RECENT BYE-ELECTIONS.
No doubt it is politic for Mr Gladstone to encourage the drooping spirits of his followers by professing at the results or the bye-elections, but, as a matter of fact, they are capable of no such interpretation as that which he desires to make them bear. They show that Lord Salisbury and his colleagues instead of losing ground, as is often represented, are slowly but surely graining strength in the constituencies. It is unavoidable that an Opposition willing to promise anything and everything in order to gain support, and unable to be called upon to redeem its pledges, should secure a certain amount of temporary and fictitious credit l with the less intelligent portion of the electorate. There can be little doubt that when the voters are asked tb give tbeir suffrages on the Irish.question they will decide as in 1886. The Irish people are beginning to turn their atten ion to other matters than politics, and to follow their material interests, instead of the behests-of professional agitators. No more favourable moment could possibly have been chosen for the application of a wide scheme of land purchase.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 489, 16 July 1890, Page 2
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189RECENT BYE-ELECTIONS. Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 489, 16 July 1890, Page 2
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