POLITICAL HISTORY 



(forty-one in number) representing England, One striking incident of the 

 last election was the unseating of the ex-Premier, the Rt. Hon. Arthur 

 James Balfour, who for twenty years had with much distinction represented 

 East Manchester. The seat was probably lost because of the supposed 

 Protective leanings of the ex-Premier. It was won by Mr. T. G. 

 Horridge, K.C. 



In this connexion it ought to be recorded that in the present year 

 Manchester has been honoured with a visit from some of the Colonial 

 Premiers assembled at the Imperial Conference of 1907. Uncompromising 

 as Lancashire feels itself obliged to be on the question of Free Trade, the 

 Mayor and Corporation of Manchester and the Under Secretary for the 

 Colonies, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, member of Parliament for 

 North-West Manchester, cordially welcomed their distinguished guests and 

 presented them and the rest of the Premiers with the Freedom of the City. 



Taking a wide and far-off survey of the political history of the county 

 from Tudor times to the present day, it will be seen how, after the lapse of 

 centuries, Lancashire is still true to her ancient creed of loyalty to a throne 

 ' founded upon the old and sure foundations of impartial justice, national 

 laws, and subjects ' love ' ; as also to that ideal of popular and political liberty 

 for which she battled so manfully throughout the seventeenth and two 

 succeeding centuries. 



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