... Conservative. You hear good deal about Whigs. I have nut the least notion what their opinions arc ; but my impression is that a Whig is person who denounces in private the measures which in public he supports.” For Whig read Liberal Unionist and we have from ...

... had got into power, and that if died a Whig Bishop would be appointed in his place Tho old Bishop immediately called out, “Bring me the brandy, being quite willing take brandy or anything else to keep the Whig out. (Ijaughter.) The Tories did not like ...

... make “No Popery” cry the foundation their Covernmentof Ireland. They left that to good Tories like Salisbury, to recreant Whigs like the Duke Devonshire, and to nerverted Radicals like Mr. Chamberlain. The Duke of Devonshire recently laid it down that ...

... there is not much margin allowance for defections or mistakes. They are confronted by a compact phalanx embracing offended Whigs, recreant Radicals, and unmitigated Tories, combined by a common bond of hatred to the Liberal leader because of his Liberalism ...

... lieen scored up, and the time had come when it had to be liquidated. (Cheers.) The situation had been greatly aggravated by the Whig sacession in the House of Commons. It did not matter much, for with every election the number of Liberal Unionists diminished ...

... worker while at work. He was glad to see that the energetic and young editor of the ’‘Daily Chronicle” had been ’*going the Whig- and Tories, the wolves in sheep’s clothing—the kidney who told the working-men tljat they should not have their liberty of ...

... anil -- liberty. Looking round that platform w*.. sorry U> see that they were not a united |*arty, then ii.ml been donrtew. Whigs had always left the parly from time to time. That they should leave it now was natural, and why Because the lam I question ...

... Perhaps in our day there was a temptation and a tendency undervalue William 111. Our Dutch benefactor was the idol of the Whigs, but Whiggism wag dead or dying—a political creed for old fogeys, condemned in an age of new ideals as a taste of past stupidities ...

... protest against a harsh Poor Law, Chartism, Complete Suffrage movement — is essentially the same throughout. The mme of the Whig reformers of 1780 is the basis of the People’s Charter of 1838 with its “ six points ” of universal suffrage, abolition of ...

... ve Club annual meeting; but it is a little too much to ask him to publicly rejoice in the corrupt victory of a Tory over a Whig more than a hundred years ago—before there was even Parliamentary union between Great Britain and Ireland in question. His ...

... active part in ths choice, and so sesra bind themselves an obedience which they could not honestly promise if the leader were a Whig, not only in person but policy. had pointed out Gloucester why quealions of foreign affaiis and of Imperial defence were unlikely ...

... and should repeat that his vote, and the votes of all colliers, tight to be cast at the next election for the candidate, he Whig or Tory, whose views were most in accord with theirs. There was great need for more labour representation in the House of Commons ...