Conservative Election Campaign of Mr. Hoole
November 1885Major Houle, the Conservative candidate, has commenced his campaign in the Rotherham Division, having addressed meetings at Ravenfield, Denaby, Swinton, and Blackburn.
Last night he held a meeting at Whiston.
In the course of his addresses, he alluded to the fact of Mr. Fitzwilliam's retirement, and said that although he came forward as a Conservative candidate he expected to receive the support of the Liberal party, and added that if a Liberal had remained in the field he should not have come out.
He referred at length to the alleged disadvantage of Free Trade. Not withstanding the high rate at which English goods were handicapped in the foreign market, the Radicals told them that they were in clover.
The Radical promises were like pie crusts - they were made to be broken.
Some people believed that the Radicals could do everything when they were in power. They had been in power five years, but he failed to see what they had done.
The Conservatives had only been in office five months, and had done a great deal. Therefore he thought that the Conservatives should have an opportunity of showing the people what they could do.
The Liberals were too fond of their liberality, and pulled down everything that had been done before, and substituted nothing in their places.
The Conservatives were anxious to extricate England out of her difficulties by striving to find remedies whereby they might promote the trade and welfare of the country, and maintain England as the grandest nation and empire the world ever saw. If they and their colonies were true to each other, they would prove the natural rulers of the universe.
He believed in a working man being able to obtain a glass of beer on Sundays.
