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Show John Morley Well Liked Everyone remembers how Mill, Just beforo polling day, and nt A meotlnR mainly composed of worklngmcn, vos " asked whetlmr bo had over anil that tho working classes were given to lying! ly-ing! how ho answered straight out, "I did," nnd how tho meeting roso to bis courageous frankness with thundering cheers, writes Sydney Ilrooks In Hap por's Weekly. Mr. Morley has more Umn once been similarly tested Ho was for soma years one of tho members mem-bers for Newcastle, and Newcastle is a laboring ntid not a mining constituency, constit-uency, local fiel'ng among tho mln-era mln-era was hotly In favor of an eight-hour eight-hour day. Mr Morley with equal firmness firm-ness was opposed to It. The Labor party accordingly withdrew Its support sup-port and ran a candidate, against him. Mr. Morley remulned unshakable; his convictions had been bonostly formed after an Immensity of firsthand Investigation, Inves-tigation, and lo them he would ttnnd, win or lose lie won; It was a narrow nar-row victory, but still a victory; and when a few weeks later Mr Morley accepted office and 1y the Kngllsh custom had to fneo his constituents again ha fought the election out onoe more on the name principled, abating nothing, compromising on nothing, and was rewarded this time by a do olslve triumph "Honest John" wat tho nickname with which tbe Newcas tie worklngmen paid tribute to till constancy and courage. This cold austere, sell contained man, with, noni of the accomplishments that lie tilth-men tilth-men asked of their leaders, nocused ol being a doctrinaire, known to bo I philosopher, et waa able, through thi Influence of an upright and unswerv Ing character, to reach and dominate the affections of the populace. |
