Sir Stafford Northcote made a little speech at Bournemouth, on
Monday, in which he encouraged his followers to believe that the Conservative part is not yet "played out," and that the Conservatives have still a great work to do in political affairs,— one of those extremely moderate assumptions of Sir Stafford Northcote's that his most eager antagonist would not be apt to deny. The inertia in human affairs is at least as important a part of human action as the motive force itself, and, therefore, the Conservative part will never be played out. The just dismay which Liberals would feel, if they suddenly felt all resisting power vanish away, would he something ludicrous. But when Sir Stafford goes on to charge the Liberals with the most unpatriotic conduct when they were out of office, and with stealing all the Conservatives' thunder the moment they got in again, our agreement with hint ceases, for reasons which we have sufficiently explained in another column.
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