POPULAR FEELING FOR MR GLADSTONE.
A special from London, dated June 16, says the defeated Premier, whom " the wild mobs' million feet " kicked out of .office one week ago on a question of . a (ninepenny tax. on a barrel of beer, is still, and more than ever, the idol of the mob. He was greeted with applause when he arbse m the House to announco that the Marquis of Salisbury had consented to form a Government, and as he left the House,, looking spate and worn, he wafc •loudly applauded. ' A cr«wd of several hundred persons ran after his carriage and cheered at internals. Mr. Gladstone sat;back : bn the' cushidns, and stared straight ahead, but there was a complacent look m his. face, which seemed 'to show-that, the, applause of the ..cojiimon people m his hour of supposed defeat was music m his ear." Mr Gladstone's re f usal of an earldom, offered by the Queen . liasjled the Daily Ncios to rejoice, and; say.no title could add to -his;fame ar,;, ienhah^ffthe'*enthusiaßtic- devotion • of jhis' 1 countless ..admirersj' -The yiniiw sa"ys his refusal of the honor makes an appeal to the inagioations of men that will notire-; main unanswered. ;
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 51, 29 July 1885, Page 4
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198POPULAR FEELING FOR MR GLADSTONE. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 51, 29 July 1885, Page 4
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