Show WOMEN IN ENGLISH ELECTIONS A noticeable feature of the recent elections in england was the active part played in them by women no less noticeable is the fact that the bus bands of those women who were most moat active were found among the defeated mrs mra dorothy stanley mrs corn wallis west and mrs richard chamberlain worked hard bard at the polls and during the campaign for their husbands but all three were defeated the princess prince louise though not taking the stump for her husband the marquis of lorue borne yet worked quietly and persistently for him to the last he was defeated for the central division of bradford by shaw lefevre efevre Ii this was quite a setback to yand it to is said the queen felt much chagrined that her son in law should be vanquished by a commo or er mrs took a prominent part in the elections but not as a speaker speak eror or electioneering electioneer ing agent she was constantly at the sido side of the brantl old man and acted as nurse and physician lor for him mrs stanley judging from oue one of her speeches did not help her husbands cause here is an extract from her address at lambeth 1 I voted voled for henry stanley two years ago in westminster abbey and I 1 call on you on to vote for him not for myself but bot I 1 for r yourselves and in your interests because he be is a great and a good man and when you and I 1 have passed away and are forgotten he will be remembered an a having been a great man who has served his country well and done noble things for it you cant make him a greater man than he be is by putting M P after his name stanley is a man of his bis word and when he be says frays tie he will do anything he will do it S anley wants to extend your trade and to do all he can to develop commerce here is stanley and if you vou turn your back 0 on n him I 1 say it willbe will tie a disgrace to lambeth for I 1 think and I 1 do not say it because I 1 am mrs stanley that he is the greatest man in england at this moment 11 the crowd did not appreciate her effort nor endorse her sen sentiments ti ments but both stanley ind and his bis wife were forced to retire before the fury of thelam the lambeth mob although the results of womans comans active work in english elections apcar apar ar to have been unfortunate yet r adies have on many occasions accomplished dished ll 11 wonders in behalf of their husbands ga ads or other relatives but on the stump they have n not ot been a pronounced success and there are few advocates oi of woman suffrage who desire to see them engaged in that kind of political life woman suffrage and woman stump 1 oratory are two entirely different things and one does nut not necessarily include the other ether they ought not to be confounded in the minds of thinking peo le ie ai as they often are in the words of unreflecting and prejudiced persons |