THE ENGLISH LIBERAL PARTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 60, 22 February 1902, Page 3

THE ENGLISH LIBERAL PARTY.

SPEECH BY SIR H. CAMPBELL JUNNKRMV>-\ PER PRESS ASS CTATTON. London, February 20. After s'ormy con'enMoiis bafcween I the Kosebery and Bamerman pections, 'he National T i'laial Federation at Leicester rdop'ed a colourless comrecognising the services and claims of b<5 f h Liberal leaders. Sir H. Campbell■ Banner-nun, speaking at Le<pe«'er later, defiantly refus°d to adopt, the clem slat" p'licy ndvocated in Lord Rosebery's Ohe?tprfield speech. Re av"w<;d himself nn independent Lib-ral, and r»itera f ed '!;; - national K*lf gtve-nmer.t in Ireland, with an independent Parliament, was never expected by the Tr'sh, or contemplated by the Liberals. Australia and Canada instances a pol ; cy would not imperil tho Empire. The Government policy demanding the unconditional surrender of the Boers whs was mischievous and Fatal and designed to annihilate the Biers sl% a race. Nflt'otiatiocson t're b st= of conciliation would l>y the foundation of a future goxl understand-'nc butw en tho Dutch and Fri'ish. The den a' of an am testyito rebels and the maintenance r.f tbe ' banishment proclam ition were the greatest causes of the prolongation of the war. The sp»»ch was greeted with prolonged app'aus?.