Northampton is even more Radical in 1891 than it was
in 1886. In 1886, Mr. Labouchere polled 4,570 votes, while the highest Conservative, Mr. Richard Turner, polled 3,850, leaving a majority of 720 for the Radicals. On Thursday, Alderman Manfield, the Radical who succeeds to Mr. Brad- laugh's seat, polled 5,436 votes against only 3,723 given to Mr. R. A. Germaine, leaving the Radicals a majority of 1,713 votes, or, roughly speaking, a gain of 1,000 on the new register. The victory is the more remarkable because Mr. Germaine had given in his adhesion to the eight-hour day for miners, and was therefore, in the truest sense, a democratic Tory, It is said that the Irish Question was hardly at all referred to in the contest, and that it was settled almost without relation to Home-rule. It was a stand-up fight between the Conservatives and the Radical traditions of the town, and the Radicals carried it with something more than even the ancient enthusiasm,
