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POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS.
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS.
THE SCOTTISH LIBERAL ASSOCIATION,
Being a Federation of Liberal Associations of Scotland.
President, Eight Hon. Sir H. Campbell- Banner-
man ; vice-presidents, The Most Noble the Marquis
of Breadalbane, Eight Ho:], the Earl of Aberdeen,
and Right Hon. Lord Overtoun ; chairman of general
councO, Right Hon. Lord Tweedmouth; vice-chairmen.
Sir Thomas Glen- Coats, Bart., and J. Thomson Paton,
J. P. ; hon. secretaries, Norman Lament, Yr. of
Knockdow, and William Lang Todd, J.P. ; hon.
treasurer, Capt. Sinclair, M.P. ; secretaries — western,
Wm. Webster, Merchant's Buildings, 7 West George
Street; eastern, A. D. Wood, 95 Princes street,
Edinburgh.
GLASGOW CONSEEVATIVE ASSOCIATION.
The objects of the association shall be to maintain
those fundamental principles of the Constitution
which secure the prerogatives of the Crown, the Pro-
testant succession, the privileges of Parliament, and
the equal civil rights of all classes ; to resist all
attempts to subvert our Protestant faith; and, while
opposing rash innovations, to support every well-
considered measure tending to promote the well-being
of the people, and to improve the financial adminis-
tration and judicial systems of the country.
President, Lord Blythswood ; hon. secretary and
treasurer, Robert Guy ; secretary, Lewis Shedden ;
general offices, 100 Wellington st., city.
WEST OF SCOTLAND LIBERAL-UNIONIST
ASSOCIATION.
Established in 1886 for the maintenance of the
Legislative Union of Great Britain and Ireland, and
the promotion of Liberal- Unionist principles.
Hon. presidents, The Duke of Devonshire, K.G., and
The Eight Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.; president.
Lord Kelvin; chairman, Sir Matthew Arthur, Bart. ;
vice-chairman. Sir Kay Muir, Bart. ; hon. treasurer,
Arthur Hart, 63 St. Vincent Street; secretary,
Eobt. Bird, 71a W. Nile Street; organising agent,
W. L. Blench, 93 Hope Street.
GLASGOW LIBERAL COUNCIL.
Chairman, John Laird ; vice-chairmen, Eobert
Montgomerie, J. P., ex-Bailie Peter Burt, J.P., Chas.
H. Bowser, John Laird, Prof. John S. Phillimore,
Thomas Eobinson, J.P., and Councillor H. Steven,
J.P. ; hon. treasurer, Thomas Wright, 2 Berkeley
Terrace; hon. secretary, James E. Chalmers, 129
St. Vincent St. Secretary, David D. Dunlop, 187
West George Street.
CENTRAL LIBEEAL ASSOCIATION.
Rooms — 95 Dumbarton Road.
President, John Laird ; chairman of executive,
Donald Anderson, J.P.; treasurer, Js. Cimpbell, C.A..,
163 St. Vincent Street ; secretary, James Black,
262 Baih Street.
TEADESTON LIBERAL-UNIONIST
ASSOCIATION.
Office and Reading Room, 2 Carlton Court.
Hon. President, A. Cameron Corbett, M P. ;
president, William Primrose; chairman, William
Niven ; treasurer, A. T. Espie ; secretary, Andrew
Aitkeu ; organizing agent, J L. Johnston.
IMPERIAL UNION CLUB.
The Club is instituted for the purpose of main-
taining the Unionist cause and of promoting
the social intei course of Unionists, to whatever poli-
tical party they may belong. Those alone are eligible
for membership who are resolved to maintain to the
best of their ability the union of the three kingdoms,
and the complete supremacy of the Imperial Parlia-
ment. The general and political committees of the
Club are composed of Coaser\'atives and Liberal-
Unionists in equal proportions. The Club House is
situated at No. 82 St. Vincent Street. Tenns: —
Entry money, £3 3s. ; annual subscription, town mem-
bers, £4; 4s., country members, £2 2s. Secretary,
Archibald Craig, LL.B., writer, 149 West George St.
CENTRAL CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.
Club- rooms, Mulberry Bank, 167 Dumbarton Road.
Hon. president, Major F. W. Allan ; president,
Thos F. Crawford; chairman, Robt, S. Allan; vice-
chairman. Councillor R. S. Brown ; hon. trea., C. D.
R. Walker, C.A., 188 St. Vincent Street; hon. secy.,
W. B. Neilson, 142 Cambridge Diive, Kelvinside, N.;
organising secy., John C. Ramsay, 167 Dumbarton
Road. Ordinary membership — minimum subscrip-
tion, Is. ; honorary membership — minimum subscrip-
tion, 5s.
GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND
LIBERAL LEAGUE.
Offices— 107 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.
Object — To further a sound Liberalism at home
and maintain a strong Empire abroad ; and to secure
the adoption by the Liberal party of the policy set
forth in the speeches of Lord Rosebery at Chester-
field, Liverpool, and Glasgow.
Hon. president. Right Hon. the Earl of Rosebery,
K.G., K.T.; president, Councillor J. P. Maclay, 21
Bothwell Street; hon. treasurer, T. Landells Selkirk,
64 West Regent Street ; hon. secretary, Wm. Mann,
135 Buchanan Street; secretary, James Archer.
GLASGOW AND DISTRICT INDEPENDENT
LABOUR PARTY.
Object. — By political eff'ort to secure public
ownership of all the means of life, and so distribute
work and the products of it as to eliminate poverty,
unearned increment, idleness, overwork, enforced
ignorance, and the huge waste of the present day
cimmercial system. Secretary, B. H. Shaw, c/o
Civic Press, 164 Howard Street