The Radicals seem to have had a great deal of
difficulty in finding a candidate for East Bradford. After several other failures, Mr. George Russell declined to stand, but at last they have fixed on Mr. Alfred Billson, who represented the Barnstaple Division of North-West Devonshire in the Home. rule Parliament of 1892.95, and lost his seat in the General Election of that year. Mr. Keir Hardie, as the Labour candidate, will probably take a good deal of wind out of the sails of the Radical candidate. In the meantime the Unionist candidate, Captain Greville, is receiving the me s cordial support in all the wards of the great borough. The Irish party will not lend their support to any Gladstonian who declines to put Irish Home-rule in the front of the
battle, and that is a policy which is so very discouraging just now even to the Radicals themselves, that they will hardly be disposed to snatch at so very nauseous a _bait. Irish Home-rule is the apple of discord which has set the whole Gladstonian party quarrelling with each other. They neither know how to let it drop, nor how to hold fast to it, without wrecking the chances of their party.
