Whig v. Whig

Sad it is indeed to the ghosts of the Earl of Chatham, Henry Clay, Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott to realize that the only place in the world where the name Whig still denotes a political party is among the blackamoors of Liberia. Whig, or Whiggamore was a Scots-Gaelic word originally applied to horse thieves, but because Liberia's independence was first proclaimed during the period of Whig supremacy in the U. S., Liberian politicians find Whig a most potent name to call themselves. Liberians went to the polls fortnight ago for the first Liberian presidential election in 4 years. Last week it was announced that intelligent, bespectacled President Edwin Barclay, leader of the True Whigs, had been re-elected with the whopping majority of 344,569 votes to only 7,784 for former President Charles D. B. King, candidate of the Unit Whigs and the languishing People's Party. Passed too was an amendment increasing the Presidential term from four to eight years. Part of Unit Whig King's poor showing may have been due to the fact that he was forced to resign the Presidency in 1930 after a nasty scandal connected with slave-running to Spanish Fernando Po.

Liberia's Whigs, True or Unit, are all archconservatives, ardent nationalists and enemies of European cooperation. Election over, Liberian authorities had a chance to turn their attention to an idea which had recently popped from the head of Premier Hertzog of South Africa. Said Chairman Thomas Jesse Jones of the Advisory Committee on Education in Liberia:

"Liberia is now in a position to establish a closer bond of friendship between the republic and the United States, an alliance which should protect it from threatened dangers from without, such as the recent suggestion that Liberia be mandated by Germany."

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