The country wanted not a programme but peace. The results of 1880 ...
The country wanted not a programme but peace.
The results of 1880 were equally astonishing to both parties, neither of who had expected or feared much more than a slight majority either way.
What the country hoped for, beyond the cessation of Imperialist adventure, it is not so easy to determine.
Few of the myriads who waited in the snow for hours to hear Mr Gladstone speak, held up their babies to see him / her pass, and decorated their tables with Sweet Williams, could have guessed that in five years they would be called upon to make their choice between the abandonment of a lifelong loyalty, and surrender to the Irish party. Practical men, without underrating the other elements in the catastrophe of 18 80, were disposed to assign no small part of the results to the working of the Caucus, or as is was often called, the Birmingham System, the organization on a democratic basis of the whole party in the borough.
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But in 1886 the borough for electoral purposes was still the borough ...
But in 1886 the borough for electoral purposes was still the borough for municipal purposes: burgesses and voters could be organized on parallel lines, and rewarded for their
Hitherto, the historical parties had not been unevenly represented at all levels ...
Hitherto, the historical parties had not been unevenly represented at all levels of society, and of the two, the Whig houses were more conspicuous than the Tory. But as t
For a while the Albertine practice had kept its sway; vigilant, impartial, ...
For a while the Albertine practice had kept its sway; vigilant, impartial, imperturbable. Then a character, long suppressed, gradually lifted its head: vigilant indeed, laborious, fear