In the same speech, Lord Randolph made a furious attack
on the Bill which the Standard had revealed, lamenting at the same time that the Standard had, shown a disposition to join "the party of snivel and drivel." The attack was directed chiefly at the supposed intention to flood the counties with unrepresented boroughs ; but Lord Randolph's chief illustra- tions of this were taken from eases like Retford, Stroud, Crick- lade, and so forth, which have always been taken as miniature counties already, so large are their areas for the areas of boroughs ; and as for the case of Accrington, which we are inclined to think should be made into a borough, it seems childish to treat a rough draft, not even accepted by the Com- mittee of the Cabinet, as a matured scheme. Lord Randolph Churchill will never, we think, get beyond the stage of a telling, because thoroughly unscrupulous, hustings orator. Of statesmanship, he has not yet shown the least glimmer.
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