El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-25


campaign methods are much more
- strenuous than those employed in
America, and the public speaking and
private cnyassing campaigns are not
exceptions TO the rule. The right little,
tight little islands are so small that
they can be covered with spellbinders
to an extent impossible in the United
States and every advantage or the nat
ural opport unities is taken.
Many Spellbinders.
Premier AsQuith and Lloyd-George,
for the Liberals, and Mr.. Barbour ana
lord Lansdowne, for the Conservatives,
are the chief spellbinders, and each OF
them spoke nearly every night during
the campaign Every one of the SO
parliamentary districts had several meet
ings week during the campaign, and
In many of them a dozen meetings were
held every night
Four hundred peers were on the
stump more than 900 members of parlia-
| ment, 100 women, and not less than 2OOO
, ordinary speakers. This does not take
into account the volunteers, but only
those spellbinders who spoke under the
direction of the national headquarters
of the two principal parties.
No National Organization.
1t may not be out of place to note
! that the two parties, Liberal and Con-
! servative, have no such compact or
| ganization as Americans are familiar
with in the Republican and Democratic
| parties There is no national organiza-
/ tion having any authority over the par
| ty at all.
The sole party authority lies with the
! voters of each constituency. For pur-
poses of convenience these small asso-
| Citations, represented by central commit
| tees, delegate certain powers to the ma
| tional organization.
| In ha liberal Marty the central body
! is called the National Liberal fedora
| ton. 1t is a permanent institution,
| maintaining a publishing house and
keeping up a panty campaign of educa-
| tiOn in season and out, Without regard
TO the campaign. When the campaign
comes on. this publishing house sells
enough literature at a profit to make
| expenses for the next few years. Imag-
! inc such a condition in the United
| States.
The National Union of conservative
| and constitutional associations is the
| headquarters of the Conservative party.
1t maintains a publishing house and
political Iibary. just across the street
! from the house of lords. This institu-
ton enjoys the patronage Of the highest
| classes of the British public, and its
publishing house is operated on q self
supporting basis
Party Forces
While the election battle is waged
between the Liberal and Conservative
forces 1T must not be understood that
these two parties meet each other in
clearly aligned forces, as do the Re
publicans and Democrats in the United
States The Liberals have the largest
party organization. but in the last par
lament their 376 members were allied
with SO Irish Nationalist and 81 Labor
party men.
Inn z no
number of their party leaders in the
ranks of another party, the Liberal
Unionists which has national fedora
ttion of its own. Mr. BalfOur and his
chief supporters are known, by their
friends as Unionists. BY the Radicals,
all Conservatives Of every type are call
ed Tories.
The Liberal Unionists are the politi-
cal heirs of those Liberals who seeded
from their party when Mr. Gladstone
made home rule Tor Ireland a party
issue. They insisted upon keeping the
name Liberal and upon declaring their
preference for the maintenance of the
United Kingdom. Joseph Chamberlain
has been the chief Liberal Unionist, and
from his sick bed he has directed the
Conservative fight in this campaign. He
has compelled an unwilling. party to
adopt his scheme of tariff reform be-
cause. that party had 70 have some is
sue with which to combat the Lloyd
| George socialistic tendencies.
Independent Candidates.
In this campaign the Conservatives
and Unionists were absolutely amalga-
mated. as they have been for several
years. The Liberals. the Nationalist
and the Labor party made separate
! campaigns, but were careful not to OPP
pose each other. In constituency
where the Laborites were stronger, the
| Liberals supported the Labor candidate,
| and so on.
There were great many Independent
candidates of various types, and many
| trades union candidates, independent Of
the Labor party. OF the $40 constitu-
encies, % went into the elections with
three cornered races. In II constitu-
encies the Tory candidate was unop-
posed in, one the Liberal was the only
candidate. and in Ireland over 40 Ma
tionalists had no opposition
Campaign Courtesy
1t strikes an American as amazing
that some of these unopposed races are
the result OF courtesy. Joseph Cham
berlain is III. and, therefore, out of