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CUMULATIVE. TOTING. THE EDITO&-OF THE CHESTER CHRONICLE. Sir,—l see your-paper of Saturday last a statement ..

... hundred votera.be Whigs and seven hundred, Tories. As men vote now (no- man being allowed to gsse more than one vote -to one candidate) the eight hundred Whigs vote for their.two candidates, aad the seven hundred Tories for theirs.; the Whigs win. and the ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1866
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 810 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MR. RAIKES'S CANDIDATURE

... longer any question | of Whig end Tory. The question of Whig and Tory was obsolete amongst us as much as that of Jacobite and Hano- verian. We could take the earnest love of freedom which distinguished the founders of the Whig party; we could take the ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1868
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1336 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MR. RAIRES' CANDIDATURE

... longer any question of Whig and Tory. The question of Whig and Tory was obsolete amongst them as much as that of Jacobite and Hanoverian. They could take the earnest love of freedom which distinguished the founders of the Whig party ; they could take ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1868
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 1362 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... reputations of their opponents. A Whig reign of terror prevailed, as intolerable ahd destructive to real liberalism as the Tory influence in the days of Dundas which was so chivalrously resisted by Jeffrey and his young Whig allies. That corrupt party has ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1865
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
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THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE.EDMUNDS CASE

... the connivance of the Chancellor, a public defaulter has obtained a pension of some £800 a year. The Herald remarks that the Whig Ministers went into the jury box to try their own case, and their verdict, carried by a majority of one, reflects disgrace ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1865
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 113 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

POLITICS IN CHESTER

... hands? If this is the waythe liberal party are to be united it were better we should remain as we are. The weakness of the old Whigs was never so apparent as in the doings of the last few days, and tiie sooner some straightforward understanding is come to ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1868
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 169 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... easy 'smashed Sayers, If unbacked by doers. ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1860
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 137 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CUMULATIVE VOTING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHESTER CHRONICLE. Sir, thank for his letter, as he gives me a helping

... and traditional preindices, has pointed out that the constituency which I first assumed, where there are 800 Whigs aud 700 Tories, if the Whigs started three candidates and gave 800 votes to each, the Tories might start two, and by causing one moiety of ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1866
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 971 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

IS THE BALLOT WANTED?

... election, to come into possession of a rich estate. The branch which died, out had been Whig, the newcomers were Tory. Supposing that the tenants had been accustomed to vote Whig all their lives, would it not be strange if a simple change of landlords should ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1865
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 1570 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Latest News

... News. a >> RIOTING IN PORTADOWN —_F TRING oN THE Mt Betrast, Frmpay.—The Northern Whig says, there serious riot at Portadown yesterday, and the forced to fire on the crowd. A boy named Thoms was killed by a ball through the lungs; and 2m Tiffney, was ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1869
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TOWN TALK I__ CHESTER

... tion was pretty fairly shared between Whigs and Tories. The first election after the Reform Act— like most in Great Britain — was hotly contested, the can- didates in the Southern division being the old and tried Whig member, — Mr. George Wilbraham — who ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1868
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 2173 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

IMPORTANT POLITICAL MEETING.IN CHESTER

... able to re-unite the Whigs with the Radical portion of the electors, upon my honour I will not go down. Mr. Fenton did give him evidence which he thought perfectly satisfactory at the time that he could gain the support of the Whigs and Liberals. He said ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1865
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
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