Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — GLADSTONE REELECTED. [ARTICLE]

GLADSTONE REELECTED.

The latest advices from the English elections announce that Mr. Gladstone has been returned for Midlothian by a very small majority. The registered electors in the Midlothian division. Of Edinburgh shire, which Mr. u Gladstone has represented in Parliament since 1880, numbers 13, 236 and the polling-lists show that 11,000 of them cast their ballots. The result shows a’great change in political. sentiment in Midlothian. Hitherto the district has been looked upon as belonging to Mr, Gladstone, and his canvasses have been regarded as covering the entire country in the interests of the various candidates of the party, rather than Midlothian alone. Mr. Gladstone’s actual majority this year is 690 votes. This is ai pitiable majority when compared with the previous elections. In 1885 Mr. Gladstone received a majority of 4,631, and at the last general election of 1886, the district was regarded as such a Liberal stronghold that the Unionists did not run a candidate.