Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-02
ELECTION RIOTS
IN ENGLAND
MODS ATTACK CHURCHILL AT
COLCHESTER WITH FISH
AND EGGS.
WAGfNG FIGHT AGAINST LORDS
Suffragists Interrupt Asquith and Are
Ousted.-lrish Unionists Think
Home Rule Will Precipitate
Strife.

Strife.
Colchester, Nov. 30.-Riotous scenes
attended the appearance here of Win
ston Spencer Churchill, the home sec
rotary. Thousands congregated in the
streets, jeering and shouting. Many
of them gathered around Mr.. Chur-
chilfs carriage, at which they threw
fish, eggs and other missiles. Many
Of the windows in the Liberal head
quarters were smashed. A large
draft of police was sent out to patrol
the streets, the authorities fearing
cOunter-demonstrations.
Dublin, Nov 30.-The United Irish
league met John E. Redmond presid-
ing, and issued q manifesto similar to
that Of No. 23, in which the house of
lords was Ccnounced in the most Sc
we're terms. Nh Redmond spoke at
the mansion house. He declared that
neither Great Britain nor Ireland
could get home rule until the power
Of the peers was destroyed.
Suffraqists Thrown Out.
Reading, Nov. 80. - Mr.. Asquith's
meeting was disturbed frequently by
suffragist sympathizers, the majority
OF whom were thrown out.
Mr.. Asquith tainted the lords with
becoming so alive to the urgent neces-
sity of reconstruction that they had
produced the specifications of an en-
tirely new chamber in one week, after
an unbroken slumber of many years.
If the Tories came into power, tariff
reform, for which he could not say
there was a mandate in this election,
would be adopted without referen-
dunn.
All Leaders Keyed Up.
London, Nov. 30-The politicians of
all parties are strain1ng every nerve
to crowd into a few days the work
which in ordinary elections is spread
over weeks or months. Nearly all the
heavy guns are in action.
Arthur ]. Balfour, leader of the OPP
position in the house of commons, be-
fore a big meeting in Albert hall,
where he warmly supported the refer
endum, described the government as
puppets, dancing to the tune of John
Redmond and his American paymas-
ters The prime minister, Mr.. AS
Quith, spoke at Reading, Chancellor
Lloyd-George at Cardiff; John e. Red
mond, leader of the Nationalists, at
Dublin; Winston Spencer Churchill,
home secretary, at Colchester; Angus
tine Birrell, chief secretary for Ire
land, at Bristol; John Burns, president
Of the local government board, at Bat
tersea, and Austen Chamberlain at
Ashton.
The issues are narrowing daily. The
Conservatives make much of the men
ace of home rule. They proclaim that
the plan of the Liberals for the re-
form of the house of lords means a
single chamber government and put to
the front their new policy of referen-
dunn. There is great fervor among the
Liberals, feature being the sudden
reforming zeal on the part of the
lords, who claim that Lansdowne's
referendum scheme is a snare, be-
cause the parties would be uneQually
yoked together under it. That the
Conservative measures would always
sail smoothly through the house of
lords, while the referendum would be
| invoked only for Liberal bills which
were distasteful to the peers. More
over, they estimate the cost of each
appeal to the people as $10,000,000.
Split on Tariff Reform.
An interesting fractional cleavage
has occurred in Balfours party over
tariff reform. The Spectator, which
is the spokesman of the Unionist free
traders, has proposed that the tariff
reformers pledge themselves to sub
nit the question to a referendum if
the party wins, it not being a leading
issue of the campaign. The most
ardent tariff reformers, led by the
Morning Post, contend that it is the
foremost principle of the party. 1.-THE
Unionist party breaks into fragments, -
says the Post, eff a Unionist victory
does not mean tariff reform"
The Irish Unionists sent a message
of defiance to Home Rulers to Mr.. Bal
tours meeting and Populations from
the non-conformist unionist association
of England and 600 ministers of non
Episcopal churches in Ireland have ad-
dressed Mr.. Balfour in opposition to
home rule.
The reading of the message from the
Irish Unionists at Albert Hall caused
much enthusiasm. I'm all solemnity,' u
said the message, Eve now declare
that home-rule will bring Ireland not
peace, but the sword. 49, s;-~