Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-04
ISL ecial correspondence )

= ONDON May 26.--Much more
stringent Is the law against brib-
cry and corruption at elections
In the United Kingdom than il Is
i'm the United States That has been
shown strikingly in the recent unseat-
ing Of Sir Christopher Furness as mcm-
Der of parliament for West Hartlepool,
and is being shown in the attempt now
being made To unseat y. +. Guest. the
son or Lord Wimborne and a cousin
of Winston Churchill, who was elected
rev months ago for East Dorset. In
cidentallY the cases serve to call atten-
ton To the failure Of this stringent
English law to accomplish its purpose
to prevent wealthy men from obtain
ing unfair advantages over their poorer
competitors because Of the length OF
their purses and practically buying
their way into parliament. II strains
at illegal gnats and swallows corrupt
camels As matter OF fact here. quite
as much as In America though perhaps
in a different fashion, money counts
in winning elections.
Sir Christopher Furness is a Print
ism, however has not interfered a BIZ
with his success in the service OF Mann
mon. He is a rich man and one ~ the
largest shlp-owners in the world. He
is undoubtedly an able man but had
he not been a rich one, too, he probably
would never have got into parliament
and represented one of the HaItlepooi
divisions there for over 10 years.
COUNTER DEMONSTRATIONS.
At the last general election he hal
an unusually hard fight and he had
more Jealous than discreet supporter
In one William Wallace "A ship chandler
Wallace heard that the other side was
going to bring in a lot OF miners from
stockton on election day TO demon
strate against Sir Christopher as an
employer OF labor and he got up a
! counter demonstration by bringing a
crowd OF miners into Hartlepool--over
700 OF them-end organizing a parade
FOR them through the streets. wearing
sir Christopher's colors.
They did not reside in tho borough
themselves but they were not employed
as "noatcrs" They made no attempt
to vote or To prevent others from vot-
ing. They Just contented themselves
with whooplng things up in very
mild and orderly fashion for the Print e
tive Methodist millionaire. Their dem
onstration was all the more effective
because the expected demonstration by
! the other sidc did not come of al all.
Wallace paid their fares and treated
them to good blowout. The two
things together cost him $500.
COST HIM HIS SEAT
Now IL would be impossible that a
| Representative should lose his seat in
| Congress because of fake demonstra-
| uun OF this kind or any other kind, no
| matter how much money had been eN-
| pended on It, But II has cost Sir
| CHRISTOPHER his seat In parliament and
| furthermore, he is debarred from run
ming again for West Hsrilepool while
| the present parliament lasts. Not
and there Is where a queer feature Of
J the English law comes in--not because
| the demonstration was a bogus one but
| because the cost Of IL was not included
| in the sworn return OF sir Christoph-
| er's election expenses. Such non-in-
clusion, the judges ruled. constituted
| an illegal practise" They held that
J although there was no evidence to SHOW