ABSTRACT
Alongside or behind the regular armies of the party Organizations there are irregular troops as well, also formed into regiments and disciplined, but intervening only as auxiliaries. Among them the first place belongs to a variety remarkable alike for the exceptional importance of its effective forces and for their composition. The beginnings of the League were unassuming. Recruits did not flock to it in large numbers. But in proportion as its ranks widened, the spirit of hostility to the aristocratic leaders which animated the small group of men of the Fourth Party, instead of gradually infecting the members, rather evaporated. The admission of women into the League made it a success. The grateful leaders of the Tory party, with Lord Salisbury at their head, are never weary of extolling the beneficent effect of the League on English political life.
