... democracy, in whose sayings and doings they even take a livelier and certainly honester interest than their quondam friends the Whigs. Their evening paper in Glasgow, by the way, found it necessary, and was sufficiently enterprising to bring out at 11 o'clock ...

... one hand the unreasonable demands of the nationalist leader, and on the other hand the equally unreasonable timidity of the Whigs. For my part lam not surprised at the attitude of Mr Parnell. He is only doing what men in like circumstances have done in ...

... to moat Liberals, the way is open to look at the present state of the question. Notwithstanding the repressive policy of the Whig press, there are unmistakable signs that a forward position has been taken up by the Liberal electorate. (1) Of the 67 Scottish ...

... inst tnce, is as bitterly distasteful to the Tory party as that of the Radicals. There are points of difference between the Whig and Radical sections of the Liberal party, and Tory speakers skilfully magnify every little divergence of opinion, trusting ...

... leader as a big bogey to frighten timid and moderate electors. Lord Hartington, Mr Forst , 2r, Mr Goachen, and others of the Whig section, they say, are moderate and reasonable politicians, and even Conservatives might trust them to bring forward no re ...

... while they are gratified with the reflection that Mr Gladstone also, once upon a time, had his name and fame put through the Whig mill. The political power of the day is seen to be with Mr Chamberlain, even to a larger extent in Scotland than in England ...

... wrdsgs of the drofters and the reform of the laud laws.) I have now at last a man. I've waited long. With deaf ear turned to Whig and Tory babble, If God balite might send a champion Deicing, With potent word to 14y the dtasotne squabble. As Muses clave ...

... themselves. But unless the labouring classes can be united, and organised to vote as a solid body for a Government—whether Whig or Tory—that is pledged to reform and reduce their grievances, the franchise can be of little benefit. One half voting against ...

... infamy and dishonour. Macaulay is an unexceptionable authority on this subject. The historian 's Whig proclivities are notorious. And Churchill was a Whig—of a sort. Macaulay, very reluctantly we may be sere, was compelled to describe Churchill as a ...

... tell them, as things went and according to opportunity, that Mr Duff had done well —(cheers). The late Liberal majority was a Whig majority of landlords, and there was no more moving that majority than moving Benrinnes—(laughter and applause). It now, however ...

... more interest than that of one if the divisions of Renfrewshire. This western noway was long recognised as a safe Liberal or Whig seat, but in 1873, when Mr Henry Auston 21ruee was made L'rd Aberdare, the Baronet of thswood, Sir Archibald Campbell, took ...

... 11Teitep, sir, have passed the scrutiny of your editorial eyes, and have been approved. It matters little whetheythe writer be a Whig, a Tory, a Radiciil, or an Irish Nationalist, so long as you deemed the articles fit for publication. I confide in your judg ...