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... to ask them to put their county in line with the rest of Irelan ., and save tha Land Leaguers the disgrace of supporting a Whig and Ministerial candidate. There was an old saying that a living donkey was more powerful than a dead lion, and to the present ...
... the action of the Whigs in the Lower House was limited to a more or less united effort to carry two amendments and an occasional protest by absenting themselves from divisions on other questions. This has not sufficed for the Whigs in the Upper House ...
... ■■ Whigs voted with Mr. Parnell on this tt** I Nine Irish members voted against the amen-*' ■ of whom two only (Mr. Beresford and Mr. M*^| ney) are Conservatives. Of the remaining & I two were law officers of the Crown and the re»*» I der Whigs. Mr ...
... doctrine is the sovereignty of the people. A hundred years »go no politician would have ventured to proclaim it. Fifty years ago a Whig Prime Minister de- clared tbat all which tbe people had a right to claim was ?? good government. If it is really agreed on ...
... officers of the Crown (Messrs. Law and John- son), thus leaving only Mr. Kinnear (Donegal county) as the representative of the old Whig Party that used to be so strong. Sir Stafford Northcote and all the members of the late Government, with two exceptions, were ...
... erty 0 ? ?? Irishmen at the mercy of the meanest eoi st «, fore cull upon you, for your country '4 s^o, n/ the upholder of Whig coercion. 1 ■; North Lincolnshire.— The Right FTon r , . has consented to contest this seat iu t '*«'* tcre3t, and has ...
... button and braided figure on crown. MILITARY MOUNTED POLICE. Uniform of officers as for a provost-marshal, with the {olio whig exception : — Tunic. — Blue cloth, with scarlet edgings and scarlet collar and cuffs. INDIAN STAFF CORPS. Buttons. — The ...
... itself. In thia respect the leaders of the move- ment are not confined to the Conservative benches. In the House of Commons the Whigs under great difficulties combined in two instances, and the amendments which so nearly proved fatal to the Government in the ...
... public meetings ; I speak of the sittings in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords. Read the discussions between Whigs and Tories, the speeches of Mr. Gladstone, or of the late Mr. Disraeli, and you will be astounded at the violence of the language ...
... a3 took place in the Government defence last n : ght. Amendments were moved time after time by Conservative Peers or their Whig sympathisers. An answer of the mildest description was attempted by Lord Selborne or Lord Carlingford, only to be demolished ...
... 1 support the Government, but two wlt jj a similar number of Irish wWS 5 ...
... Lewis, Mr. Johnson (Solicitor- General for Ireland), and Colonel Taylor (late Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.) The Irish Whigs left the House to avoid voting. The minority of 14 who opposed the motion consisted almost exclusively of the most zealous ...