The Northern Guardian. — 1898-01-31 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

THE UNIONIST  CAMPAIGN.  SPLENDID MEETINGS.  STIRRING SPEECHES.  SUPPORT LAMBTON  ON THURSDAY.  MUTING AT SEATON CAREW.  A. well attended and enthusiastic, meeting in support of the candidature of the Hon. F. W. Lanaliton was held on Saturday in the National School, Seaton Carew. Captain Tomlinson presided, and was supported by Mr Lambton, Mr 'P. Appleby, J.P., Councillor John Hardy, Councillor Elliott, Councilor W. S. 3ferryweather, Mr L. Bowser, jun., and others. 'The CHAIRMAN said the elettion had come Somewhat unexpectedly upon them. They were very familiar with the figure of the late Sir Henry Havelock-Allan who met wiTh so sad a death in India. They little thought when they heard him last that they were to lope him, and they deeply regretted his loss. The least they could do was to put in a man who held the same ViGntin and would represent them in the same manner. Mr Lambton would do that, and he asked than to give him their support at the poll. (Applause). (,en(inuiug, the Chairman said the voters in beaten Carew had done their duty well in recent Cams and there was no reason why they should not do so on the present OCCISIOII, as they had tie good a cause as ever, and they also had a good candidate, who, he was quite sure, was fighting well their battles for there. (Hear, hear). After all, said the speaker, in politics there is not so much in a name: it would be a good thing if the old names could be abolished. What was Toryism once was neither Toryism nor Liberalism now. (Laughter). Old party tradition attached itself to the two parties, but when it came to social legislation, there was no difference between the two parties as to the desire that all the legisiatioa should be pissed that it was possible to paw or the advancement of eveiyone of the inhabitants from the highest down to the lowest. It wa all very well for the Liberals to say, when the Conservativss bring in a Bill that is a good social measure, that they are having one of their own pet measures announced. But he said they bwri no prescriptive rieht to all the good things iii the matter of legislation, nor did they have any particular claim to all the beneficial legislation for the working people of this country. (Applause). The Conservative party had at heart the advancement of the social condition of the country and of the working classes quite as much or even more so than ever the Liberals had. (Hear, hears He was quite sure if it were better known what the views of the Conservative party were, and their trend of thought, that the party wonld have in its ranks many more of the member:. of the workine classe-, than it has now. There was a little of the musty odour of past times which !dill clung to them as a party. But why did it do s)? Why were not the working classes able to JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES, aril refuse to be led by leaders who as often as not led them into the mire and left them to stick there' (Hear, hears He should like to afar the electors of Seaton Carew to what do we as a nation owe our prosperity? To what do the people of this country owe their standing, their larvileg,es, their freedom, and their happiness? We owe it to the natural advantages which this country posses-1 in has great natural advantages, and a splendid position eeographisally—and to the brain, the muscle, and sinew, mid the splendid English spirit poesessed by the ,peeple of this country from the earliest times down to the present. (Applause). He was fully alive to foreign competition, which he studied A great deal, still he thought that the nerve, and the brain, and the muscle of Englishmen would still hold the positions they had arquired in the world, and would still make further extensions, and would refuse to be prevented from utilising those positions to which they have attained by virtue of their own intelligence and progress. (the/. hear). In what county, asked Captain 'Tomlinson, do the working wop,e have the same happy positions as they have in this country? In no great country—not even in America, the boasted home of Republicanism, and the country v:hich was held out by Socialists as the great ideal country—do the working classes occupy the same position's as in ours. (Hear. hear). What was American polities? Simply and solely a lot of shams and a great mockery. Republicanism was Republioanism. it was true. but in America it was nothing more nor less than a sham and a mockery. (Hear, hear). There was no liberty -there—only licence: and that was exactly the phrase which best describes it. That, he was afraid, was the trend of the Liberalism of the present day. He noticid that at a Liberal meetins the other day a speaker said that "Joseph"— he the-egad Jesonh Richisdaen was meant—bad not turned his coat. It occurred to him that a fit retort to that would have been that the coat was already of so many colours that there could be no virtue in turning it. (Laughter). But that was what had happened with the Liberal party. (More laughter). They have SO many fads, and so much nonsense. and' so mech that is impracti. able, that to put Ihe Government or the eeuntry ia their haeds would be to lead tile country to suicide. There was a time when we could lay elaini to be the first nation of the whole world. hut it was an ahsclute fact that nations which est many years ago were despised and laughed al-cut as not being able to do the work which we v.-ere able to do. are to-day doing work quite as rood, and even better in some ways, than we do ourselves. It was not a pleasant thought, but it was an absolute fact, and if we want to maintain mil' position among the nations of the world, we must do our level best to keep in power as many