This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...desired laws; and they did not seem to have much faith in men who had no money, and yet were not content to serve in the ranks. These leaders did not particularly want Warton in parliament; did not care if he never got there, because they had little need of his eloquence; and would have preferred some blunt ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...desired laws; and they did not seem to have much faith in men who had no money, and yet were not content to serve in the ranks. These leaders did not particularly want Warton in parliament; did not care if he never got there, because they had little need of his eloquence; and would have preferred some blunt ungainly manufacturer from the north, whose means placed Mm above suspicion, and whose honest vote might always have been counted on. So when, after years of struggling and stumping and spouting, after acquiring a popularity and a name for eloquence which threw artizan crowds into raptures, Warton at last ventured to stand for a borough so Liberal that no Tory had a ghost of a chance there, he found himself defeated after an expensive contest by a respectable local nobody, who had plenty of money, professed steady old-fashioned Liberalism, and could hardly utter three consecutive sentences at the hustings. From that hour Warton found himself drawing nearer and nearer to the Tories. He began to think they were the true friends to the working man. He began to think they appreciated talent better than the Liberals, and were less intolerant of poverty--as, indeed, is quite true. He found that there was more of the "good fellow" character among them; that their manners were more refined, their doors more hospitably open, and their women more attractive. He became at last inspired with the grand idea that the country was to be saved by a rapprochement between the Derby-Disraelites and the working man. Some popular question or another--perhaps it was the Crimean war--where party politics did not directly intervene, enabled him decently to break with his old friends, and even to declaim against them as, in that instance, enemies of England....
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