THE PRIME MINISTER AT BY-ELECTIONS.
In your News of the Week columns last week you stated "Mr. Baldwin's appearance at St. George's by-election was not so startling to the modem mind as it would have been to Mr. Gladstone's." You may be surprised to hear it was Mr. Gladstone who set the example. When I was contesting the Bassetlaw Division of Notts in the by-election of 1890 against his, Mr. Gladstone's, friend, Mr. Mellor, to everybody's surprise Mr. Gladstone announced his intention of supporting Mr. Mellor. He spoke at Retford and at Worksop the same afternoon. I won the election by a greatly increased majority, and poor Mr. Gladstone received sheafs of telegrams announcing the result, and thanking him for his intervention, which had increased my majority.—FREDERICK MILNER.
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