The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-01-17 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

RUSSELL M.P., who is doing his beet to lead astray the electors on the Irish question, got, ass bystander observed, "one for his nob" from Mr S. Storey, M.P., on Monday. Like Dr. Trisireni, who was so freinently rejected by the electors of the Hartlopools, Mr Ilusaell invarishly seasons h:s discourse with a plentiful admixture of horrors, all of which he lays at the door of the poor Irish ts. The mile-renting landlord who evicts Mign ra ortunate tenants, and then leaves them to perish of hunger and cold by the road-side, he rarely refers to. Mr Storey, however, exposed this kind of argument on Monday when he told of the thousands of deaths which had occurred in Ireland through the greed and rapacity of the landlords, and the indifference of the English Government. TICERE has never yet been any evidence to prove who were the murderers of the poor girl Bridget Flannagan, but Mr Russell, during his present visit to the Hartlepools, has repeate'lly fixed the responsibility for that crime upon the organisation which has helped to make the lot of the Irish people better awl brighter. He talks in his cold, hard manner as though he and his political friends were the only people who condemn murder and outrage. But is this so? Do not all true Liberals and friends of Ireland deplore the crimes that have been committed thee? The only difference is , that whilst Mr Russell dwells only upon the crimes committed by the weak upon the powerful, the Liberals condemn both alike, and especially the crimes committed by the powerful upon the weak. No! Mr Russell's arguments may please Sir W. Gray and the classes, but they can have no effect upon an intelligent working-class population like the Hartlepools, nor indeed upon any class that can sympathise with human suffering and with the victims of injustice.  TJ.VPREMDICED observers of the prosent contest cannot fail to notice the vast difference in the  reception accorded to the two :is who- I were taking part-in it last week. To start with, the personal contrast between the two men is great. Mr Vs: ey-Knox, M.P., who has been 'leaking on the Liberal aide, is a handsome young Irishman, frank and open as the day. He speaks with the pleasant brogue peculiar to the educated Ulsterman, whilst his speeches are as witty and eloquent as they are earnest and impressive. Moreover, he speaks for the poor and the oppressed, and his utterances nee er fail to find a sympathetic chord amongst his audience. The other gentleman refereed to is Mr T. W. Russell, M.P., who has been assisting the Coercionista Clever as Mr Russell undoubtedly is, there is nevertheless something strangely hard and repellant in his style of address. He is hampered with a bad subject, it is true, but there is a rasping, disagreeable tone in his voice—half Irish, hall Scotch —that mars the effect of half he says, and it is very rarely indocd that any enthusiasm is evoked beyond the immediate circle by which he is surrounded on the platform. That, at all events, has been the eiTerienee here. A bad came may sometimes be made to appear good, but it is doubtful if Mr Russell can do it.  Twz introduction of the Right Hon. James Lowther into the constituency should, and no doubt will, assist Mr Furners's candidature considerably. If there was any doubt before—and there was certainly not much—as to the exact political line of Sir William Gray, there can be none now. Mr James Lowther is a fine example of that oldfashioned Toryism which Sir William told us the c6Ler night was dead—dead as a door nail, and his speech on Tuesday night ought to do good to the Liberal cause.  Lowtrwru's spaech, for wild, reckleas mistatement, was, however, nothing in comparison to that delivered by the ft tory individual who was introduced by the name of Mr Arthur Patton, who followed a declaration that he was an Irishman by the remark, "God knows! Ireland has produced an infernal lot of scoundrAL" For some moments alter this Mr Patton was net allowed to proceed, but when he again got a hearing, and began to descrllse Mr Farness as a wretched creature who dodged and twined, the disturbance was renewed, and continued for some time.  Wner assintance the Unionists expect to receive 'Torn the speeches of such men as Mr Patton it is Id to say. Put to ell intelligent, thinking per' the - - of Mv Patton renciiring bussell (Lea b'  lOU hoarie  ispeeistate a  VOlea  munle  ithontina