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the Ruaholiffo divioton of flottinnhanshiros He wrote
that there two extreme sections of pro- and anti-war
Liboral'a, and "between them lies a body which dcoiron
the mucceos of our arms but has no strong conviction
as to the morita of the war and certainly no formed
judgement an to'the details of the settlement. "
And in another letter,
(1)
- "The avernce elector after all
is vary little acquainted with the facts, But I wau
gratified to find an open mind to an extent I had not
anticipated. Literature wan wclcomcd. ȧut
to have
precipitated a resolution (of-almost any kind) at the
momont would have been mischievous to the lost do roe.,.
the elector with a lot of John Bull inotinct that we
aunt be right. in yet rather bewildered, " (2)
Bllill
behaved an though hie Liberal conatituenta could almost
certainly be azpoctaa to take an imperialist stand.
The picture of the puzzled voter in very like that
docartbcd by; Bryce in Aberdeen in November 1899, and
loahreit)er confirmed the belief in the general ignorance
of the averaie voter en to the facto of the South.
African situation.
(1) Herbert ßladatone ßi+3,. Abtat; º.
7th April 1900.
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. t, , liar to Gladatone
(2) Campbell-Bannerman 1
43,5. AD___ _41SP14, Ellis to Caepbe11-
Bannormnn 7th "pri1 19OO*