260:. However an objection was made to Mahon’s paper and after long consideration his nomination was rejected as invalid owing to the incorrectness of the name and address of his nominator. As a result, the contest was a straight fight between Walton and Neville. Mahon proceeded to issue his written manifesto but he could not contest the election itself. It was later alleged however that Mahon engineered the rejection of his nomination paper. It was said, admittedly by his opponents, that there had been ample time between the pointing out of the defect and the deadline for nomination to get a qualified supporter to sign the paper and so make it legal.
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Liberal and Labour parties might have been enough to deliver the seat to Neville. The continued decline may have had to do with Walton’s being new to the constituency compared to the previous, well-known incumbent and Neville’s name being known from the general election a couple of months before. It is difficult from the results of by-elections in the early part of the 1892-95 Parliament to see a swing in public opinion away from the minority Liberal government of
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Irishmen with drink but pointed out that they came to the meeting with a plentiful supply of election literature from the
Liberal committee-rooms. He claimed the Liberals were increasingly worried about the rise of political labour and the threat this represented to Liberal electoral hopes. It was ironic that this charge was levelled at Walton, as he had stood aside as Liberal candidate in
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decision. It is not known if the union were opposed to M’Gregor’s candidacy but a few days later it was reported that another trade union official, Mr J Solly, the organising secretary of the
Railway Labourers’ Union, had accepted an invitation to fight the by-election for Labour. But Solly’s acceptance may have been premature because Leeds
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pressed the issue of the representation of the working classes and whether this could ever adequately be done by the middle-class capitalists and professional men who dominated
Liberal politics. The meeting was full of disturbance. Mr Sweeney of the Leeds Trade Council spoke against Mahon's candidacy
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complaining that Walton had held a meeting on 16 September in which he had done his best to ‘inflame the minds of his partisans against the labour candidate and his supporters’. Champion stopped just short of accusing Walton of commissioning the break-up of the labour meeting and of supplying the
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would enter the fray. A deputation of working men invited James M’Gregor, the general secretary of the
National Labourers’ Federation to stand as a Labour candidate. M’Gregor seemed to be willing. He said he would submit the offer to the executive committee of his union and be bound by their
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and a vote of confidence in Mahon was proposed and lost by a large margin. A further meeting took place later and the proceedings were reported as being ‘uproarious’ with the police called, albeit without a repeat of the violence of the
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1014:Banffshire
963:Pontefract
931:February:
908:December:
802:St Austell
455:References
307:Candidate
264:The result
231:John Burns
181:journalist
95:Candidates
69:sanitation
1414:1979–2010
1409:1950–1979
1404:1931–1950
1399:1918–1931
1394:1900–1918
1389:1885–1900
1384:1868–1885
1379:1857–1868
1374:1847–1857
1369:1832–1847
1364:1818–1832
1359:1806–1818
1354:1801–1806
1328:Blackpool
1215:January:
1171:October:
1161:Leicester
1089:January:
1052:West Mayo
993:Gateshead
983:Stockport
948:Rochester
925:January:
902:October:
867:Rotherham
857:East Fife
379:Majority
294:The votes
227:Battersea
222:The Times
215:Home Rule
178:socialist
110:barrister
1333:Sleaford
1266:Walworth
1154:August:
1069:Brighton
1057:Hereford
1050:August:
765:August:
433:See also
185:activist
100:Liberals
1323:Croydon
1287:Chorley
1276:Croydon
1238:April:
1232:March:
1217:Evesham
1128:Wisbech
1123:Romford
1121:April:
1095:March:
1007:March:
998:Horsham
958:Walsall
953:Halifax
938:Burnley
767:Holborn
746:»
740:to the
728:«
412:Liberal
394:Turnout
327:Liberal
208:Hunslet
65:chemist
50:Liberal
46:peerage
40:Vacancy
32:in the
1338:Ealing
1306:July:
1285:June:
1240:Oxford
1148:July:
1044:July:
1018:June:
968:Hexham
883:Dundee
752:»
734:«
398:7.880
368:3,466
340:4,414
310:Votes
304:Party
154:labour
148:Labour
1259:May:
1195:Brigg
1137:May:
898:Luton
817:Derby
424:-3.4
420:Swing
404:−2.1
401:69.8
388:−6.8
385:12.0
374:+3.4
371:44.0
350:−3.4
345:56.0
258:Mayor
1297:Cork
1209:1895
1184:York
1083:1894
919:1893
759:1892
415:hold
382:948
288:1895
183:and
170:Tory
136:The
16:The
626:in
505:in
124:MP
87:to
1446::
637:^
604:^
547:^
522:.
317:±%
313:%
290:.
217:.
128:.
91:.
55:,
53:MP
720:e
713:t
706:v
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