CHAPTER VI

1882-1885

TORY DEMOCRACY

A period of crisis--Conditions in the House of Commons--Conservative paralysis--The new champion--Power and popularity of Lord Randolph Churchill--The Tory Democrat--A ‘Trilogy’ at Edinburgh--The Blackpool speech--The Birmingham candidature--‘Peace, Retrenchment and Reform’--Tory democracy and Fair Trade--Tory democracy and the Constitution--The Church of England--The main achievement.....268