The Telegram. — 1895-07-09 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

TURN THEM OUT.,,  The special correspondent of the Daily News, writing from Swindon a day or two ago, said : ' The Tories have got their Government. They want only two things now—a policy and a majority. They have got into office by trickery and transparent falsehood—by pretending to believe what they know to be untrue. They will have to frame a policy by filching from their Radical opponents and disguising what they steal under a semblance of Conservative principle, snd if they get their majority, it will be to a very large extent because they themselves have wilfully blocked the way of legislative progress and will now go to the country with the false and traudulent assertion that the Liberals do nothing. A more discreditable, a more dishonourable position no English Government ever started from. They know perfectly well that their only possible chance of retaining office till the end of the month is to go to the country with promises of reforming and progressive legislation in all directions, and yet they assure us that the swing of opinion throughout the kingdom is towards Conservatism ! They, forsooth, are the party of honesty and sound principles, and they are just now actually engaged in ransacking the legislative wardrobe of the Radicals, whom they have dishonourably turned out, to find something that will fit them nearly enough to be palmed off as their own. And in this stolen toggery, and with faces of solemn earnestness and many airs of superior principle, they, the great landowning, aristocratic' plutocratic party, who have never yet budged an inch along the pathway of progress and reform till they have exhausted every artifice for avoiding it, are going down to the electors whose hopes they have disappointed, whose desires they have thwarted, and whose intentions they have baffled, to ask for a vote of confidence !On the mere assumpton that if only theycan make themselves look sufficiently like Radicals, and put on a bold face, now that they have actually got possession of office the people may give them a trial ' • they are hopefully struggling into Radical breeks, and mean to march down into the constituencies with every show of confidence and with all the airs of a real Government.  Turn them out ! for the love of laughter, if for nothing else, turn them out ! It can be done if Liberal leaders of all ianks will manfully refuse to yield for a moment to any feeling of apathy or despondency. For all the impudent boasting about the great Conservative reaction that has been setting in of late there is not the least ground, except such as has proved delusive again and again. Their gains have been comparatively very small, and it is a mere commonplace of polities that by-elections do not indicate with any certainty what is likely to be the result of a general election. There are special influences which the Tories are able to concentrate on single elections which they cannot command to anything like the same extent simultaneously all over the country, and beyond the gain of five by-elections there is nothing whatever to sugge.st the general swing over they are so confidently relying on.  At Jarrow, on We IneAny, a coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Elizabeth Urquhart, aged 51, for having riven her husband a dose of strychnine. The prisoner afterwards attempted to poison herself.