As attacks on the rule of law become more frequent and intense, the public has rekindled its often dormant affection for public-interest lawyers — endearingly unglamorous defenders of principle over politics, of rules over ruffianism.
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On the death of Archbishop Healy, he was translated to the Metropolitan see of Tuam as archbishop on 10 July 1918., Handbook of British Chronology, p. 444. During the Irish War of Independence, Archbishop Gilmartin spoke out strongly against the violence. In January 1920, he criticized the "undisguised ruffianism" in the rebel ranks.
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Faced with this dilemma, he decided not to resign his seat but to go abroad. He claimed that the “ruffianism” of Liberals angry at his defection of the party had made him ill, and he went to an unnamed continental health resort to recover. Leif Jones On 14 December 1904, the local Liberal Association selected 42-year-old Leif Jones as their new candidate to hold the seat. Born Leifchild Stratten Jones on 16 January 1862 in St Pancras, London, the fifth of the six children of the Reverend Thomas Jones (1819–1882), an Independent clergyman, formerly of Morriston, Swansea, and Jane Jones, daughter of John Jones of Dowlais.
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He was involved in a controversial incident that year in a game against Carlton, knocked unconscious by a George Topping king-hit, which resulted in a field invasion.Holmesby (2007); Ross (1996), p.73. The Carlton player was banned for 35 matches, but Streckfuss was fined (£10) as well, after it was later revealed in court that he had earlier struck Carlton's Andrew McDonaldKalgoorlie Miner,"Ruffianism In Football", 9 June 1910, p.5. (Four weeks into the 1910 season, it had already become a matter of controversy that a number of serious offences on the football field had not been reported.)Football Blackguardism: Drastic Measures Demanded: List of Offences, The Argus, (Tuesday, 31 May 1910), p.6.
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The Liberals then selected Leif Jones as their candidate for the imminent by-election, and although campaigning began before Christmas, there was as yet no vacancy. Rigg claimed that the "ruffianism" of Liberals angry at his defection of the party had made him ill, and he went to an unnamed continental health resort to recover. He returned to England in February 1905, and resigned his seat 11 February 1905 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead, telling the annual dinner of the Carlisle Conservative Club "I am proud to be one of you now ... I have the satisfaction of feeling that what I have done was conscientious and right." At the resulting by-election on 2 March 1905, Jones held the seat, though with a reduced majority.
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The term "police brutality" was first used in Britain in the mid-19th century, with The Puppet-Show (a short- lived rival to Punch) complaining in September 1848: > Scarcely a week passes without their committing some offence which disgusts > everybody but the magistrates. Boys are bruised by their ferocity, women > insulted by their ruffianism; and that which brutality has done, perjury > denies, and magisterial stupidity suffers to go unpunished. [...] And > "police brutality" is fast becoming one of our most "venerated > institutions!" The first use of the term in the American press was in 1872, when the Chicago Tribune reported the beating of a civilian under arrest at the Harrison Street Police Station. The origin of modern policing (based on the authority of the nation-state) can be traced back to 18th century France, with modern police departments being established in many nations by the 19th and early 20th centuries. Early records suggest that labor strikes were the first large-scale incidents of police brutality in the United States, including events like the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Pullman Strike of 1894, the Lawrence textile strike of 1912, the Ludlow massacre of 1914, the Great Steel Strike of 1919, and the Hanapepe massacre of 1924.
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