
people to blame him for driving capital
out of the country would fail.
The strenuous campaign methods Of
the great leaders we're initiated all
down the line. Several candidates for
parliament left the speakers stand TO
faith? and scores and scores of public
meetings ended in free fights
"Mud Singing" Contest.
| For that rare dignity which so marks
| the British nation, the contest between
| Mr.. Hay and DR.. Addison for an East
| London seat, was remarkable One set
| Of placards remarked in big red letters
doc. Addsson's pills cure Hay fever"
The insult was too patent to be ignored.
and the Hay partisans cOuntered with
| blue poster appealing: Don't vote for
! Addison. He makes a living by cutting
| I'D dead mems bodies and live mems
stomachs-''
This was regarded as an insult TO
the medical profession, and almost
| everybody who could beg, borrow or
| steal a scrap Of paper and a pencil
| wrote a letter to The Times" about II.
! Personal peculiarities, family scan
dals private Quarrels, all manner OF
things which in the United States are
the signs of "mud-slinging contest"
were employed during the campaign,
| but never was there any protest against
the methods of campaigning Each side
accused the other of lying and Of mud
singing and of all kinds of crimes and
misdemeanors, but there was no gen.
eral and non-partisan protest, and each
side excused and condoned the offenses
! Of its partisans.
Americans Are Bested.
| It probably is not possible to con-
duct a holly contested campaign with
out more or less mud-slinging, but
Americans may feel sure that their
British cousins have them bested when
| it comes to lively election mix-up.
Two thirds of the election literature
sent out by both parties in this cam
paign could not be used in the United
States for the simple reason that such
stuff would react upon the party which
distributed it.
The British campaign excitement
does not stop with calling each other
liars. Scores of speakers were bonn
barded with brick-batS, more than one
speaker was assaulted with ancient
eggs, one candidate was shot at, and
several noble lords had to escape by
| the back way to keep out of trouble
| Two young girls. canvasSing votes for
their father, were assaulted with volleys
| of eggs and stale vegetables AS the
campaign came to a close everybody
was calling everybody else liar.
Tomorrow-How the Newspapers
Fight.