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November 1868
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EAST SOMERSET NOMINATION

... Government. They had heard a great deil about taxation, and the promises the Liberals to give the poor man a cheap breakfast. The Whigs, when in power, instead ot taking taxes off tea and sugar, took them off wine and left them on beer, the poor man’s beverage ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1868
Newspaper: Frome Times
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 3543 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EAST SOMERSET ELECTION

... for the fine phrases, and clap-trap oratory, and cajolery,” Mr. Hughes would call it, of writers in magazines, and effeminate Whig orators, who affect to be inspired by a new-born zeal for the working man and the labourer. The nomination for Mid-Somerset ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1868
Newspaper: Frome Times
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1027 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE FROME TIMES. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 94, 1868

... electors of Bath, that the Whig party never thought—it never entered into their imaginations—to give to every ratepayer vote. Every ratepayer in the towns, whether paid a shilling rate or a £lOO rate, now had a vote. Did the Whigs ever think of this? (“Yes ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1868
Newspaper: Frome Times
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2022 | Page: 3 | Tags: none