Report of an Address Entitled "the Forces Opposed to Us in the Late Election": Delivered by Mr. Albert E. Southall at the Junior Constitutional Club, ... February 13th, 1906 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Report of an Address Entitled "the Forces Opposed to Us in the Late Election": Delivered by Mr. Albert E. Southall at the Junior Constitutional Club, Piccadilly, on Tuesday, February 13th, 1906

Mr. Albert E. Southall, who was received with applause, said Lord Castlereagh and Gentlemen, - I feel myself in an awkward position to-night in having to address this meeting. The gatherings which have been organised from time to time by the Political Committee of this Club, and which are held in this room, have been addressed on many occasions by great speakers, by the great leaders of the party to which we in this Club belong, and by those who have a right to expect from the party a hearing and respect for what they have to say. Speaking is not my particular vocation and I am following those illustrious men at a disadvantage. At the commencement of these proceedings also I cannot but compare the position we hold to-night with the position we held some two months ago, when the first lecture of the season was held in this room under the auspices of the Political Committee. On that occasion you had a magnificent address from Mr. Leo Maxse' on the question of the Japanese Treaty, one of the great things that will always in history redound to the credit of the Government which has just passed away. (applause) Since that occasion we have been through remarkable times. We have seen that great party - which was created in 1885 by the coalition of the Conservative party and the Liberals who seceded from Mr. Gladstone when he brought forward his Home Rule scheme - we have seen that great party whose name, I venture to think, will be written in letters of gold in the history of this country, apparently shattered. We.

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