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CONSERVATIVE GOSSIP

... Kimberley ? The Duke of Argyll must be a comet to draw such tail after him. If we were to credit Conservative gossip, half the Whig peerage are going to follow him in bis secession. ...

Published: Thursday 21 April 1881
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 57 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE REPRESENTATION OF SELKIRKSHIRE

... of this constituency that an out-and-out Liberal should returned. We have hitherto been tossed about from Tory to Whig, and from Whig to Tory—not so much in our representation as in our electoral contests —that we are now pretty well tired of both parties ...

Published: Thursday 28 April 1864
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE RADICAL REFORMS

... He, for one, would gladly see the names of Whig and Tory fall into disuse, but meanwhile all they could do was just simply, honest Radicals, to endeavour to do their best to make the Radical absorb the Whig. He would like to say that he was not bit ashamed ...

Published: Thursday 02 April 1885
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 566 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

round which to rally. The fact is, the Glad- stone Ministry was then played out; it had exhausted its programme;

... they see that the time has come for their taking a hand in the winning game. Talk of Dizzy dishing the Whigs,” forsooth ! Why, it has been the Whigs dishing Trevelyan, if it is anything. How- ever, let us be thankful for results, whatever the motives or ...

Published: Thursday 20 December 1877
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

support to a Parliamentary candidate whose “opinions are Conservative,” even though Conservative “in the best ..

... are “liberal in every respect, and the natu- ral outcome of the old Whig - principles inculcated in his youth.” It may be that Conservative opinions are the natural out- come of Whig principles inculcated in the younger days of Mr Elliot, but if so, nature ...

Published: Thursday 25 March 1880
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 642 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE KI’MOURED SPLIT IJJ THE CABINET

... THE KI’MOURED SPLIT IJJ THE CABINET. Ihe Conservative press last week were suspiciously anxious as to the fate of the Old Whigs. fact, tbeir friendliness to the right section of the Liberal wing was a little too marked. It has, however, come to nothing ...

Published: Thursday 02 December 1880
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DURATION OF PARLIAMENTS

... w June 2. 1826. May SI, IBM, July 6 IS6*.. The Septennial Act was passe*! by Whig Ministers* and six of the Parliaments named above—viz.* the first five and the last—were Whig Parliaments. Since the Reform Bill of Parliaments have been generally short-lived ...

Published: Thursday 01 May 1879
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Domestic Intelligence

... of the Haddington burgh's, as these are already represented a Whig. But why no change? Have the working men struggled long for a vote in order to elect Whig for Haddington, or to keep in Whig in Roxburghshire? Then they must indeed simpletons. What measure ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1867
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4125 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE EDMUNDS SCANDAL

... expected It would terminate, in the whitewashing of the real delinquent. Who believed tli .t six Whigs four of whom were Cabinet Ministers, would condemn Whig Lord Chancellor? The result proves that the Government were right in packing the committee. A majority ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 1865
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 363 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE NEXT P,

... except, possibly, the leadership of the new party, the party that will embrace within its ring the old Liberals and the Modern Whigs. There will be no Tory party on the old lines in the next Parliament; in fact, Toryism is dead. It remains to seen what Lord ...

Published: Thursday 05 February 1885
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LIBERAL LCABERSUIP,

... than Premiers of expediency. It cannot be many years before the former is Duke of Devonshire, and the latter is too thorough a Whig to hold the Prenuetsbip long, supposing he had it. Well, leaving Lord Hartingtou and Lord Granville out of the matter, what ...

Published: Thursday 06 September 1883
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE WAR WITH THE BOERS

... Lowther and Mr Howard are going in for regular stand-up fight of the old Whig and Tory family order in Cumberland. The Lowther interest leads the Conservatives, and the Howards are the Whigs of the old Holland-House type. Neither are exactly popular candidates ...

Published: Thursday 24 February 1881
Newspaper: Southern Reporter
County: Selkirkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 481 | Page: 2 | Tags: none