| Show MR GLADSTONE FAILING hox HON W E GLADSTONE was hit on the eye with a missile in the city of cheater while on the way to attend a political meeting in that town he filled hla his appointment however and the incident caused him to be the recipient reel lent of an ovation the bite statesman made an egregious mistake in stating hla his belief that the injury inflicted upon him was waa the of malice because the conservative party were resorting to coercion if there had been any generally riotous demonstration toward mr gladstone this statement of oabie his would have had an excuse behind it the throwing of the missile was a were mere personal affair it was a piece of gingerbread thrown from the bind band of a woman the wife of a workingman working mao A few years ago mr gladstone would have been ashamed to have made such an application of a birc stance of that character as there can be no doubt that the conservative r party as such would go to giedt lengths to protect the honorable gentle man from bodily injury he must be falling or he never would hr hp bot ft uttered an allegation so chaldis chil dis 10 wi absurd as s the one referred |