... eventually public opinion will endorse Mr. Baldwin's selection, and conclude that in this appointment we see the best of the old Whig tradition grafted upon the stout stem of modern Toryism. Mr. Churchill stood as an Anti-Communist, and, whatever political ...

... citizen in a Yorkshire provincial town as the last Whig. What they meant I suppose was that his politics were Palmerstonian. A Whig must be an aristocrat and belong to a land-owning family. The last of the Whigs was Sir William Harcourt, or perhaps is Lord ...

... Rights were of real moment. The Roundheads and Cavaliers fought once more as Whigs and Tories, Liberals and Conservatives, middle class traders and country gentry. There was a Whig history and a Tory- history, and they did not agree. Now it is only a politician ...

... donkey's nose bring these lines appropriately to the mind As to my principles, I glory In having nothing of the sort I ain't a Whig, I ain't a Tory, I'm just a candidate, in short. 0 6> 0 Y1 hivalry, says a cynic in Mrs: Bull, is man's post-dated cheque ...

... barometer, according as the weather was fair or stormy. 1 n danger the nation usually called for the Tories in times of peace the Whigs were preferred but whatever the issue these two parties were the only alternatives. Democracy is said to be so stupid a monster ...

... new owners at the racing rpital's Second October Meeting bloodstock sales last Y dnesdav. A filly belonging to Mr. Charles Whig :n fetched the highest price (800 guineas), but Capta. Percy Whitaker gave 630 for a son of Sanso- vino of Mrs. J. P. Arkwright's ...

... Premiership as Pitt's warming-pan until the Treaty of Amiens was broken, was by no means the uncultured fool represented by the Whigs. According to Glenbervie he was a very good Speaker, though as Prime Minister during a big war he was hopelessly overshadowed ...

... read them yourself to know how delightful they are. Their portraiture of the Whig men and women who ruled the land are superb the picture they give of family life and of Whig society is enchanting. Much of this society was made up merely of rich and idle ...

... d accordingly. This is the only foundation for the rumour that the Presi dent of the Local Government Board had joined the Whig party. T n an account of the opening of a bazaar by Princess Henry of Battenberg I read that two hundred young members of the ...

... Conservative. They certainly will not vote for the Unionist party, for that party, formed by the junction of the Hartington Whigs and the Chamberlain Radicals with the Con servatives in 1895, was dissolved in 1922 when the Union was destroyed by the treaty ...

... the Tierna More, commanded a troop of the Inniskilling Dragoons at the battle of Aughrim, and was attainted on account of his Whig principles by James II. in the Parliament held at Dublin in 1690. He lived to be a member of Parliament under William III. ...

... America, and three years later Pitt made him Marquess of Lansdowne. For about 140 years Lansdowne House has been the home ot the Whig statesmen of the Fitzmaurice family. The present Lord Lans downe, for many years the Leader of the House of Lords, probably ...