Lord Newton, who always speaks with shrewdness as well as
humour, pointed out that the Unionist Party had been beaten, not upon their merits, but because they had been out- manoeuvred. The Lords had been goaded and jockeyed into throwing out the Budget, and they had embarked upon a fight in circumstances as unfavourable as could well be imagined, and emerged from an unexpected General Election more successfully than the most sanguine could have hoped. Lord Newton went on to say that in his opinion the moderate Liberal was without exception the biggest political fraud that existed in the country, and had as much influenee on the direc- tion of Liberal policy as the figure-bead of a steamer had on the screw. He ended by pointing out the apathy and indiffer- ence of the electorate, but that apathy and indifference would ultimately pass away and the voter would awake.
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