As time went on the state of the district became more and more turbulent and the great party newspapers, the London _Tribune_, _Daily News_, and others, sought to stir up the wildest and most unrestrained element in the constituency. The _Daily News_ hailed with enthusiasm the formation of what was known as the "League of Young Liberals," which was in reality a gang of young roughs whose first act was to push a policeman through the plate glass window of the shop which served as our Committee Rooms. This and other violent acts were described by the _Daily News_ as "diverting incidents with the Suffragettes," but the special correspondent of the _Daily Mail_, said: Miss Mary Gawthorpe, who usually has no difficulty in maintaining good-humoured relations with audiences of every class, was not only compelled to hear language from some of the Newton Abbot Liberal partisans that brought a flush to her face and tears into her eyes, but had to resist by force the efforts of one man to mount the waggon from which she and several other ladies were speaking. And the most pitiful part of the business was that the language and the conduct seemed to be regarded by their perpetrators as engaging little gallantries, appropriate to be offered to a lady. A few days later the roughs dragged the lorry in which our women were speaking round and round with such violence that it was feared that it would be overturned, and they only stopped when a little boy had been run over and trampled upon and seriously injured. Still the Liberal politicians made no protest. Mr. Buxton's reply to a newspaper correspondent who asked him what he thought of the disorder was: "You must remember that they are keen politicians down here. From the fact that Mid-Devon has had three elections within the space of four years the people have necessarily heard a great deal about politics." So the contest went on--Liberals and Conservatives smashing up each other's meetings, howling each other down, pelting each other with vegetables from the market and snowballing each other on Dartmoor. The _Daily Telegraph_ for January 10th, writing in regard to a Liberal meeting, threatened that, if the Unionists were not admitted, the building would be stormed. When on January 17th the poll was declared it was found that the Liberal candidate had been defeated. Everyone was surprised except the Suffragettes. The figures were: Captain Morrison Bell (U.) 5,191 Mr. C. R. Buxton (L.) 4,632 _____ Unionist majority 559 At the General Election the figures had been: Mr. H. T. Eve, K.C. (L.) 5,079 Captain Morrison Bell (U.) 3,790 _____ Liberal Majority 1,280