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... as a 1 political force, will be quite as ineffective as Liberals are today. In the old days it was Tories v. Whigs; the Liberals ousted the Whigs and it became Tories v. ...
... thceequarter line R A. M. Whyte couples strong running In attack with a sure defence, whilst J. C. P. Beloe has pace on the whig which may cause Bristol some anxiety Bristol have announced no changes for this game, but Clifton have had to make one alteration ...
... Labouchere. afterwards known as Lord Tauntcn. who became Cabinet Minister, President the Board of Trade, represented Taunton In the Whig interest from 1839 The clock on the Parade Market House was his gift to % town He was opposed, in 1835. Benjamin Disraeli, ...
... of’ politics in our time was drastically changed During the last 200 years the two main parties were first the Tories and Whigs and then the Conservatives and the Liberals Conti oversy between them sidies where can be shown to be necessary All Dartmouth ...
... constituencies on the grounds that votes cast for them will be thrown away. In England the Liberal Party developed from the Whigs and took the name early in the 19th Century when a Liberal came to mean one who was in favour of greater political liberty ...
... —The Annual (February) Smoker & Club Social will be held at the Ring o' Blls, Broadway, on Saturday, February llth. Whelk NN Whig Drive A further successful whist drive was held in the Catholic Church Hall on Saturday evening, when the duties of M.C. were ...
... Diogenes-likei with a lantern and 1 candle and a long pole, poking all the gutter-holes—not to And honest man, but a Buff (Whig). Jack Bastable. a Buff, was passing the time, and asked the poker of the gutter-holes what he was looking for. He was told ...
... Downs approach of the General Election brings to mind that 250 years ago in Gloucester at election times, supporters of the Whig Party made it their business to frequently toast their candidates with punch. This was a drink bitterly condemned in Tory pamphlets ...
... the first place in 1799 They forbade workmen to combine in societies to improve their conditions This was done in the face of Whig opposition It was said: Because Frenchmen misused their liberties Englishmen were deprived of theirs” Obviously if the Con ...
... is in the next Parliament, it will not be the smallest in Parliamentary history. Just over a hundred years ago— in 1847—the Whigs (forerunners of the Liberals) had a majority of one! The Lowest rpHAT Parliament lasted for I four years, seven months ;and ...
... Westcountry are Liberals chiefly because their fathers and forefathers were Liberal, and, if we go back far ! enough, probably Whigs. The Liberals of the last century were ps opposed to Socialism as, if not ' more than, the Conservatives of today, and in view ...
... Whigs IN REPLY to a, correspondent. Whigs was an oldtime political name and was given to the party opposed to the Tories. In the early days it meant a party in favour of gradual change towards some more democratic government. The name came into use in ...