The Government have sust other big defeat at a by-election, Rose has won Colonel BfcCa!ims it's for the Newmarket Division of Cambrivlar, converting a Conservative majority of over 1,000 into a Liberal one of nearly #9. Major Rasch has suggested that one of the minor cotises of the Unioa'st, defeat is a "certain discreditable poster™ which was circulated on the Conservative behalf at the General Election of 1900. It represented Mr. Rose assisting Kruger in an attempt to haul down the-British flag, while Colonel McCalmont was helping Lord Salisbury to keep it up. Of course Mr. McCalmont was entirely free from responsibility for it, for he was then eagaged in fighting for his country in South Africa. But the cruelty and unfairness of the poster lay in the fact that Mr. Rose was also in South Africa, whither he had gone to visit the graves of two of his sons who had fallen in the war, while two other sons were still fighting for us. This poster, howerer, which certainly did no apparent harm'to the Unionist cause at the time, can hardly have materially affected the result of an eleotion held two years later. An interesting feature of the lection was that "Sammy" Loates, the jockey, worked vigorously for Mr. Rose, and appeared side by side with leading Nonconformists on his platforms.
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