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THE OLD WHIGS

... working men’s families. And those who have constituted the Whig party must choose between the two. It is necessary to decide between policy of destruction and one of development, and the old Whigs are afraid of one and incapable of the other. So they get ...

Published: Monday 31 August 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 724 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WIGTOWN OR WHIG-TOWN t

... WIGTOWN OR WHIG-TOWN studying Stair’s Institutes lawyer thought he’d rise, Though young, up to the topmost height law—a goodly prise. 11. That point attained—to Parliament To climb he next would dare ; Success is his if only Can find e*sy stair. ...

Published: Monday 31 August 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 41 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE COMING ELECTION'S. What running and racing, And noisy crowd* facing, candidates keen Whigs, Radicals, ..

... THE COMING ELECTION'S. What running and racing, And noisy crowd* facing, candidates keen Whigs, Radicals, Tories With fine flatt'ring stories, Are gulling, I ween. T.ike soldiers wheu arming, busy bees swarming, They run seeking votes From Cornwall they're ...

Published: Thursday 06 August 1868
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 216 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Northern Whig states that there will be 8500 new votes the parliamentary constituency of Belfast on the ..

... The Northern Whig states that there will be 8500 new votes the parliamentary constituency of Belfast on the occupation franchise alone. It is impossible, however, say how many will be added by the lodger franchise, in Cork, 1164 have been entered the ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1868
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1783 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

That fennd. he mounts, and looking round

... Stair.” iv. Wigtown Whig-town shall remain. Here safe eneoonced I’ll stay; Nor Radical nor Tory wight Shall drive me hence away. Shall * stupid ’ Tories dare invade This Whig manorial ground ? Let Ditxy play his * game ’ elsewhere. Whig-town is safe and ...

Published: Monday 31 August 1868
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A MIDDLE-CLASS MINISTRY

... and if they wero not quite neglected in the distribution of the minor patronage. Great Whigs smiled at the notion of a large infusion of new blood, and little Whigs asked, with supercilious complacency, where was the proof that new blood was coming forward ...

Published: Thursday 13 August 1868
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1532 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE POSITION OF PARTIES

... POSITION OF PARTIES. man - Larket How% thingas have changed sissee the present Parliament I ,utent was on the hustings A Whig was a Whig, a Radicale may, was a Radical, and a Conservative was a Conservative. e0 tiossal True, there -was a body of waitene upon ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1868
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1680 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

WW to the

... Whiga In the question of Eeforhiwhat Is to be expected from Lord Stanley but farther me »« nrea in tbe direction which the Whigs have cocsltttintly pnnnad fofthaluti fitly yeara ? IWly in tha conlnrfon oi names which have now IflBt all meaning , people ...

Published: Monday 03 August 1868
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A MIDDLE-CLASS MINISTRY

... seemed to regular politicians ridiculous, to the electors disagreeable, and to the body of the nation a mere dream. Outside the Whig circle the strongest Liberals, with the possible or partial exception of Mr Cobden, were held to be excluded from high office ...

SIR ROBERTS CANVASS

... alarm and apprehension in the Liberal camp. He may take it as a compliment that that most self-assured man and sleekest of Whigs, Mr \V. P. Adam, has come forward to certify to Sir Robert Anstruther's excellence as an unmurmuring and uncomplaining hack ...

Published: Thursday 06 August 1868
Newspaper: Fifeshire Journal
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 4 | Tags: none